An Interesting Trip

 In the summer of 2022 I met a girl who, a few days after we met, invited me to work in a restaurant and bar in Mehuín, a town on the coast of the Los Ríos Region.

We were a crazy group from 18 to 23 years old who worked as cooks, waiters, cashiers and bartenders. At the beginning of February there was an outbreak of covid-19 that the bosses did not know how to cope with, so with my group we resigned when we were just paid, we decided to travel with our bags and without a tent. We started by taking a bus to Lican Ray, we went to the beach and we left our bags in custody because we couldn't find where to spend the night, so we were running from the police on the beach while we were drinking. We could barely sleep because of the cold so we slept on the beach in the morning and got sunburned. After resting we took a bus to Conaripe, we bought food and other things in the town to walk to a cabin far from the town. At night we had a barbecue and drank, we slept late to have energy to be able to walk to Lake Pellaifa, the walk was difficult and we stopped to refresh ourselves in a small river. Pellaifa Lake is beautiful and the sand delicious, we met more people our age and spent the night around a campfire and sleeping around it.

Hi

 My name is Janis, I am studying Design and I am in my third year. I am 20 years old, I was born in Temuco, in the south of Chile, but I lived 6 years of my upbringing in Calama. I arrived in Santiago to live alone in 2021, since then my life has been very nomadic, until now I have lived in 5 communes. My mom and dad have never been together since I was born, my stepfather has been with my mom since I was one year and three months old, I have an 11-year-old sister and a 14-year-old brother who live with my mom in Temuco, and 4 brothers more from my dad with whom I have no relationship. My hobbies are mainly Design, I have been working as a designer since I was 14 years old and currently I design in a beauty salon, I also sing and play some instruments, I like to make crafts like dream catchers, bracelets and braids with designs, I love going to museums and exhibitions of art. Summers I always work in restaurants and bars as a waiter, cashier, cook or bartender, to raise money and sometimes I've gone backpacking. From a very young age I go to marches for social minorities, because I am a lesbian, my family was very poor when I was born (sometimes we did not have anything to eat) and with Mapuche descent. My dream is to grow as a designer and be recognized, work for an important brand or better yet, have my own brand. Most of all, I like graphic design for events and production.