Lenguague

 Learning another language besides Spanish has always been a challenge for me, my family is from the countryside and no one speaks fluent English. I don't have a good foundation of English, I don't even know what many animals are called and I never learned the verb to be, my teachers always taught me rules and memorizing words, a big problem because I have a bad memory. All my time at school I tried to just pass English and I didn't learn anything, my teachers weren't my nice ones either.

Before entering university I decided to learn as much as I could, finally it helps me to be able to work with foreign companies in the future, in English 1 I was with a very dynamic teacher who made us participate a lot, but English 2 I had with a teacher who I took classes with presentations and explained how at school, I became so disenchanted with English that I didn't take it again until this year, but during that time without English classes, I started watching more movies and series in English, as well as tiktok and memes, Now I can understand better when they speak to me in English and what I read. My biggest problem is writing it and especially speaking it, I can't generate a sentence at the moment. Blogging has helped me read more and write, although I'm not sure if it's okay how I write everything.

I know that it will take me many years to learn English well, I have thought that the best thing would be to go to a British country, although I am not interested in living in a country like that, I would like it for the experience and to learn.

A Job

 

In my short life I have had several jobs, opportunities came my way from the age of 14 and I took them. I started as a graphic designer for events and producer of youth events in Temuco, I loved that job, but I didn't like the weight of time and being known. At the age of 17 during a pandemic I began to design and analyze the programming of a video game. As soon as I turned 18 I was able to enter the best restaurant bar in Temuco as a waiter, later in a brewery and then a cocktail assistant, the second restaurant I worked in I was a waiter, cashier, cook and bartender (I knew how to prepare at least 10 types of drinks) . In addition to supporting myself as an independent designer, I now work as a graphic designer in two stores in Alameda.

I always wanted to learn more to be a professional bartender, after finishing university I want to take a bartender course, a co-worker taught me all the meaning and science of making drinks, the importance of media, the shake, the amount of ice, details that make a perfect drink. It is a skill that I would love to have, also learning the bartender show stunts that I have seen, like Daniela Istrate, a well-known barwoman on TikTok, works in the finest bars in the United States, with incredible skill both in preparing her drinks and in their shows. Here I leave you a video of her. 

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMju3qKV3/ 

My interests in skills to learn or develop meet only one requirement, being able to do it anywhere in the world, and thus be able to travel and live wherever I want knowing that I can have a job anywhere.

A Festival, Exhibition, Concert or Show You Saw

 I've been to very few concerts, for money and because I'm not a big fan of singers. The only one that I remember clearly and it was the one that moved me the most, was the Dread Mar I concert on August 6, 2022. I tried to raise the money since they launched the event, I was ready for anything and I didn't mind going alone.

Two days before I gave up buying the ticket, but that same day my mom's best friend went to visit us, I told her about the concert and she said "you can't miss the concert of your only favorite singer", I bought the ticket. entry quickly through the page. The day before the concert another friend of my mom's speaks to us and says that a friend gave her 5 tickets that she won in a contest. I finally went with my mom, her best friend and her boyfriend, and two friends who are also fans of Dread Mar I.

Before entering the show we smoked with my mom and our friends, in the middle of the show all the people started smoking inside the stadium. You would think that I would scream and cry with emotion, but no, I was captivated and grateful to be able to listen live to a person who transmits so much to me with his voice and the lyrics of his songs, enjoy all the songs and dance relaxed. One of my goals is to see him again with the love of my life who identifies me with all the love songs of Dread mar I.

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.

The Blog Experience

 In general, I loved the dynamics of writing a blog about us, I never imagined that I would write in a blog because I only see them in movies, I didn't know that it is very satisfying, thanks to that I was able to write memories that I had forgotten.

My favorite publication is where I talk about my best friend, it was a pleasant moment for me to write about her and some experiences together, since I return to live in Temuco I miss seeing her often, we talk almost every day and having written about her made me remember nice moments. The post that I liked least to write was about a family meal, I don't have many in my family and since my aunt, my mom's twin sister, passed away, since then my family is sadder and we don't see each other as much as before. Remembering family meals are very old moments in my life that make me nostalgic.

The blog that I definitely liked the most is the teacher's, his life is full of experiences and travel, he must know many things about life with everything he has seen and learned.

Thanks to the blog I was able to learn more words in English and now I can understand a little more when I read it, but mainly the dynamics amused me, I think it has been one of the best ways I have learned, and in general I do not understand anything when they show only a PowerPoint and they talk, I remember nothing, but something more interactive and personal I really liked.

My career

 When I was little I never knew that there was a career called design, my dream was to be a singer and an artist, I sang for my family and wrote songs, I always liked drawing and creating objects, and I was always very good at using programs like Word or PowerPoint. When I was 12 years old, my older cousin went to university to study graphic design, I always admired her creativity, that's when I learned about the existence of the career. When I was 14 years old, the idea arose in my school year to have a party to raise money for the study tour, we paid for some things and the parents rejected the idea, with my group we took over the event, I began to design the tickets, posters, Instagram posts and I realized it was very good, our party had a huge line to get in and we made a lot of money.

I became an event organizer and designer for the events, I worked for 3 years in that and I was able to support myself without asking my family for money.

Before the covid I gave up my product and started to be an independent designer, during the quarantine I worked for my older cousin who is a coach of a world gamer team, analyzing game programming and designing. At the end of the pandemic I went back to work alone, I always met a lot of people who know about my work, at least 2 people spoke to me a month to work with them on short projectors.

Currently, thanks to project 5, I have a job in an aesthetic salon in Alameda, I am fulfilling my dream of making a living from art, I love my job and I am grateful that I did not make the wrong career path, I think it is for me.

TV show I watched as a child

 Gravity Falls is the story of 13 year old twin brothers, Mabel and Dipper, who go to the town of Gravity Falls to spend the summer with their great-uncle Stan, owner of the Mystery Shack, where he tries to scam clueless tourists by inventing fantastic creatures that supposedly inhabit the forest of the territory, along with his helper Sos. Dipper is involved in the mystery of the town and each chapter discovers new creatures of the forest, some villains and interacting with the people of the town, as well as being in love with Wendy, a great teenager from the town. And her sister Mabel is a very happy, childish girl and always tries to be a good person, she accompanies her brother on all his adventures. In a fantastic program with a plot that I really liked because of the beings they created and each story of the characters, especially the mystery of the story that is being formed, I recommend it.

I watched this program when I went to school, I was between 11 or 12 years old when they gave it on Disney at night before going to sleep. My little brothers still liked it and to this day we look it up at Disney to see it.

My favorite series

 My favorite series I met in 2010 thanks to my stepfather, The Walking Dead had just been released. We started watching it with my whole family, my mom, my stepfather and my younger brother. My mom was pregnant at the time and it was hard for her to watch the series because she would get nervous.

The Walking Dead is an apocalypse series, where a virus revives the dead to eat living flesh. It all starts with a policeman who wakes up after a coma locked in a hospital ward, where no one was alive, his mission begins with finding his family and when he finds them he must protect them and his entire group, as he progresses the history. they have to find safe places and fight with other groups of people to survive. From the first episode I saw I loved it, and I was always attentive when another season came out.

The series has 11 seasons so far, it has turned 13 and has been a success since its premiere, it is my favorite series and that of my family, when my younger sister was born in 2012, she began to watch it from a very young age Although it was a little scary at first. I remember many Halloweens in which we would dress up as zombies and with my mom we would learn to make very real wound makeup. My cousins ​​and aunts watch it too, it's a family treat, we're also Marvel fans.

Roots restobar

Hello, today I am going to talk about Roots, my favorite restobar in Santiago is located in Bellavista.

What I like most about a place is the atmosphere and the music, and at Roots you can listen to reggae and dancehall, I love it and I feel very comfortable. The place is full of paintings on the walls of people with dreadlocks and smoking, the furniture is all made of wood and the decoration is cozy.

I always invite different people and they love the place, the one I enjoy going with the most is my partner, on weekend nights there is a DJ on the terrace, everyone dances and is very friendly.

I always ask for fries with some sauce, they are very tasty, and since I don't drink alcohol I ask for a natural juice or lemonade. But there is everything, sandwiches, pizza, beer, cocktails, among others.

I discovered it last year walking back from an LGTB+ club with my best friend, we passed by outside and my attention was drawn to the music and the paintings, since then I try to go at least once a month.

My best friend

I really like our story with my best friend, we found out about our existence in 2021 because she was my girlfriend's ex-girlfriend that year, she kept in touch and they were friends, it didn't bother me. Until we finished and in the summer of that same year I met a group of rapper and skeiter friends through a school friend. We became very close friends and the best friend of "Chino" was the ex of my ex-girlfriend. It's hard to understand, but fun.

After the New Year, on January 1, 2022, we went to an LGBT+ club in a giant group and among them was Chino and his best friend Aylin, but we call him Nemo. That night it was like we had known each other forever and she had the same connection to her best friend that I have to my best friend.

A week later I went to stay at his house and we started talking almost every day (all this was in Temuco), but this coincidence that we both studied at the university in Santiago, returning to class we started going out together to parties being the perfect duo We didn't need more people to have a great time, we made many friends who always invited us out. Many times they thought that we are girlfriends because of the chemistry we have, but we do not feel romantic love at all, we love each other like sisters.

We are both artists, she is studying Audiovisual Communication and I am Design. He loves taking pictures and he taught me a lot about it. I taught him about programs and criticism of design. Together we go to museums, rap battles, to parks at night, to dance, to viewpoints to have a beer and we always smoke together, a rapper and a hippie. We call each other “your favorite trucks” because we're male lesbians and our life together is so much fun.

Until we both faced emotional problems where we both bordered on death, but we unconditionally saved each other, Nemo returned to Temuco and I entered rehabilitation in Santiago. The last time we saw each other was two weeks ago when he traveled to Santiago to see his girlfriend and me, he stayed in the apartment for a few days, we went out dancing and spent the whole night on the terrace talking with a beer and smoking. 

“Come out of the closet”

 You may have heard the saying “come out of the closet” many times, and perhaps even you have had to do it. Unfortunately we live in a society where gender is assumed for sex and heterosexuality. If you have never read an experience and you are interested in hearing one, here is mine.

Before coming out of the closet you realize that you are different from what is seen socially, this happened to me when I was 5 years old, in first grade a new girl arrived and I did not understand my need to be with her beyond the limits of a friendship, with the weeks I confirmed that it was mutual. But before the end of the year, he left, and to this day I don't know if it was because of ours.

Until I was 12 years old, I did not know what it was to be a lesbian, until new girls arrived who came from a convent school, they caused a "fashion" for being bisexual and lesbian, I say fashion because currently only two of them liked women of TRUE. I started to be homophobic with myself, that I would never like a woman (I was in love with my best friend).

Over the years I couldn't bear to hide it anymore, and at 14 I secretly had my first girlfriend, and my second girlfriend proposed to me on stage at a party, so I came out of the closet in public and on all social media haha, I finally told her to my family in a conversation in the kitchen and they told me that they already knew about it years ago, it wasn't as bad as I thought, but I was on many people's lips.

Now I'm proudly lesbian, I hope you're proud of who you are too.

Scout

Hello! I want to talk a little about one of my hobbies from the age of 13 until today, scout, how it works in my group in Temuco that is attached to the Mapuche culture.

 Scout is a children's and youth movement, where you commit to do good deeds and live new adventures that fill you with knowledge. And you acquire knowledge and values such as environmental awareness, leadership, teamwork, socialize, camping skills, work ethic, be proud of your culture, social awareness, among other things.

The Scout Movement was born as a way to combat crime in England at the beginning of the twentieth century, seeking the physical, spiritual and mental development of young people so that they would become "good citizens" through a specific method inspired by life. military and outdoor.

In the movement there are stages, called units from seven years to twenty-one (varies according to the scout group), in my group these units are first the swallows, girls from seven to eleven years, cubs, boys from seven to eleven years, company , girls from eleven to fifteen years old, troop, boys from eleven to fifteen years old, advanced, young people from fifteen to seventeen years old and the last one is clan, young adults from seventeen to twenty-one years old.

 The scout can be recognized by the scarves, of different colors and designs, these have meanings and characterize each scout group. Another characteristic element is the totem or void, a wooden stick adorned with skins, leather, pennants and carvings. When you finish all your stages and pilgrimages, you can be the leader of a unit and be the one who teaches.