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Well, in this year I start something like a “new life”. It sounds a little cliché but it is real. I have to move from my town to the city and to live alone with all the responsibilities that it brings. But I love my independence. My family is very traditional and apprehensive so this year they are trying to treat me more like and adult. I’m very flashy too, so is impossible to me don´t miss my family and my dog. But I´m great anyway. I try to use all my weekends for my family and everything is love haha.   It’s a little strange to write this because I’m very surprised of my year. I usually had bad luck in all, and this year everything seems to be going very well, except mathematics for a moment (I really believe that I could fail in this signature :S but I got it!). I passed all my signatures, I made good friends, I made the right decision and I have been very responsible with the money that my family sends me and my apartment. I even have a cat now!! I only need to approve all t

I’m in my first year studying design in Universidad de Chile. I chose this career because I always like to draw and I considerate myself very creative. I love do things for others with my hands, with my mind, with my heart, and is very grateful when that things are solving people´s problems or needs.  To be honest, I didn´t know too much about this career, so when I start studying I really started from the beginning. I was a little bit scared, because I didn’t know if I really chose the right career. I was between studying Art, Music or Design. Today I can say that I wasn’t wrong.  For a moment, I didn’t want to study here. I wanted to study in Valparaíso in the PUCV. The subjects that Universidad de Chile had before weren´t of my liking. But I’m from Rancagua and I would be too far of my family, so they didn’t like the idea of me studying there because I’m too sickly and I really have to take care of myself always. I wouldn’t have anyone there and I couldn’t be able to continue

There are too many reasons why I decided to study design here, like the vision, the people, the teachers, the subjects, and principally the options of postgraduate’s study. My uncle is an architect from FAU and she decided to study in Barcelona as a postgraduate in Universidad of Barcelona. There, design is wonderful and you can have thousands of options. Now she is working there and sometimes she travel to Chile to talk to me about her work. Since I visited Barcelona, I fell in love with the country. The culture was amazing, and I didn´t feel like an alien there. They talk Spanish as me, so It wasn´t difficult to travel alone. So, when my uncle started to live and work there, I didn´t think it two times, why not? I only need to have good marks to postulate. I will love to work in something like researching of the culture of a country , so Barcelona is a good option to start. I think that I could study something about the origins of the materials linked to their folklore the

I considerate myself very lucky in that way. All my life I´ve been visiting places around the world because in my family there is a culture of travelling. It´s like a priority. So I can say that I've been in too many places for my age, nationally and internationally. I have too many friends around Chile and the world. I have had incredible experiences and I really enjoyed all my trips, but I have to say that my best holidays are always in the same place: in my country, in my beach house. It is in a quiet and calm place. There is not much to go, and it’s too homely. It doesn´t have any mall, disco or something like that, everything is local and village. I really love get away from the city sometimes! But I don't know if it is because of the place. I think that is more for the moments that I've been trough there. My family had the house since 1970. My grandparents, my uncles, my mom, my cousins and me, had been all February there, all years. It’s a tradition. We alw

One of my favourite hobbies is music, specially singing. I don´t remember when it started, but I do remember that all my life I've been singing or playing an instrument. Before start studying here, be a musician was on my options, but I'm not sorry of that, I love my carreer too! Especially because I'm still practising every week, and playing shows, etc. I think that music chose me, so I'm alwats trying to learn more abour it. By the way, I have another hobbies, like reading, writing, doing some trekking and outdoor activities, traveling, drawing, and watching movies, but music it's still  my favourite one.