My year so far...

My year so far hasn't being as bad as you may think (with the strike and all). At first was attractive because I expose myself to an environment different of anything I had experienced before (U Chile, it's a jungle of personalitys), so, I was drawn to this type of breeding ground where relationhips develop (quickly, may I add) while new subjects were thrown at us and very literally, widening our minds. It was a intense begining of year. 

And then...Strike! 

That wasn't so good. The positive part of been six week with no classes is that I had time to do my stuff. I made a short video...But the videos I do, are animated so they take time for me to plan, record and edit, since they are utterly handmade. With the six weeks of strike I had time and made the most of it. I also had space to write, I wrote as I hadn't done in quite long. 

In academic terms I'm glad that my grades haven't been somethig to worry about, though I still study and stress out...and I don't know, I'm just happy, it's weird to say it like that, but maybe is the effect of be back at a classroom and interact with other human beings. It's harder to fall into depression when you go out every day, or it is for me and I'm just happy for that. 

My favorite subject this semester

I like this topic for a post, mainly because after all this time with out classes, I think is good to go back to the time...

A subject that I enjoyed studying this semester? My first thought was Discurso y Significación, just because I find it pretty cool, there, we basically analyze language and culture, the teacher actually made a feminist turn that I did not expect, but I liked it (sort of...women and the language culture). But, thinking it through a little more, I'm going to say that the subject that I most enjoyed this semester, so far, is Taller de Realización, that, I would call it a type of workshop. 

It didn't happend, for obvious reasons, but the workshop was suppose to go like this: one week the teachers make a presentation about some subject in the film-making world and give us a task (a video, I'm in film and TV, so it cannot be other way), and that task will be review next week, within the whole section, and so, on, and on. The first task they assigned us was to make a video that described your partner, they paired up the section, some of us knew each other, but others didn't, and for me at least was fun. We manage to deliver two tasks, then we had the recess week and then...

Well, what I like of this class is the conversation that comes up with the different exercises, from my classmates and me. So if it's your work in the projection, yeah, you receive criticism (always with respect), but also compliments, and is so much more meaningful coming from your peers. The teacher of the section says some things. 

I also like that, in the presentations of a new subject, the whole generation is in the auditorium, the four sections are mixed up, and so are the teachers. All the teacher have their moment to speak, show a clip of a movie or documentry and start the development of the topic from the reflexions of the clip that we just watched. 

Becauase of that is that I like the Taller de Realización.