On the road: let's study transport systems!

I don't like to write about things that I don't thought before. Now I'm trying to find a field where I would like to do postgraduate studies but I think they are so unusual and far from journalism career:

I would like to do the Transport Engineering master's degree because that's an area that I really enjoy to study. I already do some basic works about bus frequencies and routes in Santiago, but taking the course I would need to study about transport economy, density and even sociology applied to town planning (that's another area in which I would like to be!).

I would like to study that here in Santiago but also London tempts me a lot because of their great Transport For London system. I know that's a very different reality but I love it... at least through the pictures and documentaries I watch!

I would like to study it in a part-time course, because the rest of the time I would like to have on site work. For that kind of areas, you just can make a decision knowing about the ground where you are. Do you wonder why most of the PTUS (or Transantiago) failed? Yeah, that could be one of the reasons why.

I like to read books about transport, studies and even some works like the tender bases of Transantiago 2018, and since I know that I feel closer now than before of transport area, I know in the future I would be even more related with that :)

- Andrés

I'm Andrés and this is BBC World News

It is difficult to explain this. I read a lot of comments about these guys: they earn more money than the journalists on the news gathering work, and comments like these, but well. I just know that I would like to be a news presenter as a future job, and it would be better if I can do it on BBC World News.

I'm in my fourth semester of the journalism career and I noticed that some of this kind of jobs fit better with the things I like to do indoor. I like to go outside and investigate about stories I like, but sadly I think -and the classes helped me to notice it- that the topics I like to research aren't attractive to the common media: transport, for example.

Usually, the TV anchors don't travel a lot but sometimes they do, specifically for these top stories. So, they are not traveling every day, but they do for important cases and that's interesting at least for me. Anyway, I would love to travel a lot.

I talked a bit about the salary, despite the salary they won it is not THE reason I would like to be a news presenter, it is known they win above the average of a journalist salary. I'm styuding journalism, I know, but this is one of the many areas where I can work.

I didn't say before, but this post would look better with this music:

Also I have to say that I think that's one of the reasons why I joined this career innocently...

- Andrés

The Irish Film Review!

BANG, BANG, BANG! That's one of the things I can remember about "The Wind That Shakes the Barley"

We saw the movie and, to be honest, I think I don't enjoyed it so much. I think it could be because I don't felt so good on tuesday and because I'm avoiding the war movies and that kind of content. Well, I think this movie was the exception haha. If I have to say one thing I didn't like of the movie, it was the end. How you dare to end with an execution? OMG I was expecting a nice ending! Anyway, it was my favorite scene because it kept so good the drama.

Out of that, I liked so much the trama because it shows a conflict that it is far from us, and at least for me that's interesting. That's why firstly I said that I didn't liked many things and now I say that the trama was great: I think the movie it is pretty made but it wasn't the right moment to watch it for me, so I'll watch it again to enjoy it at all soon.

I had to be honest haha

The best vacation ever: Puerto Varas

To be honest, I can't think in a whole best vacation in summer because, with my family, the last 3 years we dedicate a day to share together, but just 1 day. We go to a near place like Tomé, Saltos del Laja or Avendaño Lagoon in Quillón, al of those places are in Bio-bio Region (the next year, Ñuble region!)

I think the best vacation ever was a trip with my classmates to Puerto Varas and some other places of the Los Lagos region, in the south of Chile. I love southern cities, but I felt in love with the experience of going by ship to cross the Lago Todos Los Santos, for example. It was awesome!

For a week, I went with my students to meet the places that we have always watched though the TV:

Puerto Montt, Frutillar -and their awesome Kuchen- and Saltos del Río Petrohué. There we did Hiking, that it's easier than Trekking and we ran to a safer place when it started to rain a lot haha. 

The best so far were the nights we went to the beach and enyoyed how the city lights of Puerto Varas reflected on the Lago Llanquihue. I took a photo of that, but I lost the pendrive where all those pics were hosted. Anyway, I have great memories in my mind and that's what I like to remember: the good days. 

A country I would like to visit

Let me show you a pearl of the Balkan peninsula: Ohrid Lake, located in the country I would like to go... Macedonia! Their music, awesome landscapes and culture wants me to go there.

I know many things of this "new" republic. Did you know that Macedonia was the only country of the ex-Yugoslavia to get their independence without a war? I like to remember it, even though there was a conflict between Albania and Macedonia in the early 2000's that killed a lot of people.

The Balkans. Macedonia it is in yellow.

There I would like to travel by bus looking to the mountainous landscape. I would like to meet Ohrid (the city where the photo was taken), their capital city Skopje and many of the "macedonian wonders" like the Matka canyon and Galicica national park. Also I would love to talk with inhabitants in macedonian language and sing their national anthem in the Makedonija Ploštad.

I don't think I would like to work or live there. As Chile, the people are constantly fighting for their rights in protests because of the conservative law they live with. In 2015-2016 there was a political crisis and people showed their displeasure throwing paint to the monuments and government buildings, the streets and the images of the ruling-party leaders. The protests were known as "Colorful revolution".

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Despite of that, I would like to be there to fight for the change. Many basic rights are blocked in Macedonia: there's no gay marriage, for example. Also I would love to study there in the Saints Cyril and Methodium University of Skopje. I know that's a dream, but also I like to fight for my dreams :)