Around the world!

Several times I been asked where I’d like to travel, It is a very difficult question, because one of my dreams is to travel the world to know other cultures and talk with other people and eat their food and walk in their streets and  live (in my own way) their reality.

So I often wonder: Where I want to go the most?

I have not a clearly answer, and that it’s fault of my many and various hobbies and interests.

So here are some places I want to visit: (I hope that I can go when I’m still young)

First, I reaaaaally want to go to Machu Picchu, I know, it’s very close to Chile but  I have not had the opportunity to go yet. I love to watch pictures of Machu Picchu and read about the Incas. One of the things that I loved to do is the Inca road system, even if that takes me three or more days.

The other place that I’d love to go is a little further, England. This is a very popular destiny in travels, and this time, I will play along too. I want to go there because of many things: first I’m a huge fan of Harry Potter, so I need to go to King’s cross (at the 9 ¾ platform) and then go to the official shop. Other think that I love is Doctor Who, I know that you may not know what that is, but in Great Britain is a very popular TV series that count with a HUGE fandom and lots of history too, is an important part of the English culture.

Other thing that I want to do there, is go to the famous Glastonbury festival, this is one of my life goals.

And least, but not last. I want, no…I need to go to Japan and Korea.  In one of my old posts I talked about a Korean boy band called EXO, so you might know that I am very into Kpop. So one of my dreams is go to Korea and watch my favorites Kpop bands live.

Going to Japan is one of my all life dreams. I have always had interest in Asian cultures and Japanese culture is the one that caught most my attention. Especially the language and traditions that they have.  

I really need to travel.

Now.

Truman Capote, the father of New Journalism

The last year, when I started to study journalism, one of the first things that the teachers talk us about was the “New Journalism”; this is a style that combines fiction and reality, narrative and reportage, novels and journalism.

But, to really understand it and appreciate it, we need to read new journalism. So the teacher recommends us a very “entertainment” book (as she called it):

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.

And here, I don’t want to talk about the book, or the case that inspires the book (a very horrible and cruel event) otherwise I want to talk about the author himself. Truman Streckfus Persons, mostly known as Truman Capote.

Truman Capote born in 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana, But lived almost his all childhood in Alabama, with her divorced mother. At a very young age he started to write, because it was the only method that he found to mitigates loneliness.

When he was 19 years old, he knew that writing was is passion and future, so he entered to The New Yorker and wrote many articles and stories like “Miriam” (1945) which caught the attention.

Besides all of that, Capote was truly known for the enormous work that he did for the nonfiction novel: In Cold Blood. This book was the peak of Capote’s literary career and tells the story of a family murderer in Kansas.

Capote spent seven years researching, interviewing and writing about this case that culminated with one of the most popular nonfiction book and the start of the New Journalism movement.

Truman Capote also wrote Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958) book that takes him to the films industry.  

Lazy me, shame on me

I really don´t know what to say about sports, I’ve always been a very lazy person and I’ve never had really interest in sports.  I think that the reason is that I am frustrated about them.

Football, tennis, basketball or volleyball, these typical sports never have been interesting to me and obviously, have never been part of my life. But, when I was a little girl, some sports caught my attention: Swimming, ice skating and riding.

Anyway, almost at the same time that I wanted to practice these sports, I already knew that it was impossible. They are so expensive.

Leaving my traumas and frustrations behind, I have to say that now, I don’t practice any sport. In fact, the only thing physical that I do, is walk to the bus stop. I repeat, I am lazy and honestly I’m not proud of it.

I know that sports are important, they makes you more happy, energetic and healthier. It is really good. I think that every week I tell myself that I’m wrong and I need to do something that involve my body. But my bed and computer are so hypnotizing!! They never let me go.

Every time that I watch the FIFA World Cup or the Olympic Games, I admire the tenacity, will, and the strength that athletes have. I know that I will never be capable to do something like they do, they are amazing. Seriously.

Fulfilling a dream, choo choo!!

Today I’m going to talk about an important photograph for me. But, first of all, I need to tell you the story of why is this photograph so precious to me.
About two weeks ago, I fulfilled one of my dreams, I rode in train. Since I was a little girl, I've always liked trains, and airplanes, and buses, anything that could take me away. I love travels.
I love to meet new places, and people, and see the landscape, and eat new foods, and all that things that we do when we travel.
I’ve never travelled outside Chile (but that is another dream) but I already went to the north, south and coast of Chile by car, bus and airplane. I just needed to travel by train. But a real one, not things like the metrotren or anything. I wanted a real train, like those that Europe has. It’s kind of sad that we don’t have a locomotive that runs through all our country, it would be really beautiful.
However, two Saturdays ago ,  I went with a friend and her family to San Antonio port, by train. At 9.45 am, the trip that took more than 3 hours begun, and I reached one of my many dreams in a train made in Germany in 1923.
It was really fun; we talk, and eat, and laugh and play cards. We also went to walk inside the 6 wagons that the train have, I don’t got bored in any moment! It was a fantastic experience, and it made me truly happy.
I would never forget this.
And this is one of the many pictures that I took to the train that day in San Antonio.

We are EXO

Hello!! Well, today i’m going to talk about music. I really love music, and I like almost every kind of it, in fact I can’t be a single day without listen music. Seriously.

I've always loved music in other languages, even if I can´t understand it, in my computer I have French, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, English, Portuguese and Korean songs. And today I’m going to talk about that last one.

Korean.

If I remember well, since 2012 I’ve been listening Kpop, all starts because a friend of mine loved korean music and introduce it to me. That year I met EXO.

EXO is a Korean boy band (yes like backstreet boys, but not the same!) formed by 12 guys in the beginning, but now are only 10, 8 Koreans and 2 Chinese members. Since their debut they have reached a great popularity, they have won many sales awards, broke every kind of records that korea have, and won several prices on korean and Asian music festivals. Their songs are catchy, their dances are super synchronized and cool and the members of the group are really talented, funny and handsome guys.

I like to listen their music, and watching their videos. The only bad thing about them, are their fans. The most of EXO fans are teenage girls who thinks that the life of EXO belongs to them, so they are really scary and crazy and female fighters. The EXO fandom, called EXO-L, is hated by almost every other fandom inside the Kpop community. It’s kind of sad.

I want to say that EXO is not the only Korean group that I listen to, I like others too like Infinite, BTS, B1A4, etc. But recently EXO released a new album and I been listening to it every day. It’s so catchy!!

EXHILARATING – ASTOUNDING – ELECTRIFYING

I have a strange relationship with movies, I love to watch them but I am too lazy to do it, I know, it’s weird. Anyway, I love to watch movies with someone else, because I like to comment what is happening and express my feelings (I always have too many feelings, in fact, I use to cry with movies, a lot).
I’m working on a cinema, so lately I’ve watched many movies in that very big screen and with that very loud sound (I love it!).
 I watched Big hero 6, Birdman, The penguins of Madagascar, The theory of everything, Kingsman, even I watched (on a special week of classics that Cinemark did) the Godfather, and The Shining! But in here I’m not going to talk about any of these, I’m going to talk about the last movie that I watched on the cinema, and one of the most amazing:

Whiplash.

Whiplash is a movie about a young man called Andrew, who is a jazz student who wants to be one of the greatest, so he enters to the very prestigious Shaffer Conservatory in New York, where he meets a very abusive teacher who pushes him beyond his limits.
 This is a story of effort and ambition, where the greatness is only achieved if we are constant and if we are willing to sacrifice everything.

With a very powerful soundtrack, and acting, whiplash is one of the most intense, overwhelming and amazing movies that I ever watch.

  

  

TRAILER!

Oh! By the way, Hi!

Ahahaha I just realized that I never published my personal introduction, so I will do it right now. Or this blog will still be an anonymous blog.

My name is Javiera Pineda, I’m 20 years old and I am from Santiago, Chile!

Right now, I’m a student of journalism in the University of Chile, and I am in my second year of the career. Also I work on a Cinema, so I watch movies whenever I can.

I love to talk, be with my family and friends, listen music and reading, althought lately I been too lazy to do it.

 Well I think that’s all! Read you later! :D