Jayleen

Today I want to talk about my experience living here in Santiago and starting a new life here since I moved on almost 3 years ago. Before I came I always used to think that my life here would be different, would be better than how it used to be back in my hometown, but after all I think that I was wrong. My first months living here weren't that bad, I had a social life very active and everything in general was good, but time goes by and things aren't the same now. First I had to leave my grandmother's house (I lived there during my first year of college), and around the same time I started losing people, friends and family members. Also my demons and insecurities have been growing up more and more with the matter of time. Right now my life is far from what I used to think that it would be, so my experience living my first years here in Santiago haven't been what I wanted, and also haven't been good enough, but I still have faith. I know that I have to keep goi...

Today I’d like to talk about some news that we usually see on mass media, but this news don’t really have an importance for the country or society in general. Every day we are covered and somehow, bombed by some really stupid and non-important news. Personally, I don’t really like it and that’s one of the reasons why I don’t watch much TV. I really get that some people like to know all that stuff, and the same people is who feed this, but in my personal opinion all this wasted time could be used for some more important topics, like really important information on some cultural stuff. An example of this could be the fight between Raquel Argandoña’s children, Raquel and Ignacio Calderon, news related to this where everywhere during days, and included every single version of the fight, and of course what other celebrities said about the fight too. My opinion about this misuse of space and time is not necessary at all, and can be considered a bad way of making journalism. I real...

This year I went to my first concert ever, but today I'd like to talk about the second concert I attended to this year, because I think I had a better time there. The Chainsmokers came for the first time ever to Chile this month, and I went to their show because I’m a huge fan since 2016. Their concert was on October 4 th , and it was at Movistar Arena. The Chainsmokers are an American EDM-Pop duo, conformed by Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall. Their first big break in music was with the song called “Selfie” and their biggest hit to the moment is “Closer”, a song they have in collaboration with the American singer Halsey (she also came to Chile this year, and her show was my first concert ever). Andrew and Alex are basically DJs, so the atmosphere at the show was totally crazy, but in a good way.   People (including me) were dancing, singing and jumping the whole time, for the same reason I couldn’t walk correctly in a week after the show, my legs were hurting so bad,...

United States My dream place always has been United States and I’d really like to visit that country someday. I think it’s because I’ve grown up with the magical idea of this place, the one I’ve seen in movies, music videos and novels. On the other hand, I want to visit United States because for a really long time I’ve had the feeling I was born in the wrong place, and people also say that to me always. What I know about United States is not that much, I know some demographic data, like its 50 states for example, and as I’m a writer I usually include this country in my stories, so I have to do research about cities, places to eat and other stuff, that’s basically how I learn about my dream place. I’d like to live and work there for some time, but if I have the chance to live full time there for a really long time, or maybe for the rest of my life, I’d be happy to do it. Is a fact that for what I want to do with my life, that’s the place where some of my best chances...