Blog 5: My future job

To be honest, I’m not really sure of what path I want to take just yet, I have some ideas but nothing concrete, since there’s a lot of different things that I’m interested in. At the moment I have my eye in two general fields, they are diversity and gender, and social reintegration. I’ve always felt drawn to the last one. However, there’s other things that I also enjoy, such as doing research (I find out about that last year) and honestly I’ve always wanted to work in something related to health care, but I was too bad at biology, that’s why I couldn’t pick a career that was more related to that, but I still feel that with Social Work I can, somehow, archive it.

I don’t really care if the job is outdoors or indoors, I enjoy working in teams and with people, but I wouldn’t like to be a social worker in a university and do that kind of job (no offence tho, I just think I would get bored).

In terms of traveling, I haven’t go to that many places and I would like to visit different countries, but I think I would rather leave that to be just for the pleasure of knowing other cultures and landscapes. Nonetheless, if I ever get to travel because of a job, I wouldn’t mind.

When it comes to salary, I would love to say that I really don’t care how much they pay me, but I do. Sadly, we live in a society where money is really important. I don’t want to have a lot of it, but just enough to have a good life, and even when money definitely isn’t why I am studying Social Work (that would be stupid), I still would like to make a decent amount of it.    

The reason why I’m studying Social Work is because I want to make a change in the society and try to understand it. I feel that my perspective in the world has changed so much ever since I joined the career, and I’m glad that happened. I’ve learned more than ever before and honestly, I can’t wait to be a social worker. Currently I’m very interested in diversity and gender topics, more than anything else. Even when sometimes the career itself gets difficult and challenging, I truly feel it’s worth it.

Blog 4: Books

At the beginning I thought about writing about a fantasy book, because they are usually my favorites, but at the end, I decided to go for another one. The first time that I read this book was in school, when I was in 3th senior, and I’ve loved it ever since. I´m talking about “Tengo miedo torero” by Pedro Lemebel.

This is a really special love story between the main characters, “Loca Del Frente” and Carlos. It is set in the 80’s in the middle of the dictatorship. This book has so many elements that are great, but I really wouldn’t like to spoil anything. 

As I mentioned before, I loved this book ever since I read it for the first time on 2017. I liked that Lemebel was able of mixing real milestones that occurred in history, with fiction. And the great thing is that he managed to do it in a crude but comical way (no really a spoiler, but the part where he describes Pinochet’s birthday party and what happened after the attack to him in 1986, was great).

I honestly think that this book isn’t for everybody, but if you like history and the satires of it, I highly recommend it.

But I wouldn’t stop there, this author has a great books, even when this one is his only novel. I also recommend “Adiós mariquita linda”, “Háblame de amores” and “La esquina es mi corazón”. Also, if you ever get the opportunity, you should see the play “La ciudad sin ti” where four actors represent some of Lemebel’s stories, they worked along with him and it was released on August 21, 2015. Sadly, Pedro didn’t have the opportunity to watch the staging, as he died earlier that same year.

I really enjoy reading his book, and if you haven’t, you should give it a try, I promise it’s worth it.

Blog 3: Movies and series

When I read that we had to write about a series that we think it’s worth watching, I gave it a long thought, I considered to write about “Sex Education”, “The assassination of Gianni Versace”, “Sherlock”, “Hollywood”, among others. But at the end, and after started writing at least three times without feeling right about it, I decided to go for “Big Mouth”.

This Netflix series, produced by Nate Funaro and Joe Wengert, and created by Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett, aired on September 29^th, 2017, with the first episode, “Ejaculation”. Even when the plot of the series is simple, it has a lot of content. It’s about two thirteen year old best friends and the rest of their class, going through the changes of puberty and other issues and discoveries that can come with adulthood (since the parents of the kids are involved in this series too). The main characters are Nick Birch, Andrew Glouberman, Jay Bilzerian, Jessi Glaser, Missy Foreman-Greenwald, Matthew MacDell, and Maury and Connie, the hormone monsters (which are hilarious).

If I’m being honest, at first I was a little reluctant to watch it, because I’m not a big fan of animated series and even less if they look like this particular one, but once I started I realized how good it was. I especially liked this show because it has a lot of elements that others don’t. For instance, it actually addresses complex topics, like puberty, relationships, sexuality, divorce, menopause, birth control and a whole bunch of interesting issues, without losing its comedy. It also has good bisexual representation (in comparison to other series).

Another reason of why I liked it, it’s because of the cast. It has amazing and talented people. For example, Nick Kroll (on the right), one of the creators of the series, does the voice to more than three characters, including Nick and Maury. And also John Mulaney (on the left) who plays Andrew. A fun fact about this show is that it’s based on the experiences of Andrew Goldberg and Nick Kroll, from when they were younger.

I feel like I can’t really express how good this series is, but I highly recommend it.