martes, 21 de abril de 2009

to be a journalist? I don't think so...

I'm in second year of journalism in the Universidad de Chile... But I don't really like the profession. I mean the career is pretty fun, but I don't know if I want to be a journalist... I don't think so...
I know I can't say too much about the career b/c I 'm just in second year. Maybe I'll like it later. I just know that today I don't really wanna work as a journalist.

Why am I studying this?... Easy: to get a degree. Is something like an endorsement. After I finish it, I don't really know what I will do. I'd really like to dance. Idk if I wanna study it (to get a degree), but I'd like to take some courses or just be in an academy or somethin' like that... Anyways, I don't really like to think about my future. I'm just enjoying my university years. Partying a lot and meeting awesome ppl.

sábado, 18 de abril de 2009

Dancing... all what I want






















Dancing is everything in my life. As I said b4, I come from a small city (Vallenar) and I didn't get the chance to be part of a dance academy or something like that. I really would've loved to start from when I was little, but I couldn't. Anyways... Finally, and after all those years, there was an academy of modern dance in Vallenar!, they opened in 2006 but, as I also said b4, I went to U.S. for a year, so I couldn't start then.
When I came back from Texas, I started to go there. The teacher is one of my mom bests friends from childhood so that made it so much easier. Actually, she's now of my best friends now also.
The style we took in that academy was something like "neo-folcklore". We use latin american music (like Inti-Illimani, Los Jaivas and stuffs like that).
On 2007 we put on stage the Cantata Santa María de Iquique de Quilapayún. I think that was another of my best experiences in life. To be part of an entire play and really feel part of it. Part of the story. Part of the history.
I belonged to this academy all the 2007 second semester. After that, I came to study here, Santiago. And even though the capital has so much more to offer me in dancing stuffs, I haven’t found what I had in Vallenar. I found a family over there. In here I just find a lot of girls that feel threatened when someone new comes into the class room. Idk, it’s really weird how I feel when I start going somewhere here. It doesn’t really fill the huge gap that Isadora Duncan dance school left on me (the academy from Vallenar). Maybe I don’t really give myself the opportunity to enjoy something else than that specific place, with that teacher and those students.
I went like three months to a jazz dance class, but I didn’t really get into it. I really like that style but I prefer modern dance. I also took classes of jazz dance in U.S. I went to a university in where my “exchange sister” goes to the pool to practice with her synchronized swimming team. They’re pretty good by the way. Anyways, I took jazz dance classes over there, for the entire year and I guess I learned a lot. We had two dance performances. One in each season.
I also took salsa classes last year at the university. It’s pretty fun. I really liked it.
In Vallenar I also took belly dance classes in the same academy I belonged to. And even though it’s really hard to learn, I finally liked it. And every time I go there for the weekends or holydays, I try to catch up on what they’re learning.

This year I want to start with something in here. I didn’t do anything last year, and now I feel like I won’t be able to stand one more year if I don’t do what I really love. My passion.



martes, 14 de abril de 2009

About me




Hallo!!!... I haven't written in english in such a long time!... well, I guess I'll try to do my best :)ok... In case u're reading this and u don't know me, here's a little presentation of myself...
I'm Lee-Anne Stone, but evreybody calls me "Pollo" (little chicken). I'm 19 years old and I'll turn 20 tomorrow!! (April, 15th) so I'm kind of excited, 'cause we're planning lots of things to do. My friends are the best. I really love them. I actually have two groups of friends: the university ones and the school ones, and I love them all.I'm from Chile. I lived my entire life in a little city called Vallenar (placed in the third region of the country), but last year I started University, so I moved to Santiago de Chile (the capital). Now I'm studying journalism in Universidad de Chile. I just started second year. Hmmm... what else can I say about me.... I'm only child and my parents are divorced since I was a 7-year-old girl, so I practically lived my whole life just with my mom. We have an incredibly great relationship. I really miss her, although I thought it would be so much harder to be apart from her, but it hasn't been that difficult. I guess we got used to be more independent from eachother on 2006-2007. I was an exchange student through a program called AFS (American Feel Service). I went to Dallas, TX in U.S. It was an awesome experience. I think the best one in my life. It was pretty hard though. It's really weird to try to fit in a totally different culture, with different rules and a different family. But now that I look backwards, I really think that an experience like that should be promoted to everyone. You learn so many things!... Starting from language. If I hadn't gone there, I wouldn't be writing here. But besides that, how independent and mature you get; the way you learn how to appreciatte what you have; so many things that you learn in just a year. I think ppl change a lot being an ex change student... I changed a lot.
But too much with the exchanging thing... let's see what else can I tell you guys (or like a good texan would say: ya'll) about me and my life. I guess next time you'll be able to know a little bit more about my life... :)

see ya soon!!