Travelling around Santiago

Well everyone knows that travelling around Santiago can be difficult, especially for someone that has not lived the experience of moving around the city in the public transport, mainly the Santiago subway.

When I am talking about some people that aren’t used to, I am talking about me. I lived my whole life in Antofagasta so I wasn’t used to use the subway. That made my firsts travels kind of a nightmare because all the different stories that your friends tell you. I remember one story in particular… when my dad finds out that I wasn’t very confident moving around Santiago by myself he take me to the center of Santiago in his car and then he left me in the subway, while he was leaving he told me that I would have to go back home by my one. At that moment I panic, I did not know where I was and how could be able to go back home.

When I realized that my dad would not come back I went to the subway and ask for directions to different people, then I get into the subway praying that I was going to the right place. The people were very nice (they help me a lot) and the atmosphere was quite relaxed, not like the subway at 7am. Finally, I get home, a little traumatize but safe, since that day I can travel around Santiago without troubles.

My Future Job

Unlike the rest of the architecture students I don’t want to start working as an architect immediately after finishing my studies. What I would like to d is travel and visiting other countries, but to do that I have to work in something to afford the costs of the trip. Been a flight attendant has been always a present thought in my mind.

I always loved to travel and this job will let me do that, it also will be an opportunity for me to improve my English and maybe learn other languages.

Know maybe you think why I’m studding architectures if I want to work as a flight attendant… well that is because the career of a flight attendant don’t last so long and when I finish the career (and also is the possibility that I never get to work as a flight attendant) I want to something that I enjoy doing as a daily work, that is why I’m studding architectures first.  I also could work some years as a flight attendant and establish myself in a foreign country to start working as an architect there that is also an idea crossing my mind.

But that for now is only a dream that I am working on, it can become true as may not.

Postgraduate Studies

In some point of you studies career you think if you would like to continue studying after you receive your diploma. Some people just want to finish and start working immediately, but in my case is different, I would like to continue learning more about what I want to do in the future, maybe specialize me in something related with the old day’s architecture, like the one present in the Rome or Greece.

For this I would like to travel to Europe, specifically Rome in Italy, because I love the architecture there and I know that they are many courses that I could take to learn all about it. I think that the best way of learning something is seeing it for yourself (LIVE THE EXPERIENCE) and for that a part-time course is the ideal thing to do. You can study in the morning and put in practice everything you have learn in the afternoon. I remember when I travel to Rome when I was younger I saw many student of architecture sitting in a long stair of the coliseum drawing all the buildings and landscaping. In that moment I realized that someday it will be me sitting there and drawing, if I don’t take a postgraduate course definitely y would try to go for my own.

The studies aren’t an obligation; they are something that motivate you to BE THE BEST in what you LOVE doing.