VIDEO 1: A GIFT THAT I RECEIVED AS A CHILD

PILLIN

When I was two years old I received the most important gift I ever had, it was on my birthday, on Christmas eves of 1986. I remember that it was next to me when I woke up that morning, and when I opened my eyes I saw a beautiful toy. It was a plastic dog, a yellow fake plastic animal that had a delicious smell of lemon.

It was soft and tender and one of its legs was softer than others so I chewed it every time and now it has a hole in its leg.

As a child, I played with it everyday and maybe I even spoke to it, why not. At that time I spent many days very lonely and without any friend. I was a bubble boy because I remained very sick with asthma and flu.

But when I grew up I got stronger and I was able to play outside my bedroom, I had a lot a friends that invited me to play outside but when I came back to my bedroom  my plastic dog was always there, waiting to play with me.

Now it´s a little bit dirty because it`s been many years since I received it. But it remains as one of my dearest toys, but I really don´t remember who gave it to me, my mother says that maybe my granpa, in that case it´s more important to me, he passed away two years ago and I really miss him, and sometimes I think that all the love from my grandfather remains in that toy.

So, this was my first pet, my fake plastic dog named Pillin.

A skil I need to master_Driving cars

WHAT IS A BRAKE?

I don´t know how to drive a car. My only transportation for decades has been my bike, but now that I am working as a professional I guess I need to learn driving but first I need to take lessons.

Somebody told that the new examination is very difficult but that´s not a problem to me, because I like challenges, so I have to study really hard for the theorical examination, then I have to practice for the practical test and finally I will have to pay for the driving license.

But I am a bit scared, I never touched a wheel, and the brakes are those kinds of things that may prevent a car accident. But I am aware of it and one of the most important things, for someone responsible, is to know all the traffic laws and to be a conscious driver.

Finally, my brother will help me master this skills, he has a car and he´s a very good and responsible diver, so he will teach me some basics knowledge about car driving every weekend and in summer I will take that test, so let´s hope, maybe next year I will be a driver too but I won´t have my own car anyway, for that purpose I will wait for a long time I guess, but it doesn´t matter, my brother´s car will be waiting for me.

My ideal job_A football field cameraman

TOUCHING THE GRASS 

I really like football, yes, many people of this country love it as well, but I want to dedicate all my spirit and passion to be a cameraman standing right next to the field, that job would be my ideal job.

I am actually working in a TV station, in Football Channel, (CDF) so I edit and record many games, I guess I have many qualities and skills at my work, I´m good at it and I spend a lot of my time watching football games, but that´s not enough. 

I want to be next to the grass, felling the air, smelling the grass, hearing the crowd shouting and singing just like when I went to the Stadium but in that time I was just an spectator.

It would be great to record directly to the players running and fighting to score, and make a goal. Well, I have my favorite team, I´m very passionate about it but any game would be fantastic. However, if I get that job and I have to record my team besides, wow, that would be glorious.

But, it´s just a dream for now, because is very difficult to get that job, many people want it too, and the actual cameramen are very good professionals and they have a lot of experience but I really hope that someday, sooner than later, that job will be mine.

A PLACE I WOLD LIKE TO VISIT_SWEET CANADA

SWEET CANADA

I'm a film maker but I don't have any money, so I have to rent cameras or ask for favors to my friends but sometimes I can't work because I don´t have my own equipment.

In that sense, I would really like to go to Canada because I need to earn some money, and my purpose is to buy all the equipment that I need to be a professional. Well, I have some family there and they invited me a few years ago. So as I am studying cinema and television in University of Chile and I' m in my last year I hope this dream becomes true really soon.

I would like to find a job and maybe to get a scholarship so I could study in some university or college. I know that in Canada education is public, as well as social security and health insurance.

I also know that Canada is a federation of states, it is a very large country and its landscapes are really amazing. Some people speak in English some in French. My family lives in Toronto so I guess they only speak in English.

They told me that the weather is very similar to the weather in southern Chile, and I lived a few years in Valdivia, so I suppose I'm going to enjoy that rainy and snowy weather.