Ana Berríos

  I think that something that could be change from the study programme would be the fact that the “CFG” (general formation courses) are obligatory even though a certain amount of credits must be completed… and honestly, I wouldn’t do this change just for my career, but to others (if not all) because they can turn to be a great opportunity to learn something a part of the career, to be a burden in many ways. Aside that, I think I wouldn’t change anything more of the programme because if that change would be applied, the amount of workload will decrease in general, but despite that I feel that particularly in the first year the things to do were a little overloaded and to being just a freshman with that number of work to be done it’s kind off overwhelming, so that’d another thing that could be changed. Thinking of the faculty facilities, there are many many things that could be changed, I think the most important is the infrastructure, it has a lot of things to be developed, like...

Right now thinking of the future isn’t something I like to do that much because I prefer to focus on the present time. But if I have to think about a time travel to the future I wouldn’t try to imagine something really crazy because I’m not feeling that creative? (hehe). Nonetheless I’m going to talk about a time in the future that I have sort off planned for it to happen, so I’m going to be “creative” anyway. Well, first off all I see my self here in Chile but I think maybe five or seven years in the future so we would be at year 2025 or 2027 and hopefully I will be living by my own and working on something (I don’t know what it could be honestly) maybe I will be teaching Arts at some high school or selling art supplies in an art store… or even I might be living as a full time artist, doing commissions and that kind of stuff. I choose this time in the future because on those years I will be probably meeting in real life a very special person (a really good friend) I met quite so...

I was wondering what to write about on this second "free theme post" and I had problems to come with an idea but... I looked to my right side and saw a small little book I have, that's named  Horacio Quiroga "his best stories". This book was given to me by the supervising teacher I had in the two last years of high school and I really appreciate that kindness of her. She was/ is a veery good linguistics teacher, very responsible and also beautiful... I think I could say that I had like, kind off a close relation with her as a student, she really is a person and professional worthy of admiring.  And thinking about that... those things are the kind of thing that leads me to kind off wish to be a teacher in the future. Teacher of teenagers mainly, because I know it's a hard phase most of the time, I would like to be that nice teacher that can made classes and school more enjoyable for the students and why not, maybe the teacher that could help them if they thi...

Pizzaaa!! I really, really like pizza, this rounded shaped piece of cooked dough that you can prepare putting over it literally whatever you want… but the usual and iconic image of pizza would be the one that have a lot of cheese and pepperonis, I guess that’s the classic? Pizza is the kind of food that you can eat very fast but it takes a little longer to get it done, I would say that in general it has two stages(? First, you mix the ingredients to do the dough (you will need: salt, flour, oil, and  yeast) when you have it all well mixed you have to let it leaven, then you separate the dough in equal portions, next you extend the dough over a round tray and put it into the oven (this is repeated with all portions). After it’s cooked, comes the “second stage” that would be the part when you put tomato sauce and cheese (for the base) and then I don't know… you can put whatever you like and want, but there must be cheese (at least for my taste hehe). I really like how tasty pizza is ...

Ummm well... If you ask to a random person that knows me well what is the thing I like doing the most, surely they would answer "drawing" or something related to that and they’ll be right.  I draw since I have memory, maybe I wasn’t like… drawing aaaaaaall the time, but I always knew I really like doing that, grabbing a pencil and do whatever was in my mind at that moment (maybe something I was watching at or something I was imagining). The first thing I remember have drawing many many times when I was little, were cats… yeah, at that time if I didn’t know what to draw, I draw a sleeping cat made a little bun…? Hehe, I really really like cats (that could be my second hobbie, cats :3). Now If I don’t know what to draw, I draw eyes, like the “majority of artists” do, hehe. I have a collection of sketchbooks, I think they’re about 15 or 18, I don’t have the exact amount in my mind, but is not a little collection as you can notice. As a teenager I used to watch a lot of anime and...

The first most important thing to say it’s that I’m studying Visual Arts… and... ”Why?” Because I’ve always been in love with drawing, painting, creating things by imagination and all kinds of activity related to those things… that would be all, I’ve never thought something further than that, I mean... I had had the knowledge about the history of Art and some artists in general, but that never was my principal motivation to study that.  Something I really really wanted to do as a child, was to be a comic illustrator and do that for a living… but I also always dreamed of working at a stationery store(? Or an Art store, I think that would be more accurate, I still think of that as an option because… why not? Heh (I don't have too high goals in general?).  Mmmm…I think if I hadn't chosen Visual Arts I’d have chosen something like Linguistics because I was in the Literature program (If I may say so) in the last two years of secondary, other options were were Illustration and 2D An...

There are a few countries I'd like to visit but one of them is Japan, I think it could be the first on the list.  I don't really know veeery much but what I know of this country is that is the place where manga and anime saw their origins and that's one of the reasons I want to go there and t he food, for example, ramen, katsudon, takoyaki and yakisoba... ah~ there are so many japanese dishes I want to try that for sure are soooo good and delicious! Also there're so many beautiful places like... Well I don't have any place in mind now specifically, but all the locations with huge green zones, I mean with grass, trees, all kind of nature, shrines and temples too, I find them very wonderful and interesting to see. Ummm but if I would have to say something more specific, it could be the surroundings of Mount Fuji and the Senso-ji Temple in Tokyo I guess. Also the places and stores that are anime and manga related in diferents cities and prefectures, those are places I ...