Blog 4: "Time travel to the past or the future?"

Personally, I would like to live in the present and be surprised. But for the purposes of the course, and answering the question, I lean towards the option of traveling to the past. I prefer to go backwards because if I went into the future, I would know what’s going to happen and my life would lose surprise. I wouldn’t like to live day by day knowing what will happen, where and with whom in the next few years. I want to live from uncertainty, but not from the knowledge of the history of my life.

According to the exact time of the trip, I would choose to go to my childhood. This is given that I have nice memories of my childhood with family and friends. It was a stage in which I had no responsibilities or risks, I just dedicated time to myself and doing things I liked such as playing soccer. I still had to be held accountable at school, but school was much simpler than university. 

However, I wouldn’t like to stay in that stage of my life, because I believe that one must continue experiencing other instances that childhood does not give you. It would only be a quick trip to remember what the Rafael of the past was like and compare him with the person he is today. I feel that by establishing myself in a specific stage I will not be able to grow humanly, and I would break the cycle of life.

I would also like to make it clear that in my visit to the past I wouldn’t change anything to avoid a new future to occur. I am one of those people who thinks that the different circumstances that one has faced maybe had a purpose. In the end, each situation helps build the person we are today.

Photography of my favorite movie about time travel.

Blog 3: My dream job

Writing this blog made me remember how indecisive I was as a teenager to choose what to study and work for the rest of my life. Now I think about it and I hope I have chosen correctly.

I chose this degree because it fulfills all the things that I like to do on a daily basis, for example: write, read and learn about current topics. Also, the areas of journalism are very entertaining. These include radio, television, websites and newspapers.

There are also many areas of interest to me, such as the environment, justice and sports. The last one was one of the main factors to take my decision because I am a huge fan of different sports.

In the future I would like to have a job related to sports. I would like to inform people about sports. I'm still not sure about the exactly communication area, I just hope to do my best. In any case, I would like to go through different formats, that will give me a lot of professional experience. If I am a dreamer, I would love to work in a sports channel or radio show.

About the skills I need to be a journalist, there are some I still can't do correctly. These include personality, language management, voice projection, good researcher and being educated. Each of these skills contribute to being a great journalist.

I'm already in my last years of my degree, so I hope to be able to face the professional world and find a workplace that welcomes me as well as university or even better.