Crisis

Bars in Quito undoubtedly have become an excellent business. The youth are the one who most enjoy them despite the crisis that the world is living, eventhoug this has not affect the consumption or reduced it. Entertainment is without a doubt the only thing that can make people forget the troubles or different situations that are complicated to resolved.

Even the adults hang out more to distract their minds. Exit of the conventional is good to go to the movies or dance drinking something. Lately in Quito you can see how the people have increase in bars or restaurants at night. Maybe these boom is because the crisis has afected everyone and how I were saying people take like an option to hang out with friends to forget the troubles.

It is a good business to have some place were people can distract at nights because nowadays is what gives more money.

People

Things are not always good. We have good and bad days and not everything can be good. People change and all around is different. We are human and make mistakes that I think are difficult to judge because nobody is perfect and can´t say what is good or bad.

With the time I learned that is complicated to have a lot of friends, life presents different opportunities to meet a lot of good people but not everyone will be your friend. There are a lot of good partners but that doesn´t mean that are your friends.

Is difficult to deal with people because each person is a entirely different world with that comes fights and everything change the perspective of things.

Definitely I think that in the world we are just alone and people only teach you to be stronger because each person teach different things.

I love music and today there are many different rhythms with which one can have much variety to enjoy music. No doubt the music is not what it used to be. Lyrics of the songs were very deep, they expressed feelings of the heart. Rhythms that came to the feelings, melodies that say much more than the songs of today.
The rhythms of today are so sticky that captivate a large audience and the youngest don´t appreciate any more the lyrics, they consume what the rest of the world say.
Nowadays we are living in a consumerist world and people especially teenagers buy what they see on tv or in magazines. Clearly example is what happen with the music that there are lyrics that don´t say anything, the words that are being use in the songs in some way say horrible things about the women and despite that especially women are the first target to that kind of music.
There are interesting music, rhythms that today we can enjoy but is good to throw away what is bad and leave that kind of products that denigrate women.

Political discourse

The country is currently undergoing changes at political level. The laws, such as communication, are being discussed at the assembly in order to "propose" changes in the country. No doubt these laws are written in obedience to the interests of some politicians. There are points at which the law is very clear and makes sense but in other points it is a very contradictory law.

Expresion freedom is at risk and the right to say somthing is becoming more complicated even though the law protects the journalists when you give an opinion as long as not undermining the integrity of individuals.

It is unfortunate that the media are always handled by people who always wants to make known their views silent the rest.

It's hard to change third world´s society through law that are good in theory but in practice are different.

The corruption is very large in the country and obey the law is complicated. I am very sorry that you we can not educate people for a change in the country because of our thought.

Learning English

When I finished High-school I decided to go on a trip to learn English. So I went to California, Orange County. There lives my uncle with his family. It was a little hard for me to speak English because the entire family speaks Spanish very good. My cousins are from United States but his parents are from Ecuador so they speak very well both languages.

When I was in the house with my cousins I only speak Spanish because it was kind of strange to speak English with them. But during the day I used to go to the languages school and there I had to speak only in English because all my friends were from different parts of the world and the only way to communicate was English.

In the house I used to watch television and all the programs were in English. I used to read all the newspapers to learn more English and when I went for shopping it was necessary, only in some places, to speak also in English because a lot of people from California speaks Spanish too, so the things were easier for me. But it was also a little disappointing because I expected to learn a lot of English and it was complicated.

When I was five years old.

When I was Five years old what I wanted to be when I grow up was to be a lot of things. It was amazing how my sister and I used to play everything that we can imagine in that time. We played as we had a school and both were teachers. We invented a school where we helped children who didn’t have the possibilities to study. That is one part of what I wanted to be.

On the other side we used to play as we were anchors of a television program for young children. In this program we invented also a lot of games where the children used to participate and who won the competition got an award. Then we sang and danced a lot of songs from the Yuli’s program that was a TV show for children that we saw all the weekends.

I think that both were my greatest wishes. First I wanted to be a teacher and teach all the poor people who didn’t have the opportunities like others and second always I wanted to be like an anchor where I can expose all my thoughts and believes and say what I want.

Almost I am accomplishing that wish because now I am studying social communication and with that I can almost be free to say what I want.

Risk

I think I am a person who has not taken many risks in life. Now that I am realizing fast everything in my life has been very calm. Maybe is because my parents are the kind of person who don’t like the “new” era and that’s why I grew up with all the traditionalism. Both are very conservatives and they taught me to be the same as they.

It is hard to be like them because first of all I don’t think that the thought that they have are kind of old and because I considerer that I am an intelligent person who can decide for myself.

One of the risk that I took once was to run away from my house. It was when my father and I had a big fight and I couldn’t stand it any more and I packed all my belongings and left my house.
In that time I used to work in Cinemark in plaza de las Americas. That day I went to work and at night my mother went to see my and talk with me. But I was so angry that I didn’t hear my mother. For the next two weeks I stayed with a friend from the work and then I returned to my house because I missed my family and they missed me too.

It was interesting taking that kind of risks but now that I´m realize it was kink of stupid, too and maybe my father could reacted in a different way and not recieved any more in the house.

I´m for the risks but in the ones that are to improve in the jobs or to be a better person in life.

Friendship

Nowadays I think that the meaning of friendship is something that people are losing. With all of the globalization and those stuffs things are changing for bad. People are more individual and doesn´t care about the feelings or just how they are at the moment, how the person is doing at that time. Relationships are more often colder because in the middle of the communication is every time an electronic device in between. Technologies are very important to make business and other things but for relations I find a problem with the communication because we are losing the physical contact with friends, etc.

Since my point of view adolescents are more desinterested about feelings and that is why friendships and relationships are almost all like more superficial. I think that infidelity is more usual than in other times.

For me this problem is very serious because we can´t trust in people and even a friend can disappoint you. Is very sad knowing that all the values are missing and that people are less interested about something that is human like the feelings of other people.

My hero

My hero even if it is not well known and does not have many followers I believe that it meets all my parameters. This super hero I speak of is my dad. Since I am very small I have always admired my dad. He is a person as any. It's very orderly, very sincere, loving, and respectful. I could put many adjectives to describe him and does what a fanatic does with a platonic love.

I do not think it's only because he is my dad. He is a human being that is very focused on what he wants from his life and also I think the best thing of him is that he loves his family very much.

He always has achieved its goals and has tried to overcome. He has reached very high because he knows he wants from his life and always put his family first.

Although not a person known to the whole world, I think that is just my dad and that is perfect for me.

About me...

My name is Pamela Rizzo and I´m 21 years old. I´m studying third year of journalism at University SEK in Quito-Ecuador.

Since I was 15 years I knew that I would like to be a journalist because in my school I made an internship in a local channel were I had the oportunity to realize my passion for news. I always liked everything that involve people and to share with them. I prefer to work outside for example searching news around the city instead of being in front of a desk all day.

My hobbies are reading, watching movies and going out with my friends. I´m a social person so I don´t like to be alone. I like parties a lot, too.

When I was in the school I used to be a good athlete but I started to smook so right now I'm kind of lazy when it comes to sports.

I consider myself a good listener so that's why I'm going to study psychology after I finish my studies of journalism. My goal is to combine these two careers and make some journalism research here in Ecuador because these type of journalism is kind of low in the country.