Maite Abarca G.

Since last year I started with the online modality, in my career has brought many challenges. For example in subjects that are practical such as instrument, orchestra and camera music. The online mode has been difficult as the sound is obviusly not as clear as it is in reality. So teachers have implemented different ways of teaching the class, for example only teach theoretical things at class time and at another time send a video of yourself playing your instrument.  In a way it is clearer to send a video to get a better sound, however it has been more difficult for me because I want the video to be perfect. Then for any failure I start recording again.  The truth is that the theoretical subjects have not been difficult for me to understand. Only sometimes there are certain obstacles, like the internet connection is not always stable. One of the things I enjoy the most is that I am at home and never lack food and I'm always with my family. Having face to face classes is diffi...

  When I was a child I liked to play with my cousins as if I was the teacher. I remember I had a small whiteboard, and from there I liked to teach them different subjects.  So for me it was like a dream to be a teacher when I grew up. I liked the idea of working with children, being able to teach new things to see the progress of each child, among other things.  Years have passed, different things caught my attention. For example music. I was introduced to the bassoon and I really loved it. I started to learn more about this wonderful instrument. And finally I decided to study a career related to music, specifically the bassoon. Although I could also relate what I study to my dream of teaching. I would love to teach bassoon in the future. And then my dream would come true.  I like all the jobs where you can see progress in people. Like teachers teaching and health professionals seeing the patient recovering. I really admire the work of doctors, nurses, kinesiologists...

Definitely being born in the 2000's means knowing about technological devices from a young age, such as televisions, radios. And when I was growing up I was getting to know new technological devices, such as computers, cellular phones and more modern.  I think my favourite piece of technology is the cell phone, because nowadays in pandemic it has become very useful for me. The cell phone helps me to communicate with my family, friends and my university classmates, also for my career I use it to record videos playing bassoon and send the videos from the same device. Before the pandemic when the classes were face to face in my career, it was not necessary to have so much technological equipment. For example, to interpret scores, it´s clearer for me to have them printed, so that I can write on paper some things that the teacher tells me. Then in some classes you only need the score and the instrument.  I think that humans today are very dependent on technology. The social media c...