Blog ll: why did i choose to study theater design?

When I was a child I dreamed about being veterinarian, my motivation was to save all the animals in the world y make them happy. But that dream did not last long, I still remember the day when I realized that I had to see animals suffering and sometimes even die...in that moment I admitted that I was not strong enough to handle it, so I gave up. After that I wanted to be so many things: nutritionist, camerawoman, writer and teacher (in honor of my grandpa). However, after PSU I decided to study journalism, but it wasn´t for me.

After leaving journalism, I did not know what to do and in my search I found theater design, a career that looked beautiful and cool, and that also had something that journalism didn´t, being off-camera but still being related to the audiovisual world.

I´m not going to lie saying it was easy, because it wasn´t. It is a career with a lot of academic load and living far away (about 5 hours’ round trip) is not very compatible. The first few years I literally didn´t sleep and I survived thanks to cookies and coke (dark days lol). But not everything has been so terrible, because I met wonderful people and studying this has given me unforgettable experiences.

The truth is that I’m not clear about what my dream job is. I don´t know, I’m still searching because I feel the need to give my career a social use, one that is not superficial and that can be used to the community. I guess that I never really abandoned my old dream of studying pedagogy and today it is coming back strongly, maybe it comes to complete the puzzle in my life.

                                                                       (In my first year, 2017)