I dreamed a dream...

When I was a little child, I always wanted to be a singer. I used to sing all the songs of Mazapan CDs to my mom, who has always been my biggest fan in the world. As soon as I stood on my two feet my mom took me to get my very first cat and that was the moment my love for animals began. Since then I wanted to become a veterinarian to help animals.

Years later my mom took me to the doctor because she thought I had autism and needed to be investigated since I was playing alone with my toys always away from people. I was very shy and I didn't cry as much as the kids of my age and so she sign me up to a talent's school to improve my social skills, but the truth was that I was just too shy and quiet, but that was going to change very soon...

At six I had decided to study theater, I was in love with everything about it: with playing someone I was not, someone different. To be able to became anything my mind could imagine. I was obsessed with stories that weren't real, with telling things that could make people feel.

Then, in elementary school I practiced all the sports that I could and that my body allowed me. I was absolutly in love with the feeling of teamwork, to be part of something bigger than me, something important to others, to be part of winning but also lossing. There began my dream of being a professional athlete. That dream ended when I changed school and decided reject the possibility of training for Chilean Handball team, to study in an emblematic High School, "Liceo 1", that have classes all afternon long. There I got close to music, singing in two choirs and playing a lot of intruments. I wanted to sing and be a musician, but I didn't know how and I thought I wasn't going to make it, that I wasn't good enough. In that school, I got very good at math, I found them very fun to do. I was the first of my class an so people around me started to believe I was going to study astronomy, because I've always loved stars. So when the moment of applying to university finally came, my options were astronomy, journalism or theater. 

Obviously I decided for the love of my childhood and life. I've never could leave that feeling aside, it is inexplicable, the word "theater" always remind me of the first moment in my life I felt complete, I felt happy, but most important, the moment I felt more free than ever. I always knew that was my way. There never were other options really. The teamwork fact, the expression of music, the notion of rhythm, the sound melody, the immensity of the universe, the stars, the unknown, the infinity lives options...Every thing I've ever found, has always been on theater.

I have no idea of where this road will take me, but I do know I could not live a life without theater in my days. In all that I see, I talk, I breath. There are so many stories I want to tell, so many people my body wants to know, wants to fuse with. I will work in ANYTHING to let the girl-in-me be right beside where her heart belongs to.

Favourite piece of technology

Hi everyone! Today I'll be talking about my favourite piece of technology.

It is very difficult to write about a topic that most of the time makes me feel guilty about the way I live my life and how much time I spent on technology. That said, I must confense how necesary is my phone in my daily live.

My very first phone

I got my first phone in fifth grade of elementary school just because that year I started to return alone to my house from school on a bus that took me from the front of my school to the corner of my block in twenty minutes, so my mom said that I had to be communicated all the time because she needed to know if anything happened to me. Emergencies only.

At first I only used it to make calls, but as I grew I started to used it to communicate with my friends, I texted them, called them and we talked hours, to plan meetings, etc. Then, in high school, I used it to know people by social media, to chat and to move around city to places I didn't know, to travel unknown streets and the routes and transport I had to use. Nowadays I use it for almost everything. My life has been simplificated by it. There is nothing I can't do on my phone. I buy on it, travel, search places, theater plays, I'm able to know wheather and dress up according to it. To read, write for college and a bunch of other activities, quickly and easly. Really ANYTHING I could imagine.

I think my life without my phone would be very different, not better or worst, but DIFFERENT. Maybe I wouldn´t know all the things I know thanks to internet, but the few things I would know, would be based on real experience, slowly, living intensive. I would listen more, see more and let the moments really begin, develops and end. I think everything would be more sensitive, and significant, but also we couldn't know and conquer everything that people and the world has to offer to us.

Few things about my biography

My name is Catalina Tomckowiack, the girl with the weird last name. My father gave it to me when I was born, it's been twenty one years from that moment. July 26th, thats mean I'm a leo which I think is a very important thing when you get to know me, it is the moment when you can decide to run away or not.

Big sister, Mom and me

An interesting fact that not many people know about me it's that even when my last name is of Polish origin, the truth is that I don't know anything about my father's family and theirs roots, but I do know about my mother's family history. Even when I don't have the last name of my grandmother, she is the one who gave me my origin, the one I feel identified with. Her father was a Spartan leader who arrived to Chile escaping wars to save the lives of all his community members, because the greek culture it's all about trusting in your leader, who would give his life for you. He founded the first Greek community in Chile and worked for the embassy of his country here in Chile, so my mother's life and also mine, has always been very close to that beautiful culture.

I grew up with my mom and my big sister, because my father left when I was only one year old. Even when I have felt my dad's absence during all my life, the two amazing women life has given me, are all that I have, they are every part of what I am now.

Over the years I received another five siblings: one last sister and four little brothers. They're all my heart.

I went to a two different public schools, both with academic excellent, which was a difficult but
aggrandizing experience that made me realize how hard real life was, and the different lives around me and my family bubble.

Now I'm studying acting in Universidad de Chile, happier than ever, loving every second of being here, every moment I get to know the extraordinary people I'm on this trip with. And I'm probably scared almost all the time, but this was I've always dreamed of, and I really hope to be able to be this happy for the rest of my life.

   

About learning english

Five things on me learning english:

1. It´s easy for me to learn others languages and others forms to communicate with people. For example, this year I`m taking classes of sign language to begin my journey on inclusive communication. In future I plan to learn braille. Also in high school I was scholarship-holding for a workshop of the Oxford University to prepare the preliminary english test.

2. It's hard for me to learn to write and speak in english, specially the order of the sentences, the pronunciation and the accent. It`s more difficult to me those two things rather than understand the language.

3. Something I want to learn in this course is to express myself fluently in english specially on talking and writing. In a future I hope to be able to act Shakespeare in his original language.

4. I learn best in classes where the teacher speak only in english and also make the students do it. Including explications, questions, requirement, etc.

5. I participate more in class when the teacher ask things to the class about the subject but also about ourselves and our lives. I think that trying to say things about you can make you try harder on being understood.