Post 4: Studying theatrical design

I`m a very indecisive person so when i had to choose wich career i wanted to study it was quite a difficult decision for me. When i was in school i had a very closed mind on what careers i was suposed to study: i wanted to be a lawyer. But when time passed i started changing my mind and see the posibilities. I started liking journalism,geography, cinema and i found it really hard to decide. Eventually i decided to study Geography but left the career after a few months cause it wasn't what i really wanted. After leaving geography i started training circus (trapeze and acrobathics) cause it was a dream i've always had and i fell in love with it and started training daily. But the social and family preassure made me had to choose a university career to sudy and that's when i found theatrical design as a possibility to be close to circus. I've always knew this career existed because it was my father's dream career, he's frustrated dream, so he was always pushing me to study it and i fell for the preassure.
Universidad de Chile is the only university that imparts this career in Chile, so i didn't thought about studying it on another university, besides, my father is a teacher from the university so i have a discount on the price and i really wanted to be in this university instead of another.
My experience so far has been full of stress. I didn't knew much about the dynamic of the career until i was on it, and it's actually a really hard and demandant career, where we have a really full schedule from 8:30 or 10:00 am to 6 pm everyday, withouth any "windows" on the schedule and having to do many works on our houses for the day after, it's really stressfull. Besides, the building is really "poor", little and with not much equipments, which eventually starts to take your motivation away from wanting to be there. We have to be really passionate about it to handle this conditions. But the career is beautiful, i've learned really fun and interesting things, i know how to design an escenary, how to manufacture clothes and do makeups and many more things.
My favorite subject has been the theorical ones, cause i have a lot of practical subjects, and my favorite one has been history of modern and contemporary arts cause i love doing researchs and learn and write about history. And the most significant thing i've learned till now has been manufacturing clothes and doing lights (control the lights).


                               
                                This is an image from the "Cirque du soleil", my dream job.