Natalia H. Carreño

Hi! Well, everyone who knows me realize that I really love photographs... I love the idea of immortalize memories. I have a lot of pictures that I like but I think this is the most important because appears all my family. I took this picture on January 1st of this year. It was a family lunch in the house of my grandparents. We spent all day together, since breakfast to dinner. My grandparents have a swimming pool so I swam all morning with my cousins and my sister, I really love spent time with them because I feel like a little kid again. In these days my mama likes cooking, she always says that is what makes her happy. She really loves when we all visit her too. After lunch we all went to swam, including my grandparents, it was really funny. I Iove when the whole family meets and we can have a good time.

Hi! Well, books… I don’t remember the last book that I read, actually, I don’t used to read that often. But, when I want to read, I take what takes my attention in the moment. When I was in the school I read very interesting genres like Horror, Gothic literature, Fantasy literature, and a little bit of philosophic literature, I don’t know if it’s a genre but I hope can you understand it. I always have in my mind the “Allegory of the Cave” or “Plato's Cave”. Of Horror and Gothic literature I will always remember Edgar Allan Poe, with his classics stories like “The Tell-Talle Heart” or “The Black Cat”. “La noche boca arriba” is a very good piece of Fantasy literature, his writer was Julio Cortázar. I think the best book that I’ve ever read is “Die Verwandlung” or “The metamorphosis” of Franz Kafka. It’s a very interesting metaphor of life.

Well, I definitely choose the smartphone as my favourite piece of technology. Why? These days you can do anything on it, I mean, you can use it to call (obviously), as a computer, like a camera, as a tape recorder, as a GPS, even you can use it as a cinema with Netflix, haha. As a student I’ve become very dependent on it. I can be connected with my classmates on Whatsapp, we can share our notes and recordings of the classes of the day. We can coordinate our work too. Also, I can download some apps like Word, PowerPoint, Google Drive, Google docs, and others, and I can use my smartphone to do my works on it. In my career we constantly go out to see different ecosystems and take notes about it, in this case, I can use my smartphone to take photos and use the GPS to take some important details.