Global affairs Blog

 In my global affairs class, we were talking about quality education, then I thought about how covid affected my studies and then a question came to my mind: did the covid-19 affect the quality of the education in my university? To make the long story short, I would say yes... Even if my university did the best work to gave us a good experience, in the beginning, it was a very bad experience because many of my teachers were not prepared to teach via the internet, for example, internet issues like bad connections in their homes, confusion with the platform "teams", were not prepared to change the modality of the courses, they did not have a board at home so it was very hard to understand subjects like maths or accountability and a very big, etc... The university offered some scholarships but even with that, the semester was very expensive though (like 3.000usd) and we were at our houses so we could not take advantage of the beautiful infrastructure of the university. The exper...

Globalization is something very interesting, sometimes you only think of it when you talk about exports, imports, migration, etc... For me, it is more than that. At the beginning of 2021, my family was having some money issues, however, the only thing I was doing was studying and playing video games. I wanted to have a job, but the problem was that I should have time also for my studies, and most of the jobs demand a specific workday.  One day I was looking at YouTube, fortunately, I saw a channel of a Bartender with almost 200.000 subscribers called "Raul Bartender" a guy from Venezuela that lives in the USA. I thought something like "why not tell him if he needed a video editor?" and BOOOOM, my dream job. He pay me 10 dollars per video edited (a video took me like 6 hours to have ready) which is like 40.000 COP, (more a minimum wage in Colombia) and the best thing is that I can work in the time that I want, wherever I want and I do not have a specific workday.  On...