ENGLISH LANGUAGE CHALLENGES

Hello friends, I hope you're well. Today I'll make my last publication this year.That's why I'll tell you about my experience in the English course taught by the university. About the classes, I've attended almost all of them, since it has been always a challenge for me to learn English. I felt very comfortable with the teacher who did the course, she has a great disposition and patience for those who don't handle the language completely. About the contents, although many classes I felt a little bit lost, today I can say that somehow the course allowed me to learn new things and also reinforce previous knowledge. About the activity of the weekly blogs, I often found it exhausting to have to write, although it depends a lot on the subject. However, this activity has helped me mainly to learn grammar topic.

About my own practice of English, it still means a challenge for me to be able to speak in this language, since I don't have a good pronunciation, and besides that, I often forget the grammar of the language when I have to speak it. About writing, I think I handle it more, although not entirely.

To improve my English management, I've nothing to do but practice constantly, which I hope to do on holidays, since I will have more time.

As I said before, I don't spend much time learning English, I participate in the classes and their activities, I use the Duolingo application and I try to watch movies and series in English.

Well, that's all friends.I wish everybody merry christmas and happy new year.

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CHANGES TO MY STUDY PROGRAMME

Hi buddies, today I’m going to talk about my study programme. I’m currently studying Psychology, I’m at my fourth year. So far, I think the curriculum is a Little bit boring, and sometimes you feel like all the things that you’re learning has nothing to do in common. This used to make me feel anxious and a little bit confused about my future in this area.

About the workload, I think it’s pretty easy to have A’s if you read the papers and go to the classes, so I’m not particulary upset about it. As for the length, well, five years sounds like a little too much, but for me those years have gone too quickly.

I think that one of the things that I would definitly change is: make more space for more classrooms, and more time for doing our professional practice, because I think that waiting for four years filling us with theory and then throw us to the laboral world it’s too much pressure.

Also, one thing that confuses me it’s the fact that no all teachers know how to use u-cursos, so when we have to upload a homework qe don’t know for sure if the teacher it’s gonna recieve it or no.

Finally, the teaching methods I think that are too old, sometimes we found ourselves reading powerpoints uploaded by the teacher that are from a decade ago, so the material is a lot of things but new. This makes me upset sometimes, because if this is our case, I just can’t imagine the situation in other universities.

Summer Plans

Hello friends!

Today I´m gonna talk about my summer plans. At the beginning og the year with some friends planned to go to Colombia, we all had a lot of expectations but our plans failed.

We ran out of time and we couldn't get enough money to afford the trip. Besides, the lat three year I've been travelling in vacations and think that for now I'd like to spend more time at home, resting and saving energy and money. 

That's why finally we decided to travel at pur own. As for me and my boyfriend, we think we would travel but we don't know when or for so long yet.  So far we think we'd like to travel to the south of Chile.

Two years ageo we went to  Carretera Austral, we met a lot of places, yet there were some we missed out like Futaleufú, Cerro Castillo, Queulat Park and Villa O'higgins the end of the Carretera Austral.

Tha't why this year we pretend to go th those places. We hand't tought yet on buying the bus tickets, but we'd like star at Puerto Montt and then try to hitch a ride as far as possible. If we can't, we would try to take local's buses. In this traveñ ekking mostly at any place.

As I said before, I don't wanna spent all my summer travelling, I wanna be in my home too, have the time for reading, see movies, or go to walk. So I would travel maximun 4 weeks. 

That's all friends, I hope yo enjoyed this post. 

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The animals

Hello everybody

Today I'm going to talk about pets. I really do not have a favorite pet, and I'm not interested in exotic pets either. But if I have to choose, I would say that I like dogs. It's because in actuality I have a beautiful dog named Pascual. Pascual is two years old, and he is a very spoiled and protective dog.

I don't live with my dog because I am living in Santiago and Pascual lives in caleu, with my family, so I see him just weekends. Besides, in my house lives a dog named Mila, it is a small breed dog. They are both members important of the family.

On the other hand, when I was a child I visited zoos many times with my parents or on school trips. I remember I visited Zoológico Metropolitana in San Cristóbal hill and Safari de Rancagua. But now I would not go to the zoo. I think if I had children in the future, I would prefer to go with them to the theater or the park.

Regarding the rodeo, really I do not like it anything. In the place where I live, many people actively participate in the rodeo. In fact, I live very close to a “Media luna", but I have always thought that it is an absurd activity, which is based on a culture of violence, patriotism and patriarchy. It is really scary, I hope that one day it will cease to exist.

that's all for today, goodbye.

The Diploma Program

Hello my friends

Today I am going to talk about a postgraduate course that i would consider taking in the future. Really I am not sure if want study once I graduated from undergraduate program, or rather I am not sure where to specialize. For this reason I am going to talk about a diploma program that I should I do next year before I graduate. I interested in taking a diploma program of psychoanalysis for children and adolescents. This because since that I entered to study psychology I knew that want working with children as  I think it does not make it difficult for me to interact with children. I will like to learn about clinical interventions with children and adolescents, besides comprehensive approach of the pathologies from a psychoanalytic approach also techniques for the infant-juvenile clinic. This diploma program I must take it at the University of Chile but I would like to attend the classes of other universities that address these issues as “Universidad Diego Portales” or “Universidad Catolica”. Maybe in a few years’ time I will opt to specialize abroad, although I don´t want precipitated. In this diploma program I will like to study in person classes to make the most of the knowledge of teachers. Also I would like to have clinical case supervision to put into practice the theoretical knowledge.

That's all for today. I wish you a good friday.

Bye-bye

My future

Hello everybody
Today I'm going to talk about my expectations of my job. Right now I'm in the fourth year of psychology so in the next year I'm going to do my professional practice. On the last three semesters I have been interested on the clinical are with a psychoanalytic approach.  I would like to work with girls and boys in the public system for a few years but i have no problem on working with adults either. Also, I would like to work on the community problems, specifically in the towm that I live, on the environments things. Maybe, in the next years i will travel to another country to study a magister. I haven't define the country where i would like to be, but i'm interested in Brazil and Argentina. About the money, I don't have big expectations, I just hope to live quietly helping in social issues. Well, in addition to the professional practice i have to choose a diplomado on the next year. The one that i'm interested is about infants and adolescents psychoanalysis because of my interested on working with girls and boys and also, i like the teachers involved. Besides, when i finish my professional practice, i have to make my title memory but i think that i'm going to postpone it because of the academic overload that means the final year.
That's all for today, i hope you have a good Friday, goodbye!

My favorite music

Hello my friends!

Today I will talk about my favorite music. Really I have not a favorite music style because I do not identify with a style music I am always open to listen to new rhythms. However, when I was 13 years old I liked to listen mainly to rock and its derivatives. At that age I heard a lot of grunge. Like many other I heard to Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in chains, stone temple pilots, among others. After when I was 16 years old I became interested in the trova.  One of the main exponents is Silvio Rodriguez. A Cuban musician who composed beautiful songs about the Cuban revolution. In actuality in Chile to emerged new troubadours as Angelo Escobar, who performs outdoor concerts as in Parque Forestal or Quinta Normal requesting voluntary cooperation.  Before I used to go constantly to open-air concerts or as he calls them "al palo" because I liked listen to music in open space. But nowadays I do not participate in these concerts because I no longer take the time to go. Today I listen to a variety of styles as blues, jazz, ska, trap, and reggae. Any music that causes me pleasure. That is all.

I hope you enjoyed this publication and I will be attentive to your comments

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F O O D

Hi friends!

Today I'm going to talk about food. My favorite food it's potato cake, more known as pastel de papas. I like this food because it reminds me of my childhood, when my dad sometimes cooked an exquisite pastel de papas. On these days when I have some time I will cook pastel de papas for myself.

Truth is that cooking isn't my favorite activity ever but when I have nothing to do I really like to take time for cooking something that I like. But that when I'm really hungry I just cook something easy like french fries.

Usually I take food to the university because the places to buy food are always crowded.  Almost always I eat noodles with sauce or rice with some accompaniment, since it is the easiest thing to cook.

If I have to choose a favorite restaurant, I would choose Soju restaurant. This is a place that sells home-made vegan and vegetarian food. They always have some delicious things like pastas or beans. I like this restaurant because they cook really good and it's also very cheap. This place it's located near “Plaza de Armas”.  You should visit it when you have time and feel hungry ;)

My best holidays

Really it's hard for me to choose an option but I think my best vacations were the last summer. I traveled with my boyfriend for two months. We both spend Christmas and New Year outside our home. First we went to San Pedro de Atacama, then, we crossed to Bolivia. We went through Uyuni, Sucre, La Paz, and Copacabana. From Copacabana we met "La Isla del Sol", a beautiful place located in the Titicaca Lake. After this we went to Peru. We arrived in Cusco, we traveled to "Aguas Calientes" and we met the ruins of Machu Picchu. Then we went through Lima and went to the home of a friend's family in Trujillo. We stayed many days in Trujillo. After this we traveled Mancora in the north of Peru.  Later we traveled to little part of Ecuador. We went through to Guayaquil, Montañitas and Puerto Lopez. We knew a beautiful and lonely beach, "El Santuario Fray Jorge". I think it was my favorite place of the trip. Finally on our return home we went through Arica. In this place we met "El Valle de Azapa". I feel it has been my best trip because we were able to know many places in a short time. Also, we met many people and we still have the contact of some.

Ecuador

I would like to go to Ecuador. I know that this country is a easy place to get to know because it is small and its roads are very connected. Also, there are many different natural places like beautiful beaches and others like jungle full of forest and cold weather. Besides, there is the center of the world and it has a swing that is called "the swing of the end of the world" a famous and interesting place to visit.

Mainly I would like to travel through the different places of Ecuador. I would like to go through warm beaches such as Montañitas or Mompiche. But I would also like to visit heritage cities such as Cuenca or Quito because I am interested in learning the history behind all the architecture of the city. Besides I would like to go through the Ecuadorian jungle to learn about its diversity of plants, trees, insects, birds, among others. For example “Baños de Agua Santa” a city known for the practice of extreme sports.

I would not like to live in this country because it is very expensive, since the dollar is the official currency. I like this place to visit during the holidays, although I might change my mind if I ever visit this country.

Personal Information on internet

I think each one knows the restrictions of personal information post in the websites. However, we all need to take responsibility for our posts in our social media.

My favorite social media is instagram because i like watch pictures as the famous people as family members and close people. I also like to buy clothes through this website.

Regard to my posts in social media I only post memes, my favorite music and every now and then post photographs in facebook or instagram. I do not like post facebook states because I am not one person shares their opinions or problems on the virtual community.

In the latter time youtube you have taken relevance on the kids because there is a diversity of "youtubers" like "Hi, I'm German" for example, that is turned into the favorite pastimes of a lot kids. There are also tutorials of many things on YouTube, as for example to create "slime" (game of kids) wirh home artifacts. I think parents should worry about the content of these spaces especiallity the speeches and opinions.