The last session

I think that this experience was very interesting, because it helped me to practice more the English that I learned in school and I improved quite a lot some skills like oral presentations and my writing and pronunciation in English. These blogs entries have been very helpful because I learned a lot of new vocabulary to write in the blog, so that’s why I think that using the blog for learning is really useful. I think that we should get feedback on our posts to correct ourselves.

Something nice about this subject is that you can know a lot of people of your own career that are from other generations and people from other careers, and so you can learn a lot about other careers here in FACSO.

What I need to improve are maybe some of my skills at reading because that is the most useful part for I have to read papers in English for some subjects. Right now, for example, we are working on a project due for one of our classes and we have to read a lot of cientifical papers in English. To achieve this I guess I have to start reading text that are simple and then go for the more complex ones so I can improve my vocabulary at the same time.

I normally practice my English when I read papers for my classes or when I translate lyrics of songs I like. Plus, when I go on the Internet the best websites tend to be in English and it forces me to read and learn.

Have you had a good year?

This year it has been full of things and we still had year ahead, but in general I think that this year has been good.

 First of all I started the university and that is one of my achievements of this year, just like to approve the first semester of my career, psychology. And I knew a lot of fantastic people that made better my days, like my classmates, they are amazing. Other good thing that happened this year is that I feel closer with my best friend, in spite of all the things that I had to do for the university.

But not everything can be perfect, because the last week I lost my grandmother, she dies in the house and that was so sad and today is one week from that and still hurts, I miss her so much, but I have to be strong for my family, my grandfather specially, her husband.

One thing that I never imagine is the complete lack of time, I think that I can read a lot of books I had in my house but no, I only had time to read the thing of my subjects and even I didn’t have enough time to read all of that, anyway I love my career and I won’t to change it.

And other good thing that I would like to highlight is the fact that my ex-boyfriend, a person that I use to think that hate me, don’t hate me, and that is so good, because I like to have good relations with my ex.

And a little thing that has given me happiness is a person who appear recently, but I had with him really good moments. 

Childhood Series

Hi everyone, today I’m going to talk about childhood series.

When I was a kid I like a lot watch TV, but I didn’t have Cable so I usually see the common TV and watch series like The Simpsons, Cat Dog, Hey Arnold, and when I was a little child I saw a series called “Castillo Ra-tim-bum”, it was the story of an enchanted castle and inside live a lot of eccentric people who has too many years and one of the central characters (Nino) made a spell to attract kids with Nino can play.

A few years later I started to see “31 minutos” and until now with the new season I love it, I think it was one of the best Chilean series. My favorite characters are Juanin and Bodoque they are amazing and Juanin is so cute and naïve.

And also I usually saw “El Club de los Tigritos” a show where you can see Japanese series or anime like Detective Conan, Slam Dunk, Shaman King, Ranma 1/2, etc. The last one was one of my favorite because I laugh a lot with it and the story has love, adventure, action, it was great.

I think that the series of 90’s was great, because if you think and compare the new series with the old series, the old has contents, lessons and usually promove the goods things, except The simpons, I think. 

How Green are you?

The environment is a really hard topic, because all of us have different ways to try to help our planet and if you to learn about how take care of it you have to try to search pages that talk about that or simply you can see some tutorials where the people do nice things with rubbish like wallets, handbag, etc. Also you can divide your rubbish, put it on different rubbish bin.

If I sincere I usually don’t recycle, but sometimes I try to do it in my home and I put different rubbish bin with a sign indicating the type of rubbish that you have to put inside.

I usually use a car when I move but sometimes I try to travel in Peñaflor by a bike, because you can go wherever you want and you have your own time, not depending to other person like my mom or my dad. And if my trip is short I use my legs, because first it’s a really good exercise and in second place you don’t contaminate the environment.

I would like to recycle more but I’m a really slack person, so I didn’t but if I have the possibility to do it I would try because I think that take care about the planet it’s really important.

And I know that all this things don’t make me reduce my carbon footprint so I would try to do something about this, like try to use my legs instead the car. But if we want to change all of this, we have to work together and do that all of the persons who lives in Santiago do something to take care our planet and if all of us do good things, this planet could be better.

Hi everyone

Today I’m going to talk about the scariest monster in my childhood. I don’t know who the scariest monster was because I never saw horror movies or horror series, so the only monsters that I knew was the monsters of the stories of my mom or my dad, like CUCO or things like that. They usually say to me that the CUCO came from me when I stayed alone in my home, but I never stay with nobody in my home, because my grandparents live with me, until now. Maybe the only “real” monster that I got afraid was ghost and the zombies who appear in Thriller, because like I said before I never saw a horror movie.

I was really afraid of the ghost maybe because I usually think that spirits come over me in the night, when I sleep alone, so I usually sleep with my mom because she was my protector and I felt safe with her.

And also zombies in Thriller made me felt fear, because I think that in Halloween that monsters came from me in the night and they try to ate me and I can’t ran. That’s the reason for I never see the complete video, until I turned 10 or 12 years.

And now when I think in that things I feel that my parents was really cruel, because they made me felt a lot of fear and the only way that I didn’t feel it was staying with them.

My future job

It’s really difficult for everyone to imagine yourself in the future, maybe one of us imagine someone completely different, or just see the same person that we are right now. And it’s hard to think of me in a job, but I try to do it.

I think that I will work in a hospital, helping the families of the children that suffer cancer or any degenerative illness; I think that job would be perfect because I think that the worst part of having someone sick in our family, is it that nobody help us. I think that this thought is influenced by the disease of my grandmother, she has Parkinson. Or maybe I had my own office, like the classical psychologist, I don’t know.  But the thing that I know it is that I want to be a clinical psychologist.

I’d like had a lot of patients and try to do the best for them, and also I’d like to travel and if I can do a lot of conferences in others countries, maybe in Europe, especially near to Germany, because there is the cradle of the psychoanalysis.

And obviously I would like to do a doctorate and a lot of thesis, I think that continue with the studies it’s really important, because the contents in my career, especially are always being restructured.

I'd hope that some day, my dreams became true.

Inside job

If you want to see a really good movie, you have to see this one. It has a strong argument, based in the financial crisis of 2008. This movie shows you how really important people in the US do defrauds and won a lot of money with it.

It’s very interesting see the reality in a movie and this one it’s capable of doing this. Because you know, first of all, that this fact happened and the most part of the scenes was filmed in the streets and in the office of these important people.

The narrator is Matt Damon and he tells us everything about this great swindle, also you can see interviews to the director of Harvard University and pictures of the presidents of the US that was involved in this fact. The movie won an Academy Awards of “Best documentary feature” and was received really well for the critics.

Finally the best part of this movie, is that you can see the real problems of the US society, like the race of immigration and how this people affect, without judging, made that the economy of the country sees affected, because the country don’t have the capacity to support of those persons.