Blog post Nº10

Hello Classmates, this is the last blog! Congratulations! Today I'll tell you about my experience learning English at University.

I can say that this English 4 course has been very enriching to me in comparison with the English 3 course. I have improved a lot my ability of improvisation to talk with the others, and I have felt much more relaxed in this context. Before, these English interactions were very stressful to me. In this way I am grateful with the teacher for the different funny dynamics in the classes.  

About the blogging experience, generally, although it has been very difficult and it takes me always a lot time to write, I feel that I have enjoyed this experience, because it gave me the opportunity to write about a wide variety of interesting things and consequently to improve my reading comprehension.

In the other hand, I think that I need to improve many things yet!  Especially the listening, it is very difficult for me. Also I feel that I speak English very slowly! Too slowly. In this way I have the plan of continuing to practice my English, mainly through reading interesting things, listening to music and watching English movies without subtitles. My goal is to be able to understand the different parts of the movies perfectly!

Related to my English outside the English class, I admit that I haven`t used this language very much, only sometimes I use it to practice the pronunciation and the listening comprehension. I try to practice these activities at least two or three times in the week.

I hope that the experience with this English course, has been enriching for you too. 

Blog Post Nº 9: Have you had a good year 2014?

Hello classmates, today in this post I will tell you about how has been my year 2014.

In general I can say that this year has been very good. At the university, I have loved very much the subjects that I have chosen. I have been able to organize my time better than other past semesters. Before, most of the time I finished the essays and the preparations for the tests at the last minute, but now I begin with much anticipation, approximately between two or three weeks before according to the kind of job, I consider this thing as a personal achievement.

As another good thing in this year, I have improved my technique of dance, I have achieved to integrate myself in many choreographic groups, learning much more quickly than the last years in the process, so I have been selected to participate in the ballet of my academy a couple months ago, and I'm really happy about this. I think that my better organization helps very much to have more time for my hobbies like the dance.
Also I feel that I have known very interesting and enriching people in different contexts that have helped me to continue growing up in my life, without mentioning the valuable company of the persons that have held beside me since years and years ago. I hope that in what remains of the year, I'll be able to choose the best academy decision for the next year, as the professional practice and course, and also the famous thesis.

Post Nº 8: Hobbies

Hello classmates, in this post I will tell you about my Hobbies. I can say that in my weekly routine I have one main hobby, and others secondary. Firstly, as main hobby I’m taking belly dance classes  in an academy (Egyptian style), near the subway station Manuel Montt. Officially I go to the academy’s classes four times a week. And also I practice this dance in my house almost the seven days of the week. I have spent about four years with this hobby. Secondly as other hobbies, sometimes I like to play piano, go out to the park to jog, listen to music and watch many movies.

I miss very much the hobbies that I had before I entered university (when I was at school). I lived in Quintero, and because in this place there were many beaches, I had different hobbies related to the sea.  In those years I enjoyed practicing surfing in the weekened, and practicing diving and swimming in the other days of the same week. And also I used to play piano almost everyday.

In the future I hope to include in my hobbies to go out on roller skates every day, like a means of transport (Environmentally friendly). Since a long time I have liked this sport but I didn't have enough money, but now there are only a couple of weeks left until I can buy some rollers!

I think that hobbies are very important in a person's life. These provide diverse positive effects for the health, like means of relaxation and rest, against all the different daily stressful situations.    

Post 7: HOW GREEN ARE YOU?

Hello classmates today in this post I will tell you about how green I am. To begin with this topic, I'll tell you that I've known different practices and activities of this kind since my childhood. My mum and dad, most of the time, were worried about the energy and water consumption, and also they recollected different recycling materials, like soft drinks cans, plastic and bottles. So, I can say that I had the first learning about the environmentally friendly practices in my family. In other way, I think that in general people learn about this only in some classes at school or at university, because it's difficult that this knowledge can emerge from the family when in this country there isn’t an environment culture well developed.

Personally, I have incorporated recycling into my habits since I was a kid, but with active and passive periods in between the process. For example, in some periods, like in highschool, I participated actively in underwater cleaning projects; using only bike or my own legs as means of transport , and being worried about the energy and water consumption in my house. At the university period, I was responsible for the recycling commission of the “Toma” (the occupation of the Central House of our university) in the context of the student mobilizations. But today, it is a passive period for me regarding this topic… I only take care of the different energy consumptions in my house, I use the bus and subway instead of bike and I don't participate in other related activities . But I would really like to do more things related to the environmental caring, I hope in the future to join in some eco-organisations, if I find one that represents me. It is an important topic that is missing in our reality and society.

Free post 3

Hello classmates in this post I'm going to talk about how my Friday would be like without the English class in the afternoon. Different possibilities come to my mind.

As a first priority for example, I would take advantage of the extra time to travel to Puchuncaví to see my mum and friends, like a long weekend. Without the English class I would come out this day at 12 o'clock, so I would arrive relatively early there, but since usually we come out around six, I can’t get to take the last bus in destination to Puchuncaví.

As another option, my Friday would be a day of dance practice. Precisely this day in the evening I have the possibility of going to my bellydance academy to take free professional classes, so these hours would serve as technical preparation for it.

And as other possibilities, if I was too tired due to the academic load of all the week, Fridays would be days of rest and relaxation, either taking long naps, watching movies and documentaries, listening to music or playing music with my piano, or going out for a walk in the park too. In the other hand if I would feel with energy yet, I would take advantage of the extra time to advance with the assignments and studying for the next week.  

Post 3

Hello classmates, today in this post I will tell you about what I plan to do in the future related to my job.

In the first place I plan to work as a psychologist, because I like the major that I’m studying in this university (psychology obviously), actually I like it since the classes of this subject at school. Specifically in this area I would like to work as a clinical psychology therapist either attending children or teenagers, because I find this field very interesting and motivating for me, the fact of working with development stages since the first moment of life and with the complex processes of construction of the identity.

Secondly I would like to complement my job as psychologist working as a teacher of yoga and dance, specifically of belly dance or giving classes of contemporary dance too. These jobs as therapieutic practices through the body, but for people of all ages (not only to underages as in my work as psychologist). For these jobs, in this moment I'm currently studying belly dance in an academy at the same time of psychology major (I hope to finish both in the same year), and I have taken classes of yoga and contemporary dance in some semesters, but I’m thinking to continue studying this specialties in the future.    

I imagine my job of different forms, in a way as a typical clinical consulting room (indoors) but in other way I also imagine myself once in a while travelling to diverse places of the country (outdoors) in which I will develop workshops or classes either related to psychology or with dancing and yoga. 

What I think about the bomb (and the news)

Hello classmates, in this post I will tell you my opinion about the bomb that exploded last Monday inside of a subway station from the red line (L1), Escuela Militar. In the news it was mentioned that this incident happened around 2 o’clock in the afternoon, when many people were having lunch in a local fast-food restaurant just outside the subway's entrance, a 'Juan Maestro' in a place called Subcentro, which is some sort of shopping gallery. The Ministry of Interior has remarked that 14 people were injured as a result of the attack, although not all of them directly, because most of them were affected by acoustic trauma due to the noisy blast. According to the political opinion expressed in the media this event meets with all the characteristics of a terrorist act, linked to a previous attack made inside a train from the same subway system (L1) but in the station of Los Dominicos. The alleged similarities to this and other actions taken by anarchist groups in the past (for example, the bomb that Luciano Pitronello attempted to plant in a Santander Bank, and the very well known fraud that was the 'Caso Bombas' during the previous government) have resulted in a feast for the media, in which many of the TV channels of our country haven't hesitated to blame the anarchist movement (as a whole, without any question) for the bombing. Personally, I don't believe these mis-informations, not only because there is a whole history of news manipulation in this country (that always tend to favor the more conservative points of view, discriminating and criminalizing certain groups that go against the status quo defended by the economical powers), but more importantly, because there is not a single piece of evidence that supports the theories informed by the media, therefore the TV channels and newspapers are starting a witch-hunt through a self-fulfilled prophecy.
I hope that you could understand my point of view, and I would be happy to know what is your opinion on this issue.