My academic year

Through this essay I intend to tell about my academic situation of this year. I can say this year has been a fantastic year. It has been full of success and gratifications. I improved many topics in my life and I think they helped me to have a better academic situation. In other words, I can say that academic situation is not separable of others life topics. When you feel good with yourself, when you have good relationship with people, when you are healthy, I´m sure you have a good academic situation. If everything goes just like has been gone until now, I will have a very successful and fantastic year.

I can say it has been a really fantastic year, compared with the last year. 2008 was a very horrible year for me. At first, I was into a depression because many problems (family, university, money, health, personal relationships, etc.) In second place, because this situation, I get away form my school friends that always been a support for me and almost falied a subject called Aprendizaje. I achieve it in January But, 2009 has been absolutely different. First semester finished totally successful: I pass every subject. The second semester is going to finish very soon, and I think it will be more successful than first.But my good academic situation was affected for others topics, that probably improved my development in the subjects. I think it is necessary to talk about them. All my haouse problems have been solve, the atmosphere I in which I was leaving was very bad but all this problems have been solve in a very good way. Recently I have started a new relation ship with a guy, I have very good expectations about this. He is a classmate but lives in Talca. I hope we can see each other trough holidays.

In conclusion, I may say, surely, this year has been much better than last year. Many problems have disappeared now, and new situations have arrived to my life. Then, my academic situation has improved in considerable form. Not only my grades are better, also my interest in the career has increased. To day I can say, without doubts that I want to be a good psychologist in future. I want to be someone very prepared to help other people. I pretend this year finish well, and the rest years of my life will be always better. Well, I hope things will be in this way.

Psichology challenges

Curently I’m studying psychology, through my academical periods
First thing we heard about our carrer is the position psychology have in social sciences and the problem to consider oneself being part of science or not. This discussion involves each are of psychology and have no answer yet.
I’ve realize some limitances we have related with our access to update researches and information. Most bibliography we use in our subjects is very old and has lost the relevance related to our career, taking part of psychology history. This is not relates to classic psychology authors like Freud or Rogers but related to researches and studies we use to our investigations or in future to the treatments we will apply. Most update information is written in English, so people who doesn’t read or understand that language is in disadvantage from those who understand it.

On the other hand we have a lot of technology problems; on our biological subjects we have no rapprochement to practice work. Most psychology students have problems in school to understand biological theories so having only theory classes make more difficult to us to understand those subjects.
Another challenge psychology, which has been part of it for many years, is work for the people, with the people and not for the oppressor system. This is very difficult because its related to what we consider normal and abnormal in society, what people is sick and what people is sane. Are we working for the people or are we working to the system, normalizing people, making them more productive to society and considering non productive people or people with problems non capable to develop in society. We need to be very careful with the labels we use on people cause that can change their life for ever.

Activities I enjoy....

The activities I enjoy the most when I have some free time are watching movies in my house lying over my bed with some chocolate cookies or sweet popcorn along with some handkerchief to dry out my tears. I love romantic movies at the same time epoch movies like little women or Marie Antoinette. Usually all weekends I saw one or two movies, sometimes with my mom but usually I saw them alone in my room.
Other thing I enjoy is to cook different kind of meals mostly Chinese and sweets like apple kuchen. Or create different kind of pancaques. But mostly I love to meet my school friends, usually we saw every weekend a few hours to tell us the recent news. Drink some delicious coffee or tea with some piece of cake or biscuits.
Something I would love to do is to learn to make clothes for me, because I love new and original clothes but its too expensive so if I can make my own clothes I will be able to save some money for other stuff, for example traveling, other thing I like doing, last year I went with some friends to Pto Montt, Chiloé. I love camping and cooking outside, traveling through forests and climbing some mountains.
Certainly I can’t make all these activities during class period because having some free time is very rare, so it’s impossible for us to make some extracurricular activities that take a long period of time developing it.
The only activity we can make regularly during university time is to red academic stuff and to hear music through our time travel between house and University.
I think that our schedule is very restrictive for us because it limitates us to only develop areas relationated with de career inhibiting our complete develop. When people arrive to University, usually they drop out a lot of extracurricular activities cause time is not enough to study properly and having extra activities to achieve some personal goals.

Well I think every person has its own personal favorite activities, I hope you can continue with them with U niversity I can say that some of those activities are viable with university but other aren’t so available there.Finally, is you judgement to choose between them.

Facilities in my university

Every time we want to study in this university we have no place to do it. Usually we use the library but that’s not the right place because people goes there to read in silence and we bother them when we study or make group works. Or the women that’s in charge of it constantly make us to shut up. So I think that this university should an amount of money to built a new library or some place where we could work and study in group
On the other side classrooms are to small to the number of students we are, usually in summer we suffocate ourselves inside of them. This matter will be more important now because in one or two year mecesup proyect will star in our career, the consequences of that is 90 new students every year instead of 70 the number of students that usually have our career per class.
I don`t know how they can improve this situations because both of them means great amounts of money to make this things goes right. To all this problems one mores goes up the table. The lack of actualized books our library has. All new theories or authors aren’t present in our system we have to go to another falculties or universities to get some information.
If, some way, we can make this things happen, benefits to our community will be uncountable. We could have a proper place to study and make our “homework” right. And studies demonstrate that with a good class structure, with proper conditions of air, light and position, students will get better results.

If I like music? … It’s my air!!!!!

Since I was a little girl music has been very important in my life. I always was alone in my house, I mean without other kids of my age, so I always played alone and usually used to hear music while I was playing or make sketch and dance in front of a big mirror that my house used to have. Those days nubeluz and xuxa were my music idols. Later in school my group of friends and I used to create a lot of shows to present in scholar events, we were very good at that. We used to hear back street boys, n’sync, the five, spice girls, shakira and all those pop music groups. Then when I grow up a little I start to hear music with a little bit of content and start to hear the Beatles, group that I used to hear till today.
As I told you before I used to dance a lot and I used to take salsa classes, since that I start listening to that tropical kind of music like salsa, cumbia or merengue. Since I start dancing I used that activity to cut off form all my problems, it’s like being in other world
Nowadays I listen all kind of music but I prefer English music like the killers or The Cramberies that now is Dolores O’riordan, The Cure, The Police or Guns & Roses, dancing music like Villa Cariño, Juan Luis Guerra, Marc Anthony, Conmocion band between other and finally old music like Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles.
Here is a piece of music I like to hear a lot … probably you’ve heard before in some adds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gjlNn0mG8Y&feature=fvst … I hope you like it

The best dish I’ve ever ate in my life is called lomo a lo pobre, it consists in a piece of meat called lomo vetado with fried onion, two fried eggs and a portion of French fries this dish has a lot of calories so I can eat it few times during the year. The best companion for this dish is a Chilean salad, this is made with tomatoe slices and chopped onion. I love to put to the French fries some ketchup and mustard.
I’ve never cooked this dish in my life but I’ve ate in lots of restaurants. The best of them was Sra Tina, during my celebrations of September 18th this year. The second places I preferred is Los Buenos Muchachos were the plate is huge; I was barely capable to eat half of it. So my suggestion is if you are going to eat this plate is preferred to go empty stomach so you can eat the whole plate.
A tip to eat this plate and be able to use your stomach ever again is to drink some tea after you eat this plate so your digestion will be easer.
For me it’s a tradition to eat this plate with my family, usually the three of us order the same thing but with different pieces of meat for example my mum loves plateada so she order with this piece of meat.
I hope someday you can eat this dish but listen to my advices and go with an empty stomack so you will be able to eat the whole plate of food. And don’t forget the cup of tea !!!

I can do in santiago

I’ve lived all my life in santigo but certainly I didn’t know all the touristic places this city has, but I’ve visited some of them.
The first thing a foreigner tourist must do is have a lunch in the Mercado Central and eat a delicious plate of different selfish or fish, essential while they are waiting the food is to eat homemade bread with pebre. Other place to visit is el palacio de la moneda and the museum located underneath it. In our government palace you can visit the orange garden, and the cannon garden. The exhibitions in the museum change periodical, now it has an exhibition of Rapa- Nui.
If you want to visit a traditional restaurant you have to go to the piojera, where traditional food is served and delicious drinks you can get. The most representative drinks is called terremoto. If you like nature and outside activities you can visit the Provincia Hill, it has different paths to climb it, very easy to follow them.
Finally you can visit quinta normal, a very big park that has two museums in it, a lake with some boats you can rent. It`s very beautiful and you can spent a whole day in it .
Well I hope you like this places, I’ve have very beautiful moments in all of them so I hope you can get your beautiful moments in them
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New systems ...improove or disaster ???

Transantiago is the new public transport system created in 2007 by our government. Its finality was to avoid bus races in the streets because they produced many accidents. Another reason why this system was implemented is because of a few people own those companies used to have a kind of a monopoly.

The supposed benefits this new transport system would carry to the community were, firstly, less time traveling, secondly, more comfortable machines, thirdly, less air contamination and, finally, less money used in tickets.

This new system consists in having different buses to determined areas of Santiago. If you want to travel from one point to another of different area of Santiago you have to change from one bus to another. You can make 3 bus changes in a route through a period of 2 hours paying only one ticket, these changes cost $400 for adults and $130 for students.

The main problem of this new transport system is that it’s too expensive to our government, because now the ticket costs less than the real price. But if they increase the cost of it, people that use Transantiago will protest a lot against it. Another problem it has it’s that people who travel long distances have to make a lot of changes through their daily routes and that’s very annoying for them.

My favourite country ....

Spain is my favorite country in the world; I’ve wanted to visit it since I was a very little girl when my grandmother told me that we had Spanish roots. But, some years after my grandmother spoke to me, I watched on a TV show some parties that Spain has and I loved one especially that that takes place in August. It is called the Tomatina.
This is a harmless war that takes place in Buñol, Valencia. This party began 60 years ago. This party/war has only two rules, the first one is that before you throw a tomato, the only weapon you are provided with, you have to squash it, and the second rule is that you have to wear white clothes to go to the party. This last rule is because the goal is to, have fun obviously, and turn all your clothes red with the tomatoes juice.
Another place of Spain I want to visits is Barcelona, because of all the beautiful buildings that this city has. The Sagrada Familia church, the Agbar tower, and the amazing park Güel, with all its sculptures and views.
Finally, something you can’t forget is to visit la Rioja, the vineyard region of Spain. Some people say that their wines are fantastic, other say that Chilean wines are the best, but I think that everyone has to make their own opinions, so definitely I will visit it someday when I travel to Spain.

My 3rd semester in university....

The best class I have last term was psicopatología, this subject was about mind pathologies, we have class in university and in the psychiatric hospital, and those ones were the best of all. There we saw patients, psychiatric patients that have control that day, their stories were fascinating. My other subjects were Theory and systems, Statistics, Developing psychology, Social psychology, neuropsychology, entertaining dance, English and salsa, but the last one was not a curricular one.

Statistics was the worst, I get bored every class I reach the classroom, and when I achieve that, begin the fight with the lethargy the teacher’s voice produced. Besides that, we have assistant classes after lunch on Fridays!!! So it was very hard to get into those assistances. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I have entertaining dance with Kika, Jo, Vale, Su, Ivonne, Paloma, Juby and Tamar. There I get a lot of fun first of all because I were with y best university friends, other reason is that I like practice sports but what I really love is dancing, so I really enjoy those classes. Other dance classes I’ve take was salsa, where we dance casino salsa, that’s a kind of salsa that is danced in group. Salsa is the kind of dance I most love, I’ve practice it intermittent since I have 15 years old.

Luckily I`ve passed all my subjects, it was difficult but here I am in my 4^th semester undefeated. My goal for this semester is to pass all my subjects without making the exams, I hope this dream came true…. Bye !!!!

Your idal job

My ideal job is one that has flextime so I can do other thins appart from work. Never ever in a office, everywhere else but in a close place. I would love to work in something that involves psichology, music and dance, because I love dancing and body expressions. And of course with lots of vacations, but that's not necessary at the biggining, I would like a job like that when I became a momo so I can spent vacations with them.

I think that the only qualities you need for any job is to be persistent, enthusiastic and above everything to love waht you are doing. The most important thing in life is to enjoy the proyects where you are involve, if this doesnt happen, you will never improove yourself.

But the job that I want to get is a dreamy job, but nor impossinle so I would make all my effort to get one like that. If I didn't get it, I will made it .

best wishes

Ken Robinson says education kills creativity

Ken Robinson quote to Picasso "all children born artist, the problem is to remain an artist" this words said years and years ago explain what Ken Robinson set out in his monologue.
Ken said that schools are estructurating childrens minds to a future that nowbody knows how it would be, so they are decreasing child capacities to adaptate to the environment that they will have to live. School and modern society valorate more hard ciences rather than arts or social ciences. School programs are more interested in teaching maths or chemistry rather than music or dance, sunjets that are very usefull to increase creativity or selfknowledge.
Nowadays all schools are promoting to study some university degree, showing it like the only way to succed in life, but studies shows us that some years from know there will be no people taht doesnt have a university degree.

My favourite subject

My fovourite subject is Psicopatología and the professors are Rossi and Alvarado. Rossi is a psychologist that studied in this university, his role in the course is to teach all the theory, this means that he teach us all about psychiatric desorders, all the things that we can find in books plus some examples about his experience like psychologist. Alvarado is the main proferssor of the class, he is a psychiatrist, his role is to teach us the practice of the things that we learned in class, he works in the psychiatric area of Salvador's Hospital so we take his classes in the hospital. There we saw medicall interviews to people with mental illnes. This is very intersting because its not in a mirror room(this is a room that one in one wall of it has a window. From one side of it, patient side, has a mirror and the other side, students, is a common window, so patient cant see us but we can see him), like ussually, its in a ordinary room so the patient see us, they can talk and ask questions to us.

This kind of teaching is very useful to us because we can saw how can we make an interview and how can we defferentiate between one mental dissorder an another.

In five years from now I would love to be travelling around the world, one of my dreams is to finish university, work some months to sve some money and travel trough europe, specialy spain and go to the tomatoe war that they made during summer. Professionaly I dont want to be stablished yet because i want to be free some time to do all my projects, nos shedule or duties, just live my life at my own rythm.
I don't know where I wolud be living, certainly not in only one place, the world will be my home fos some time. I will live in my tent, and my notebook will be the only connection with my famly and friends.
But this travel will end some time, and another dream will start when this journey ends, the dream to became a mother, i doesnt mattter if I dont have someone beside me like a husband or boyfriend, I hope in one near future, women and men will be able to adoppt without the actual needs, and I will adopt some kid an give him all the lovr that I can, providing him a very happy family that eill love him as much as his /hers real familiy.

My Career

I`m studying psychology in Universidad de Chile, I realy don't know why I get in this career, in fact, I've always hated, but some day, like a month before PSU, I realise that I want to be a psychologist. My mom nearly died when I told her my decition, in spite of she always supported me. I know she was very worried abaout my labour future, and still worried I thought, but I'm very happy with my decition and can't be more sure about it.

I have no idea in what area of Psychology I will work in, but thats the special thing that Psychology has, that you can work in a wide variety of areas, from music to conductism, from clinic to alternative therapies, group and individual work etc. You can put into practice in every area you can imagine, so with imagination you can do watever you want.
I think th wors thing of studying psi. is the social prejudice; but if you really want to study this career, you will overcome it and told to those who looks you in a rare way, I'm happy so don't mess with me.

That was a very beautiful moment, time ago I was a girl scout, member of Ruta Antupai, we were the oldest ones in the group apart from our leaders. Every year in January we used to go to a summer camp that lasted 15 days and each year we did an activity called Raid, in which you have to travel long distances on foot.

In the summer of 2008 we went to Chiloé, the place was very beautiful and we were surrounded by nature all the time, but the most amazing thing I saw and live that camp was in the raid. Our goal was la piedra del puma that was 30 km away from our camp place. The D day we woke up at 4 or 5 am., put down our tents, puck up our things and food and started walking at 6am. We walk all day long, take some rests to have breakfast, lunch and drink water, we were axhausted. La piedra del puma was at a hill, the only way to reach it was walking up trough a road used by trucks that trasport pine logs, it was a very difficult ascent cause of the slope and heat. Finally we reach our goal at 6 pm, we were so tired but most of all we were mor than happy, we were proud of our selves for being able to walk all the distance and reach oru goal. This picture was taken when we arrive la piedra del puma.

My most precious possession is a necklace that my mom gave to me many years ago. Really she didn't gave to me a necklace, she gave me the "medal" of the necklace; "medal" because acuratelly its not a medal, its a piece of rock called piedra de la cruz, with the shape of a medal. My mom bought it on a handicraft freemarket of Concepción.

The piedra de la cruz is a semi precious stone, unique in the world, you can find it only in río Las Cruces, located in Laraquete, Octava región. Her name is because a strange formation inside the stone, when the stone is cut in half, appears a perfect cross in it.
People said that this stone is usseful for protection, stimulate intelligence and help those who want to change their way of leaving.

For the Mapuches this stone represents the souls of the warrios killed by the spanish man, the souls of the people that gave their life for their land and brothers.

My best friend

My best friend is Cynthia, my friends and I nickname her Xina. We are bests friends since we were in Saint Gabriel's School, but not since we met eachother; for some years we were only classmates but near fifth grade we start to became friends and now we are very tie together. She is a very pretty girl with red chicks, white skin and long dark hair, very funny and understanding.

When we were little girls, near 11 years old, we used to go to Alvaros plot called Lepanto, where we spent unforgettable moments. We used to swim in the swimming pool, play water wars with "flubers" (big balloons filled with water), ride horses through the plot and four wheel motorbike on the roads, making races trough the fields. In the night we were very tired but we used to eat french fries with salsa golf and spent almost all the night talking and laughing.

Nowadays, we dont see ehach other very much, but we talk on the phone a lot to keep in touch. In vacations we went together to Chiloe, perhaps next summer will do a trip like that.

bye bye

Hello, my name is Nanette, I'm 19 years old and live in Chile, a beautiful country of South Amercia, I hope you visit it one day, it has very beautiful landscapes from deserts and forest, a very long coast with delicious fish and shelfish, a lot of diferent traditions and legends specialy in Chiloe.

I study Psicology in Universidad de Chile, I enjoy outdoor sports and dancing, specialy salsa, and cooking, love cooking any type of food but most of all cakes and biscuits. My favourite music is the killers, dido, Dolores Oriordan and bossanova plus any dancing rhythm.

I hope you enjoy this blog created for an English course of University.

Huggs and kisses