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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