ENGLISH LANGUAGE CHALLENGES

Hi! today I’m going to write about my experience writing blogs. First, I have to admit when I started the fourth level I thought that writing blogs was very boring....but! I realized that I liked this part of the class.

My English is not very good, I have to search for some words in the dictionary or search how to write some words. But I think that this situation was changing with time. Now I can write without the dictionary all the time and I can think in English, not in Spanish (sometimes).

In my school we didn’t have these activities, so I had a poor English…I could understand people who talked in English, but my grammar and my writing always was bad. When I joined university I had to read a lot in English, such as papers or books that have a difficult vocabulary, so I had to learn English by myself, only practicing.

Now that I'm in level four, I think that I got better my English, I can watch movies in English without subtitles, read fast, talk in English more fluently and write blogs in English!, besides I would like to prepare the TOEFL next year, and who knows going out there to study o something like that. I feel preparet to go for another country and talk in English if it's necessary.

This course was very useful for the activities that I have out the university, as reading in English, watching movies, talking with persons that don’t speak in Spanish as climbers or friends that I meet in other countries or traveling. I’m very grateful with this course.

See you in another place!

Changes to my study program

Today we are going to talk about changing our study program. I really changing a lot of things but know I’m going to focus on three important things that I think it is important to change.

First, I will change the basic cycle that is the two first years of the career. I think there are a lot of subjects that have a strange organization, for example, we have two professors per subject and the topics of these doesn’t responds social problems, such as ethnographic subject, or biology. This doesn’t mean that these subjects are bad but have approach focus.

Second, I will change a really important thing that has related with the last year of the career. When we have to take the subject “Taller de memoria 1” in the first semester of the fifth year, but (always we have the “but”)… to take this subject we have to finished all the subjects of the career, that means, that in four years you have to finished the career. This is a very serious problem because the subjects that we have to take are a lot and the university has a very serious problem to give all the subjects that we have to take per year. This is a problem because the students has to take more than seven subjects in a semester, or the students has to take the decision of doing another semester to finished the subjects and recently take the “Taller de momoria 1” in the second semester of fifth year. This “politic” started since two years and I think that is stupid because we have to pay another semester to finish the career, when we can take the “memory” with some three or two subject that stay in the way. 

Finally I think that we don’t have to pay the last year of career, or the semester that we are doing the “memory”. Obviously we have to pay something, but not the entire fee, because we have to coming to the university not more than one or twice a month.  

POSTGRADUATE STUDIES!!

Hello, today I will tell you about some postgraduate course that I would like to do. As I study archaeology, I think it would be good to specialize in something I like, such as archaeobotanic. I would like to do a postgraduate course on this in some place where there are good academics who have studied in a relationship between human beings and plants ... I understand that Canada is a good place (all this is hypothetical because I believe that I could never pay for a postgraduate degree and earning a scholarship is difficult, but you have to try).

I would also like to specialize in Chinese medicine, to learn acupuncture and to obtain a certificate that allows me to do therapy. It is a dream for me, to be able to do natural and preventive medicine. I think there is more to this than many pharmacies.

It would be very good to complement the therapy with archaeology and to be able to study the two things outside the country. I could learn a lot from other people, places, learn new ways of doing and studying. I would like to go to certain classes but then develop an investigation or something. And clearly acupuncture should be practically.

Before everything I must gather a lot of money haha ​​and so I can do what I want ... but you can always and as long as one does things right, everything is going to give..

Practice Yoga!

Today Im going to write about Yoga. I started to practice two years ago, its was very greatfull for me because I came to lived in Santiago and I was very uncomfortable, and yoga was a very good distraction for this new change.

The first type of yoga that I practiced it was Ashtanga yoga, this combine the asanas (posturs) and the respiration’s flow. This type of yoga require patience and discipline because the sequencies are exigent and dfficult, but if you are tenacious with the session clases, the mental and fisical progress is incredible. Its took me no more than a month to standed up in my head. After five months my teacher wents to lived in Brasil, now he teaching yoga there. So I leaved my practice for a while.

Next I started to practice Vinyasa Yoga and I love it. Its similar than Anshtanga Yoga but its not the same. This yoga its more fluid and friendly with the posturs, but if you want doing difficult asanas and pushing your self this yoga allowing for. Since I practice Vinyasa Yoga I realized the importance to have a strengh and healthy body, not by appearance, by but health. When I stoped with my practice I felt bad and with low energys.

Now I try to practice twice a week, and I feel my mind and my body connected.

Do what make you feel happy

Hi, today I’m going to talk about the future and what I like to do with my profession. I'm studying Archeology, I like it very much and I think it’s a very interesting career…but I won’t lie to you, I had too much questions about this. It is my vocation? I really want to do this? I think that I have this question because I like to do a lot of things, like climb, trekking, live outside and massages, therapeutic massages. Besides my career, I did a course of Chinese Medicine, and I learned how to do therapeutic massages, I loved this, so I was thinking about to learn acupuncture.

So… I would like to have many jobs, not only an archeologist work; I imagine that I work in a mountain leading guys in different routes and trekking, besides working in many scientific projects of botanic archeologist, patrimony and defending indigenous people. I know that only work outdoor it’s impossible but my indoor work it’s going to be doing therapeutic massages and acupuncture therapy.

I think that we are made to do a lots of things, not only the thing that we study at university, I think that we can explore and learning always, learning about ours experiences and other people than teach us. We can do anything if we purpose. 

Native Forest

I have always like plants and botanic, know about their uses, what are their names, etc. So, I thought its could be interesting talk about the importance of the native forest and its benefits for our society. As like its name indicates the native forest is proper for a country or a specific zone, so it is perfectly adapting to the enviornment of the different areas of Chile. This make it posible the armony between plants and enviorment, there is a constant cooperation between all the living beings and abiotic elements that we founding in a particular ecosistem.

The above is crucial to understand that the native plants have a special role to keep the balance in the ecosystems, that is to say, they are adapt to a special quantity of water, mantein the aquifer, and exchanged their nutrients between the species; all of them are the home and food of animals and the mineral’s source to the earth. It’s for that reason, that we should care the native forest, lear about the species that compose them, special the species of central Chile, because we live in the metropolitan region. This serves to respet and reproduce the forest in ours gardens, squares, neighborhoods, parks and pristine places we visit when we go for a walk.

We can contribute to the native forest preservation, planting some of their species in our houses, parks, neighborhoods, and we wouldn’t need a special take care and excess of water. Besides, the introduced species greatly affects the native forest, because the majority of them are invasive and produced the ecosystem instability.

Plant native trees it’s a good form to have more sustainable and productive gardens.

Now, some species of central Chile’s native forest:

Quillay        Quillaja saponaria

Litre            Litraea caustica

Maiten       Maytenus boaria

Maqui        Aristotelia chilensis

Canelo       Drimys winteri  

Peumo      Cryptocarya alba

TOP-THREE FAVOURITE MOVIES

Hi, Im going to talk about my top-three favourite movies, although I have a lot of favourite movies…I’ll choose the movies that come to my mind.

I can’t forget the Lyon King and its best carácter Rafiki, an old monkey who talked about the life, the experiences and tell us to saw beyond our borders. I think that Rafiki was a character who mark us when we where young. Besides, the top of this movie its incredible and the characters are so funy and interesting, ¿Who didn’t eat insects when we are Young?

Another movies that come to my mind is Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, so much incredible, a clasic movie that everyone have to see, besides Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet are a wear couple but perfect for the psychedelic of this movie. How to forget the kate’s blue hair and Jim’s desesperation… the script was so good and successfull and the plot its take the best part.

For last, Nine Queens (Nueve Reinas) from Fabian Bielinsky, its a movie to sit in a good couch and laughing, but with a good film, that ofcourse its argentine. Like always, Darín stand out from his good performance and his fustly form to capt the audience.