English Language Challenges

It's a little weird thinking this is the last blog we are going to write, The semester passed too quickly and this subject is finishing. I must say that I liked this subject, and I think miss Zagal is the person responsible of this, because she makes every class get dynamic being nice with every student. 

I think the blogs helped me at  making sentences, which I was a little hopeles (It's still being hard to write a 260 words blog), and in addition, after years I can say finally that I can understand the listening activities (there was a lot of years of me listening to Chinese instead English haha),

I need to improve my pronunciation, which isn't very good, I train singing English songs that I like, watching TV series with English audio and subtitles 

I use the English language daily, there is English everywhere, and it is very useful to know it,

especially if you like browsing throughout Internet. Actually, the most of the virtual world is in English as we can see in the music, the games, the movies, the science, the forums, the enterprises, etc, so if you open your mind to a new language, you enter to a new culture, and that's really funny and interesting,

Nowadays, I have been improving my English with an application called Duolingo, which you can practice your vocabulary in different languages. I totally recommend this application, I think it is a good way to killing time and getting better at English or another language, instead of scrolling on Facebook while you are on your cellphone.

Changes to my study programme

Actually the psychology career at Universidad de Chile is a very versatile career, in which you can choose between several psychological schools of thought and laboral areas. On this career you have to pass the first cycle, in which every student has the same subjects, and once you passed this cycle, you can register any subject you would like (considering the UD limit) and to build your own curriculum map, and in the last year you finish with the professional practice and thesis. I think this is great, but I think some things could be better. For example, I liked very much the firsts subjects I took, but I think a lot of themes that some teachers teach us aren't fully related to the career. I must say that some subjects feel like it would be a filling, and I am sure I am not the only one with that opinion. I don't have much to say about the second cycle, I like the freedom that the psychology department gives to the students to choose their subjects according to what the students like and what kind of psychologist they would like to be. The only snag I can think is the managements of the psychological department, They have removed some elective subjects under their judgment. I think this is not bad at all, the study programme must refresh constantly, but considering that there was a lot of students that wanted to register in these subjects, I think It's not a democractic way. Although, they have made numerous assemblies last years, where the academics and the students can participate and give their opinion, then we can build a study programme together from different perspectives.

Winter Holidays

I don't usually travel on my winter holidays (I don't usually have winter holidays...). On vacations I usually stay at home, in my city, Rancagua, so I can stay with my family and meet my old friends, In that way I enjoy my vacations. I can't say that I love mi city, but at least is more peaceful than Santiago, the air is cleaner and every place is closer. While I am in Rancagua I can visit all my friends just riding my bicycle (I miss my bike).

I like to be in home because is hard to live in Santiago when you have to cook your own food. I don't want to say that I am bad at the kitchen, but I can't compare me with my mom. When I am in my home I enjoy very much when my mom cook whatever. I would love to eat her lasagna right now.

The good part of being in my city on holidays is that all my friends (except those who had student strike for a long time) are in Rancagua too, what never happens in mid of the school year.

Probably on those weeks my band will get together to play some good songs, I miss to play with them all the time, so those weeks are a good oportunity to be with them.

My mission on this holidays will be to learn playing accordion, considering that somebody lend one to my dad for a time.

I hope we won't go on student strike. I want vacations.