English Language Challenges

Hey bloggers, today it's my last post of the semester, I think learn English at university it's a good way to get better our knowledge and get experience speaking and writing, in this case blogs. About using the blog, it's a very interactive way to write about topics and express what I think and my opinions about anything, also the topics were very interesting, becoming a very dinamic activity. 

Also we could share with people from other careers and in the last part of the class debate about topics, but now practicing the oral part.

About the aspects about I need improve, i think is my fluency, and be more quiet when I talk with someone. I think my english is better than before, because now I can write my ideas straight in the post almost without asking for help and I can know a little more my classmates.

In daily life I'm always in contact with English, I listen a lot of music and the most is in this language, at first I try to understand the song and then i search for lyrics because i need to understand the song completely. Also I love to watch series or movies on Netflix, and always I watch them in English. A goal I would like to do is watch movies or anything without subtitles, and for do that i practice everyday or everytime I can. 

I really like knowing a little bit of English, because I can help my sister with her homeworks or my classmates, also I love English, if I could take classes to learn the language I would do, I would feel complete. 

Changes to my study programme

Hello bloggers! Today I would like to write about some changes to my study programme or my career in simple words. Well, I think that this year has been very complicated because of student mobilizations and for that we have to study in the summer. 

Now there are a few changes that i could do in geography, in the first place, for example there is a geographic information system named ArcGis and we use a lot to make cartographies. but if we want to have in our computers we got to download it in an illegal way and it's dangerous for our computers, so I think that the university should provide us this program and we could have it in a legal and original way.

About the curriculum i really like the subjects we have to study, if we compare it with curriculums from other universities it is very complete and its approach is broader.

About the challenges i have faced as student, the worst part is being far from my home and family, solve problems on my own, try to be calm when stress wins and understand and understand that although of all of my is never enough.

Being a student is like a rollercoaster of emotions, sometimes you are happy, sometimes you are so sad that you want to give up because you feel you are not enough for the career, but when the time passes by you realize that every semester is the same, as a cycle that never ends. But despite everything I said before I love my career. 

The holidays!

Hi everyone! Today i would like to write about what I´m going to do in my summer holidays. Well as far as I'm concerned my family and I want to go to visit my grandmother who lives in Trovolhue, a small coastal town in the Region of Araucania. The last time I saw her was in 2017's summer and that was the first time I went to that place. When we went there in 2017 I knew a lot of places like Budi Lake (which is the only salty lake of south america), Carahue, Nueva Imperial which is the only salty lake of south america and I knew a lot of family too.

Many people think that if you go on vacation you need to know different places or new places but I disagree with them, in my opinion I think that you have to go to a place you feel comfortable and if I feel comfortable going a lot of times to the same place you do with no doubt.

Also go to Laja River in the Region of Biobio and camp with my family, I love that river, I have beautiful memories of the last time I went there. 

So I hope my family and I can go to visit my family and a lot of places on summer vacation because i think we really need to disconnect us from city life and relax and in my case get back to a new year of university renewed.

Should euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide be legal?

Hey bloggers, today I'm going to write about a topic that is very interesting and very current to generate a discussion and analize different points of view. In the first place is necessary to know what is euthanasia? According to The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Euthanasia "is the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopeless sick or injured individuals in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy". So with this definition we have pros and cons about the same topic. Here we have some pros about euthanasia: 

-Michael Irwin, former Medical Director at the United Nations and current Coordinator of the Society for Old Age Rational Suicide (SOARS) stated: "The right to die should be a matter of personal choice: I am pro life, I want to live as long as I possibly can, but I also believe the law should be changed to let anyone with some severe medical condition which is causing unbereable symptoms to have an assisted suicide. I wouldn't want to be unnecessarily kept alive against my own will".

-Brittany Maynard, a 29 year old with a malignant brain tumor, stated the fllowing: "There is not a cell in my body that is suicidal or that wants to die. I want to live. I wish there was a cure for my disease but there's not. My glioblastoma is going to kill me, and that's out of my control...it's a terrible way to die. Being able to choose to go with dignity is less terrifying...Right now it's a choice that's only available to some Americans, wich is really unethical".

In the other side there are cons:

George Delgado, MD, Medical Director and family practuce physician at Culture of Life Family Care said: "Physician-assisted suicide does damage to patiens who are in very difficult situations. It does damage to the medical profession. It compromises the sacred trust between physician and patient, which should be based on healing, not based on killing".

According to the previous arguments that show us the different positions of people respect if euthanasia should be legal, we can say that there is a war between the ethical and moral, because as human being we have the right to live and decide about us, we can also decide if you don't want to continue your suffering caused by a terminal disease, helping to have a dignified and less painful death.

Post graduate studies

Hey bloggers, today I would like to write about post graduate studies. In my case when I finish geography, I would like to go to Europe because geography is a important discipline there. Also I would like to learn other language, cultures, geoforms and a lot of things.

Or maybe if I can't go to other country and I had to stay in Chile I would like to do an specialization in Geographic Information Systems to perfect myself and help other people to understand a very interesting topic and a complement to any job that you have to do.

What I wrote before is just a supposition because in real life I don't know what to do when I finish my career, I'm only interested in finish it, start working and just that, I don't think about future i really like to live present.

Future job

Hi everybody! Today I would like to write about a job I would like to have. Well, to contextualize when I was 15 years old I started to play the violin, my parents gave me one for my birthday, so I took violin lessons and then I joined the orchestra. So, the job I would like to have it would be in an orchestra and play the violin. 

If I work in that, I think I would travel a lot, visiting different places of the country, playing for all the people and always learning from other musicians. Play an instrument makes you work as a team, also responsibility is really important at that job, you can't just miss an rehearsal because you are an important piece of that puzzle. That job needs a lot of practice, you never stop learning.

About the salary, i don't know, maybe if you are good in your stuff, the salary is good, also you can do violin lessons, complementing with the job in the orchestra.

Now, i study Geography, which is totally opposite to be a violinist but i really like, it was my only choice, because be a violinist or a musician in fact in this country doesn't have the importance that should have and the future scenario becomes difficult.

A hobby

Hey! Today i'd like to talk about my favourite hobby: read books. I started reading at the age of 13 years old. at first i didn't have many books, just two books in english and that was so difficult to me at that time so, a friend i met when i went to te orchestra, invited me to Santiago to FILSA (Feria Internacional del Libro de Santiago) at the Estación Mapocho and in this place i bought my first books. After a while my friend started to borrowed me books and one day that i asked her for books (like horror or suspense) she recommended Stephen King and she give me a book called "The Green Mile" i loved that book an also the author so i started reading many books that he was published like Carrie, Pet Sematary, The Long Walk, Misery, among others.

Every year i go to FILSA, and i buy many books as i can because i really love read books and is not just about literature, also about history or geography. The only bad thing is in FILSA books are so expensive so is not easy to buy books and the cheap books are so boring.