A difficult relation: The English and Me. =(

My history with the English begins when I was ten years old, and I was in the school in fifth grade. This year, I remember, that the teacher made that we to sing a song of alphabet, other song of elephant to learn the number and a song of the colors. In the next years, sadly, my education in English wasn’t good, the teachers teached us the verb “to be” by the next seven years, and now I can say, I never learned nothing. For this bad experience, I thought that the English and Me weren’t friends, I thought that never would can learn the language and I until leaved of listen music and of sing in English because I learned the I don’t know that I say. When I thought that my relation with the English had finished because I began to study psychology, but I had a surprise, when I know in psychology I would have class of English. The thrust is that I didn’t want nothing with the English, but it was… the university. I began my subject of English in the second year of my carrier and it was different experience.

Today, I am in my last course of English and the experience wasn’t so terrible as I thought. The courses weren’t so difficult, the teachers are persons very nice and very worried by the pupils, they love the English language. As well I knew pretty companions, I knew Jimena, a friend who did that my courses were more entertaining, she didn’t know anything of English either, because of it we were laughing together when we did not understand anything. I believe that the first subject was the most entertaining, and the second and third part they were the most difficult subjects because the teacher was little irritable, and the quarter, it is the best subject because it is the last one of my weekly relation with English language.

In the evaluations, I was suffering very much. My experience with the blog was very good, I think that I learned to express, with the listening I discovered that I have problems of ear, and the tests it was giving myself nerves, but equally I have good marks, because I believe that now already I have more vocabulary, and in the oral tests, I was very afraid but with the Maite we converse in our own language.

In the different courses also we saw different contents, from the countries, the means of transport, the personal information, the truth is that we did a tour for different thematic in English, for this we work with a book of support, with listening and with conversations in pairs.

The truth is that I know that after all this way; I did not end up by dominating completely the language, but I believe that I have had important advances that they allow me to say that my relation with the language today is much better. In addition I know that the English is a necessary language to survive in an included world, where the communications, the economy and for especially the advance in investigations like that they need it, in addition my I would like to be able to travel to countries where the English is his native language, for this it turns out to me more important to learn. I believe that my history with the English will continue, because now I am thinking of realizing seriously an attached course to turn into a bilingual expert.

A sabbatical year!!

I think that a sabbatical year is the dream of everybody =)
It is a year for to leave of daily life, it is a year only for you, and for to make only the that you want.
To me I would like a sabbatical year, I dreams that when I end my career I will have my sabbatical year.
In this year I would like to travel to Europe, for to know different countries, I would love be in Italy, France, Spain and other places. I think that all year I would have that to raise money for my ticket and but all the rest I would make it in Europe, this would be a adventurous travel. In the different places that I would meet, I would have that to survive working in different trades, for example in waitress, of saleswoman, etc.
I would like to make this travel with my boyfriend, for together know, this would be a year very romantic. <3
In this sabbatical year I would not do anything more that knows, to travel and to enjoy of my freedom.
I think that a sabbatical year is a year that everybody need because in the life is necessary no only to work, as well is very important to enjoy the life.
For my a sabbatical year would be for to order my life, to order my priorities and for to rest stress of studies and to decide as to continue my life, because later I would begin to work of psychologist.
In truth is that in this moment I need a sabbatical year but for the moment only me have that to satisfy only with a small vacation that I hope it arrive soon. =(

My Green Side

A very important subject in this age is the care of the environment, but there is not given to him the real importance that has.
The people can learn about environmentally freindly practices in their house, with their family, and they can learn in the school too. Is very important teach children to how they can cooperate in this significative practice. I have incorporated recycling helping with the plastics bags of the supermarket and mall shops. Also, I prefer buy returnable drink. The truth is that I don’t use a bike very often, because I have a bad physical condition and I use a car because the University is quite far away of my house, but now I am going to gym for get in shape. But that doesn’t mean I use the car for everything, I walk to go to the supermarket and to visit my boyfriend. I have not joined to any eco-organisation because my time it is not enough for everything I do, and I prefer spend my time in social-organisations, because I like a lot that matter. I now that I don’t do much for the care of the environment, but, for example, I do not wear clothes made of animals and I upset when people throw trash in the street. I can help tell to my close people to not do it, and in a future, I can teach to my children how care the environment. I think that a good way to reduce the carbon footprint is having a lot of plants in house. I reduce my carbon footprint in that way, and is very important to my family the care of us plants. Finally, I think that the society has lost the respect to the environment and the nature. With the intention to modernize and to develop the city, the society, and this include Santiago, have forgotten that it’s necessary to have and to care green areas or green points in the city for that we all live better.

Guardian

The news that I chose is about a Couple jailed for allowing their adopted daughters to be abused. It is a new very interesting for me, because I like the area of legal psychology and community psychology. The first is the psychology connects with all matter legal, for example the legal psychologist can make to an expert's report, the psychology profile of imputed or the support of victims. The community psychology for his part is the area connect whit the problems of society and his human rights. In this new is present the two things, because for a side it is the rights of the girls and for other side it is the legal system.
These news relate the story of two sisters that were abused for friends of his adopted parents, they knew about abused but they saved the secret because his friends paid with money and a car. As well the adopted father abused of the one girl of six years too. In this news is present a important characteristic of legal psychology, the abused generally are done for close at family or for members of family, and other characteristic is that generally they are events that the family prefer to ignore. But the worst is that the girls were vulnerable little and this case could be a case of children’s prostitution, because his adopted father received Money for his silence. The children now are well care for a center of protection and his adopted parents are arrest.
It is a horrific news, for this the society have to be attentive.
For a complete information go to: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/01/parents-paedophiles-sentenced

My last wild party

I love go to parties, because I like to dance and to share entertaining moments with my friends. In my first year of university, I went to a lot parties, every weekend I had a different party, it was very fun, I met many amusing people. But now, I don’t go to many parties, because I have that to study very mach, and in my weekend I want like to sleep.
My last party was last night, it was the birthday of my friend Cony, she is my friend since we were in school. We celebrated her birthday in my house, whit two more friend Caro y Kathy, and with my boyfriend Francisco. It was very funny.
We played “cuarto rey” it is a game very fun, with each card a different people have that to drink of his nip.
But the last wild party was my birthday on July 15 th of this year, my birthday was a Friday, the last day of class for winter’s vacation. I celebrated in my house, I invited to all my friends, they gift me very pretty things, my boyfriend gift me a bouquet and a sweater. This night we ate, danced, drank (tequila, vodka and ron), talked and played “tari ta”. In this game, when someone loose, the person had that drink to “tequilazo”, it was very fun. My family can’t to sleep. I remembered that in the last moment I danced with my friend “lady gaga”. It was a memorable and special party because it was my birthday and I was with all my friends, but the consequences were that the other day I had to ordered my house and I had very thirst, I want just drink to water and I slept all day.
In a few more days, wild be the birthday of Katy, and this party promise be to very fun.

My favorite book

I love to read, in psychology, my career, I have that to read very much, but not all the texts are interesting or entertaining, some texts are very boring, for example the texts of labour psychology. The texts of community psychology and the texts legal psychology for opposite are very interesting, good the truth is that this type of psychology is the that I like, for this I think that this texts are funs.
But the reading that more I like is the reading recreational, the texts that I read because I want. In the summer last, I read nine books, I read in the beach, in my house, in the buss, in all side. I like to read before of to sleep . I love the books of adventure and the romantics books.
My favorite author is Isabel Allende, she is Chilean and she wrote stories very interesting, when I was in the school I read “la cuidad de las bestias”, this is the first book of the author that I read and I loved the book.
My favorite book is “el plan infinito” this is inspired in the story of partner of Isabel A. “el plan infinito” tell all the story of Gregory Reeve, a difficult life of an Hispanic in California. When Gregory was child, he created a “plan infinito” and he have very obstacle for to finish his plan. The book show character very different and with life very different too. El plan infinito speak of racism, poverty and wealth. This is a fascinating story, when I read, I could not for of reading because always I needed to know more of story. This book is a gift of my brother for me.
Other book that I love is Paula, this book is of Isabel A. too, this is the story of when her daughter died, this is a story very sad,because this is a story where a mother speak with her daughter and tell his life. Paula is a young that live in Spain, she is married with Hernesto a man that suffer with the illness his woman that seriously ill.
And finally other book that I love is “travesuras de una niñas mala”, this is a book that wrote Mario Vargas Llosa, he is a Peruvian author. This book is very entertaining, this is story of a man that is madly in love of a woman that make all for money.
In the actually I am reading “la suma de todos los días” this is a book of Isabel A. the book is the that follow Paula, this is a book that relate the story after of the death of Paula, the story is mourning of Isabel A., this is very emotive, I cry when I read.
The reading is very important, this enable that the people to travel a different world to his life.

My activitys after the bicentenario

The Bicentenario weekend was of four days, this weekend was of celebration of the independence day of our country, they were very enjoyable but very exhausting too, for this after the Bicentenario weekend I just need to sleep.
In the week after the Bicentenario, I had classes on Tuesday at 8:30 o´clock of Intervention Community and I had class everyday, it’s terrible, I am very exhausted, I need this week to finish right now.
When I am exhausted I love to go to beach, it is a place where I can rest, I can sleep until afternoon. I love the field too, but the flied is very far, for this reason I go to my grandmother’s house in the beach. It is a place recommended to rest. I love going in winter vacation but not in summer vacation because in summer the beach is full of people.
I discovered that the beach is a place, where I can rest, when I had a pretty weekend whit my family after my first term of university, I was stressed, I needed to sleep, it was an incredible weekend.
I recommend going to the beach after an exhausting weekend, you can walk along the sand, to look the sea, to enjoy the place and to forget the routine. It is a place very romantic for this is I recommend you to go with your boyfriend too. I recommend going to the country as well. It is a place very calm; it is a place where you can have contact with nature, when the persons are exhausted.