English course

Learn English in my first year of the university was a nice experience, because it is useful to know new people. The first semester I spend time with classmates of the other section that I didn’t know. And this semester I have known people from other careers and other grades. And the classes are funny, with the comments and the stories of the classmates and the teacher.

About the blog, it help me to improve my English writing and the themes are interesting, but I am happy because it is the last blog and I never write a blog again.

I need to improve my vocabulary and my pronunciation, my sister said me that my English sound like Germany more than English. So for improve that I wish to see a lot of movies and series in the summer, of course in English (and without subtitles), I think that it is an enjoyable form to learn another language.

Outside the English class I don’t use English a lot, maybe when I listening music or if I see movies, and I use an application for languages, it is “Duolingo”. I think it is very good and helps me a lot, but the problem is that I don’t have time with all the things in the university. But it helps me to improve my vocabulary and pronunciation and it has a lot of languages.

The 2015

Well, it has been a year full of new experiences, new achievements, new people, and other things.

This year I joined to the University, and the most of things were new for me. The “carretes” every week, the new friends and the pressure of the study. But I think that it has been a good year. It happened so fast, with all the works, the guides of Barozet, the oral exams, and now I don’t want more suffering, all that I want is that the year ends soon and I can sleep all the long, for all that I couldn't sleep during the year.

I started not completely sure about the career, I had a lot of doubts. But throughout the year I start to enjoy the sociology, and now I like it so much and I’m so sure and happy with my decision.

Apart from the university, I didn’t do so much. I couldn’t see my friends regularly like before, because all of they are in the university or they are studying for the PSU. And other thing that I would have liked to do is work to earn some money for the summer and travel out of Chile, but now I’ll work in December, when all that I want is to rest (and sleep so much!).

Also this year I passed difficult moments, but they made me stronger and now I am better.  And I think these things are necessary to grow.

The final balance: this was a good year, and I like it so much, but I spent all my energies, and I need the summer to recharge myself and sleep.

My next summer

I was all the year thinking about what I am going to do, and now I have an idea. I hope work during December and January, I don’t know in what but I will work in something. And then, in February I am going to go to the south with my boyfriend. We are going to buy a tent, it is a little expensive for our budget, but my sister-in-law is going to help us. Then we are going to need the backpack and the special shoes. We need to be prepared for the travel.

We want to take a bus until Osorno or Villarrica, and then start to move with the people in the road (by finger). We don’t have a specific goal, but we want to arrive to Chiloé if it is possible. But we want the route will go to form in the travel. If we want to stay more time in a place we stay.

I like a lot the mountains and trekking, I think we can stay in a natural reserve, in some quiet and peaceful place. I would like know a lot of people like us, young people, foreigner and people who have the attitude to know new and unknown things.

We want to pass a week in my grandmother’s house, but when we will return to Santiago, not when we’ll go to the south.

And well after a moth travelling, we want to go to the Cajón del Maipo with some friends, like this year, to say goodbye the summer. 

And what about you, Do you like the south? and Chiloé or the Cajón del Maipo? 

Spring

Today the topic is free, so I’m going to talk about the spring. When I was child I loved the spring, it was my favorite season of the year. I loved the flowers, the new birds, the sun and the freshness, the seasonal fruits.

Everything was perfect, until the allergy appeared. Around four years ago that I started to have seasonal allergies. And now I hate the spring, I sneeze all the day, I have nasal congestion,  my eyes an throat itch, and I hate all of them. I take “desloratadina” but sometimes it fill me, and the allergy doesn’t go out. In Chile most of people is allergic to the spring, and Santiago is full of Oriental plane trees, and this is terrible for us. Especially the University! Is full of them!

I hope one day I can go far away, to a place where the Oriental plane trees doesn’t exists, or the spring doesn’t be so terrible, my cousin says that in Germany it is different, and the allergy is soft. But for now I must to get used to the allergy, and buy a lot of disposable tissues, medicines and all that I need to survive the spring. 

Am I an ecologist person?

I always had considered myself as a person who cares for the environment. But I realized that I really don’t do so much for the planet. I try to recycle plastic, but near there is not recycling centers. So I collect a lot of plastic bottles, but I never take them to a recycling center.

I would like to ride a bike to go to the university or other places, but I don’t have a bicycle, because sometimes I try to save money to buy a bike, but I always spent it in other things.

But I try to do other and small things, like growing trees, flowers, I try to not delay in the shower and care the water in general. When I go to camping I always carry back the rubbish. I try to use the natural light as much I can, and I recycle paper (my notebooks and the guides of Preu), not plastic yet.

In spite of everything, I think that it is not enough. I think the people should motive and commit for the environment, before it gets late. But now we don’t have conscience of the climate problem. And it affects everyone.

So I think the governments must be responsible and start to generate conscience with public policies. And educate the population, especially the kids, in this way the futures generations will be conscience for the environment problems.

A future sociologist

When I imagine the future, the first that I think is I will do a master’s or a doctorate, because I want to specialize in something. And I like themes like inequality, poverty and especially the topic of penitentiary system, because I believe in the social reintegration of the prisoners.  I would like to work making public policies to change the social reality, even a little or for one person, that’s enough for me.

I think outdoor work and indoor work is necessary, but I prefer indoor work, because I am a little shy. But I think in the future I will control myself and the outdoor work would be easier for me. And I would like to travel a lot, inside the country, because I need to know the different realities and obviously, outside the country to study and specialize in one subject.

I don’t like offices, I would like to have a study or something like that, because for me an office is synonym of stress and bureaucracy, but it could be different than I expect to, and with the correct people an office could be nice.

And finally, I would like to teach in some universities, but I think joining the academic work is very difficult, maybe impossible. You have to be the best and have a “pituto”. But if everything goes well I would one day.

My pets

Hi! Today I am going to talk about my three dogs. They are Lucas, Princess and Martin.

Lucas is the biggest. He’s a mixture of German shepherd and an uncle gave me when I was child. Lucas grew very fast and one week to other his bed was narrow for him. When he had around three months he got sick, he had gastroenteritis and he lost a lot of weight. Fortunately he got better and now he’s around nine years. This year in April he escaped from the house when the door was opened, and after a week a young man called us and told us that he was in a hill near the house. Now Lucas is a little fat, but he is fine, he’s the guard of the house.

Princesa has a beautiful history. My uncle (another uncle) wanted to give she because they have a baby in the house, and Princesa was a little aggressive. So they sent her to a village outside the city, with a neighbour.  But a few days, the neighbour died and we never knew if he delivered Princesa to the new owners. And after a month we find it near a church and we decided to adopt it, because our house was the better place for her.

And Martin is my little baby; he lives with us from the 2012. He is playful and adorable dog. He cheers my days up.

Martin

Princesa

Lucas