Have you had a good year??

Hi classmates! In this post I want to tell you about my year. In this 2014 I knew new people, they are very good mates and I could grew a strength friendship with them. Also, in this year, I could learn a lot of contents in the new subjects of my career, semester by semester is going turn more interesting and fascinating.

But never all is perfect, and this year is not the exception. In my family some health problems did that our stability was going out control and it harmed us in our personal planes. For example, I had to suspend some subjects in the university to can help in my house with the complications. This situation made my academic performance went in a decrease, but I still hope that I will finish that with honors.

This 2014 I reach some personal achievements, for example, I learnt to don’t be so prejudger when I meet somebody, I learn to give time myself and to the others to know how really they are. I think that the problems I had in this year made me grow as person, now I feel me stronger and more old (talking psychologically).

To this year I have not done yet my academic year, this is one of my most important target for the year, one of the things that I still have to do this year is be braver to deal with my demons inside, confront my fears and release it to be happier.

English Language Challenges

Hi classmates! I hope that you are very good with the end of semester.

Learning english in the university has been a very good experience for me. Share time with different careers and classmates was so good too, because we see this class with different points of view and this is funnier.
In the school I had an English class. this was so basic, but I always feel interest for the different languages and the most of the music that I listen is in English, so I go learning a little bit more with the songs that I listened.

 I think that the blogs are a very good way to improve the English knowledge, because every week we write about a different topic, so, this made it more interesting.

I need to improve my pronunciation and my audition capacity; I think if I practice more I can improve significantly my English level. One of the ways that I think can be good choices for improve my English is see movies and series in English (and it works). Also, I have some friends that are English students, and they are so good in that, so, I think they can help me talking and correct my mistakes.

These days I am using English daily, one days more than others, but English is everywhere, is in the television, in the internet, in the books, so, is inevitable had a relation with this language.

in my smartphone I had an application to learn different languages, included English, this app is very good, is called “Duolingo”. I don’t use this a lot time ago, but now in the holidays I want to restart with that.

How green are you?

Hi classmates, in this post I come to write about environmental friendly practices. To start, I can say you where do the people learn about this practices. This can be different, and it depends of many factors. For example, the age of the individual, this person can be a child, and he probably learn about these practices in the school, in other example we can put an adult of 30 years old, and he probably get the knowledge about this practices from the internet and television, or any other social media.

In general, in my house, we are a family with green habits. We live in a semi-rural area of the region and there we have the sufficient space for have an area destined to the farming activities, and a place to make compost with the organic trash.

When I need go to someplace near of my house, I use my legs, but, the most of the time, I had to use a bus to go anyplace, because my house is far of the center of the city.

 I still not joined any eco-organization, only because I don’t think about that before, I don’t know if this will be necessary to print my green footprint and do things for help the world. Sometimes I believe more in little organizations, in minor scale, and this work better than the big organizations (who sometimes works like business).

My Career

Hi dear classmates! Today I want to write about my career and why I choose this and no other. I am an psychology student and I choose to study this because I think is possible change the world, make it better, and the most important thing to achieve it, is take the people and make into –shiny- happy people. So, as this is my dream, I think I have to work of some way and I decide to study this beautiful career. This is not easy for me, and in some times I think about leave it, but in these moments I remember why I am here and recover my strength to still in my road.

I see the opportunity of study psychology here, in the Universidad de Chile, not like my choice. I think that (in some sense), the university choose me, because for my previous education (in the school) I have very little chance for study any career in this university (nor any other), so, be here is for me a clear sign that the dreams can come true if we work for it. The key is don’t give up.

My favourite movie

Hi classmates! Today I’m here to write about my favorite movie. The movie is Into the Wild. This movie talk about a boy called Christopher Mcandless. Christopher after graduated of the university starts a travel across the country (USA) along two years. He lost the contact with their family, and change his name with the intention of their family can’t get notices or information about his location. He meet so much places and people in their trip, and passed the two years he decide crown his journey going to his finally destiny, Alaska.

The movie narrates the travel, show the motivations and the ending of the decisions that Christopher take along the way. I like so much this movie, because is based in a real history, and because it shows other way to see the world, the family, the society. The movie shows how vulnerable we are, and how one decision can change drastically our life.

The movie can be view of different perspectives, and the sense that you give to the movie change all the perception. Some people think that Christopher was a very selfish guy, because he thinks only in himself and left their family in a permanent anguish because they can’t take notices about the boy. Also, some people celebrate the courage of Christopher, because he takes the risk of go out and confronted the unknown, he had the courage of leave all he has in the past to set out on their travel and go into the wild.

My experience in the field

Hi classmates! Today I come to write about my experience in the field. It was the past semester in a work in a kinder garden for my “Psicología del Desarrollo” class. This work was in a group, me and three classmates. The work consisted in a few interviews and most time in the garden we did observational work with the children.

In this moment I do not remember any difficulties in the process of the work. This was my first practical work in my career, and is the area that I want to continue. Maybe the difficulties or problems with this work are associated to the educational team of the class, because that semester was the first time that they conduct a class, so, they have some coordination and organization problems.

The majority of this work I liked very much. But I think if the educational team would have had no problems it could have been much better. Like I wrote in my other posts, the educational psychology is the area I want to work, then, I really enjoyed my first experience in this area on the field, it was so motivating, and I hope to continue to do this type of works, more practical an less theorical. Because sometimes I think that in this university we read so much, but do very little.

Well, this is all.

Take care :D

Cultural Shock

Hi, as a psychology student I give you a little description of this concept in the point of view of my discipline. Culture shock is defined as a psychological disorientation that most people experience when living in a culture markedly different from one’s own. Culture shock occurs when our "...cultural clues, the signs and symbols which guide social interaction, are stripped away. ...A difficult part of this process for adults is the experience of feeling like children again, of not knowing instinctively the ‘right’ thing to do.

I have never traveled to other country, so, I never experimented for myself a cultural shock so strong like some of my classmates. I think that the most important cultural shock I have experienced was when I get into the university, because I come from a little school, in a rural area, with few students, so, get into the university, in this campus, with people so diverse, people who comes from different places of Chile, even other countries… It was a big cultural shock, adapt and accept that everyone are different and particular, learn to listen and open my mind to other ways to see the reality.

Get into the university make me grow :)