Blog 10: English languaje

Hello for last time. I’m going to talk about the English language in my life.

In the university I have made English 3 and now we are finishing the 4… I remember that when I was in English 3 I had a teacher very different to Belén, she was nice too but maybe more conservative, I feel that I didn’t learn very much in that course, the classes were more rigid or forced, but in any case, it’s difficult to know if I learned or not. But as experience, I prefer this, I have enjoyed writing blogs and being with my friends, and the teacher is nice. As I said in all the blogs, I would prefer everything to be less strict, but I don’t want to be strict with that :P.

Doing the videos, I realized that I don’t pronounce so well, but it seems that in Spanish either. I’m ok with my English now, and I think that someday I’ll be in other country and I’ll learn more… words, speaking, etc.

Outside the English class I use this language mainly listening to music, but also, sometimes I think in English, I don’t know why, maybe because those words have less associations in my mind, then to think simple things, like plans, I do it in English, but it's unconscious, or maybe it’s when I think with a logical attitude, I think that Spanish is more poetic… or maybe it’s a mixture of both (for example, that would have sounded better in Spanish, because “mixture” sound less poetic than “mezcla”, at least for me, it’s subjective like everything).

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Blog 9> Changes to my study program

Hello everyone, today I’ll talk about the study program of the career of psychology of the University of Chile, which is the career that I’m studying.

In this moment there are two years and a half with obligatory subjects, then one year and a half with optional subjects and a year to do the practice, memory and diplomat. I think that while more freedom we have to choose what we want to learn, we would learn more and better, so maybe would be good if the subjects could be chosen from the beginning. Someone could think that it’s impossible because we would need a lot of teachers and subjects, but maybe if we had the option to choose just two or three subjects each semester, we would learn deeply.

The teaching methods I think that should be centered on the students, and that makes all the classes would be different because all the students or groups of students are different. Now we are treated as if we were blank pages, there is a program which have to be respected, even if isn’t working. I would change the evaluations too, maybe suppress them, if the student don’t learn in a subject isn’t his fault, maybe is because he isn’t interested, so the next semester he could choose another kind of subject or teacher, or be changed at any time, there no need to wait… Maybe the best thing would be that there was not an inscription to the subject, so the students could attend the classes that they want.

The length of studies could be flexible depending on what each one wants to do. The facilities of the university also depends, I couldn’t say what we all need, I don’t think it would be right to ask indiscriminately, we would have to evaluate each need in a balanced way. And for technology applies the same… For example I would ask musical instruments, some medicinal plants or drugs, because that is also technology and could be beneficial for our personal growth and enhance our therapeutic skills, among other things, but another person could require something very different.

I know that all this is hard to apply, but I think that what we understand by education is constantly changing and maybe this in some decades will be common, or maybe not.

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Blog 8> Summer Holidays

Hello everyone, today I'm going to talk about my next summer holidays… as I write this I plan them because I haven’t thought anything about that.

I usually go somewhere with my mom and my sister, but this vacation I won’t do that, because I get bored, they have a different rhythm to mine, and other interests too, so I prefer to stay at my house this time. If I could I would go to the Peruvian Amazon jungle, but since I don’t have money, I won’t have the possibility of traveling, unless I work a few weeks to then travel, but that money I would prefer to save it to spend it little by little during the year.

I would like to have time to relax and think about what I’ll do when I leave university, also I would like to be with my friends and play music, but maybe I won’t do that… I think that this holidays I will have a different attitude to the one I have in other years, I will flow more because I think that now I’m more open to new situations and at the same time with less anxiety, that's why I think I'll enjoy this holidays, doing what I want, although I may not do anything. It has to do with the fact that I feel less committed than before to people.

Some activities that maybe I’ll do are read, run and learn some musical theory.

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