POST 10 >> ENGLISH LANGUAGE CHALLENGES

I feel that is very good to learn English. I think that English is one of the languages everyone or almost everyone should know. It is one of the languages that is useful to know so that you are able to talk to people in other countries. So, for me learning English in school, at home, or at the university is very necessary.

The blogs are very useful, in my case I know English since I was a little girl because I used to speak with my mom in English, which I am very grateful because it has helped me a lot to not find it difficult know, but even though I know English well, sometimes I forget the spelling of some words, so the blogs has helped me practice and even learn new words I have never ever used in a sentence.

I don’t speak English anymore at home how I used to do when I has younger, so I think that I have lost a little bit of my practice, like speaking fluently and my spelling. I try to practice my English talking to some friends I have that are from abroad and that don’t speak Spanish, so that helps a lot, and also, I am very good in watching series and movies in English, I don’t like to see them in Spanish and I also try to see them without subtitles, so that I get to practice more my English.  

I love to speak English and sometimes I even practice teaching my boyfriend, who knows English although he doesn’t speak it much and many times has spelling mistakes, so helping him helps me as well. As I said, I don’t speak much English now a days like I used to do before, but I will always do something to keep practicing, so I don’t get to forget it because I really feel is very important and useful to know this language.

POST 9 >> CHANGES TO MY STUDY PROGRAMME

There are many subjects in my career that I would change. I feel that the studies in Chile are too many years and it can easily be done in less years. There are many subjects that they teach us that are not so necessary or that is the same thing that they teach us in other subject.

The workload in this career is amazingly huge, I don’t have time for me or anything else I want to do, apart from my university. I don’t go to the gym anymore, I sleep much less than before (sometimes I don’t sleep at all), I see my boyfriend less than before, I don’t have time to cook, so I eat whatever I find at home or I just buy food outside, I don’t play much the guitar anymore or even paint (things that I used to do more when I was in school). This career is hard, and it takes a lot of time in someone’s life, also it makes you spend a lot of money for materials, but even with all the things that I have mentioned before, I like this career and that is the important thing.

In my point of view, the infrastructure of my university is very bad, all the money we pay for tuition, I honestly don’t know where it goes. The girl’s bathroom doesn’t have doors that close properly, or it doesn’t have toilet paper all the time, there is no heater for winter, and even some of the tables and chairs are broken.

The technology is not so bad, we have good Wi-Fi, although in some places of the university it doesn’t work so well, and maybe we need some new and faster computers.

Even though I think that my career has subjects that are not necessary, I think that my teachers are pretty good, although sometimes I would change a little bit the teaching methods they have. Some subjects like in the workshop the teachers don’t teach some computer programs which we really need to learn, and because of that we must learn alone how they work.

POST 8 >> SUMMER PLANS

I feel that this summer is going to be amazing, and I can´t wait for those days to come. I have been waiting for months now to travel and next month I am finally doing it. I am going to Brazil and India, those are my plans for the summer, and I can’t wait for it to start. My trip to Brazil will start on 20th January, one day after I finish my university, and I am very excited to go because I am going with my boyfriend. I am travelling to Brazil for 10 days and then I’ll come back to Santiago to then travel to India for a month and meet my sister who is living over there and well, in general, go and meet all my family that lives there, like my cousins, aunts, uncles and my grandmother.

I haven’t gone to India for 8 years now and this time I am traveling alone, it is a two-day flight and I just hope that I don’t get bored till I reach there.

Just today I was talking to my sister about what we could do when I reach there, we were talking about travelling to many other cities to visit my family, go to different beaches, go out to parties, go shopping, to the theater, and other more things. I think that is going to be an amazing summer, with a lot of activities every day, and I haven’t seen my sister for a year now, so it is going to be quite wonderful.

In Brazil my boyfriend and I are planning to visit many beaches. We are starting in Sao Paolo and from there we will go to Rio de Janeiro to then go to Ilha Grande, which is a beautiful and touristic Island that has many beautiful beaches in which we are planning to visit the days I’ll be there. After I leave Brazil, my boyfriend is going to stay there for other two weeks to meet his friends that are travelling to Brazil as well.

This summer, I am honestly not planning to work or study because I am going to have only one month and a half of vacations, and I have so many things planned that I just want to do that and relax, which I think I deserve it because it has been a long year with a lot to do.