English Language Challenges

Although I had already done blogs last semester, the topics of this semester were more fun and I enjoyed the experience a lot. Even though that we were few in this section of English but it was interesting to know about my classmates and know a little about them.

The classes were very educational and I loved them! Even though it was Friday and we go out late, I enjoy a lot and I learned even more. My favorite activity was the Simpsons! When we had to play to giving directions in the iconic places of Springfield! It was a very innovative activity!

My biggest problem in this subject is that I understand very well the American English but there isn't the same with the British English. It's very difficult for me to understand it! I think I'll start to see more series where this type of English is spoken to familiarize me with his accent and his strange way of speaking.

Outside the English class the only instance where I practice my grammar is on twitter. I have a personal account where I follow many English speakers and interact with them. It's fun and sometimes I ask for help when I don't know how to express an idea. But no doubt where I most listen to people talking in English is in our classes. Also on youtube! I'm a faithful follower of beauty channels and the most of my beauty bloggers are English speakers, so i have to be aware of everything!

No doubt knowing English at the university is very necessary and some criticize that this isn't the English that we needed for our level but I think that is the point of having four levels of English that at least we all reach the same level of English at the end of the second year of the career. And at least to me, the English marks help me a lot to raise my average! Also to learn English there must be the desire to learn and find alternatives because there are many possibilities on the internet to learn. So it is from each one the task of learning!

My bucket list

I’m a list fanatic; in particular, I’m a lover of bucket lists and I have to accept that every so often I make short wish lists for the summer or for the semester and if you see my bedroom I have a list for everything, but I have never thought about making one like a recount of all the things I want to do, see and experience before I die.

Three years ago, when I start to decide that I wanted to study when I would finish high school, I started to want to study chemistry and pharmacy. Since then I fought very hard, I tried with all my might and here I am. I hadn´t idea that here it would be worse but, until now, I am surviving. It was difficult to prepare me for the test because I had to go to school from the morning and in the evening I did a course that deepened me in the topics that would come out on the test. So when I came to my home, I was so tired for the next school day.

An area that I am very passionate about it, is the theme of the shows like concerts, theater plays, etc. I love them so I would like to work in an event production company or study "organization and production of events" or something like that. However, that will be in many years more because now I'm so stressful so I can´t to do something more.

My adventurous spirit it would like to practice skydiving, experience the Weightlessness, practice rafting, jump from bungee jumping, among others.

I would like to do all those crazy things with my best friend. I feel we are the same and we like to do the extreme things because we only live once so I would choose her.

When I finish my studies and have enough money, I would like to travel a lot and start to do all the activities that are impossible to do while I'm at the university. I did that for now, to save money and long for to practice some this summer!

CHANGES TO MY STUDY PROGRAM

This is my second semester of my first year of university so I still don’t have a complete opinion about my career and faculty but I can tell you some stuff that maybe we have to consider:

Our current study program is balanced between classes and laboratory hours from the first year which makes our education integral and we become familiar with our career themes.

While there is a standard in the duration of the career of approximately 5 to 5 1/2 years, the length of studies is too much and is linked to the market since most university students must pay for their education.

Regarding the infrastructure, I feel we use a minimum of space and everything else is administrative offices or teachers and the conditions of the rooms aren’t the best compared to other faculties belonging to the University of Chile.

In the faculty only four races are taught but there are times where computers or the library doesn’t reach for everyone but we have to accommodate as we can.

I have had time to talk with my friends who are in other universities and they have more career-oriented courses than us. Although the academic load is undoubtedly very large, it would be good to be able to complement it with a different activity so that our day is not so stressful.

The cfg should be more varied and allow to develop us in other completely different areas to which we are oriented.

Our faculty has a big problem in case of school accidents. The stairs are not safe, the elevator never works and in general the accident insurance is terrible. So, pay attention to that!

Although I wrote about all the faults that my faculty has and even if you don't believe me, I am happy where I am studying and I feel comfortable with what I am doing.