One of my favorite books :)

Hi :) I'm back! This is the first post I write in this semester. For being the first post, I got to choose the topic. Our teacher told us to write about something we like. For example, our favorite movie, book or something that had really touched us lately. That was really hard because I haven't seen a lot of movies this year haven't read a lot of books and haven't seen exhibitions or plays.

But then I remembered about a book I read last summer. The title is "Para que no me olvides" and it was written by Marcela Serrano. I decided to read that book because my mother is a big fan of Serrano. She has almost every book she has written, and I always wanted to know what was so special about her. So I took the last book my mother had bought, and I started to read it slowly. I had noticed that my mom spent quite long time reading each book, so I tried to do the same.

The funny thing about that reading was that my mom and I had to take turns, because both of us wanted to have the book all day so we could get to the end before the other.
It wasn't a competition; the thing was that the book was so interesting that we just wanted to know the development of the story.

The book was about a Chilean woman called Blanca. She lived in a wealthy house with her husband. She didn't have to work because her husband supported her, so she spent every day with her friends, her sisters-in-law and with her children, a boy and a little girl. Her family had a house in the countryside, so whenever she wanted, she took her car and went to that peaceful place.

Along the story we found out that Blanca had a relationship with a humble man who was involved in a radical political party, and because of him she discovered a new world. Her husband found out about the affair and left her, taking with him their son.
The breaking point of the story happened when Blanca had a stroke. Because of the accident she couldn’t talk ever again. That’s when a lot of secrets of her life and family came out. The inability of Blanca to talk forced her to communicate with her eyes. And the uncertainty of what was going to happen with the education of her little daughter drives her crazy.

I think is a really good book, because it reflects the reality of people who live keeping the appearances and defending with lies the “perfect life” they have.

My Blogging experience

This session I'm going to write about my experience writing this blog.

I have to say that the first time I heard we have to write a blog I didn't understand what the aim was. Didn't really believe that could help me to improve my English. And the first question that came to my mind was: what are we going to write about? In first place y thought we'll write about the things we do in class, like a diary. But then the topics were easier than that.

Most of the post we had to wrote in the blog where about our opinions and the ideas we have about an specific thing. Nothing like I thought.

Little by little I started to like writing in the blog. Most of all because is a different type of learn English and is not like the typical class when you go sit down and listen all the things that the teachers says.

It has also helped me to improve my grammar and to express myself better when I have to write an idea. It's difficult to develop a big idea, you have to say: what do you think?, why do you think that?, what things support your idea? And all the things to show your point of view. This is difficult talking in a language you know, imagine having to write it in a different language.

At first you think is easy, but once you star pushing the keys of the keyboard it's getting harder and harder.

In general I think I have improved the way I write in English. Some of the topics were a little bit difficult to develop because I have a lack of vocabulary in specific topics. That's why it's important to use a dictionary. It can help you to corroborate how to spell a word or teach you how to use words you don't usually use.

My ideal job

Hi everyone! I couldn't come to this class but I'm doing the assignment anyway. I have to write about about my ideal job.

First of all I don't really know yet if I will continue studying Obstetric to be a midwife. But I've always thought that at first I would like to work a lot and very hard, so I can make a little bit of money and start saving it for future projects.

The first idea I have about my ideal job is that I would like to manage my time. But that's really difficult when you're just starting working. So in the beginning I will just fit in the regular shifts.

Once I have a lot of experience I would like to do a Management degree so I could manage my own clinic or work as a health chief in some municipality. Having that degree would help me to achieve that.

Amply my ideal job has to have flexible hours, I wouldn’t like to have a boss all the time telling me what I have to do and it has to let me improve in what I do. That means that I need that my job challenges me so I have the motivation to achieve goals every day.

I prefer don’t talk about the money I would like to earn, most important of that, the quality of the work I’m doing is much rewarding than anything. That’s why I’m not that worried about that topic. Of course the money you earn working is significant, but if you are not doing what you like, it doesn’t matter how much money you can get.

The personal development you can reach is the most important pay you can obtain. In time you will realized that all the experience you’ve gotten will help you in the rest of the way of becoming an excellent professional, and those characteristics will take you to maybe earn more money than you thought.

Once I’m established as a great professional I would create my own clinic as I said before. But that dream will only came true once I passed all the difficulties that this profession has. Isn’t easy, a lot of people wouldn’t take it, because it includes a lot of obstacles, sacrifices, and mostly hard work.

My favourite picture

Hi! This time I'll write about my favourite pic. But I'm having problems deciding the picture I'll choose. I went to my facebook account to see all the pictures I have there. There are pictures with my family, my boyfriend, lots of friends, but I realized that in the most of my pictures I'm with one of my best friends. Her name: Jasna. And maybe that's why I choose this picture.

In this picture I'm with three of my school friends, but one of them didn't fit in the pic. From left to right there are: Daniela, me, Jasna and Ivana.
I don't really remember who took that picture, but probably some school friend took it. I think that the person who took the picture wanted to left Daniela out of the frame intentionally. Maybe to play her a joke.

In that time we were in a park, having a nice time with all my classmates. It was taken last year. I remember, it was the last day of school, and we organized a barbecue with all the seniors.

I like this pictures because when I loked a it, all those days of school come back to my mind, and I remember all the good times I lived with my friends. It also remembers me that I haven't seen Jasna in a long time, so maybe is time to stay in touch again.

How important is education?

This time I have to write about education and how important is prevention in education.
Last time in class we talked about the different levels of education. We started our education un primary school, then secundary school and then university, wich is where we are now. In university you choose a career, and you go to the classes that will teach you about your profession. The most important thing for me is that you need to learn all the aspects you have to handle to turn into a great professional. And also all the values you need.

But that type of education doesn't stops once you finish your career. For me it's important to be up dated. I think you degree may help you to start a life and make your own money in the beginning, but you can't just stay there.
I have always thought that I would make a master and eventually a phD. The thing is that I don't really know in wich area. Maybe I have to figure out if I'm going to finish this career first and then think clearly in the future.

Other topic I have to discuss this session is the importance of prevention in education. I think the type of prevention that is needed depends on the career. In my case (obstetrics) the prevention is a type of education. Often midewifes are the proffesionals that give the tools to their patients to be aware of all the things that are important for they to know. Like the prevention for AIDS, unwanted pregnancy, family planification, control methods of birth, etc. That's why I think education is soo important.

If you receive a good education, it is important that you take advantage of it and turn into the best person and proffesional you can become. And then, with all the knowledge you have acquire, you can teach and educate some other people.

Stereotypes in my University

In this session I have to write about the stereotypes I can find in my faculty.
The word stereotype means to me to classify people based in their looks, like the way that people act or the image they want to show to others.For example, when you are walking in down town you can see a lot of different types of people. You can see students, people who are dressed like office workers, etc. And even when you are not trying to judge, your mind automatically thinks in one sort of people.

Thinking in a stereotype doesn´t really work for me, because I think you can't figure out a person just based in their look. But I have found myself doing that a lot of times, even when I know it isn't right.

Personally, I have talked about stereotypes in my university with my circle of friends, and we have got to the conclusion that our university has a lot of different types of people, but in general I consider that they are all pretty "normal".

However, you can find some people in my faculty that fit in a stereotype just looking how they dress or act. You can find:
- "metaleros" who are people that listen to metal music.
- gay people.
- hippies (people that listen mostly reggae music.)
- flaites (unfortunated people).

But I repeat, there are just a small group of people that you don't usually see every day.

However, it's clear that every career has a special type of people with different personalities. But when you see them as a whole faculty, it's very homogeneous. For example, people who study Obstetrics like me, have the image of being very sweet, tender or sensitive.

People who study medicine are classified as a nerd person. I have found that a lot of them don't have a lot of personality and they get along better with books than with other people. But I have seen a lot of exceptions.

And maybe I could continue giving you some characteristics of every career, but that's just my perception.

I think I don't belong to any specific type of people, so I consider myself a "normal" person.

My favourite subject

Honestly I don't have a favourite subject this semester. At first I thought Anthropology will be fun, but once I started classes I realized that the teachers weren’t that much fun.

There were some very interesting classes at the beginning in that subject, but there were too boring because it started at 2.30 and it finished at 6.00, so it didn’t matter how interested I was about they were talking about, I felt asleep anyway.

So right now I will write about the subject that is not appeal to me. Mu favourite subject is an elective called Ballroom Dancing. I go once a week on Wednesday. The only problem is that I have to come to Quinta Normal. I will prefer that I could go to the course in my faculty.

I think I like this subject the most because it helps me to disconnect myself, helps me handle the stress of the week, and also it's fun!

There are a few of my mates of Obstetrics there too, so I've learned to know them better, even when they aren't close to me the rest of the week.

The session lasts only an hour and a half, and there’s a lot of people from another careers, so I've met a lot of new people. In fact Bastian, Flor, and Freddy are in that subject with me aswell.

The course started teaching us merengue, unfortunately, I joined the subject three weeks after they started, so I missed that part. Right now the teacher is showing us how to dance salsa. and we have the evaluation in two weeks.

Other thing that I like about this subject is that my boyfriend also has it, so when we gather I show him what I've learned and we dance together.