Me experience learning English at the university

Well the thing is that I’m not really good at English so it’s rare to talk about it, but I have been learning this language in the university. This is the second language that I’ve tried to lean in my life, after my native language that is the Spanish. This started in the school where I had to lean German because I was in a German school, but I was really difficult and I learned the basic thing then. After that I get in the University and it is a requirement to past the 4 obligatory curses, and there I’m. I started in the third curse were I passed with no difficulties and now I’m doing the last curse and I hope to passed too. But I think that pass the curses is not the most important thing, I think that learning the language is the biggest accomplished to me, and in this curses I haven’t learned English as I expected.

One of reasons for I haven’t learned about this language is because the test that we should do to know how is our English (and tells us in which level are we) isn’t a good way to measure our level. I think that the University should have other ways to know how you talk and see if you can write a good story or something like that. The test that they have now is really long and you have a short time to answer it, also there is a listening part and not all the headphones works. So, some people couldn’t answer that part. So I think is better having a teacher that evaluates our English.

So, when you have a bad system of evaluate the students you have a big probability to have in the same curse some students that speak English people who doesn’t understand the language. That situation happened and makes harder for teach in the same level for everyone. In my experience, the people who doesn’t know anything of English doesn’t improve they language a lot and the people who speak better doesn’t learn more for that reason. And I imagine that is a very complicate situation for a teacher, because the level of the English class is not equal.

All this things would be less complicated if in this University the language would be more important. In the different subjects that I have only in two times we’ve read papers in English. So the students are not interested to lean about it, because until today we haven’t really used it. I think this a global problem that should be taken seriously for the students and the teachers to create a conscience, because speak English is a very important opportunity to do new things like getting a good job or going to other counties to specialize, etc. So, I think that learn English really help us.

The money!!

Have you ever dreamed with everything you want? Some many times I dreamed whit winning the lottery, even some times I buy the ticket of the Sunday and the ticket of the Wednesday, but I never won anything. However I pretend continues buying the lottery ticket because I want to be the winner. I believe the most easily way to have the dreaming things is winning the lottery, but the truth is when I though what is the first thing I will do when the money is in my wallet are, be myself… May be is a difficult to understand that but I always thought something about the money, that thing is “the money change the world… because the money change the people”, is a very interesting thing if you think because the most person dreaming whit won the lottery but I thing that when the people have everything they wants the meaning of life is so munch difficult to see, because you have all the opportunities and all the power to do anything, and efforts must be made to obtain them are minimal. However the life is hard because the resources are minimal, and the first thing I want is give a solution to all money problems in my family. I dream whit all my family living of a peaceful way, whiteout money problems and more interested of the important things.
But not everything are spirit things, the cars… the dreaming of any man, also are my dreaming and I believe if I won the lottery I want a Lamborghini Murcielago. That is my only expensive dream. We need to think about the negative thing, like a new life? The problems of be a millionaire are so much, like where save all the money, where to put the blonde that came with the car, and a lote of difficult troubles… hehehe.

The world is dying!!! Save it...

Is a really common thing in this society, don’t think about nothing more than the own wellness. The most people tray to do things to other persons but, in my opinion that is only for the own wellness to… That is a complicated thing to the other people (to you, to me, to everybody) because I thing, in some point of our life’s all need a “friendly hand in the way of the long life”. Thinking of that way is that I discovery a biggest thing to everybody, the world need us and we need it on. Are you thinking about the serious problem of the pollution in the world?... “the work begins at home”, every day all the people in the planet go to the work, to the market, to the school or anywhere, and every time we got to a car or, motorcycle, etc. and we liberate carbon dioxide and an pollute to the environment, How can we help to the environment?. The most people in Chile doesn´t know how he can help to the environment, but that need to change because the world are dying every day. The only way to change that, is “starting at home”. One of the better examples is the bike, the bike is the better invent to move to anywhere, the bike doesn’t produce pollution and is a very healthy way to move around your city. That is a good option to be green but I want to gift to yours other three things of you can do to be more green. The first one is recycle, that is a very good thing you can do to help this planet. The second one is turn off the lights of your home when you don’t are occupying. The third is close your water faucet and consume only you needed…

Be green is a good thing to the world, and especially for your future…

Ever tought... If you were one of the 33 miners?

I am sure to any people in the planet knows the history about the 33 trapped miners in Chile, but the question is, if you be one of that miners you really think can stand 3 month under the earth? In personal I can’t imagined that experience, how they live? What speaking? Who thinks in the most deeply of their minds? In what believe each one of those peoples?... I think that question can only be answered for the miners, we (the regular people) only can imagine. For me one of the most impressive thinks is imagine the experience of be 700 meters under the earth , that is more of three times the titanium building of “la costanera”, the temperature in the depth are more of 30º celsius and a elevated humidity, I believe that is a real hell.

Now there are free but theirs life’s never can be the same, some people says they have a new opportunity to be… something new, something different or whatever. I think they will get their lives back, and whit the time the routine will be the same as after de incident, but in the most deeply of theirs self, their will appreciate the life differently and that will changes the way of see the future. I really believe the reality is hard to predict but certainly the next gift theirs receive is one spectacular gift, theirs go to Greece to vacation for 1 week and that is deserved…

I hope those 33 peoples can be happy, and live their lives to the maximum.

Last term

Well, the true is that the last term wasn’t that exciting but I think the most memorable thing was that we had a subject named “Psicopatología” (psychopathology) that we could go to the psychiatric hospital of the Salvador Hospital.

This subject is teaches by Luis Alvarado and Jose Luis Rossi. I really like this subject because is the first one is psychiatrist, and that’s why we have seen some patients on the Salvador’s Hospital. Well, the thing is at we could see patients for Alvarado because he works there (at the Hospital), so he does mostly the practical work with us. On the other corner, is Rossi who is a psychologist and teach us some things more academics about this subject, whit him we don’t see any patients; however we learn a lot about his experience on this field.

I like that subject because I could saw in the practice how the personality disorders and structures are working, and the most important we had the opportunity to see patients directly, not by videos or stuff like that. But it is interesting because we learned things like normality it’s not a healthy parameter necessarily, even more, this factor could be trigger for a psychopathology whose name is “normopathy”. This affection talks about people that it can’t be “abnormal”; it just can’t be act different to the social rules.

So, we really learned about a lot of stuff and we could see it.

The Big Travel

Fortunately I had the good luck of travel to so many countries around the world, because I was a professional Swimmer. I had the pleasure of be in Argentine (in that country I live around one year, and I went there six times again), Peru, Colombia (in three times), Ecuador, Brazil (in seven times), Uruguay (in two times), Cuba (La Habana) Canada (Montreal and Toronto), España (Madrid and Barcelona), Italy (Rome), France (in one time in Paris and two time in Canet in Rousignol), Serbia (Belgrado), Australia (Melbourne and Sydney) and New Zeland (Auckland). But I never had the opportunities to be of real vacations in one country because the life of a sport man of high level is so busy and stressed, obviously I can know the city of mi travel but never I had a real vacations…
The last year I retired from the swimming and I planned a big travel whit my girlfriend and my bestfriend to Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. The plan is get to Caracas in a airplane, we already buy the tickets. And after that be backpackers in all our travel.
I have always though the Caribbean people are so nice person and very cheerful, and I need the reality check.

I am so excited for this travel!!! I hope the time passes quickly and we get to January is when we go.