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English Language Challenges

During this semester I have learned to participate more and practice one of the most difficult things for me, which is speaking in English, as well as listening to it. The instances of conversation among classmates and with the professor helped me a lot in that sense. I think the interaction activities were very useful.  For me, the use of blogs was the most fun of the course. I feel that at least one of my strengths is writing in english, so I have been able to dare more to write and correct some things. Also, they allowed us to practice reading english. In that aspect, I think I have improved as well. On the other hand, I think I need to improve the way I speak English. I feel like I can't coordinate the word with my pronunciation, even though some sometimes I know how to pronounce it. However, it's something that can be improved, that's why I tried to speak more during this course. Another aspect of my english that I would like to improve is grammar, as I sometimes make ...

Changes to my Study programme

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So far, all the subjects that I've had in my career have been very interesting to me and my training as a psychologist, or at least I think so. I like how the subjects connect with each other and have something in common. I feel like I'm climbing a ladder where at each step I learn something new.  However, there are these co-curricular activities that include sports and other courses. I find these extra activities very interesting because they are so variable, but the university forces us to take so many as a requirement. For me, this puts extra pressure on my studies.  In terms of workload and lenght of studies I think college is taking up all spheres of my life. There are so many pdf's to read each week and it's impossible to keep up and read them all for each classes. I know I'm in college and maybe this kind of things are frequent, but I also have a life, I'm not a student all the time. This also includes teaching methods, because I feel that sometimes readi...

Postgraduate Studies

I would like to major in some area of my interest, but first I want to work for a couple of years in what I studied because I think it would be nice to get some distance from the university.  The area in which I want to do a postgraduate is educational psychology, because in this semester I was very interested in this area. The topics were amazing and learning more about them really catches my attention. Also, I think specializing in educational psychology would also mean having better tools to help others and being much better able to do your job.  If I have the chance, I would like to study in another country. It gives me a lot of anxiety to do that, but it would be a great experience because it´s amazing to know new places and see other faces, so I would do it for sure. I would like study in some kind of part-time course, because after these five years I don´t have the same motivation I had when I started studying psychology. I also want to practice my career as ...

My dream job

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I study psychology and I imagine myself being a psychologist in the future, but my dream job is to be a photographer. I think this kind of work is necessary outdoors, because what I want to do is to take a lot of photos of nature. I would start with South of Chile, because our country has a very beautiful flora.  Since I was 14 years old I have always liked to take photos of nature, like flowers, trees and some insects. Also, in this dream job, I would like to hire some models to pose for me in beautiful dresses in the middle of the forest, like magical creatures.  I would like to travel a lot and see many beautiful places around the world to capture them with my camera.  About the salary, I don´t think I will gain much, but I think that with the money from a few photo shoots I would be able to live well enough.  Currently, I´m studying psychology and it's not a bad career, I love the idea of helping other people in such an important area as mental health, but I woul...

My favorite movie

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I have to start by saying that I love cinema, because I think it´s one of the best creations of the human being. I love how a movie can make you feel a lot of emotions, from sadness to happiness. My favorite genres are action, drama and love, because those kinds of movies make me feel a lot of emotions. But I try to avoid horror movies as much as possible, as they make me feel unpleasant emotions. I think the place of my favorite film always changes, because all the time good films are realesed, so to say that I have just one film that I love is very limitating to me. For now, my favorite movie is Black Swan and it has been for about a year . The reason I love this movie is because the lead role is played very well by a good actress: Natalie Portman.  This movie is about a girl who is chosen to play the lead role in a ballet performance. But the pressure that her role demands will make her lose her sense of reality, to the point that she starts having differents hallucinations abou...

What it has been like to live in a pandemic?

When the quarantine started, I was comfortable with the idea of staying at home with no social interaction, but I never thought it would last this long... In the first months of quarentine, my family was so worried about the cleanliness, so they washed their hands frequently and cleaned the house many times a day.  Then, my father get the virus and he was in bed for a week, the same as my grandma. But I´m glad the situation didn´t get worse. I think we are a lucky family, because the virus just made my father and grandma suffer from headache, but they are still with me. Also, my mother hasn't caught the virus and is an at-risk patient, so we have really been lucky. About activities during the quarentine, I started reading a lot of comics and I get interested about drawing, because the idea of telling storys through drawings seemed very fascinating to me, so I took some courses to learn how to draw anatomy.  Regarding my studies, they became a problem when the classes star...

The best holidays I´ve had

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El Tabo  There are a specially holidays that I constantly remember, because in that ocassion I went with my two friends to a beach called El Tabo for a week, in November, 2017. The reason why this holidays have a special meaning to me is because me and my friends save money during six months, so with the save money we could survive during a week in that place haha. A great thing about this holidays was one of my friends got us a house and we didn´t have to spent money to rent one! Pablo Neruda´s House During the week, we were constanly moving to the nearby beaches. We visited the Pablo Neruda´s house in Isla Negra and was an amazing experience, because the place was so beautiful and the view was wonderful. Also, we went to the handicraft fair and buy a lot of souvenirs. I think the most funny thing we did was to play in the arcade games but in this place we spent most part of our money, but anyway...we had a really good time.