Winter holidays plans

 The truth is that due to recent stoppage and the subsequent rescheduling, I will not to be able to spend my holidays with my family, so I don´t have many plans in this regard. 

I think the main activity, I will do is to travel to La serena, where my parents and my sister live, spend time with them and with my pets, see my friends and go out the waterfront with them. I will also work in my dad´s business to make a little money for the second semester of university. 

In La serena in my free time I might go to the Elqui valley for a few days, to Pisco elqui and Monte grande to visit an observatory, because the Elqui valley is one of the best place to see stars in the world. 

I might also go to visit my cousins and aunts and uncles who live in Copiapo, as I haven´t seen them since Christmas last year, some weekends when my parents are not working.

In conclusion my winter holidays will be based on spending as much time as possible with my family and my friends that I haven´t seen for a few months, as well raising money for the second semester or university.

MY BUCKET LIST

I think what tops my wish list is to travel in recent years, I have been able to cross places off my list such as Chiloe, Bariloche and Buenos Aires, but I would like to travel to different countries or to know what I lack in Chile, to know the culture, landscapes, art and nature, specifically in Chile to travel the southern highway, climb the "Torres del Paine" and visit the marble cathedral. 

I would like to visit Iceland and Finland, to visit their national parks and see the northern lights and admire the landscapes, other countries I would like to visit is Italy, Pompeii and Tuscany, visit the islands that belong to Greece and see the sculptures and the remains of the historic center of Athens, to visit museums in France, England, China and Egypt. I would love to travel with my family or friends. Another thing that is on my wish list is to learn to speak Catalan, because in the future I hope to go to live in Barcelona and for me it is important to respect and to be able to communicate in the language of the autonomous community.

I don't think any of the things that are on my list are very impossible because most of them are based on traveling and getting to know new places.

Post 7: TV SHOWS AND SERIES

 

The truth is that since I can remember I have been quite fond of series, when I was a child I remember watching series like Barney & friends, when they gave the Chilean version called floribella I also remember watching it, my mom also used to play me the CDs of "cantando aprendo hablar" and Disney's Magic English, and as I grew up I went through several series that were of my real interest, so I can not say I have a particular favorite, but as I see new series I add them to my list of favorites. A genre that has always been among my favorites is police, series like CSI (in any of its versions, but especially New York), Criminal Minds and Bones, I have a special affection for them, and they are really for binge watching, another series that I like a lot and is like a guilty pleasure is Grey's Anatomy, a very well known series and at the same time very long with 18 seasons.

The last series I finished and added to my list of favorites is Dickinson, which tells the life story of Emily Dickinson and her family, an American poet of the 1800's, from a much more modern perspective than most period series, it has a very similar style to Bridgerton.

Regarding having a TV in the bedroom, I don't think it's really necessary, since nowadays you can watch series and movies from cell phones and computers.

POST 6 : ENGLISH LANGUAGE CHALLENGES

 Hello, how are you? 

My experience learning English at the university has been much more satisfying and profitable compared to the one I had at school, I use a little more varied techniques than those used in high school, such as the use of blogs, listening practice, writing, and reading. I think the blog is a resource that helps a lot when it comes to practicing writing and reading the language from a sidewalk much closer to ours, since they write about topics of common interest, and we can put it from our perspective, what we believe about it.

I think that one of the things that I have to improve considerably is grammar, especially when it comes to speaking, being able to execute a coherent conversation in English is still a far challenge for me, this is also linked to the fact that I do not practice the language frequently, since I have no one to do it with. One of the ways in which I most assiduously "practice" the language is by watching movies and series in their original language and with subtitles, or by listening to music in English and trying to translate it. 

I think that one way to really improve my English is with practice, I think that is the most effective way to achieve it, I also think that the idea of the fear of being wrong discourages us from really practicing it, so it is also important to keep in mind that we are all learning and practice makes perfect.

POST 5 : CHANGES TO MY STUDY PROGRAMME

 If I had the possibility to change some things of my university curriculum, I think it would be the distribution of the schedule in terms of the branches, for example, there are days when you go to class only for one branch, or we have two blocks of the same branch in a row, in my opinion, to better understand the topics it would be good if the blocks were divided during the course of the week, and thus be able to maintain greater attention to the subject in question because sometimes 3 hours of lecture becomes tedious and it is quite difficult not to be distracted.

Another change that I would like to make now in terms of infrastructure is the possibility of having tables in the auditoriums because many times it is very difficult to take notes without them and you have to use your backpack as a support.

Perhaps, another important point is that in some areas they would give equal importance to practice as to theory, in order to understand more fully the subject matter and the topics and somehow learn to apply it to real life to be more prepared at the time of practice. A point that has caught my attention in other universities is the implementation of practices from the second year of career, which helps the professional life both in the future and to understand from the beginning how to work and what it involves, thus providing real expectations of how it can be their work in the future.