English Language Challenges

Hello classmates J how are you today? I am fine.

My experience learning English at the university has been of love & hate, in the past I hate the subject because I used to think that I lose my time for my others subjects. Today I don’t think the same, because I have less subjects than before, so I don’t have so many problems now.

I think that the teachers are better than the program. The teachers that I had, in this level and the previous level (English 3), have the ability of make me talk, and I feel confident enough to participate in a conversation. But the fact that the teachers are good doesn’t mean that the program is good too.

I don’t like write blogs, not because I hate write in English, I just hate talk about myself and other people read about it. Sometimes I don’t know what to write. And the video-blogs… is the worst system ever.

I need to improve the vocabulary related with my career. My English is deficient in that way definitely. My plan is try to read more papers, and try to not translate all, I going to try just reading and thinking in English while I read.

Outside the English class, I use the English all the time (sadly). Every week I must read like three papers in English, and sometimes I must to write my own papers and I need to read like ten papers in English to do that!

Ok friends, that was my last blog ever (I hope). Bye! Have a good week! 

Changes to my study program: 250 words

Changes to my study program: 250 words

Hi guys, how are today? I hope you are ok.

I’m going to talk about something very fun today in 250 words.

Ok. The first I would like to change in my study programme is English course. I would like to spend my time in this course making translates of my papers or reading my papers, or something related with my career, because I am in the 4^th level but I’m bad understanding my papers.

I have subjects that I don’t need, but I must to take it. The workload is very hard sometimes and is so useless because I don’t need all the subjects, or I don’t need to know in detail all the information.

I would like to have good food in the casino, because the food in the Philosophy’s building is disgusting.

The library could be open for the weekends too. Sometime I don’t have a quiet place to study.

The technology… I think I pass… maybe free tablets for everyone. ¿?

Teaching methods: I hate the “group expositions”. I don’t learn at all. Each one doing his or her part and then you talk about, but you learn nothing.

I like this: you read two or maybe three papers and you make discussion groups, but with a test the first ten minutes of the class. The teacher and the “helpers” (ayudantes xD) lead the discussion and all the students must intervene.

I like the expositive class too but the teacher must be proactive.

Ok, that is all :D I see you tomorrow!

Winter holidays: my plans

Hi guys, how are you today? I’m very exhausted. This week was full work, the other week I have a big test and I don’t have energy haha.

I don’t have any plans for these holidays, but I want to go to my town, Laja. I just want to be in front of my wood heater, and spend some time with my stepfather, because I miss him so much. I want to read my unfinished book and walk around the lagoon with my dog.

I want to eat many chips, spend the entire day eating chips. I want to eat cake and read books.

I don’t have internet so I can’t see Netflix… but if I had access to the web, definitely I would see all my favorite series. But I just have “Cable Laja”, and a DVD player. But believe me, this is very fun, because I have the channels: “vía x” and “tooncast”. I can see “Popeye”, “The Pink Panther” and “7mo vicio”.

I really need my vacations. I need the cold and the smoke and wet soil smell.

But let’s going to imagine that I find a bag of money hhaha, in this case I buy a ticket to Argentina and go to Buenos Aires. And I buy chips, like a lot of chips.

Ok, that was my holidays plans, I hope that your plans be better than mine, because I don’t wake up in a “creative way” today.

Bye!

Posgraduate studies 

I would like to make a diploma course about Egypt and Mesopotamia history, also I’d like study History of Art and make a specialization in primate observation taking ethology courses. 

The next year I would like to take a neuroethology course with teacher Mpodozis because he’s good on that. If there is a paleontology diploma in this university I think I would like to take it too. 

I would like to study in Chile and any other country, I like to travel so I’d take part-time courses, that way I could work while I’m studying. Well, I would like to work and do other things, for example, dedicate my time to make art or visit cool places. 

I don’t know why the last blog topics are about the future… it results difficult to answer for me, I’m in my last year but actually I don’t want to think about those things. Maybe I won’t take postgraduate studies soon because the next two years I’ll be making my thesis and after that I want to take a break. 

Actually, I’m not sure of anything, but there’s something I really know: in the future I’m going to be happy. 

Ok, bye guys, have a good rainy day.

Future Work...?

Hello everyone, I'm posting late because I missed the previous class and I try to catch up.

I hope my future work will be great. I really do not want to think about it too much, but I hope it can be a contribution to society. I do not want to do a job that implies just being part of the machine, I want to contribute in some way, to help make the world a better place.

I don’t know if my future job will be related to my current career. Maybe my job it’s going to be something complete different. I want to work with primates but… you never know.

I’ll going to study and do stuff to be a primatologist. But the future is uncertain.

But… I don’t know… I just want to be an artist, to draw comics or something related.

I don’t like this subject because I'm not clear yet.

I want to live the moment, do what I have to do, and then do everything based on how things turn out.

The only thing I like to plan is where I'm going to live. The beach, Mexico, Rapa Nui, Brazil and other good places.

Bye guys, have a good day and have an interesting night.

:)

My actual obsession is “do adult things”. But in my head I reduce the adult thing to three elemental things: drink good coffee, drink good red wine and smoke good cigarettes.

The “cafes”: before the last year I don’t drink coffee, because coffee ruined my stomach. But the last year I try to drink coffee because is an “adult thing” hahahaha, and a friend say to me that if I start to drink coffee my stomach was going to get used to it. And magically it works.

I star to drink “fantasy coffee”, vanilla flavor, or chocolate flavor, that kind of coffee. So delicious! This year I start to go to cafes with some friends to be more adult. I find a café with a coffee with whisky, I don’t try yet, but maybe next weekend.

I don’t drink wine yet because I don’t like it very much. This is because when I was a teenager I drink so much wine, red wine and I can’t bear the red wine anymore. But I am going to try it haha.

The cigarettes are more difficult, I don’t understand smoke yet, and I always choke.

Is really stupid, I know. I wanted to do “adult things”, like drink wine, smoke cigarettes, and drink good coffee… haha I don’t say that I want to be an adult. I just want to do “adult things”, maybe I read many books with this ideal scenes with this three things haha I don’t know. I just want to be a cool girl ok hahahahaha.

Now you must think that I’m the most childish person in the word…

Have a nice day! Bye!

The most embarrassing thing i'm willing to admit

Hi people, today is raining. I like the rain, but when I sleep in bed, not now.

I don’t remember the most embarrassing thing, but a lot of things embarrassed me. One could be to say “hi” by mistake in the street. Another cause of shame could be trip on with my own feet. Or when you are walking with your friend and crush the shoulders between the two. The pimples could be so much embarrassing too.

Once, in a day like this, it was raining, and the water had formed mud everywhere. I was delayed for a test. The test was in the auditorium, but in Phylosophy’s. And there was (at that time) two ways from my spot. The shorter was more risky than the longest. Maybe you are imagining already what happened to me that day hahah… I fell in my butt. I was muddy, so awful. Only one witness: an old lady. The old lady say to me: “of course you would fall, look at the mud!” And in that moment I was like… please get your own business!

Holiday

Hi guys, how are you today? I’m fine.

I’m going to tell you about my best holiday. I think that my best holiday must be the last summer. I see my friends and I stay in their houses, I could know the different families behind my friends, and that was so interesting and great! My friends go to my house too.

I’m from Laja, and there is a lagoon, sometimes I row with my friends, but I never swam because I could not, but this year I obligate myself to swim, and I swim in the last days of the summer. I swim with my family, included my beautiful dog, she is so pretty swimming haha. She is small, and crazy. Her name is Alika.

My other dog make me happy the last summer too, because he is very sweet, and lovely, and he always accompanies me, in day or night, and wait for me outside when I go to my friend’s home. I mean always, even for hours! 4 am… always. He is big, beautiful, and he cries all the time, I don’t know why. His name is Cervero.

I take many photos, buuuuut :( my camera delete all the pictures! I don’t know what happened!!! But the photos are not necessary, because I enjoy every moment. I only have the photos that my friends took. 

That's all.

Bye!

PD: my english is awful.

In the picture: Javi - Cervero - Alika - Me. San Rosendo. 

Alika

Cervero

The country that I want to know

Hi classmates, how are you today? I am fine. I’m going to talk about the country that I want to know.

A country that I want to visit could be Egypt, or Mexico, because the pyramids. I like so much the pyramids, because are so big and antique, and have a relation whit the world view of the population in that time and place.  Someday I’m going to read a lot of papers and books about all the civilization that have that kind of architecture.

Other country that I want to visit is Transylvania, because that is the Dracula’s home. When I was younger than now, I dreamed with all the supernatural creatures, in the good way, I wanted to know them, and I think that the feeling is still in my mind.

I want to travel around the world, but I need so much money to do that… Maybe if I try to study in the country that I want to know, it will be the easier way to reach my goals.

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My relationship whit the English language

Hi guys, I’m going to write about my relationship with the English language.

I use the English language (like a lot of you) every day, because I have to read many papers at day, and all the papers are in English, is exhausting for me, but I have to do that. Sometimes I try to think in English and read that way, but not always works for me do this, and I have to translate entire paragraphs. In fact, I copy the text when I am stressed, in some webpage, but the translation ends up like a monster, and I have to do a review. When I try to think in English is faster than translating, but I don’t do that, because is exhausting, and my mind trusts more in the translation.

I don´t speak in English, because I don´t dare to do that. I forget all the words when I try.

I write in English, but I do to the Rayen’s way. Maybe this post has a lot of failures, but I do my best.

And the “listening”, I understand mostly the Netflix series, and the movies, and the songs. This part is easy for me.

I don’t love the language, but it is necessary. In fact, I don’t like it, because is like: I have to learn it is an obligation, I prefer another language, like Portuguese, but the science has a language, and that is the English language, and I have to read and write to get into that world.