ENGLISH LANGUAGE CHALLENGES

Hello! In this post I talk about English Language Challenges...

Well, my relationship with English has been a sway of emotions. We do not get along well but when we try, something turns out.
In the university I have had different experiences, blogs have been something constant that I think, they serve a lot. However, on other occasions the copy and paste style classes have been discouraging and boring. In addition, sometimes the instructions were not clear and ended up failing in the exams. I believe that in my previous courses, unfortunately, I approved the exams with great difficulty.
I understand English relatively (reading and listening), but I lack vocabulary and my pronunciation is deficient. However, a tool that has helped me a lot is to learn word by word how to say it.
Currently, I use very little English. It scares me to read in English and I avoid it most of the time. Unfortunately, sooner or later I will have to face it, I just need time for it.
Next year I will dedicate 100% to English. I need it for many things: study, work, travel, etcetera. I was thinking of hiring a tutor or something like that. Definitely having time helps a lot, I hope it works for me.
Finally, I would like to highlight the help I've had in all the English courses I've had to take in college ... Joshua's help. I have no idea why he was on the same level as me (level 2), but he knows a lot and is something like a human translator.

Well, this is all... BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Changes to my study programme

Hello! In this post I talk about changes to my study programme. For this there must be problems... Okay, I have very reaches about my career, the sociology (in the faculty of social sciences, in the Universidad de Chile).

First, the teachers don't have awareness about workload... their subject it's not the only one! Is this hard to understaind? For every semester, the students have around six subjects with very works and test. In the same way, there is no coordination with the dates, joining four or five jobs in the same week. This is something what happen a long time ago and I think that the unaware with the problem. This is the worst form to learning. 

Second, exist subject with teachers who are not pedagogical, they don't know how to teach. To the respect, the department of sociology shields itself in the educational evaluations, when in the end, the poorly evaluated teachers continue doing classes in spite of this. Please use the evaluations! 

Finally, the eternal problem of the lack of classrooms in the faculty, while spending money on new buldings, we keep in poor and hot classrooms, how do you want learn like that? Have you ever been in a classroom on the fourth floor one day in January during the afternoon?

I think that this a transversal problem to poor faculties in public universities, mainly due to the neoliberal model established in education. On the other hand, faculties such as Beauchef or FEN have rooms to spare, heated and even with more than one dining room, while in FACSO we only have one "kind" of casino. 

Summer Holidays :)

My plans of the summer mmm ... in fact I do not have anything planned until the second week of January, which will consist in working.

However, there are certain ideas that surround my mind, about the beach and the south.

The beach :)

The south (specifically, Chillán).

I've been to the beach with my boyfriend the last summers, and we really had a great time. We recharge energies for the coming year.

On the other hand, when I travel to the south I usually go alone or accompanied by my family, but this last time I have also extended the invitation to my boyfriend, so that we have known places, rested and enjoying the clean air.

Now, in the case of the beach, a panorama that we have been planning is to start exercising, climbing mountains and going through forests and cliffs. On the other hand, in the case of the south we have not yet thought of anything concrete, but we will surely come up with something.

Maybe you will wonder why my boyfriend is always present. Well it is in these moments where we can enjoy ourselves without the weight of work or studies. I really love these moments of relaxation because we know each other even more and we add new experiences to our history together.

Later, perhaps we will add new places to know, such as the extreme south of Chile (which he does not know) or the north, which we will only know in a few more weeks for a study trip. And who knows, maybe later we can add trips to other countries and those things.

This is all, Bye! 

FREE TOPIC

Hello, in this post I will talk about a free topic: travelers. 

But not just about ordinary travelers, but rather about a series of the same name found in netflix. 

Travelers is a science fiction serie created by Brad Wright and is about a post-apocalyptic future, the travelers have their consciousnesses sent back in time and trasnferred into the body of present-day individuals who would otherwise be moment from death. Now, the traveler using social media an all the information about the guest, he has to follow his normal life while perfoming missions to avoid the discouraging futur from which it comes.

This week I saw two seasons (OMG) and I'm waiting for the third season that opens on December 13. I'm very enthusiastic because the end of the second season was incredible. 

Now, you will wonder what missions I'm talking about. For these travelers is necesary follow the grand plan, that is organized by "the director", one virtual mind that has organized a plan to save the world. 

Another important thing to note is the great perfomance that is in this series of Canadian origin, an issue that in Chile is very difficult to achieve today (have you seen "La Reina de Franklin"? Come On!) 

I like the series because they distract you and you insert yourself into a fictional world with a lot of emotion and adventure. 

This is all, Bye! 

Post Graduate Studies.

There are many things I could do to specialize. For example, I think of courses that teach new research methodologies associated with social networks, the internet and big data. I would like these topics because it is the path I am following in sociology, and I think it has a lot of potential.

Now, to study this kind of things at least here in Chile or in Latin America is not very fruitful. I know that in England and the United States it is where the courses are more complete. However, the implications of going to study are several: money, time, change of plans, family, etc. It is a decision that has to be well thought out.

In this sense, I believe that distance courses are a good tool but living the experience of traveling to another place and studying right there can be more enriching. In addition, I think that the constant of having to travel to other countries gives a lot to think about the academic offer that our country and the other countries of the continent provide for their professionals. How to think about development if we do not invest in science? (for example, the problems with CONICYT).

Anyway you have to be honest, there are courses here in Chile and programs at universities that provide tools in regards to the new research methodologies associated with big data, perhaps to begin with they are a good tool (but as long as there is money , let's not forget that in Chile studying is very expensive).

My future job

Hello Everyone, this week I talk about my future job, related with my career: sociology. 

In the sociology, I work in very places: the government, ONG's, foundations, research, academy... well, it's said that a sociologist goes through all these works, but I'm not so sure that I want to work in some. 

For now, I'm only sure that I'm well managed with the information gathering techniques (which are then used to investigate). In this regard, I believe that it could be part of the revolution of the new information technology that is recently integrated into sociology (at least in this university). For example, one new information technology is a virtual social networks (facebook, twitter, instagram, etc.). Can you imagine all the information contained in these virtual platforms?

In that way, maybe I work indoors, I'm very comfortable with this, because I don't like travel very much in small time. Then, probably I will not travel very much, although every can travel for congress or something in the same line. 

Sociologist have a salary very relative and I know that since the beginning, then probably I have no choice but to do many works. 

Now, I'm interested in a mixture of themes: climates of opinion, social networks, influence of tradicional media and White Collar Crime. As I said in the previous post, after going through many topics in which people usually specialize, I come to these and are currently the ones I'm addressing in my thesis. 

In the future, I will study about more information gatherin techniques and the use in the sociology or other disciplines. 

This is all, Bye. 

About my career

Hi everyone! 
This week I talk about why I chose this career (the sociology). 

Well... in the secondary education, my options turning around to dedicate to engineering, specifically: industrial engineering. I spend a lot of time with this idea, despite of not having a very crear idea of what it consisted about... serious mistake. 

Later, and with the PSU test on my back, I realized that this option was not for me. In this moment, I discovered that mine was really the humanities, because I liked everything about it. 

I started thinking about my options, and I went from anthropology, then political science and even law, reaching sociology, my true calling. 

Why did I chose this career? Because, unlike other disciplines, this discipline the study many diferent topics and about all this topics, I can study your origins, your relations and why certain things happen. 

During this years, I have covered many different topics: gender relations, education, crip theory, collective action in neighborhood organizations, the rish. However, my interests have let to my thesis today being a mixture of: climates of opinion, social networks, influence of tradicional media and White Collar Crimes (yes! these crimes also happen in Chile: do you remember the SQM case? Corpesca? False ballots? Caval Case?)

Oh! I forgot something, White Collar Crimes are all those that: 

"Crimes committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation" (Sutherland, 1949, p.65).  

With this, Sutherland raised the thesis that people of high economic class participated in criminal behaviour, and therefore were treated by justice differently.  

 I'm very excited with everything I have researched, all these issues among the new information technologies, communication and White Collar Crimes I think are very relevant to what happens today in Chile. 

Well, That's all. 


References: 

• Sutherland, E. (1949). White Collar Crime. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston Editions.

MOVIES

Uf! There are so many movies that I consider incredible ... I do not know where to start. The Fight Club, The X-MEN movies, The Harry Potter saga ... I know! I would like to talk about Mamma mia, who premiered her second part a short time ago and that I liked a lot, I enjoyed it a lot in the cinema :D

Mamma Mia is a musical that tells the story of a girl who will soon get married and wants to know who her father is. Surprise is when she have three candidates, each with an entertaining story about how they met Donna (played by Meryl Streep) the mother of this girl named Sophie (played by Amanda Seyfried).

The entertaining thing about this musical movie is that they are all ABBA! songs, a swedish pop group.

This year, a second part was released in which the story was recommended to flashing with Lily James playing the young Donna.

One curious thing about this second part is that Cher appears, playing Donna' mom.

I highly recommend watching these films, and althought in the second part (SPOILER!) Meryl Streep don't appear much, I would say that it's much better than the first part.

Finally, I recommend the interpretations of the following songs:

- When I kissed the teaher.

- I have a dream.

- Andate, Andate!

- The name of the game

- Mamma Mia.

- Dancing Queen and

- Super Trouper.

Good Holidays

Okay, in this week I talk about best holidays. Really, I have many holidays to remember, so I'll tell you about the last ones, which were very good. 

This vacation was during the September break and I went to Ritoque, a beach near Quintero. 

We went for 4 days with muy friends from the university, where we ate delicious, played games, we practiced sport and we walk even in a nearby forest.

Thhis walk especially was interesting given that it was a day of a lot of fog, which mae the landscape a very beautiful one. However, during the trip back we got lost... we took much longer to return! 

Me

In this photo I'm in a rocky outcropping with the forest in the background, in front of me was the sea. 

My friends

This vacation was special because we were once again able to share new and pleasant experiences with my friends at the university. In addition, it was not too much to relax before this difficult semester that is coming.

Regardssss

A COUNTRY I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT

Hi everyone! 

In this post I talk about a country I would like to visit. 

Well, I think England is a very nice place. In this country you could find many places who visit, is a country with a elevated tourism and a great story (this place has a history of more than 100 years!)

Actually I don't know much about this places, I only know that he is know by. Althought, I know that in this country the education is very nice. The universities in England they are known for their prestige and great quality. 

One of these universities is the London School of Economics and Political Science, which is located in London. This university is very important in the science in which I perform: the sociology. It's for this reason that it could be and option for me to go to study a magister or something for him. 

Althought it may sound very nice, in London and in general in England it's very expensive to live. I think I would have to work hard to avoid difficulties. 

Wait! Now that I remember, something I do know about England is that here is the cradle of the world banana industry today, in the Chatsworth House, Derbyshire. It's super crazy, since the origen of this fruit goes back to Southeast Asia. 

This image is the Chatsworth House! 

Good vibes!