English Language Challenges

Hello and welcome to another post, in this one I'm going to talk about "English Language Challenges", since I was little I always played video games in English and until now I watch every film with subtitles, that is one way I learn English in my life and of course the English classes in my school were very helpful. With that said, now I'm going to talk about my experience learning English at university. Most of the classes were very similar to my English classes in school, same types of exercises and a similar way of teaching but I never had to use blogs to learn English so by one side it was very rare to me get used to that type of program but in the end it was very fun.
Like I said, since I was little I tried to listen everything I can in English to improve my listening but I never had a lot of chances to improve my oral interaction and pronunciation, so the videos requested for the English class in the university were very helpful to fix that and other type of solution was trying to talk with my brother in English, he has a good pronunciation and he also is learning English in his University so we help each other, maybe I'm going to take some English classes in the summer but I don't really know for sure.
To be honest I don't use English a lot, I always talk with my friends in Spanish but when I travel to another country the use of English is very helpful to communicate with other people, to ask for directions for example and in some occasions I talk with my brother in English and maybe some jokes with him. English is an incredible tool to be considered in the future, in many aspects of your life and work.

Changes to my study programme

Hello in this blog I am going to talk about my study programme, right now I'm studying public administration in the "Universidad de Chile", located in "Santiago de Chile". To be honest I don't know very well my progamme and I just started this year in this career so it's difficult for me to think about some changes in the programme. Since it's my first year the subjects are basically introductions to other more important subjects, we learn about history, mathematics, law, philosophy, English and management, maybe some other stuff but I don't remember too well. Every subject have a special name and all the names are long and specific, so writing every name can take me forever.

Almost all of my teachers think the same, when I say almost it's because not all of them think that way, they think that their subjects are more important than others, sometimes the workload is too high and intense and other weeks we don't have almost anything. Some of the subjects have a lot of texts so it takes you a lot of time to read them and the evaluations are pretty exhausting because every test needs a lot of material to study. About the length of the career I know it takes you about five years to graduate, but that is in the best scenario.

To start i have to say that this career it's not a faculty, it's a "school" of government and public management, so the facilities aren't too great compared to other faculties, the building it's small and the infrastructure it's a little outdated, but we have the essentials to study and develop our career. Some subjects use more the technology than others but in this year we haven't used too much technology, maybe in the future.

The teaching methods in this school it's the classical method, a teacher talks about the subject and the students take notes, later we use some texts to complement what the teachers said or not even that, we use the text to guide the class. Then we study and we do the evaluation or in some cases we do some projects, presentations or some reports about some particular theme.

Summer Plans

Hello and welcome again to this blog, today I'm going to talk about my summer plans for this year. I have to say if all goes well my summer could begin in the last days of December (except for the English test programmed for the 8th of January), so in the best case I could start travelling in the second half of January. I don't have any plans for those days at the moment so I was thinking I could spend those days with my friends, doing some stuff here in Santiago or maybe going to another place, I don't really know, but in February I'm going to Brazil with my family, except for my dad, he has to work, it's really sad but he wants us to do it, because it's a rare opportunity, my mom actually won those tickets in a lottery so we have to use them.

 The destiny is Praia do Forte and I understand that the tickets are for an all-inclusive hotel, I don't know the name actually, I think the name is Iberostar but I'm not sure, but I know that this hotel have many activities to do for all ages, in my case I'm really interested in some particular activities like scuba diving in the ocean to see all the different life under the sea, other activity I want to do is play some football in the beach and of course I want to try any food I can while I am over there and talking about  the nightlife activities they are going to depend in the people who will be joining  us in the hotel so I don't really know how is going to be. In order to do all this things I am working at the moment in a restaurant to earn some money to spend it in Brazil and obviously a "little" to spend it here in Chile whit my friends.

My favorite book

Hello in this post I am going to talk about some topics about books, since I am not a very good reader I always try to avoid a big document or an extensive book, but my brother for the other side loves all kind of books especially the books of J.R.R.Tolkien and of course the trilogy of "The Lords of the Rings", one of the best-selling novels ever written. Thanks to my brother I start liking those types of books and Tolkien became one of my favorite authors, probably my favorite, he created a fantasy world where you can feel that you are inside or feel part of that world with all the different characters and stories it's easy to spend a lot of time reading his books.

Since I'm now studying public administration i am reading a lots of texts related to politics, history, philosophy and some of those texts are very fun to read others not too much, so I can add this book themes to my favorites but I like to read science fiction or fantasy to relax and enjoy.

I don't have specifically a favorite book because I like all  the trilogy of "The Lords of the Rings" and probably I am going to read the others books of Tolkien in the summer, but I have a favorite movie from this trilogy, "The Return of the King" was my favorite movie of this trilogy, the last battle in the gates of Mordor was awesome. Like I say in the beginning of this post I am not a very good reader and I wasn't very interested in books so i don't remember the last book I read but I would probably recommend any book from Tolkien but my brother said to me that all this books have an specific order to understand it better so i recommend you to search or ask for the orders of the books to enjoy them better.

Postgraduate studies

Hello and welcome to this post, in this document I am going to write about a postgraduate course that I would consider taking in the future. Right now I am studying Public Administration in the Universidad de Chile and I think that innovation in political management is going to be a great complement to this career, it's necessary to keep learning and adapting to the necessities of the public sector, this area have  been always evolving so we have to evolve too, because we need to be prepared to face the changes of the society we are living right now, because of that I would like to study in Chile, to learn about facing this problems but according with what we are facing here in Chile, maybe I can learn new stuff or ideas in other country but now I am focused in my country. I don't want to dedicated all my time studying to this course because I want to work in what I want, for that reason I think having a part-time course is going to be very helpful. Right now one of the most dedicated teachers is providing this course, Verónica Figueroa Huencho, in the Universidad de Chile, so I recommend you to take this course with her, she can be very inspiring and she is going to keep you motivated through all the course.

My future job

Today i am going to write about jobs, if someone ask me in this moment what kind of job i would like to have it would be very difficult for me to decide the job i want because i have been studying this career for less than a year so from what i heard from my teachers and some of my friends probably working for a City Hall it would be a good option. I think that if you work in this type of job you will have to do probably a lot of paperwork and also you will have to do a lot of fieldwork to attend the necessities of the citizens but it would depend in the position and assignment you have in the moment.

From my perspective you are going to sacrifice a lot working for a City Hall, probably there won't be a lot of time for yourself because you are going to be very busy, travelling for example, for me it would be awesome to travel around the city helping others in any way i can. Maybe i am not going to receive a big salary but it doesn't really matters when we talk about human necessities and people's happiness.

Right now i am focusing all my efforts to finish my first year in this career so i don´t even considered in thinking what major i am going to take and that is one of the reasons why the university is very useful you will be always be learning new things along the way and i think that i am going to decide my major when it's the right moment.

My favorite food

In this post i am going to talk about food, to begin i have to tell you what food is my favorite, if i am forced to choose ( i like almost all types of food), i would say that for me it is the pizza, you can't go wrong with pizza, it's just a flat bread with tomato sauce and cheese and just like that it's amazing, you can add different ingredients to make it better, some veggies or meat for example it all depends in what you like. Pizza is life.

Personally i have a great respect for chefs they have to cooked for so many people in a limited time, cooking it's very joyful for some people and for others it's really boring, i think it's very entertaining if you cooked what you like, i like desserts so i make plenty of them.

Like i said before i really enjoy making some desserts and sometimes cook some food, but i don't like to cook everyday so i make it simple when it's time to bring some food to the university, i basically eat every single day bread with ham or "pan con jamón", it's boring but it's really easy to prepare and doesn't take me a lot of time to make, it isn't very healthy to eat it every day but i am used to it.

My favorite restaurant it's called "Cevichazo", it is a Peruvian restaurant located in Peñalolén, they cooked typical Peruvian food and it's very delicious maybe it´s a little expensive but it is great for some special occasions with your family for example. If you want to go there i recommend you to bring some cash to spend to really enjoy the experience specially their drink called "chicha morada", it's amazing.

My Favorite Film

My favorite film since i was a child has always been "Gladiator", one of the reasons why i like this movie it is because I always watch it with my father and brother. This movie talks about a Roman general interpreted by the great Russell Crowe who is betrayed by the son of the emperor and future emperor of Rome, interpreted by Joaquin Phoenix, when he killed his father the emperor. The general its reduced to slavery and became a gladiator to avenge the murders of his family.
The movie has a lot of action scenes, fights between the romans and the wild tribes or different fights between the gladiators. Other reason that makes this movie so great it is the soundtrack directed by Hans Zimmer a German film score composer and record producer, winner of many Academy Awards.
If you like actions movies like I do, you are going to like this movie too. I really enjoy action films but also I enjoy comedy and drama movies specially if it have some historical events included in the film. The last movie I saw in the movie theaters was Avengers Infinity War this movie also have a lot of fight scenes so I really enjoy it but you have to see all the other marvel movies to understand what is happening during the movie but yes, I recommend it.

THE BEST HOLIDAYS EVER

Last year when I was 20 years old my father worked in France for at least one year, then when we were living in Paris I decided with my family to make a long trip trying to visit as many countries in Europe as we can and for me that was the best holiday ever I could even imagine.

We decided to start our trip last year in September and we finished in October, so it was a whole month travelling. We started our vacations flying to Italy then we rented a car in Napoli and my father take us to visit different italians little towns until we arrived to Spain and again we visited all kind of differents towns along the way and we did that with all the other countries that we visited such as Germany, Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Austria, Portugal, then we returned the car in France so we can take our next fly to England and in that country we use the train to visit the other countries in the United Kngdom including Ireland and Scotland were we take our last fly to Paris were we finished our holidays.

In all those countries that I named before we visited all the landscapes and historical monuments as we can such as the Coloseum or the Big Ben and of course we tried  differents types of foods and flavours, for me that was the best part of being a tourist.

I considered that holiday the best ever because in that trip I shared a lot of time with all my family, especially with my father who has been always a hardworking type of guy doing all the things he does for his family and of course I spend a lot of time with my brother joking all around with him in all those different countries.

A country I'd like to visit

The last year I lived in France, specifically in Paris for the whole year, when I lived there I travelled around Europe with my family and the first country that comes to my mind when people ask me which country i would like to go I tell them that I really want to visit Scotland all over again. Well I only visited the city of Edinburgh and the Loch Ness but the landscapes and the buildings of those places are just perfect, in fact one of the coffee shops in Edinburgh it is the place where J.K.Rowling inspired herself to write some of the Harry Potter's books. The climate is harsh but the views compensate the cold in the place.

                                  

 I would really like to visit the Edinburgh Castle again because it has a long political and military history, the importance of that place for the people of Edinburgh can't be described. I don want to visit all the places that a I visited last year, for example, I want to go to Glasgow in my next trip and learn more about the history of William Wallace and his place of birth.

                                                 

It would be very interesting to live there, the people in Edinburgh are so calm and joyful so making new friends probably should be easy and the food over there is amazing the haggis isn't a good looking type of meal but is incredible good, the only problem for me is the climate but with good clothes that shouldn't be a problem, so... yes, I have no problem living in Scotland or studying over there, in fact I would be happy to do it.