English Lenguage Challenges

Hello bloggers!
Well, first I have to tell you that this is my last post and used to kind of dislike this... but I think I'm going to miss writing about differents topics because it helped me to get a little bit of distraction of the stress of the univeristy.

I also have to say that this course was a little bit more demanding than the others (English II & III), because we had to record videos and do like 3 post more, still... this course was more relaxing than the other courses I still have of my career, I think it was more dynamic and it's pretty cool because that might allow that people who never had the chance of practice the oral part, to practice, and for the ones who never write a lot in english to correct some grammar and vocabulary, so I think this course being the last one fulfill my expectations, I mean sometimes I got bored but still I think it was great.
The thing is as I said in the first paragraph I used to dislike these "blog" part, but only because it requires do nothing else and be focus on what are you writing, because it has to be consistent the things you said first and after, beside that... this helped me a lot with my grammar problems, wich are my weakness, so I'm thankful for that.

With this experience I think I have to improve my grammar skills, absolutly. I'm more good at the talking part and I feel more confident, not a 100% but a lot more than when I'm writing, I don't know how to improve my problem, maybe I'm going to read more in english, I don't have more ideas so if you know how to help me, please tell me.

Out of class I don't practice a lot, I mean I'm alway talking in "Splangish", wich means I mix Spanish with English, and it's not sometimes... it's something I do in my everyday, I don't know why but I can't help it, sometimes at my real home I practice but teaching my sister certain things so I don't know if that counts, I used to practice very often but now this semester I haven't had the time or the people to do it.

This course was a cool experience, even if my face didn't show it... it was fun, so if you are reading this and still don't have this course, do it! it will help you a lot to be more confident in your English skills.

Hope you are ok, and be ok!
Regards
C

Changes to my study program

Hello bloggers!
Today I'm going to talk about my career program, and that's is a sensitive subject for me because I don't have the courses that I should have in the third year of my career. I failed 4 courses , I'm not proud of that I have to say, but I don't torture myself a lot with that like other friends do in the same situations... WHY? because I think that everything happens for a reason and if you fail you have the chance to learn more, I mean everyone learn in differents ways and "levels" so you don't have to add more stress thinking how much you are behind in this road.
That was the first thing I had to say, to make a point that is very important to assimilate.

In my career (Agriculture Engineer), there are a lot of subjects that maybe had change on the past years... I mean everytime I do a course after my classmate of my generation, it´s different not in all of them but in the most. This semester I have Genetics, Biochemistry, Statistics and Probabilities, Tics (CFG), Irrigation and Drainage, and of course this course. I think that the most complicate subject this semester for me, because my memorie always fails me when she don't have to is Genetics... maybe I haven't found the correct way of planificate my study, but for me it`s more than that, and I´m not blaming the teacher... maybe I do, I do actually... for me the class is boring and the schedule of the course only make it worst, and I think that is a problem in a lot of subjects: the schedule. That is always a problem, for going to classes and for the process when we sign up for them, I mean the schedule is a garbage, speaking from me, an student that had been prevent of taking course because the subject coincide with another subject, sometimes only 45 minutes, and that make us wait sometimes A WHOLE YEAR to take course.

The point that I made in the last paragraph have influence when you are trying to finish your career as soon as it is possible, and because of 45 minutes you get behind a year of achieve that "goal". That's is the most annoying thing I think.

I finally have to say that the infrastructure of this faculty is kind of poor, I mean when I get here the classrooms didn't have airconditioner and I thought I was going to die, maybe it sounds like I'm lazy person, but it's not about that, I mean when you are hot, and sweating and thinking of how hot it is outside, and that you want to go home or get in a pool, it only make you get distract of the class, that's my point of view... now in some classrooms we have airconditioner but not in all of them, also we have new and more comfortable chairs and that made me happy when I saw it.
I think that this faculty could make a lot more profits and savings, I mean the land of here it's big, we could produce our food or something, but of course... maybe also it sounds more easy to say that do it, but I don't know.

I'm not very comfortable with the teaching methods in some courses because I don't think that  only knowing the theoretical part of how a plant can grow give me the ability to do it.
So that's it, I could continue this "speech" but I'm going to be polite and grateful for other things (little ones)
Hope you are ok!

C

Summer Holidays!

Hi everyone!
Well, today's topic is summer holidays, first of all I have to say that I love to go on vacations, like family trips, I don't go out often with friends because I don't leave near them and never get to an agreement.
So I think I'll probably visit like my family in Viña del Mar, and maybe... Cobquecura, I don't know yet, but of course that I'd love it. I haven't thought summer ideas because I think that is so far away that I can't think of any idea, I'd like to visit the south of Chile, but I don't know yet, because I also want to work on something related to my career, so I'm very confused.
If I go on vacations or something, I'd like to go with not specific people, like as if I have a clear idea, because I don't, what I do know is that I want to go somewhere with people that are not complicated.
I'm absolutly sure that I want a very relaxing summer, and get some rest a lot, sleep a lot, do nothing a lot, watch a lot of series, and maybe learn something new.

It's very probable that I'm going to fix and repair my vegetable garden, that I have very forgotten, and spread some new seeds (differents from the last year).
Usually this is very difficult to me, because I'm not a person that do a bunch of plans or planificate things, it's not me. so I don't know what I'm going to do the most of the time.


SO that's it, I hope you are ok.
C

Medicinal Plants

Hi bloggers!
I was asked to talk about my approach with these topic, but being honest,..I'm not very involve in this, not much far of my mum "medicinal plants" in my house garden. I had the intentions of having my own plants here in Santiago, but I never done it and I always excuse myself...to myself for not having time, wich sometimes I have  but I preffer to sleep or do something else. You may be thinking what type of Agronomist is this and let me tell you something, I don't have a good reason to excuse myself to you, it's very simple, but to me, because I don't a garden to have it, I only have a balcony and I have to bring soil from another place or buy some, so it's not that easy.
Even I don't have in my apartment I use medicinal plants anyways, sometimes I buy in the market or I bring some from my home, so if I use it? yes I do, often? nope, not often, why? because when I have an ache, currently headache I think I'm going to die, because they come like REALLY STRONG, in another level, I throw up, I can't stand light on, sweat too much, I honestly need something that help me really fast, beside that I don't suffer like from another pain in my body that these plants could help, I mean I heard a lot about that Melissa help you to calm you down, but I know if I'm stressed, nervous, sad, or anything else the only thing that can calm me down is myself
(and maybe some food, but we are not talking about food).
Finally I'd like to point that I'm definitely going to have a plantation soon... as I can, because I simple like sometimes to drink some tea or an infusion but cold. I think that for summer and the temperature that we are having, this is going to happen soon, drink cold infusions it's very refreshing, and if you let me give you and advice, YOU SHOULD TRY IT TOO!

So that's it, I think the medicinal plants are very useful, but not very often to me.
Hope you are ok guys, take care!

C

Postgraduate Studies

Hi everyone!
Today's topic is about if I'd like to do Postgraduate studies. First I have to make a point that I'm a little bit behind of where I'm supposed to be in my curriculum map, so I still don't have any course that maybe I could say : "Yes, I want to continue doing this, this is what I want, etc.", but I think that I could say that for now I don't trust myself or I don't see myself doing orientation to farmers, it's a lot of responsability so for now I don't think I could handle that area.

I definitely know that I want to do a postgraduate studies, the thing is, I don't figure it out yet in which area, I would like to do something with the renewable area, and recycling, because now at this point in my life, (maybe not before) I'm very concerned about how we are destroying the world we are living, if I don't specialize in this area, I will maybe do something like projects for help other people to have their own food and be more independent.

Chile is not a very environmental concerned country, so maybe I'd like to study in another country and then bring the ideas, and motivate the people and make them more responsable and conscious of how are they living.

I think it would be so special make something to help people so they can help each other,and then that pass to the future generations. I also have to say that I'm very volatile, so I probably do a lot of thing when I finish my studies here, I know that I'm not going to do a "only thing", is not  my style at all.

So this is it, I'm not very clear yet as you can see, but I'm working on it.

Hope you are ok!
C

Global warming

Hi everyone!
I choose this topic to write about because today is going to be very hot outside, and I blame us for this. Us as community, a community that doesn't respect the world we are living.
First as you may all know, climate change, extinction of many species, the shortage of water and the privation of itself in some countries, is because of global warming. The principal causes are very simple to understand,because there are studies who point that there is a part of this that occurs alone because of the cycles happing in the earth everyday, but we as human contribute with these, with "the effect of greenhouse gases" that only we can emit.
The most of the greengouse gases are easy to produce, like from the combustion of fossil fuel, everyday because of the car, the bus ,motorcycles, factories and even the electricity, most of the people who  doesn't believe in climate change it's because they don't in sort of way see it.
The human race is a little bit selfish I think, because they are thinking in the present, I'm not saying that's bad but in this case IT IS, we are not thinking about our future generations, we are caring about animals who are dying by starving or drowned in the water, in the north pole for example, most of polar bears are dying because they don't have food and they are eating each other.
This is also relationed with my career because this also affects the bee's, what we can possibly do without them, I mean we can do nothing, not as agronomist not as human not as a person who have to eat, the bee's are disappearing and if they do permanently so are we. This is serious, this is affecting very slowly and in silence, if we don't do anything about it, then we, and our childs, and grandsons, etc ARE LOST.
The temperature is increasing, but still is tolerable, but we can't hope that is going to be like this forever. We have to do something about it, it doesn't matter if the rest of the people around you doesn't believe in it, YOU CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE.
So be conscious and just stop a little bit your routine and look, look where you are living and where else you could be, look how we are destroying everyday our world. We can do something about it, but it can't wait, so start now.
Beside all the controversy that exist about this topic, my personal opinion is that the people who doesn't believe in global warming is stupid, and very selfish.

So this is it! for now, Inform yourself, and do something.
Hope you are ok!

C.

Favourite Book

Hi everyone!! today's topic is about books. Since I was a little girl a liked to read, because it doesn't require talk, I don't really like to talk so it was very fun for me. I have a lot of favourites books but I think that the best one I read it when I was in school and I read it in school literally because we had a "discipline" called "PLS" wich means: Proyecto de Lectura Silenciosa, so every morning at 8 am we had to read a book, and you could pick it, but it had to be something with content, not magazines or things like that. So I found a book at home called "El Maestro del Mal", at first I didn't liked it because it was a little bit slow, and I only had the chance to read it at school (in my home I always fell asleep) and it was only 15 minutes, but everytime I read it the plot was turning very interseting. The book had a lot of suspense so I always wanted to know what was going to happen next.
I absolutly recommend it if you had time.

I hope you are ok.
game over
C