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

The best concert

Hi bloggers!
Today's topic is the best concert I've ever been. It's hard to choose one because I don't really go to a lot of concerts but this one in particular was the top 1.
It was in April, and it was in Santiago at the Movistar Arena.
The concert was about Electro music (a showcase), but not any electro music... it was "hard style", so that means that it was very energetic and a lot of people jumping and dancing.
I saw a lot of artist of that style, such as: Wildstylez, Villain, Audiotricz, Evil Activities and many more. The concert was at night and when it finished, of course because I'm very lucky, the outside scene was a pouring rain that you could barely have your hands dry.

Everyone were so happy and with that attitude that you can see just in special moments they were "living the moment" no matter what was happening outside or with your partner, it was only you feeling the music. I enjoyed it very much because I went with a really cool group of friends.

I think I could say that it was a perfect night if I wasn`t got lost in the crowd, and took it so long to find my friends; there was so many people that I almost go into panic mode. I think that was fault of the lights because you could barely see.

So this was my favourite concert!
What about you do you have a favourite concert that you can say it was the best night or day ever?

Hope you are ok!
C

A country I'd like to visit

Hi bloggers, today's topic is "A country I'd like to visit", first of all I have to say that I'd like to visit a lot of countries, but I think I preffer in a first trip: Italy.
Why? because I think that that country has a lot of interesting architecture and art almost everywhere, also because I like the lenguage, I think it would be very fun learn it, they had an accent that is very peculiar and it's like they are always excited and passionate about almost everyth
ing. I can't specify a city because I'd like to meet the entire country and places that are iconic in movies, books, television, etc., even "the mafia" neighborhood, maybe it doesn't exist but "see it to believe it".
I think that if I go, the thing I will enjoy the most is "their kitchen", I mean... their pastas are very famous already, imagine eat all of that prepared on his own cradle. I know that can be boring but I always think about that.
 There are many more reasons but, the most importants reasons are them, so if one day I visit that country, first I'd be very excited and shocked, then happy and finally when I get back probably a little more fatty.

So, this is for now, hope you are ok and if you want... you can tell wich country you'd like to visit and a simple "why?"
Regards
C

Myself (POST 1)

Hello everyone! , my name is Oriana, but most of the people I know call me Coni, so you are allow to call me that way.
First of all, these blog (yep, again.) is for an english course in the university that I'm in (University of Chile).
As an activity I've to tell you guys a little about it, well... I'm in "third" year of my career, that is Agricultural Engineer. I'm 20 years old, and I'm from the VI region of Chile, that mean I'm not from Santiago, so still I'm getting used to it.
I have hobbies like watch series, go to supermarket (yep, i like that), spend some time on Pinterest, I like to go running when I'm in my real home, also I like to go for long walks in parks (but not when it's too sunny). I like parties, and spend time with some of my friends.
That's a little bit of me, hope you are ok.

 Regards.
C

Evaluation of blog experience

Hi bloggers, today's subject is my experience about blogging.
Being honest I've never had a blog before and it was a little bit difficult because you need to write things that make sense with each other, for me that, is very hard. So this blog was a tool for me to practice little paragraphs, even I had a lot of corrections they help me out, because I often have a lot of ideas on my mind and I wrote without question anything, but now with the blog/post I'm a little bit more quiet. I think that my writing skills had'nt  develop very much, but they did a little, I think it's because I wasn't very constant in classes and with the blog, and I regret it a little bit because maybe it would help me out with more vocabulary.
Anyway, somehow this different type of evaluations it's more didactic and I liked it, I like when teachers try other ways of teaching, so I really appreciate that.
I don't know if I can say what I would like to write about, only because it's hard to decide, and be concret about what you can say about the subject you choose,  if I said "I'd like to write about home-cooking", I mean it sounds easy, but what can you say about home-cooking? : benefits, how to prepare it, ingredients, especial diet, healthy eating, etc., there is a lot and the post would be pretty big.
So this new experience about blogging, was fun, also making the post, but I have to say that I don't know if it is enriching, because I know the post had a correction but, as a auditive person, the wrote correction was hard to internalize, I have to hear the right way, and make a point that what I'm saying it's wrong or sounds weird.
In the end of this experience I have to evaluate all, and I think that blogging may be not a thing for me, I think that I can try in the future but not now.
It was good, thank you for the patience with my poor writing skills.
Take care guys! Gbye!

Pets

Today I'm going to talk about Pets. Well, from my experience I have to say that I love to have pets, because I do, I have 3 dogs now, and I had more but they die from poisoning or crossing the highway so it's a sad story, I live in a "farm" so I have a lot of space, that's why I had 11 dogs once... most of them die and only two were left. In my life I've had a turttle, a fish, a hamster, birds (yep, also chickens and ducks), cats, and dogs, so I really love them. Why? it's simple I'm amazed with the form of how they can love someone so much and turn  that someone in their world, I mean you can notice more with cats and dogs, even with hamsters, but the two first are more evidents, I like them because they are always happy when you come from home, I mean the people who have or had dogs can understand better what I'm talking about. Now I often live in Santiago so when I return to my real home my dogs run fast to the door and don't let me walk, they jump to me, kiss (lick), push, etc. They love treats so everytime I come home I bring some and toys and they love them. I had my first pet when I was a little it was a cat, a female cat, her name was Jasmine, because of the Disney princess, the I had a chicken but that was for two days because Jasmine ate him, so he didn't even had a name. So everyday when I came from school for lunch I give Jasmine her lunch too, I tried to eat with her outside but my grandmother didn't let me. Now every time I come home I woke up at 5-5.30 and I open the door for one of my dogs, to let her pee and I wait 'till she come back because it's very cold outside and we let her sleep inside the house, supposedly she can sleep in the kitchen but I let her sleep with me (I don`t care honestly). Then I get up at 9 approximately and I fed all. They have a lot of space in my house so they don't need to be walked as I see a lot of pets in Santiago, I consider that they need it, they need to walk, smell, and have interaction with the world because they can get stress, same as a human being. So fashion, I don't think so, people maybe have now a little more conscious about they well being of their pets. 
So that's it, I love pets, I would love have one here in Santiago, but sadly I don't have very much time to keep my eye on him. 

Hope you 're ok! Take care.

A subject I've enjoyed studying this semester

Hello everyone!
Today I'm going to talk about a subject that I've enjoyed studying this semester, it's hard because I haven't had a lot of classes because of the movilization that exist 'till now.
I would have to say that is Physic, because I like how almost all the universe work in base of physic, everything got a little of physics, how people make windows, when you walk, when you open the fridge, etc., a lot of activities that are diary actions. So I think is very fun how these explain a lot of how things work, even though I'm not like a "brilliant brain", I think that I haven't had a really bad-awful-ordinary-creepy grade, not yet at least. I like the contents that contain the course, most of all, but as always in every subject there are some boring ones like "vectors" and I forgot the others (because they were very boring). The teacher isn't the bigger factor of my interest honestly, but the course is fun even tough is very theorical, that's why I go to classes, and pay a lot attention.
So that's it, even I haven't finished the semester yet, 'till now I can say that my favourite subject I enjoy when I'm studying is Physics.
Hope you are great.
Best regards.

A career-related website

Hi everyone! today I'm going to talk about the websites that I like and I visit very often, and why.
You see, the websites in these days are a harmful tool for a lot of people, because they contain tons of information of anything that can cross your mind. The first website that I currently visit is youtube (www.youtube.com) because I listen to music everyday, and watch explaining videos of math, physics, chemistry, etc. , and in youtube you can find a lot of options and a more didactic information so for me that's very cool; the second one that I like and currently visit is coursera (www.coursera.org) wich contains a lot of courses that you can do and get certifications that you did the course. There are free courses that are very cool and usefuls, and so you can find others that you have to pay but they are not expensive at all, it's exciting know that you can do and get form in a lot of fields, so that's why I visit a lot this page.
I enter these websites very often, I would say that everyday I check both. Even though I'm always on Facebook (www.facebook.com) and Twitter (www.twitter.com) but I don't use it very much for get inform about importants subjects.
So that's all, hope you are ok and good luck.
Regards

MUSIC

Hello everyone! it's been a while since the last post, but today's topic is music.
I'm going to start telling you that I love music, I can't go anywhere without music it's so boring, besides it can desconnect you from the noisy world that we live, personally I like almost every kind of music, I mean I can hear anything, it depends of the context and my mood, because if I'm quiet and I want to continue on that way I absolutly repel styles like "rancheras" and  "noisy cumbia". Honestly I often prefer english music, I don't hear very much spanish... I'm more a "pop" and "rock" person, it cheers me up a lot. For me it's hard to choose favourite singers because I like lots of bands and singers but if I had to choose only a few, I would say of bands are: Queen, Muse, The Doors, The Kooks, Florence and the Machine, Disclosure and many others, about singers I like Beyonce, Rihanna, Banks, Broods and a lot more.
So that's it, in resume I love music and it's indispensable in my life.

Hope you are ok! Regards

A PHOTOGRAPH THAT I LIKE

Hello bloggers! Today in this post I'm going to talk about a photograph that I like. Well first of all I have to say that I like photos, a lot... doesn't mean I'm a photogenic person (not at all), but I like photos because it contains memories or experiencies, that maybe will not come back so, I use to take a lot of photos of everything, like "selfies", to my dogs,  my house,  my family and friends. I have a favourite one,but it's not on digital, in the photo appears my grandmother and I, and the picture is a little bit blurred, I don't know who took it but i like because express a lot, first because my grandmother didn't like pictures and second because she appear because of me, it was taken when I was a little kid, i would say a baby because I didn't walked yet in those times.
I also like that picture because I wasn't the fat kid that I was, am...,whatever, it means a lot to me have that memorie because reminds me the connection that we had.
Maybe for a lot of people it's just a piece of paper but a photograph is much more than that, as I said before is a little reminder of who we were, the people we met and aren't with us anymore, an experience you will never try again, etc.

So what about you!? Do you like photos? Are you a photogenic person? (if you are I'm jealous) Is it difficult for you choose only one photo?

Hope you'r great ! Regards.

FOOD

Hi bloggers, it's been a while (since I didn't came to class, so I didn't post anything), well, today I'm going to talk about a little bit about food, things like: My favourite type food, when I eat it, if I know how to prepare it, etc. So my favourite type of food is the italian one, the reason is that my grandfather is italian so he prepares a lot of italian food, and since I was a little kid my favourite "menu" was and is, Gnoquis. This plate is special because is the only one I was interested to learn so is the only one I one how to do it, it's not difficult but it requires a lot of patience, well, for me because I like things inmediately, especially food. I do not eat often this "menu" because if I did probably I'd be obese, so in special occasions like a birthday or family reunions we do/eat this plate. You see, I like every type of food or I try (if I don't know how it is), because I think you have to eat first to know if you like it or not, most of the people says I don't like it and they don't even try it before (that piece me off a lot), but I am a human so there is a plate I CAN'T STAND and it is a chilean food called Tripes, the smell, the texture, and how it looks, make it disgusting. So know you know if you want me to go away bring Tripes (just kidding, please don't.).
Now if you want, leave me a comment telling me: What is your favourite type of food or the type that you dislike !
Hope you are Ok! Regards.

Why did I choose my career

Hi everyone. I'm going to tell you why I chose my career, it's a long story... .First, when I was a little kid I wanted to be a very nice and cool coroner, but that was a fantasy because of the CSI serial  (I was addicted), but when I grew up I started thinking why I should choose only one career, then it was a crisis but I got over it, so I made a list, "things I'm good at " then the "only" thing that I believed I was good at, it was Language and a little bit in History, so my limited Me think, "oh let's study Law!", I didn't even look at other careers, but that changed when I did the "control your nervous test" aka PSU. The day of the results I was in panic  (just a little), so my mother saw my results first, so she came and told me very early, in a very pacific way (lie) "you failed a little" (lie.) , so my results weren't good enough to get in the career at the university that I wanted. When I calmed down myself I started to look at other options, and then the Agriculture  came up. I saw the campus online, and what the professionals do, and I liked it, so that's why I'm studying this and honestly I don't regret it at all.