My experience learning english in university has been really positive so far. When i entered to this univesity and did the english exam to see which was my english level, i thought i was going to be on level 4, but i turn out to be on level 3 and had to do this two levels. I wasn't really excited about it at first, but now that i'm ending level 4 i'm happy i could improve my english.
I've met good and comprehensive teachers that have teached with patience and entusiasm, even when teaching english anywhere must be really difficult because it's not anyones priority course. I think that that's something that i really liked about the two teachers i met in this year.
About the "blog experience" i must say that i loved it. I didn't gave this activity much importance at first, but once i started doing the blogs i begin to like it a lot, and i even think that besides the fact that we learn to write and express ourselves, it's also a really "therapeutic" experience, at least for me. I really enjoyed writing every blog and i think i learned a lot with it.
I think that in the near future my challenge in english is to improve my writing and my security when talking and expressing myself in english, and i plan to do this by taking another course of english to improve my english and became "professional" on it, because i really enjoy and love english!
English is definitely my second language right now and it's really important for me on a daily basis. The majority of the music that i listen and the series and t.v shows that i see are in english, and that's why i started learning it so easily. All of my favorite famous people come from the United States, so i'm really familiar to this language and i even talk to myself in english all day!
And that was my experience learning english at university! Thank you Alejandro for being so patience and enthusiast with your job! see you soon!
jueves, 27 de diciembre de 2018
jueves, 20 de diciembre de 2018
Post 9: Changes to my study programme
Well,this is going to be a large blog for me because i think that my career has A LOT of deficiencies in its infrastructure,teachers and the curriculum, so basically you can find issues in any possible area.
First of all, theatrical design is a career from the Faculty of Arts, which means that it belongs to one of the poorest and precarious faculties of Universidad de Chile, so we have a really limited budget to suplement the needs from the different departaments that make up this faculty. Starting with that, we can find the first thing that it should be changed, which is the infrastructure. The Faculty of Arts it's divided in three venues, and this affect the students because, for example when we have the transversal courses (for all arts students) we have to move from Santiago Centro to Ñuñoa for taking a single class and then come back to our departaments, and it affects also when we need to make any formalities like sending certificates or anything, because all the administration is centralized on Artes Centro, and not divided in all the venues. Also from the infrastructure part, in the departament of theater we have really insuficient tools for our learning. The venue is really small and old, and we're mixed with acting students who needs a lot of space for practicing and moving around, so it's really uncomfortable for us, because we need silence to be concentrated in our classes. Also our classrooms have old and damaged chairs and tables (that are actually brought from other faculties that have throw them away) and are small for the quantity of students that needs to be working in big mock-ups for example.
Well, i could be hours talking about this, but that's not the idea.
i'm going to finish this blog by saying that the workload of my major programme should be less demanding and leave us more time to do the jobs we take home (that are massive) and also should be more integrative between the different subjects that we have (which are at least 10 per semester) because otherwise is really hard to keep up, and live a healthy life at the same time.
First of all, theatrical design is a career from the Faculty of Arts, which means that it belongs to one of the poorest and precarious faculties of Universidad de Chile, so we have a really limited budget to suplement the needs from the different departaments that make up this faculty. Starting with that, we can find the first thing that it should be changed, which is the infrastructure. The Faculty of Arts it's divided in three venues, and this affect the students because, for example when we have the transversal courses (for all arts students) we have to move from Santiago Centro to Ñuñoa for taking a single class and then come back to our departaments, and it affects also when we need to make any formalities like sending certificates or anything, because all the administration is centralized on Artes Centro, and not divided in all the venues. Also from the infrastructure part, in the departament of theater we have really insuficient tools for our learning. The venue is really small and old, and we're mixed with acting students who needs a lot of space for practicing and moving around, so it's really uncomfortable for us, because we need silence to be concentrated in our classes. Also our classrooms have old and damaged chairs and tables (that are actually brought from other faculties that have throw them away) and are small for the quantity of students that needs to be working in big mock-ups for example.
Well, i could be hours talking about this, but that's not the idea.
i'm going to finish this blog by saying that the workload of my major programme should be less demanding and leave us more time to do the jobs we take home (that are massive) and also should be more integrative between the different subjects that we have (which are at least 10 per semester) because otherwise is really hard to keep up, and live a healthy life at the same time.
jueves, 13 de diciembre de 2018
Post 8: Personal opinions
What is your opinion about legalizing abortion in some cases?
I think abortion is not something anybody should be discussing about. In my opinion abortion should be legal in every possible case and it should be guaranteed and financed by the government to provide a secure and safe way to interrupt an unwanted pregnancy whatever the reasons are. This is something that actually happens almost all around the world, but here in Chile we have certain people and authorities (mostly man) that believe that is more important to "save" the "life" of the "children" instead of protecting the psychological and physical integrity of a women who doesn't want to continue with her pregnancy, but at the same time they wouldn't take care of that children when it's grown up, so it's really illogical.
What is your opinion about the Chilean tradition called “mechoneo”?
I think the Chilean tradition "mechoneo" it's a really stupid and unnecessary tradition that should be eradicated or at least rethought. In my opinion having a tradition to welcome students it's not a bad idea and there are plenty of ways to introduce new students to university that can be kind and fun, but i don't think that humiliating and hurting them is the best way.
What is your opinion about legalizing marijuana and other drugs?
The consumption of natural and synthetic drugs is a reality that can´t be ignored and because of that i think that it should be legalized and regulated by the corresponding authorities to prevent problematic consumption and the selling of bad quality drugs. Behind the production and distribution of drugs there are other problems between sellers and police that have ended with thousands of deaths and destruction and i don't think this is a problem that will end by prohibiting because right now it's like that and nothing has changed.
What is your opinion about killing stray dogs to prevent sanitary problems and animal over population?
I think there are better ways to prevent sanitary problems and animal population than killing them, like creating refugees and institutions that regulate the responsable care of animals. If the governments where more strict with laws that punish abandonment and irresponsable holding (not esterilize, adopting and abandoning, etc) then at least people would be afraid and would take more seriously the lives of animals. In my opinon we should treat animals the same way we treat humans, and as far as i know there is not such thing as killing homeless people.
I think abortion is not something anybody should be discussing about. In my opinion abortion should be legal in every possible case and it should be guaranteed and financed by the government to provide a secure and safe way to interrupt an unwanted pregnancy whatever the reasons are. This is something that actually happens almost all around the world, but here in Chile we have certain people and authorities (mostly man) that believe that is more important to "save" the "life" of the "children" instead of protecting the psychological and physical integrity of a women who doesn't want to continue with her pregnancy, but at the same time they wouldn't take care of that children when it's grown up, so it's really illogical.
What is your opinion about the Chilean tradition called “mechoneo”?
I think the Chilean tradition "mechoneo" it's a really stupid and unnecessary tradition that should be eradicated or at least rethought. In my opinion having a tradition to welcome students it's not a bad idea and there are plenty of ways to introduce new students to university that can be kind and fun, but i don't think that humiliating and hurting them is the best way.
What is your opinion about legalizing marijuana and other drugs?
The consumption of natural and synthetic drugs is a reality that can´t be ignored and because of that i think that it should be legalized and regulated by the corresponding authorities to prevent problematic consumption and the selling of bad quality drugs. Behind the production and distribution of drugs there are other problems between sellers and police that have ended with thousands of deaths and destruction and i don't think this is a problem that will end by prohibiting because right now it's like that and nothing has changed.
What is your opinion about killing stray dogs to prevent sanitary problems and animal over population?
I think there are better ways to prevent sanitary problems and animal population than killing them, like creating refugees and institutions that regulate the responsable care of animals. If the governments where more strict with laws that punish abandonment and irresponsable holding (not esterilize, adopting and abandoning, etc) then at least people would be afraid and would take more seriously the lives of animals. In my opinon we should treat animals the same way we treat humans, and as far as i know there is not such thing as killing homeless people.
lunes, 10 de diciembre de 2018
Post 7: sports
I have practiced many sports in my life because i love playing, training and competing. I've always had a great relation with sports because both my mother and father have always been related with practicing (my mom more than my dad) so they passed that to me and i've always loved it and when i'm not practicing any physical discipline i start to get really upset and annoyed, it changes my mood completely. I have my bestfriend also that love practicing sports so we have been team partners in some ocassions, so im really related with it.
When i was like 7 years old or maybe less than that, my mother introduce me and my sister to "ballet". She signed us to the Municipal Theater, which i think it must be the best place for learning this difficult discipline, but i remember that we didn´t last longer in there because it was a really hard discipline, and we didn´t had what i was needed to training it (but i would have loved to mantain that in my life) Then i discovered artistic gymnastics with my bestfriend from infance, and we started to train when were like 8 or 9 years old and we stayed there for at least 2 years, first on the Mayor Stadium in Peñalolen and then on the Club Providencia. After sometime i started to feel kind of uncomfortable with my teacher and finally my friend and i quit from that, but i always liked it and i will be forever regret of not mantaining that discipline in my life, even though i haven't forget what i've learned.
At 13 year old i changed from a really little school to a massive one (liceo experimental manuel de salas) and there i met Volleyball, from a lot of possibilities for sports to train and i fell in love with it. I'm a really competititve person and i make a lot of effort to be a good sports player so i dedicated to that and ended up being part of the volleyball selection of my schoool with who i compited for at least 3 years, from 15 to 18 years old. And when i graduate from school i kept training volleyball on the university, specifically on the faculty of architecture and urbanism where i was studying geography. I continued compiting with them on the volleyball selection, competing against the other university faculties and we won some matches but then when i quit geography i left volleyball and never played it again.
Well this post is waaay to large so i must stop right now haha but i have to say that i also did figure skating one year when i was 18, and i also trained circus (trapeze and achrobatics) on 2016. I also love yoga, pilates, and many more.
That's me making a rivet
Here i'm on my final presentation of trapeze
They are one part of my volleyball team
This was my volleyball team when we won a tournament
Post 6: Post graduate studies
In the future i would like to do a documentary course because i love documentarys and investigations and i've always wanted to do documentarys, that's one of the reasons why i have thought about studying journalism. I haven't done many research about it, cause i haven't even decided what i want to study yet, but i've heard that theres is a magister in the "ICEI" the communication and image institute of Universidad de Chile. I've always dreamed of doing my studies or post graduate studies in a different country because i love travelling and learning different languages, and i was born in France so it has always been my dream to study and live there. Also in Europe there is a huge culture around arts, so the theatrical design there is a really respected and well taken career, and it'w way more developed than what we have in Chile, so i would also love to do some studies about that on Germany or Spain maybe, and in order to do that i would like to spend at least a year out studying.
Post 5: my future job
This might be the hardest post to write for me so far because i'm the most indecisive person and i haven't even decide if i'll continue studying what i'm studying right now. Right now i love a lot of different jobs, and i haven't decide which would be my dream job yet or what i would like to be doing in the future, but i'm going to tell some of the jobs i imagine myself working on.
Somedays i like office works where i imagine myself reading and searching information and writing about it, like a journalist, but then i imagine myself as a nutricionist or a kinesiologist attending people and trying to help them, especially on the sports area, cause i love sports and physic work. But i'm also really interested in the circus world, where i would love to be working as a theatrical designer (the career i'm actually studying) or even as a circus artist/performer, so i have many options for the future that i haven't decided yet, cause i can literally imagine myself working in all the things i just mentioned.
When i was on school i've always imagined myself on an indoor work, working in an office, but when i entered to the university i expanded my mind and started to realize that i really loved nature a lot, and i even thought about the posibility of studying eco-tourism. But then when i started to train circus disciplines and began to love the art and the body work, so i wanted to be dedicated to circus and i imagined myself living from that.
I would love to have a jog where i'm able to travel a lot, that is something i'm always trying to do, and theatrical design has a lot of that, if you are good in what you do. And about the salary, i have to admit i would love to have a huge salary haha, because i love expensive stuff, but it's not something that i'm really pasionate about, because if it was like that, i would probably be doing something to have a lot of money, but it's not mi priority, the priority is to do something that makes me feel happy and comfortable.
Somedays i like office works where i imagine myself reading and searching information and writing about it, like a journalist, but then i imagine myself as a nutricionist or a kinesiologist attending people and trying to help them, especially on the sports area, cause i love sports and physic work. But i'm also really interested in the circus world, where i would love to be working as a theatrical designer (the career i'm actually studying) or even as a circus artist/performer, so i have many options for the future that i haven't decided yet, cause i can literally imagine myself working in all the things i just mentioned.
When i was on school i've always imagined myself on an indoor work, working in an office, but when i entered to the university i expanded my mind and started to realize that i really loved nature a lot, and i even thought about the posibility of studying eco-tourism. But then when i started to train circus disciplines and began to love the art and the body work, so i wanted to be dedicated to circus and i imagined myself living from that.
I would love to have a jog where i'm able to travel a lot, that is something i'm always trying to do, and theatrical design has a lot of that, if you are good in what you do. And about the salary, i have to admit i would love to have a huge salary haha, because i love expensive stuff, but it's not something that i'm really pasionate about, because if it was like that, i would probably be doing something to have a lot of money, but it's not mi priority, the priority is to do something that makes me feel happy and comfortable.
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