English Course and end of the Year!

Hi everyone, I want to tell you that this year it has been full of knowledge. Thanks to this course I was able to improve in English in many ways. Now it is easier to express myself and to pronounce some words. However, as I got busy of many things this year it turns difficult to study English longer. Classes were profitable and sometimes I could not take advantage completely.       Anyway knowledge came to me and came to stay. I liked blogs, I think I’ve never written so much not even in Spanish and in some cases I think that I abused dictionaries, but now I am amend and traducing by my own the things that I want to say. Regarding to my failures as a bilingual it persist conjugation and vocabulary. Besides I need listen more English, it is difficult listen less formal English in movies and music. In conclusion I will have to watch more movies without subtitles, listen to more music in English, practice with people that know the language, investigate more important words and review conjugation. Obviously I have to dedicate more than the time that I dedicate now on week because may if I add up all the hours that I spend in English in the week it results at least 6 or 7 hours. In resume more reading, dedication and organization. It is probably that I don’t write here anymore but certainly i will be writing in other places and sites it was a pleasure to be here and if ever you read me, thanks a lot and many Greetings.

Program

This will be my second year in this career and it was hard because I was doing a lot of things together between university and other things outside. I flunked 3 subjects and have to take them over so this will be my chance to amend my mistakes and improve better methods. The subjects that I have are Botánica, Estadistica y Probabilidades, Fisica General, Ingles IV and Educacion Superior y Segregacion Social, the last one is a history subject. It is a mathematic, scientific and humanist program and it is really enjoyable. I think that this semester has been a profitable use of time and to learn of everything because I take workshop in other areas out of the university. Anyway it has been complicated because I had to be more organized and responsible. In the week I have to study most of days and weekends too so I made a schedule and thanks to this I prepare any evaluation with time. Sometimes I get along with some classmates to study any subject and we learn faster and when I am home I go over subject by subject. I think that Faculty facilities, use of technology and teaching methods are great at least in my actual semester program. Thanks to everything that I said before of organization and help of others things I have left time to do other things like sports, read books and as I said before workshop outside university. I hope you have a happy holiday and end of semester. Bye!

Summer

This year has just happened very fast. I hate the increase of hotness of these 

months here in Santiago and I cannot wait for leaving when barely classes finishing. 

The truth is that I have not planed anything yet but certainly it will be great some

 weeks for relaxing. At the moment I want to travel to the south of Chile and visit 

Temuco, Chiloe and Villarica. I do not know the south and it will be an exciting

 experience being there, enjoying of magic views, people and food. Also knowing 

the situation of people that lives there, agriculture and the most important thing: 

The beginning of an eco village in Púa near Temuco, there is a land that will be 

destined to a community ecovillage this summer by a student of Agriculture but 

not of my own university. As far as I understand the first thing that will be done will

 be the construction of a clay oven and the planting of some herbaceous plants but 

as time goes by, the village is expected to generate its own renewable energy.

 I think that will be amazing working on that, share knowledges and learning about 

self-managed work and not depend on institutions but on our own community work. 

Anyone who wants to contribute is completely welcome. The only condition is want 

to do it. I hope to continue growing as a person and this summer there is no doubt

 that it will be so.

Medicals

Hi everyone!, I am very happy for the topic of this week, I really love plants. They give us medicine to save our people wehereas they poisoned our enemies in the war. They are wise and transcendental so you have to be respectful in every sense; they are feeling every day and we can understand some of their feelings, for this reason we have to be careful and bring our entire love for the growth of plants that we will use, because if you do not have any emotional care the plant will grow there drifting and losing the essence of our relation with nature. Well, everything that I said before was about plants in general but it changes a bit when we talk about medicine... We have to be especially careful with medical plants because after the harvest they are plants for consuming or applying directly in our organisms. Imagine applying an orange-ball-tree leaves to an open wound for healing, if leaves are toxic or contaminated the patient could get a disease only by contact. Obviously each plant has its special treatment and more than reading or learning about a

plant practice is the best way to gather the knowledge to treat it.

I use many plants to fix my body and mind when I need it. Chamomile for stomach and head aches, Marrubium vulgare for bronchus, Mints for depression and anxiety, we could be here all day naming them all… I especially have mints, Peumo, Boldo, San Pedro cactus (known as grandpa ^_^), ‘’True Lavander’’ and Oregano principally.

Career

I study agronomy and this year it’s supposed to be my second year but I did not pass some courses so next year would be my real second year. University has not been easy to me. I have been to work hard studying and adapting myself to the university rhythm. I feel like I am not thinking in great or what I am missing is something to have more trust in the opportunities that I have. I think what I said before is really related with my academic performance. Until now I has been only view brushstrokes of all of the departments and masters of the career that I can choose. At the moment I am not interested in any particular but there are some areas that catch my attention.  One of them it’s a PhD of Soil and water management, Soil is an important area of studies in the career, would say that is the most important, it is thanks to Soil and its evolution that life is possible.

 I am undecided person as I said in the previous post and sometimes it is hard because I have one goal and then just turns in 3 goals and these 3 goals starts to compete in my head and boom! I start to question if I am doing what I really want or what could lead me to that, but here I am, trying,

Undefined Future

Many times I have been interested in different areas; first I wanted to be a Doctor, an ophthalmologist because I suffered an operation when I was a kid in the left eye, specifically the cornea. After the operation I got interested in medicine but soon I change my mind and I wanted to be an artist because I enjoyed a lot drawing, painting or create characters, stories and doing comic books but also I changed of idea and I got interested in music and I learnt play string instruments like guitar, bass, violin and ukulele, but the impulse passed and I started to think that nothing was interesting to me. I though that I could create some audiovisual stuff but I did not have the resources and it consumed too much time in front of screen for me. But when it was the last moment I finally decide after PSU.
For a long time I really interested on plants after reading Masanobu Fukuoka so when I got my ‘PSU score’ I choose Agronomy and I thought that I could travel after studying for undefined time. As I am an undecided person I still do not imagine what is the job that I want, but, of course, hopefully outdoors and travel a lot doing it but certainly the most important thing is feeling happy doing it.

Series and Movies

If you think that Japanese animation is for kids, you are too wrong. Well, I think that CHV, which is Open TV Channel, took care of fill our minds with Japanese animation and others can appreciate in Pay TV too, and its brilliant. We can talk too much about TV Series, things like the impact in our lives, the evolution of the seven art, among other topics. I'm in debt with films, TV shows and short films, but I most enjoyed TV Shows, I think that when you have more time to show something you can play with characters, stages, mystery and story development. I'm a little bit addict, so I have to control myself, but sometimes you can't with masterprices like Breaking Bad, Mr Robot, Hunter X Hunter, Monster, Fullmetal Alchemist, Great Teacher Onizuka, Kaiji, Akagi, FLCL, Steins Gate, Tatami Galaxy, And we cannot ignore films, my favourites are Fight Club, with an explosion social topic, Sakasama no Patema, which teach you about empathy and social understanding. Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu, this one was a rollercoaster of emotions for people who see the TV series, seriously... American Beauty is a great movie it can touch you deep and surely can make you happy of living right now. Kirikou and the Sorceress, a film co-produced by Belgium, France and Luxembourg and directed by Michel Ocelot, the plot is about a village somewhere in West Africa, a new-born boy, Kiriku, saves his village from witch, it’s very beautiful. But surely the last film I saw really blew my brains was, it called Planete Sauvage and is a French animation directed by René Laloux, based on Oms en série by Stefan Wul, It gives us a tour of the ego that has our species over the others and another surreal and psychedelic experience.

I give you a list with others that I recommend. Bye!
Ireeversible
Holy Mountain
The Shining
This Is England
AKIRA
Inaka Isha
Spirited Away
My Neighboor Totoro
Grave of the Fireflies
Princess Mononoke
Paprika
Quest for Fire

Letters...

Books are culture, science, stories or faith. I always think that it is amazing that just 27 symbols ordered and separated by empty spaces can teach you about animals, history, love and people in infinite points of view. In my high school days I readed a lot about Kafka, Orwell, Hesse, Cortazar, Radrigán until Fuguet, which are the most connoted. I have not favourite books because I readed novels, essays and politics that I liked too much so I cannot decide for one. But certainly the most funnies are novels, because you immerse on a story, characters, minds or another universe, there you can feel empathy with characters and their emotions. My favourite one could be 1984 from George Orwell, it is a creepy dystopia that accommodates to our reality, at least, from Industrial Revolution or maybe the invention of private property since 4000 years. At the present I am most dedicate to politics texts and essays from nineteenth and twentieth century in Chile, specifically on the history of education here, like Andrés Bello, Ignacio Domeyko, Valentín Letelier and others texts like letters and manifestos of students or people with political influence of the time.

Dance Ska blogger

Music is par excellence the best way for reflection, relaxation and enjoying life. She has been my partner since I can remember. I do not usually spend money in concerts, in fact, one time I bought the ticket of Arctic Monkeys, but then I regretted and I sold them with a friend. I can not choose the best one, I enjoyed a lot of local bands, such as: Protistas, Minem, Fiskales ad-hok, Sonora de Llegar, La Lira Libertaria, Gangrena Surf, Tata Barahona, Los Jaivas, etc.

Perhaps the best one was Festival Ska Jazz Santiago, It was on a Friday, August 5 at Kmasu Discoteque and there 6 artist were presented: Santiago Rebelde, Manifiesto SkaJazz, Sandino Rockers, Sonora de Llegar, Santiago Downbeat and Maldita Bohemia.  It was a tropical and brotherhood night, I went with five friends and we dance every night, also, we made friends there and we shared with them. I remember that I could not keep smiling and my friends too, it was a wonderful night. Whenever I remember this concert I feel happy about it.

Travel

For a long time many people say to me what good is travel. Also, for a long time, I travel in family, with my mother, my brother and sisters... I do not want to say that it was boring or something, it is just that until the day where I travel for my own everything turns completely different in every sense.

I think that we all have the chance of travelling, at least, for once in life or too much to some people…

Pick a country and decide to travel into is a very difficult thing, at least for me, even I do not know my own country at all. The objetive or goal is know, in great measure, América, especially the zone of the heights of Andes and these cultures, food, weather and wildlife.

If I were not studying here and not have some family responsabilities, I probably dedicate my life to travel and learn about the entire world.