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.