English language challenges

To be completely honest I came to the university already knowing English, and in here I only have practice my written and oral English.

So there is not a lot of things that I have learn and I really wanted to learnt some professional vocabulary related to my career, but we didn’t work on that, we work on the social English the one that allow you have a conversation with a person.

In relation to the blogs I think that they are a really good way to have some confidence when you’re writing, and it’s a really good way to express ourselves in English. We had the opportunity to write a lot of blogs of different topics and at the end I can say that this helps me with my confidence when I write.

The things that I need to work on my English are the fluency when I talk and expand my vocabulary, because I always use the same words and expressions.

Outside my classes of English, I use it to read some papers and news for some works on the university, I also listen music in English, So I’m always listening. My Facebook is in English, so I’m reading it every day and I usually talk to my sister for skype, twice or three times a week and we usually talk in English to try to improve our fluency and pronunciation.

To conclude this blog, I would like to have that English is present in my everyday life, whether in music, in the university, in my moments of fun and in my life in general. I think that is really important to know how to speak and how to read and write in English, because the whole world is communicating with it and we can`t be less.

Changes to your study programme

Now I am in the second semester of food engineering at the University of Chile, and in relation to my career, I have a very extensive curriculum.

My career is 11 semesters and I have to study many different things to be a good professional.

In the early years I have some common themes with other careers such as Biology, Chemistry, the way I have General Chemistry I and II, Organic Chemistry I and II, Analytical Chemistry I and II and a lot of different topics related to chemistry, Physics and mathematics.

But then I have the career topics as engineering in milk, cereals, fats and oils processes, among other processes, quality management, nutrition and more of other topics.

Personally, I think that my career is longer that it has to be, we have some subject that are useless in our field and my career should be much shorter than it really is.

In other part I think that we are being overload with all the subjects and our teachers don’t understand us.

Our faculty is really big, there are approximately 1 thousand students every day and I don`t think that the space that we have is being well occupied, we don’t have a cafeteria, we don`t have the enough places to rest or to study and in winter and summer it is horrible to be in the university.

But I have to say that I like to be in the university and I like some of my teachers like miss Natalia Henriquez, besides her subject is really difficult, she is a really good teacher, or mister Jorge Reyes, he explains everything really good and his subject are more simple for that.

To conclude I would like to say that the university should last less, maybe some four complete years or maybe four and a half, we should have a better infrastructure to be in the university and we shouldn`t be overexploited with our subjects.

Summer holidays

We are only 2 months away from holidays and I can’t wait to rest every day and charge energies for the third semester, but it is a little disappointing that we finish the semester in January, right after my sister birthday, so I don’t get to have so many vacations as I want and I don’t get to spend my sister birthday with her.

For this holiday I have a lot of ideas of things to do but nothing is concrete.

My first priority is rest and sleep as much as I can. I don’t want to do anything for some week and just be in my pajama all day.

Then I would like to go to Pichilemu Beach with my friends in February for one whole week by our own. We would rent a shack near to the beach and just enjoy that we are young and have fun.

I’m also want to see my friends back in Rancagua, I only see them one a month or so, and I really miss them, so we’ll catch up and talk about everything that we have lived this year. With my best friend have the big idea of climbing some hills in Rancagua, not so high and dangerous but with a beautiful view

And one of the things that I want to do the most is spend time with my family since I don’t live with them and I only see them two weekends a week. I really miss them and I miss our family reunions, games and long talks. Honestly family for me is the most important thing in the world. They are always there for you and they support you no matter what decision you make. So I really want to be with them as long as I can.

Addiction: From coffee and tea to drugs of abuse

Drugs are not something to mess around, according to the WHO, “drugs is a term of varied use which in medicine refers to any substance with the potential to prevent or cure a disease” and in a colloquial language, drugs are psychoactive substances and often even more concretely, to illegal drugs. there are drugs denominated hard and soft.

In my personal experience I have tasted some drugs, like marihuana, alcohol and cigar and what I can say about tasting them is that they make you feel better in some way, alcohol take away your inhibitions, marihuana makes you feel relax and calm, but cigar is the one that I don’t like the taste and sensation that it brings, you feel drowned and it leave a bad taste in your mouth, and a horrible smell in your clothes and hands.

Some benefits of these drugs are

Alcohol: reduction of the risk of heart attacks, protects against diabetes  

Marihuana: Treat migraines and premenstrual syndrome, delays tumor growth, it prevents Alzhaimer’s, pain, calm the OCD and Tourrette, between others.

But there also some risk that people take when they are addict to this drugs just like addiction to alcohol can break a family, a financial stability and brings a lot of damage to the body and organs.

And marihuana have some bad effects to in de addiction to this drug like, tachycardia, disorientation, lack of physical coordination, and it take to depression or drowsiness.

Personally I know a person that is addicted to take pills, and I can say that her life is so miserable right now, she lost her family, her job, her husband and she only have her kids supporting her and her mother, but she is not living a good life, she is always in depression and she isolate from everyone.

Drugs abuse is bad for health, social life and wellbeing, people change their life for drugs and they should be more careful before being an addict.

Post Graduate studies

In Chile studies, a person can have a lot of different degrees, professional, technical, magister, doctorate, among others.

Right now I´m studying to get my professional degree as a food engineer and in the future I want to have a degree after my professional one that is related with my career.

There are a lot of different reasons for me to take one, like being a better professional; a lot of employers only hire people with studies after their professional degree, like master or PhD degree, so I want to do one to have better opportunities in the work area and also I want to take one to know a lot of different things and in specific, having the resolution to a lot of different problems.

I would like to take it abroad because there is a world of thing that we don’t see here in Chile so I would like to see and learn all the different ways of working, marketing, likes and dislikes and a lot more in others countries. In specific I would like to go to USA, as I always wanted to, but I would also go to any place in Europa just to learn how their system works.

I would like to study in the university of Harvard or Berkeley, because they are one of the best in the area of engineering and science but if it ony other besides USA I would love to go to Oxford just because it is one of the best universities in the world and for the amount of different scientist that have graduated from that university.

If I ever study a master o phD degree, I would like to be a full time study, with classes in a classroom, with other students and if it is needed with laboratories.

To end this blog I would like to say the other degree that I would like to study but I´m not sure about what study and actually I don’t even have a clue about what to do with my life after graduation in other 5 years.

Your Future Job...

The career that I’m studying, food engineering, has a lot of different areas where to work, and at the point of where I am right now, I don’t know anything about it.

The food engineers can work in marketing, administration, management, quality of food, investigation and a lot more, and I’m still not sure what I want to do, but I really like quality of food and investigation

I would like to be able to tell people the healthy food that we can consume but without losing the good things, I want the people to know where is safe to eat and how to stop food infections and diseases and the most important is that I want to be happy doing it.

I would love to work outdoor and indoor I think that it is important to see and experiment with the environment and with the thing and people related, but that it is a little bit exhausting and it is necessary to work in an office or a laboratory.

About the county I will like to work, I don’t have a specific one, But I do know that I don’t to be my whole life in Chile. I want to know as many countries as I can and that way decide which is the best one for me to live and

 
work and make my life.

I’m not interested about who much money I’m going to make, I just want to live a calm life with no preoccupations about money and happy life that it is more important and we all know that money doesn’t buy happiness so I just want to have a happy and calm life.

Right know I can’t thing about a major that I would like to take, first things first, I have to end my career and see if this one is the one for me, see if I want to make my life out of it so, I don’t want to rush things and talk about a major.

To conclude I am not sure of what I want and I think it's a little rushed talk about this in my case, but I do like my career and I hope that in the future I will be sure of what I want to do with my life and career.

Digressing about music: songs, dances, melodies, groups, films...

Music is a very important part in my life, I love listening music in every part of my day and if I'm not listening I will probably sing a song.
My favourite kind of music has to be the pop and the electro I'm listening this kind the whole day, when im studying, in the shower, when I'm cooking etc.
About music I love the solo piano and the solo guitar either acoustic or electric and I love to play guitar it is really relaxing to play

I actually don't have any favourite group or solo artist but I'm obsessed with a singer called Shawn Mendes, He is a canadian solo artist that plays pop music and he is really good, and also I'm obsessed with MØ, a solo artist that Plays Indie Pop
When I was a kid I used to listen to this pop band named Jonas Brothers, I was a fan girl and I went to every concert they made in Chile but they are separated now and some other members have some band or solo albums but I prefered them when they were together because their music was so much better than it is right now.
About music on films that I love, there is this one movie called "If I Stay" with this amazing soundtrack with a Band created in the movie named "Willamette Stone" they play some kind of soft rock and they have a lot of songs but my favourite is "Heart Like Yours"
I'm always listening this song I think that it is really pretty and deep that everyone should listen