English Languages Challenges

Hi everyone! This year was an English year for me because I started and finished a CORFO course and I had to take the fourth level of English in the university. We are there and this activity and blog is for that. So I needed to develop a lot of skills to improve my language knowledge. At the begging of both courses, I couldn´t speak fluidly and now I recognise a progress in listening and reading activities.

On the other hand, with this blog I increased my written ability and I enjoyed this part because we can relax while we write thinking in English maybe but it depends of the topic because sometimes you are not so inspired and it was a hard work. It was a funny activity to learn about what our classmates are interested in. For example: a place where their want to go, about their families and pets and plans for this vacations too.

Now I can to speak in English not so bad, so when I met with an American person I can speak with he or she and give some advices maybe, information or talk about different topics. In these moments I think that I won´t be lost and I will be able to ask and answer in English. That’s very important for me because I´m shy and insecure but now I know my abilities in the language and I fell comfortable.

I´m thinking to take the advantage CORFO course but not in 2014, maybe in 2015 for continue improving my English skills. Sometimes I will need it a lot of to travel around the world.

good and bad point of 2013 , so far...

This year has been interesting for me with a lot of good things. I accept a challenge to learn English in Tronwell during the second part of the year because I won the CORFO scholarship. Also I am in a course of CAPS and it was so difficult juggle this activities the university mi family and boyfriend. In despite of that I have had a good year.

Something good was my boyfriend´s qualifications, another is that nothing wrong happened in my family so we are happy and everything is in calm. I met a lot of beautiful people in both courses (CORFO y CAPS). This year I traveled a lot to Punta Arenas so I enjoyed my little cousin who lives there, my family and boyfriend. I have been near my grandmother and grandfather who live in Temuco and it makes me feel so happy.

On the other hand, something bad is the stress for all the responsibilities that I have had So I hope the end of the year! In three-four weeks. I´m expecting the New Year and it is not only for the parties. This year started with sasha´s die (my pet) thus I was very sad through a long time.

I hope 2014 will be an excellent year because I will start with my professional practice so that is the most important part of the career and I´m so excited. 

My achievements in 2013... well I´m not sure but I´m thinking in patience, organization of my life and enjoy it too.

tatoos

To talk about tattoos isn´t my favorite topic but I prefer that than others. I don´t like big tattoos in the skin because I think in the future of them for example when you will be older than now your skin will be different so your tattoo too. On the other hand I am agreeing with all the people who do tattoo to represent a specific time in their life or an important person for them also to represent your identity or feelings.

In my case I wouldn´t have tattoos just for my personality and fear to pain. My brother has a tattoo in his arm and I am not agreeing with that because he has the name of my mother with decorations but a friend has a lizard in her hand between thumb and index finger with color so I think that is a beautiful tattoo for her, not for me because it will be troublesome to find a job

When we look a tattoo we never ask for the reason about that, we only look a form and colors so I prefer avoid comments because I don´t know the psychological motives behind this tattoos.

I think that tattoos have been during all the history of our in New Zealand with Maoris and Easter Island here in Chile but in those cases tattoos represent different things for example a specific status in the society, for attribute magical meanings or only with ornamental function. In the last case I think that is for beautiful colors that you can put in your skin and it looks so well.   

How green am I?

I will start to talk about what I know about recycle. All my life I grow up thinking in different ways to help the planet and the people who will live in the same place into 200 years after me hahaha It’s sound funny but is true. I think that is important because you have the possibility to do that. If you want change you have to do something. Many people comment about the high price of water and electricity bill but they don’t do anything about that. Some of them take long showers and turn on all the lights in their houses. A long time ago, when I was a child I decided don´t leave the waste material in the street and It was the first change in my life, then I decided don´t use plastic bags if I don´t need it, for example if I go to the supermarket I go with a special bag to avoid the plastic.

You can learn about environmentally practices in different places or with different people in your life. 2 weeks ago I learned about how to do “compost”. This is a special way to recycle where you can add organic rubbish, paper, soil, roots, etc. I had never heard about that and a friend explained to me. Now I would like to do that but I need to make the container because but it is expensive maybe $90.000.

I had always thought to be in an eco-organizations like green peace but I discovered something that I don´t like and It is if you want to join you have to pay some money and I´m not sure because I don´t know if I will have money the next month. But if you have money… do that! Because I think this is a beautiful opportunity to contribute with the planet, earth and people.

A summary of an article

For this summary I choose this article http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/28/russia-ban-us-adoption-children-rights because I'm interested in the rights of children. Why? Because I think that is a vulnerable group of people. 

Many people in the world try to do things in damage to the children. I don't understand that because we can respect them and give a good life. For example: with a well adoption and parents.

The article talks about a Russia's ban on US adoption. This prohibition is due to American people adopt children from Russia, Romania or Ukraine because their intentions are adopt a baby and not a grow up child between five a sixteen years old like many of the children available for adoption in US. In addition, the children are black or Latino and the prospective parents don’t like that. And in the other hand the article says that a lot of children who traveled from US have never returned to their own country.

Other thing that appeared in the new is and older method to have children. It is the sale or traffic. An example of that is the discovered of a “Baby farm” in Nigeria where girls were prisoners to produce babies for sale. So the proper regulation is needed in all the world not only for Russia. Because the article says: there are many children susceptible to be adopted for a family from their same country. 

holiday

I love to travel at holidays because you can breathe a different air in other locations, enjoy with different activities, meet new people, etc. So I think that have vacations is important for all people in the world. All of them need a breathe once in a year and this isn't important only for you, it is important to your family and friends because you will be more relaxing and happy for the next period of the year or for begin a new year in the university or school.
I like to travel to the south of chile because my family are from Magallanes so, I have the opportunity to go there and not expend a lot of money. I would like to do the W tour in torres del Paine go through the national park. I stayed at this park many times with my family and friends but I never did that before because you need 4 days or more for do that.
Punta Arenas is my favorite place for vacations. I avoid the sun and I stay there for 2 o 3 month. This year I will travel to Punta Arenas but before I will go to Con-con and Temuco to see my grandmother and my grandfather. After that I will travel with my boyfriend to anywhere.

My Pet

Hi guys! I'm going to talk about my pet, I have to do that for my class. Well, I love all the animals but especially the pets because you can receive an inconditional love from them. When I was a child I had a cat, called minina, and then a he-dog, called max. Both had a sad final, Minina was lost and max died. After this I adopted a little she-dog and we called Sasha. It lived 16 years with us and it died on January 25, 2013. Obviously we were very sad for a long time and I thought that is necesary had a new pet in the house for security and give love again to another pet. I think: "The house is big and the heart too".
Now, we have a new dog! this is the happy part of the story. It name is Rocko and it is a bull terrier dog. Rocko is a baby, it is 10 months to born.
I looked an announcement in a classmate's facebook and after that my brother visited  the house where rocko had living and he falled in love haha, so then he arrived to our house with rocko.We usually go together to the park, play with a bottle or somes ball in the house.