English Language Challenges

The first thing I would like to say is that…. THIS IS MY LAST POST! I can’t believe it; I think time went very fast… so, because this is an English course, today I’m going to talk about English language challenges.

In this course, classes have two parts: the first is writing a post every week in our personal blog and the second part is talk with our mates and work with a book. This means we can improve our writing, listening and talking.

I think that English is very important, especially in our career because we need to know how to read papers, how to write articles or maybe, if one day we go to a psychology conference, we have to be able to speak and understand in English. In this sense, I think this course prepares us for the things I mentioned, I like write in my blog and talking with my mates about different topics.

In my case, I think I should improve my vocabulary and grammar, because sometimes I would like to say so many things, but I don’t know how to translate some words or how to conjugate the sentences. .. But honestly, I don’t have a plan about how I am going to improve that.  

 I use English a lot, even out the English class… For example, I love music in this language and I like to sing the phrases correctly, so I always look for the lyrics, the translation and try to sing it well.  The same happen with movies or TV series, sometimes I watch them without subtitles and is amazing how has my English improve! There are moments when I understand songs or what people is saying on Tv without even being concentrated in understand.

Well, this was my last post. I’m so happy I’m about to finish this course.

                           

Tattoos O:

Today I’m going to talk about tattoos and I have to say that this topic seems very interesting because I’m not very into that, so it is a way to know more.

When I think in tattoos, the first word that comes to my mind is “art” or “body-art” and sometimes it is really beautiful, but if I start to think more about it, I consider it is a way to show to everybody something that you think o believe, so everybody can notice that. But, it is that a good way? Well, at least not for me. I think if you believe in something, you don’t have to put it on your skin to prove it. To me, the tattoo should be “inside”, but maybe some motivations to do it are: represent a belief, remind someone you love, show something you like, etc. But this doesn’t mean I don’t like people that have tattoos, some of them are beautiful or a really piece of art and that’s why I think tattoos have an ornamental function.

The true is that I don’t know about the history of tattoos, I can imagine it’s very old, it might be from some indigenous cultures and that was repeated in future generations. 

In my case, I don’t want to have a tattoo, because it can be painful and I don’t want that! I’m scared of needles. Also, I’m not sure if I would like to have some image in my skin FOREVER. And the most important thing is that, as I said before, I have my tattoos “inside”.

Good and Bad Points (so far..)

Hello everybody! We are almost at the end of the year so it is usual to me to think about the good things and bad thinks that happened and also think about the things I would like to do or achieve.

Good things --> the most important moment this year was when my sister come to live to Santiago with my nephews. That made me very happy because they lived in the south so I usually used to be with them only on vacations or when they visit my family in Santiago.

Another good thing was that I started to go to the gym two months ago. It’s great because I had never done exercise in my life haha and now I go around 3 or 4 times on the week. Now I’m seeing the results of that. For example, I do not get tired so easy.

And the other important moment happened very recently: I started to work. I work in a coffee shop as a waitress. It is very exhausting because I work all weekend but the good part is that I will have money for vacations.

Bad things --> I think 2013 was a quiet year. I don't have memories of bad situations. Maybe my health was not as good as I would like. I had a lot of headaches and some flu. I also had complicated moments with my parents but that was improved over time.

I think I don’t have outstanding things this year, this far. This year I did many things I never would have thought to do, so 2014 will be the continuation of that. My achievements this 2014 maybe will: be keep going to gym (because I usually give up easily), have good health, have fun and do all the things I propose. 

An important event I would like to highlight is that next year I will choose my university practice!! So it is important to me go well in all my subjects because that will help me to be accepted in the place of practice I want.

Hope you like my post! Bye.