An activity I like to do in my free time

A Job I would like in the future :D

My experience learning English at university

My experience in this subject has been very educational. In Sociology I've never read in English. Actually, if I'm not mistaken, they never ask us to read any text in English or any other language. (Maybe is something good or bad but if a theme to other occasion). So, I never practice talk or reading in English till last semester when I remember I have to take this course (I forget take it two semester ago). These courses have been my only opportunity at university to practice my English and they have been even better than my English subjects at school. Here I can talk with others people who are in a similar lever with me. We can learn from each other.
The blogs are something innovative to me. It was my first time I have to write something totally in English and not only complete a sentence. Is a nice experience written freely about things I know or I'm interesting. In other words it makes easier learn this language.
About what I think I have to improved, I believe I have to progress with how I talk, my pronunciation and the modulation. I think I can practice with my father. He is trilingual (He knows Spanish, English and French) from school (A public school, which is a great achievement if it were a school of these times), but is a bit awkward because maybe he will yell at me when I make a mistake.
Unfortunately, I'm not using my English in real world so much. Only when I'm searching information about something and I use a source from other countries like a book in English or a website. I hope when I get a job as a sociologist I could practice what I learn.

Bye to everyone :)

Change to my study program!

Before I start, everyone has to know in this year (2017) the Sociology programme was remodelled and the majority of subject changed, so did how we get graduate. I don't know much about all of these changes... actually I should know about this but I can't remember it right now, but to do this entry I will avoid all of this and think never happened.

So, to begin with, we can say the programme is a varied one. It reaches a lot of interesting themes in every subject, but a lot are elective course. This may cause a lot of things we think are basics to be a Sociologist are left behind by some students, like Sociology of Gender. The only other thing we can say is "bad" with the curriculum is the majority of knowledge goes around work themes. It is something is already changing, but the ego is stil there. Always happen that one or two students, or even a teacher, are minimizing because the path they choose.

If we talk about building and technology, Sociology in Universidad de Chile is recently updating these things. Is not a university with a lot of money, so they always go into debt and compete with other universities to gain money through projects in the State. Specifically in my career just by now they finish a new building to have more office because the professors work under bad condictions for years. About technology we are not so bad. In the last three years the career start updating all the computer programs we use in the career so we can approach to a more real work experience

Winter Holidays

I've been in this university around six years and me and everyone I know think vacations are a myth or a custom lost in history. I get here in 2012 and my only winter holidays happened in 2014. I think I'm already used to the stress and pressure of trying to fit 2 month of classes and exams in 1 week. I remember that in 2013 my semester finished a Wednesday and the next one started the next day. To sum up, my memories of Winter Holidays suck.

I have to say: I enjoy that glorious Winter Holidays of 2014. I didn't go anywhere, but I spend a lot of time playing with my dog (He died next year) and viewing series and movies in my bed. Is the right opposite of I usually do, but I wish i could do it again.

I lost hope of having vacations in university (anyway I don't care so much, but thinking like that is bad), but till now this year maybe (just maybe) will be different. There is no strike at sight or any kind of occupation, so maybe I could pass my subjects with confidence that any irregularity will affect us. Finally I will plan my lonely trip to Punta Arenas or maybe with 1 or 2 friends. Is something I've been planning since I work last summer in Correos Chile. My cousins live there so i will not spend in a residency or something like that. My final objective is go over Torres del Paine.

Postgraduate Studies...

Hi everyone! Today I'm going to write about my desire of having a post-grade in a near future.

As I already said, I study sociology, so, the number of course I can take is enormous and varied. It is a bit difficult to choose between any of the options that my university offers me. Luckily, last year I realised I don't like any of these options. I consider them lame. Many are useful, but there are to much people already studying these course or to much people are going to be in these course, so it will be overpopulated soon.

The postgraduate course I want to take is not imparted by my university or any other. It's call "Master in International Relationship, Security and Defence" and it's given by the ANEPE (Academia Nacional de Estudios Políticos y Estratégicos), an institution that answer to the Ministry of Defence. Commonly, these kind of studies are set aside and no one try to integrate in the Academy.

I want to make something useful with my studies and I think this post-grade will be a great idea. Normally, a lot of people think these matters are for conservative people, but obviously they are wrong. If we don't re-take themes like Security or Defence, problems like Mapuche conflict will continue without a real solution and the State Terrorism will never end

This is a bad interpretation and application for the concept of security >:(

My future job!!

Today I'm going to talk about my future job, or the job I expect I would have in the future.

I'm studying sociology and i like Public Policy area. Basically to me, is the method the sociologist have to contribute in a physically way to real world problems. Besides this, I've another interest i would like to mix with public policies and is Security and Defense themes. I think is a topic a lot of people avoid or simply dislike because existing of a lot of prejudice about it.

With these interests I expect working in a municipality helping to solve problems like how we are treating crime, inclusion or immigrant's issue. As Sociologist we have a lot to contribute, but there are not so many of us who investigate these stuff so it will be a difficult task to achieve.
In the Municipalities I would have to work with COREs, which job is make the people participate in their community, and think public policies to improve the quality of life of people.

If this didn't work for me I want another job. I want to dedicate to cook. Not necessary be a chef, but cook and gain the necessary to live doing my hobby. Maybe work in a bakery or any like that. At least is more funny than sociology jeje

What I'm really into lately!!

For the last three weeks I've been obsessed with my childhood favorite movies: Alien.

At February I found out a new Alien movie (a second prequel) is going to be released. In that exact moment all my childhood memories came out and I start watching again the entire saga (Four movies, two crossovers and one prequel). Just yesterday I finished one of the crossovers: Alien vs Predator 2, a bad movie but I wanted to watch it any way. I still have to see the prequel "Prometheus", but I'm soy busy because of studies (that's a lie, but I like to think it that way).

I start seeing this saga when I was eight. My parents did not allow me to watch it, but that didn't stop me. They hide the VHS but I always discovered where it was. All of this "adrenalin" mades me enjoy the movie much more and when I achieved my goal I was so happy and excited and so I repeat this with Alien 2 and 3. The movie was great and so the others 2 (the fourth movie is really really bad). It never bored me watch it a thousands of times and I hope it never will

A mighty Alien

The Subject I loved!

A country a I would like to visit (post 1)

I've always dreamed of visiting UK since I was a little boy, particularly London. I want to walk through the streets and feel like I'm walking in a town that was once the capital of the world. Another reason is the grave of Karl Marx in the Highgate Cemetery (East Cemetery specifically). Basically his tomb is monument to his life and contribution to the modern world; also, there is a lot of interesting people buried nearby like Yusuf Dadoo or Herbert Spencer that I would like to visit. I want to visit Oxford and see the trees that Tolkien used to imagine the Ents for his books "The Lord of The Rings", I think they're huge.

My brothers visited UK back in 2014 and they told me it was an amazing experience, but they regret not visiting Stonehenge. I don't want to make the same mistake.

A fifth reason is Football. I want to go to East London and see a match of my favourite football team in the UK: West Ham United. I want a shirt and a flag of the team to put in my room.

Finally, I would like to visit Ireland (both of them). I want to drink their beer, ale and everything. Also read about their history as Bloody Sunday, but the most important is the beer.

My relationship with English Language

My relationship with English Language starts with my father. He learned French and English in high school, so, since He learned at a young age, He tried to teach me and my brothers. It was very useful, but in some point I lost the interest and stop to pay attention.

When I was eight years old I discovered the world of video games thanks to my Super Nintendo. I liked to play it alone, without my brothers, but all the games were in english, so I regained my interest in this language only because I wanted to play games like Super Mario World or Megaman and o it was until today.

At the same time, English at my school was no taked it so seriously. Only a few teachers were really motivated and I think that made me and my classmates hate english a little, but never to the level to ever try to learn it at some point in my life.

Super Mario World rules!