ENGLISH LANGUAGE CHALLENGES

hello everyone, this is the last blog of the semester and I'm feeling a bit melancholic so I warn you that it's full of sentimentality.
I never thought I would end the semester this way, on a more personal side and being totally honest, it wasn't in my plans for us to have a strike and miss so many classes and I regret having lost that experience, I know it may sound selfish but it would be hypocritical not to acknowledge it. On the other hand, I am happy with the work that was achieved, I am proud of the struggle of my classmates because despite losing classes, there were people who were really always present and did not stop participating.
If someone asks me about my experience at the university, I would say that I never imagined anything like it, but that does not mean that I regret it, on the contrary, I just wish I would have had more preparation.
i know i am critical of many things, but i still treasure the university and the people i met there. i have had the opportunity to meet more people and learn from them, and i will always be grateful for that. 

I didn't like it at first, of course, because I had English for the first time in fourth or fifth grade and learning the colors at that age was very boring, plus I didn't like that so many qualities were attributed to it and other languages were looked down upon. for example, I complained about the importance given to English and we didn't even know Mapudugún, so I started to reject it. but now that i have had a good teacher and have been able to interact better with the subject, i feel that i am starting to like it. maybe the reasons why i got excited about it are not acceptable. i don't want to learn english because it is the most spoken language or because it opens doors (in reference to earning money) or because it can lead me to a better future.

I still can't learn well, although I have to do more of my part to do it, I don't think I will learn if I don't practice and force myself to talk about it.
One of my biggest problems is the embarrassment and good the lack of knowledge about grammar and writing. I really don't know much about English but I hope to find the time, lose my shame and manage to speak the language.

in the end, my dream would be to be able to sing in English as it would mean that I would be losing two fears. To do this, I practice at home and in the shower, sing as much as I can in English and read the lyrics of the songs to learn words, I also watch series and movies in English because it helps me to get my brain used to the language.

                                         MY IDOL <3

CHANGES TO MY STUDY PROGRAMME

Hello everyone, this time I will tell you about my career, the curriculum and what I would like to change about it.

Sociology is a career in decline, at least everyone knows the truth in that, the labor field is increasingly null, job opportunities are accompanied by precariousness or in the opposite case, are accompanied by dishonest activities and favors from acquaintances. In this field, the academy usually disfavors recent graduates, leaving them without support and adrift in a sea of job uncertainty. For example, if it turns out that the academy has taken pity on you because of your constant work and effort while you were studying, they may give you a space in the narrow labor field in exchange for demanding a series of publications with constant material that does not give the space for professionals to carry out more thorough research and for the results to be more profound and practical.

As a consequence, the phenomenon that has led the career to decline, there is an incessant production of invisible and unprofitable knowledge that fails to be disseminated at its maximum expression and does not serve any specific purpose other than to continue to articulate new theses that lead future generations to the same paradigm.

 The curriculum contemplates the history of different periods such as classical and contemporary, the same applies to the branches of sociological theory, and also includes branches of statistics, qualitative and quantitative research, research methodology, political, economic and cultural sociology, social psychology, economics, English, etc. All these subjects are distributed by content and their relation with the basic knowledge to advance semester by semester. they are divided in 8 semesters and 2 of these belong to practical work and deepening so the career in total lasts 5 years (assuming that you do not drop any course and that you pass all the courses, however this is difficult, due to the little organization that exists within the faculty for the taking of courses.

On the other hand, the academic load and breaks seem to me to be super poorly managed, especially in the return to classes, last year in virtual classes, we obtained the privilege of a week of rest due to the use of computers and screens in excess, this benefit It was granted with some regularity, more or less every month and a half, and personally I was quite grateful for it, it gave me the time to catch up, study or read, or simply relax and lower my stress levels. On the other hand, with the experience of normal classes, the pressure and the lack of time are very demotivating. not everyone has the same rhythms and you can't give more than you give up. I think that one of the things to change would be the idea that the requirement has to do with the amount of work and not the quality of it.

To talk about methodology, I think it should be very particular, since each teacher has his or her method and conditions for granting knowledge. some are not fit to form in the best way since they fall into conservatism or sin of philistines. so each class is very different from another and there is no established order on teaching.

 Regarding the use of technologies, I have very little to say and that is because I have not had experiences very close to these. however, the wifi is bad. it's supposed to have better coverage and it turns out it can't be used. on the other hand you do not have a good telephone signal, so even if you use your own resources it is difficult to access the internet.

and finally, the facilities, at least the ones I have seen, further dazzle a profound difference in terms of departments and income, so much so that there are very well-equipped and ultra-beautiful classrooms, but it does not have the capacity to teach hybrid classes. as well as there are abandoned buildings where mice and pigeons nest. there are rooms that flood and freeze with the cold.

And speaking of stocks, it is worth mentioning the non-existence such as the campus dining rooms, which have a very limited number of microwaves and the total lack of places to eat or sit down for lunch. the lack of roofs and warm places to shelter from the cold or rain or provide good shade in the summer. the lack of ventilation that forces us to die of heat in the summer or freeze in the winter

I sincerely love my career, although it may not seem so from all the criticism, but if I had an idea of ​​how precarious it would become, I think I would have given up studying this career, I think I could perfectly learn it by myself at home

 

 

TIME TRAVEL TO THE FUTURE

 hello everyone, this time I will talk to you about traveling to the future. 

Ever since I saw the movie Interstellar, I have thought a lot about time and how to manage it. Obviously all these reflections are motivated by the desire to travel in time and since it is impossible to go back, the only alternative is to go to the future. 

Anyway, I would like to travel to the year 3000, maybe it sounds cliché, but a thousand years means a lot of technological and human progress, so I would like to go forward all this time and see what humanity is. will we have improved or evolved? will we be more ecological and friendly with the planet? will capitalism exist? 

I have no answer to these questions, so I would like to see, maybe we will be extinct, maybe the planet will become noxious or maybe we will no longer inhabit the earth.

 
If when I travel I consider that the image that I find is good, in its best conditions I think I would stay there and I would know new things. If the image is catastrophic, I prefer to move forward but I do not think I will return, it is a one way trip only.

well, that's all for now. see you in the next block. take care.

MY DREAM JOB

When I was a child I wanted to be many things, I think it happened to all of us. Our creativity and energy motivates us to even think about practicing more than one profession simultaneously. In my case I am nothing of what I wanted to be, but I don't regret it, I really like changes, I feel they are good.

Anyway, for the moment, my dream job is to become a minister of education, I imagine that it would be very formal and even somewhat bureaucratic, I could not say how much is the salary although I imagine that it is not low.
But I can imagine the changes I would make, I would like to focus much more on psychological care, I would eliminate the grading system and I would focus more on developing the skills and interests of the students.

I would really change the whole structure of the educational system, this is because in a certain sense we are victims and not protagonists of the learning process and academic formation, that is sad because we form the future generations badly and then the system punishes them for failing, when in fact they have failed them since they start their preschool stage.

choosing sociology as a career opens the necessary doors for me to fulfill my dream, it introduces me to a reality that is more aware of myself and others, it makes me question things and look for ways to solve them in turn.

 choosing sociology as a career opens the necessary doors for me to fulfill my dream, it introduces me to a reality that is more aware of myself and others, it makes me question things and look for ways to solve them in turn.

 I hope someday to fulfill that dream, and if I am not the one to do the work, I don't mind as long as the change is made.

THE BEST HOLIDAYS EVER

The best vacation i have had so far happened this summer in the month of january, maybe you would expect the place i went to to be wonderful, but the truth is that it was not. I went to vacation in the central literal to a small beach called costa sur. There we stayed in a small room. At that time I was accompanied by my boyfriend, my mother-in-law and my little brother-in-law.
We stayed almost a week but with my partner we had to leave early. The first day I arrived was a Monday, I will never forget it, and with my boyfriend we wanted to experience mushrooms for the first time in a deeper way.

 

Then we waited until mid-afternoon to eat them, I remember that after that we went for a walk to the hill and we felt the first effects of the decomposition of the mushroom in our organism, after being there for a while we felt like walking because we felt a little restless.
we returned from the hill to the cabin and began to notice the drug in our senses, our perception changed and our happiness increased. everything made us laugh.
The most ordinary things became interesting and philosophical.

 

after that the effect became stronger and the visual hallucinations began, at that moment we went to the beach to sunbathe and enjoy the sea. but one moment it began to give me a lot of heat and being on that trip I just got rid of my clothes staying in my underwear and ran to the water very happy.

 
i don't really know how to explain it but i felt very comfortable with myself and that's rare, since i usually have many conflicts with my body, but that time i felt full and happy with all my imperfections. i think it was the first time i accepted myself as i am and i didn't repress my desire to run to the water if i wanted to do it.
when i felt the water was cold to the touch, at least i knew it since i couldn't feel it, i only felt a difference in temperature. i started to experience a connection with the sea and its waves. i was so happy to be able to enjoy the sea and see the landscape that i had the sensation of feeling connected with the world. suddenly i realize that i am thinking out loud, talking to myself and to the sea. i had the feeling that i was communicating with it in a certain way and that i could interpret it according to the strength of the waves. i also had the impression that the color of the water was pink with little sparkles, almost like a pink unicorn.   

After 3 hours of intensive bathing in the sea i came out and lay down on the sand and started to touch it with my hands, the grains were so clear that i could contemplate them and go back to my hands and touch them with my hands. they looked so sharp that I spread them down my arms and body, it was full of sand so I had to wash again in the sea and I spent about an hour more without realizing it. after that we went back to the cabin. we took the salt out of the body and got dressed I remember my boyfriend talking with a cup and it was very funny, after that we went to the mechanical games there and I got dizzy, obviously the effect had already dropped considerably, but I still had sensations.

in the end I had 8 hours of travel and it was quite an experience. I thoroughly enjoyed it and felt grateful to myself and the universe for existence itself. it was such a deep connection and I reflected on so many things that changed my outlook on life. I definitely recommend it, at least once in your life open your hearts and minds to a unique and very natural experience.

if you wonder about its harmful effects, it doesn't have them. being part of the fungi kingdom and an organic product does not cause mental alterations of ninigún type. the only caveat is that it is not suitable for use by people suffering from schizophrenia, since the hallucinations could become very real and could suffer an effect that keeps the hallucinations for the rest of your life, even if you do not use drugs again. otherwise I recommend having a responsible consumption and always be accompanied by someone who does not consume and can take care of them in case of any risk. I also recommend eating a lot of milk if you want the effect to end sooner

1. A Country I`d Like To Visit

 

 Hello everyone, mi name is Hellen Contreras and i want to tell you about the country i would like to visit:  Mexico 

I like the country because of its rich culture since it is a mixture of different cultures such as pre-Hispanic, Spanish (after the conquest), it also contains a bit of African culture due to the period of slavery. The most rooted in its history are the Olmec, Mayan, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, Toltec, Mixtec among others

 

The country is known for its varied gastronomy and as a freak fact, only in Mexico are more than 60 varieties of corn recognized, with which different preparations are made. They are also recognized for their spicy food, which includes varieties of peppers, beans and spices. Some examples are tamales, chiles en nogada, barbecue, carnitas, pozole, etc. The mexican music stands out for including wind, string and percussion instruments. Among the best known genres are the rancheras, the corridos, the Sinaloa band and the mariachis, the latter are recognized by UNESCO as a world heritage site.

Some traditions that are most recognized worldwide are: the day of the dead, which consists of placing an offering with photos of relatives and loved ones who have passed away. The representative elements of the offerings are the cempazúchitl flower, chopped paper, incense and food to the liking of the honorees, as well as sugar skulls with the names of the living.

 Another tradition is the day of Kings and el Día de la Candelaria

On January 6 of each year, Mexican families gather to eat the Rosca de Reyes, made of sweet bread with caramelized fruits and inside it there is a plastic or ceramic doll. The thread is cut into several pieces and distributed among the attendees. The one who has taken out the doll in his portion, will be the one who invites the tamales on Candlemas Day. This one is celebrated every year on February 2 to celebrate the Virgen de la Candelaria. The traditional dishes of the festival are atole and tamales. The festival consists of the purification of the Virgin and dressing the child of God to bless him in the church. It is one of the most important traditions in Mexico.

 

I would like to visit this country because I find it very interesting and the reason why I would leave is to continue studies and do another training at the National School of Anthropology and History. Also more interested in its climate, its beaches, varied artists, in addition there it is easier to get hallucinogenic mushrooms and its field in scientific research on mental illness is more advanced

 Anyway, I hope you liked it and I hope to visit it soon <3<3<3

Tell us about a subject you enjoy studying

 hello again

This time, I will talk about a subject that I like to study. In the previous blog I talked about Professor Asun, he taught me that social psychology existed. This is a branch of sociology that combines psychological knowledge about behavior to explain collective behavior

 

I have taken a particular liking to this subject, since in my opinion it is key to the advancement of the sociological school and also offers a psychological profile of the masses that has provided other avenues in the formulation of new theories.

When studying social psychology I learned that a curious phenomenon occurs within society, since when we are in the presence of a conflict, whatever its nature, our willingness to help will depend on the number of people who witness this event, for example: if we witness a fight or violence, we will see that a kind of shared responsibility is generated by those who observe the fight, however, if many people observe the fight, less likely to intervene immediately or react to it. This is because by sharing the responsibility, the individual feels that someone else will interfere and that it is not necessary for them to participate. 

 

What I liked most about the subject is that before I started studying my career, I thought that it was only useful to treat people individually or at internal structural levels, this does not mean that it was not of interest to me, on the contrary, I liked it very much, but my social commitment made me choose sociology. Anyway, I hope you liked my blogs, it was a nice experience. 

Take care.

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