A special summer with my family

The Best Holidays  in 2018

This year I fulfilled one of my dreams, with my parents I met the Marble Cathedral, thanks to the fact that my sister went to live in Puerto Aysén two years ago. The travel was during one month and lasted four days in car, we need climb four ferries. It was really exhausting. The weather was good, some days it was raining but others with sun and a lot of heat.

Everything was a beautiful place, where I looked, I found something interesting to photograph.What I remember most is the sound of Chucao singing, it's a bird characteristic of Patagonia, I also remember eating lots of Calafates, a small fruit from there like cranberries. 

The whole landscape was very green, surrounded by huge high hills, was the characteristic of Aysén. I met many places, such as Bahía Acantilada, Lake Riesco, Coyhaique, Puerto Río Tranquilo, Puerto Cisnes, among others. And the most important thing is that I really enjoyed my little nephews, since they live very far away and we see them very little during the year, I really miss them a lot.

It was a beautiful trip, I hope to return the next vacation to see my sister and my nephews.

A Country I'D like to visit

Spain.

The country that I will like know is Spain. It is located on the continent of Europe. Its neighboring countries are France and Portugal. It's capital is Madrid. Spain has autonomous regions, each one with different cultures.  

I will like learn about culture and architecture. Spain is a country with a lot of history , since it is very old. It is also very close to the other European countries that i wish to visit someday.

Spanish is spoken in Spain. If I will visit the Spain, I'd like know the Ibiza, this is a beautiful island located in the Mediterranean Sea. Ibiza is known for it's active nightlife an d it's a good tourist attraction.

I also intend in the future to be able to study exchange at the University of Balcelona. This University have a agreement with the University of Chile in the college of Chemistry and Farmacy. But I will think about this when I'm in my fourth year of study.

My experience writing blogs!

My experience writing blogs!

Hello everyone again, today we go with the post ten, which consists of telling my experience writing blogs. The truth is that I have always found English difficult, it's a real challenge to write in another language and on a little difficult topics, like thinking about the future, which is very ambiguous and difficult to think. Many times I had no creativity and it was complicated .

Anyway, I feel that it is a very good activity to practice writing, although in my case I always needed a lot of help. In general, I feel that I have improved my writing a bit, anyway I don't feel ready to write without the help of a dictionary, there are many words that I have not yet internalized and grammars rules that I still do not use well. I feel it was very funny, I was able to express what I wanted, put funny images and make this blog an entertaining space. 

I don't have clarity about what I would like to include in the future, but I would look for more friendly writing topics with what is happening now, so that they can be informed and at the same time practice. For the future I would like to expand the blog topics, I would like to talk about other things as well, such as about some hobby, some funny experience among others. 

Finally I appreciate the opportunity to live this experience as blogging, it has been useful in the field of learning in English and it has been fun this semester. bye!

About when I learned to drive...

  About when I learned to drive.

Hello again, I will talk about how and when I learned to drive. first I will tell you that my father is very machist, he never wanted to teach me to drive, instead my brother taught him to drive when he was 14 years old. For this reason, I decided to learn on my own. My brother helped me with the payment.

I always wanted to learn to drive, my limitation is that I was a bit afraid, but due to what people said, there is always talk about women driving badly. Wanted to know what it felt like, if it was difficult, to be able to be independent in the future and gain experience from a young age. I dared and I enrolled in a driving school in Maipú, in vacation of 2017.

I had a full month of practice 3 times a week, I had all the classes a round of 45 minutes with an instructor in the car, where he took me to more dangerous places and taught me techniques to improve. Sometimes I did it quite well, but sometimes I was very wrong. I remember once he took me to a street with a very steep slope and the challenge was that the car would not stop while climbing and braking. At the beginning it was difficult, but then I knew the technique, I also remember that my top of the foot hurt me a lot. 

Then I got my driver's license. It was a very good experience, though my dad does not lend me the car yet, but I can say that I know how to drive.

About a topic that I liked this semester

The Tutorial Action as a Training Experience for the Integral Development of Students.

Hello everyone, today I will talk about a CFG (general training course) that I had this semester, called "The Tutorial Action as a Training Experience for the Integral Development of Students". 

During the 5 years of the race we have to do 3 CFG. This semester I decided to do this CFG because the name caught my attention and I wanted to learn a little more about the TIP tutorials (pair of integral tutoring). 

First I will explain a little about what is a TIP tutoring. It's a program of the University of Chile, implemented since 2013, which has a main focus to accompany first-year students in the insertion to university life, since it is a big change to move from high school to university. This support goes both academically and strengthen an academic base and also improve social skills, as well as solve their doubts about university life. This program was implemented, since the University of Chile wanted to reach the entire Chilean population, for people who enter by special admission, so that everyone can study, enter this university and also stay, as it is more difficult.

In the CFG, I learned theoretical processes of how to be a good tutor, differences between a tutor, assistant and teacher. I learned about the limits one must have with students, about study skills, knowing the wide variety of students and taking into account sociocultural situations. We also talked about how to structure and plan a good tutoring.

Although it sounds boring, they were very didactic and entertaining classes. I thought there would be more theoretical and general classes, but this course surprised me, we analyzed the cases in groups, we talked and we shared a lot with people from other faculties and careers, it was a very enriching experience.

Finally, I can say that I liked it a lot, I would like to be a TIP tutor in the future and share my experience with more people.

First woman to graduate in Chemistry and Pharmacy

María Griselda Hinojosa Flores

Hello, welcome to blog number 7, today I have to write about someone in my professional field that I admire. It is a difficult issue, since I admire the work of many people, choosing only one is complicated, but I made this decision regarding the social context that is taking place today in my country.

María Griselda Hinojosa Flores, was the first woman to graduate from Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Chile. He received his professional title on December 4, 1899. He was born in Copiapó on April 20, 1875. At the beginning of the 20th century, together with Percival Rojas, they led the "Copiapó Botica y Drugstore.

 This was a first step for women to start studying, at that time it was very difficult for women to study because of machismo and the few opportunities they had.

At present, the arrival of feminism that seeks equality is being lived, this woman was the inspiration for many others who also studied chemistry and pharmacy, broke the paradigm that women could not study or were not able. That's why I admire her, for having the courage to overcome the macho prejudices of the time, to get ahead, thanks to this I think that if María studied chemistry and pharmacy, all women could also do it.

The Truth or Feeling Good?

The Truth or Feeling Good?

Hello again, now I will write about whether I prefer the truth or feeling good, in the sense of if I prefer to hide the truth to feel good. I think it's a very philosophical question, but it's something everyday in life. 

I feel that sometimes people can be very false and lie daily to look good and not offend others, I think it's okay to always tell the truth, however painful it may be. I prefer that they always tell me the truth, at least I always go with the truth ahead.

In the same way, it depends on the situation, it can happen that the truth is very painful, but I prefer the truth, in order to overcome it. Only depends on the form of tell the situation.

we need accepting the truth, know ourselves and face prejudices. Sometime we can receive a truth that can hurt us, but that serves to improve, to be able to see in what we are mistaken so as not to make the same mistake again.

These experiences will also help us face more difficult situations, overcome a painful truth can leave many lessons and we can learn to be stronger for the next time we receive some bad news.

Finally, regardless of the degree of the situation, I prefer the truth, it is always better to know, especially of the people who love you around you.