My relationship with english

We are reaching the end of the semester and this is the last post (unless I do not approve the course), and the subject to be discussed is the relationship with English, I assume that I am not an expert in this language, I can read and write basics things but when it comes time to listen or speak it even if I put all my effort what I understand or say is different from the original meaning.

Before entering the university, English was one of the subjects that caused me more fear, but once inside I realized that they were more fun than in my school, I thought that the classes would be chairs of grammar or things like that, but Instead they are interactive classes, with many exercise guides and classes designed to write blogs like this.

Blogging I liked it, I consider it a great idea to help us express ourselves in written form in English, also helps us to see what our classmates think about the topics of each post. At first it was difficult for me, but moving forward in the semester we can say "let go of the hand" and ideas flow more quickly.

Nowadays English is fundamental, in my career is very important, books, essays, publications are in English. Doing a self-assessment I consider that although I pass this course I must continue studying English, maybe take a course in summer or classes that fit my future schedule of classes, I want to be able to converse in English fluently, which I consider my weakest point regarding this language .

I feel that I made a change with respect to English, before I tried to avoid books, websites, videos or other things that were in this language, but now I try to understand and in case of not knowing a word I turn to a dictionary or translator. Films and series I prefer to see them in their original languages ​​since when they are doubled to Spanish they do not necessarily say the same thing.

That's it all, bye!

Changes to my study programme

What changes would I make to the chemistry and pharmacy program? It is  not an easy question to answer when I am in first year; In addition, since this year a new curriculum has been implemented, which somehow maintains the essence of the previous one, since the first years are still of a basic formation regarding the sciences (chemistry, physics, mathematics, biology) Subjects that are introductory to the career, such as the pharmacist and its action or the drug and its evolution, which I consider to be significant in the development of the career. I think I still can not see which areas are not being fully developed in the curriculum.  

Although the curriculum is designed for us to use 45 hours a week to study, I feel it is not enough for me, especially because I have a lot of dead time on the move from my home to university and upside down, definitely if I could improve travel times all would be easier.  At university I feel that the facilities, at least the laboratories are adequate to what we develop, there is material for everyone to work, if something breaks, they replenish it immediately, in addition that learning by doing is a good teaching method. But not everything is so perfect, in some hours of the day all places to study are filled (library, study rooms) and it is difficult to find a place where you can study comfortably; At lunchtime the available tables are finished quickly and we end up eating sitting on the grass or on the ground, although these facts do not influence the curriculum generate a disagreement in relation to the environment.  

So far I feel that the career has adapted to the new technologies, the fact that the university has its platform (u-cursos) seems amazing, and for example making these blogs in English is a way to use the technology to our favor  

Needless to say, good bye.

Summer Holidays

We are already finishing the year, and the holidays are so close, but there is still so much to do, and just think I stress hahaha. Soon I will be free of pressures, regaining the energies to start a new year. The only thing I dislike about summer holidays are the high temperatures, I'm not a fan of the sun and the heat, I prefer the winter completely. 

I'm almost sure that the first day of vacation what I will do is sleep and just get up to eat, is perhaps what I like most this season of the year, because I can sleep quiet and I am totally relaxed. 
   
Although every year my holidays are the same, because we travel to my grandmother's house in Alhué, I really love them and I enjoy them to the fullest, this year will not be the exception and probably travel a couple of weeks in February. I love this small town to the south of the metropolitan region of Chile, surrounded by hills, with its cobbled streets, its central square where the town meets and its clean air. Also on summer nights the town comes alive, the square is full of food stands and games. At the end of February the town celebrates its anniversary, during a week there are several activities, bike races, races, parade of floats, festival of the voice, and free shows with singers, bands and comedians that appear in the park or in the stadium town.  

I look forward to going on vacation soon and enjoying free time. 

Drugs

Day by day we are exposed to a world full of drugs, both legal and illegal, we find people addicted to coffee, cigarettes or alcohol, we can also say to the internet or to sugar, legal drugs and that we almost do not consider dangerous and are Potentially destructive, and we probably know more than one person who uses illegal drugs, such as marijuana, LSD, cocaine and others.

I consider myself a sugar addict, maybe I was an ant in a past life, I love everything sweet, cakes, cakes, cakes, muffins, and desserts are my weakness, I know that a high consumption of these foods can lead me to present diseases like Diabetes, however I feel the need to eat something sweet, especially mid-afternoon with a bitter coffee; As in times when I have anxiety, I'm not calm until I eat something sugary.

With the other drugs I present different relations, I love coffee a lot, at breakfast and in the middle of the afternoon, with boiling water or iced coffee, bitter or sweet, I just love it. Cigars do not call my attention, I dislike the smell, it gives me headache sometimes. Alcohol came into my life a few years ago, I used it at parties, together with friends or with family, everything depends on the situation, taking "terremotos" at the “18” or champagne for new year.

Last summer it happened that I drank more than the bill, it was a very crazy night, a friend almost stopped him, I talked to a lot of unknown people, I danced in the street, then I had small mental gaps, then I felt very bad, I vomited, I I turned pale, I was dizzy, despite all that the other day I woke up as if nothing had happened to me.

Within my circle of closest friends, the most frequent illegal drug is marijuana, used to leave reality for a while and laugh at everything, regarding hard drugs I know friends of friends who consume them, but I do not have a greater relationship with them.

Post Graduate studies

It is difficult to think that I want to study once I finish my university studies. At the moment I am studying the second semester of pharmacy in the university, I am very happy with the career, I feel it was a good choice. I think that at present it is not possible to stay stagnant, it is necessary to constantly update knowledge, and for this there are different opportunities.

As mentioned in the previous post, someday I want to have my pharma movil, to be able to meet this goal choose a course of entrepreneurship, business administration or something similar, I also find natural medicine interesting, so I would like study the topic with more depth

I would like to study here in Chile as well as in other countries, possibly in European countries, so that I can get a different look than the one presented here; In addition to being able to know other places.

I hope to start working when I finish the career, to be able to stay and live in one place, to be a student with a job on schedule and to be in a place close to a place where I live and work to save travel time and I would have time to study or rest

I think I would also like to learn other languages, English is basic in the real world and I think that I should learn to listen and speak it well, I also like to learn French and although it seems not so common I would like to learn Latin.

My future

When I was a little girl, I thought that in the future I could be a chef, astronaut or actress. In this time the future didn't important for me.  

Later, I didn´t want to grow old. I didn't know what wanted to do with my life. I felt that everything was moving very fast, the school, the years, my life.  

When I was 17 years old, I began to think about the future, what I liked and what I wanted. 

Today I study pharmacy, and I hope to work like a pharmaceutic, I would like work in different places like laboratory, hospital or pharmacy, also work in other countries, like France, Denmark or Holland.  

After to work of this form I would like go to live to a little village in the countryside in centre south of Chile and in this place put my pharmacy, but not a simple and common pharmacy, I really want, someday, have my pharma-mobile and I would go to remote villages without pharmacy to bring them medicines. 

My mom say me that I have the same dream that her mother, my grandmother wanted be a "meica" and give natural medicines to people, she wanted buy a 2CV (citroneta) and go through the countryside's villages. 

I also hope to start a family, married and have children. However I most want is to be happy, today and always.