English Language Challenges

English is a language that we all should speak, is a universal language and learning it opens a million of doors to many opportunities in life specially for your future job.

I have been learning english since I was born. My parents used to speak to me in english when I was a little girl and that helped me a lot.
At school I always had english native speakers which helped me so much with my listening, vocabulary and my speaking that I achieved my FCE Cambridge certificate in 2015.

Now I´m in english 4 at university and it has been a really different experience. The using of blogs has been a challenge for me because I am not used to write in english specially blogs, which is not that easy because you have to order all your ideas and try to explain yourself as good as you can so people can understand what you are writing.

I think my english is really good and I practice it a lot with some friends I have from different countries and with some family members that are from the United States.
Also, I am constantly watching movies and series like pretty little liars in english which I understand almost everything.
I think my writing is the worst area of my english but these semester I have practiced a lot because of the blogs we have to write about different topics so I think I have improved a lot.

I think english is already a part of my life and I want to keep learning it for the rest of my life because we never stop learning new things.

Changes to your study programme

This year has been a whole experience because I change from school to university which it turned out to be a whole change in every aspect of my life.

I´m studying food engineering in the University of Chile, and until now i´m very happy with my decision because I have subjects that I really like but of course we always want to change things in any situation that we are and in this case I have a lot of things that I would change.

My career lasts 6 years, which in my opinion is a lot of time. The 2 first years are only leveling of the subjects from school but of course a little bit harder, we have Chemistry, Math, Physics, Laboratories, English, Biology and introduction to food engineering. For me this subjects are among the career but it should be more focused in our area than on leveling.

My Faculty is not that big, which I think is ok but there are some buildings that we should have but we don´t. For example a casino, we don´t have our own casino to have lunch or breakfast, we have to use one from another faculty which I think is not correct. Also, our library is so small for all the students, there are not enough tables so we don´t have a normal space to study.

According to the classes, personally my attention lasts only 40 minutes, and our classes lasts one and a half hour so you can imagine how hard is for me to stay awake the whole class. I believe that with practice and an interactive class, students should learn much better than sitting in a chair listening to a teacher for such a long time.
Nowadays we have so many technology which is very useful for a lesson and teachers don't take advantage of it, for example the using of computers, watching a video, or just playing games during the class are methods that can keep the students focused on what is important.

Learning should be fun so it can really motivate teenagers to keep studying and not to lose control with so many stress.

Summer Holidays

Summer is finally coming and we can feel it in the atmosphere because we already have 30 degrees and it will be even more when summer starts. 

In my university the year will be ending on  January 20th so i'm not happy that we are going to loose 3 weeks of summer holidays but anyways it's something. 

My holidays will start the same day that we finish classes because I will travel back to my hometown Antofagasta  just to chill with my family and enjoy the beach with my friends.

In the north of Chile, near to my city, there is a big beach called "Hornitos" (the name means oven so you can imagine how hot it can be) and we will go there for about a week with my family and dogs to relax and spend the hot days at these beautiful place.

After that at the middle of February i'm planning with my friends to go to "La  Serena" for about one week  because one of them has an apartment there so we have a place to sleep. there are a lot of things we can do there, like going to the sea, playing with some water games like canoes, banana boat, etc. there is also a lot of places to go at night like discos and pubs. Anyways, any place with friends is fun. 

If I get the chance, I would also like to work somewhere as a waitress for about 2 weeks so I can earn some money for the trip with my friends. 

I have waited for this summer as much as any other because these year has been really tough and I really need a break so i'm looking forward to it!

Addiction: From coffee and tea to drugs of abuse

A drug is any substance other than food when inhaled, injected, smoked, consumed or absorbed causes an effect on your body such as euphoria, relaxing, etc.

Nowadays on every party or any social event we always see people drinking alcohol or smoking marihuana, for me is something so common and I have tried both of them.

With alcohol everything seems to be fun even if the party is not, and I feel like I have so much self-confidence that I can do everything I want, but anyways there are also bad experiences that I would not like to explain.
When I tried marihuana I felt like flying and so relaxing that everything I wanted to do was just sleep, and thats why I don´t like it.
When you see people smoking weed they just look like they are in another planet and looking nowhere but fortunately I don´t know anyone who has any drug addiction.

When people consume so many drugs can get a drug addiction and this can get several consequences for our body such as high blood pressure, respiratory depression, coma, hepatitis, heart failure,  premature delivery, lung damage, etc.
But some people uses some kind of drugs because of its benefits, for example marihuana can help people with diabetes, Alzheimer, epilepsy and also depression or anxiety.

The abuse of drugs can cause big problems not only for our body but for our future and style of life. Relationships can be affected and also your career because the drug becomes more important than those things.

Post Graduate Studies

Nowadays is so important to have post graduate studies so it can help you to learn more about your career  and also your curriculum to get good jobs in good companies.
I'm studying food engineering in the University of Chile and everyday I like it more and more so every time i'm getting more interested about learning new things and asking to me what can I do in the future to be a  good professional.


After I graduate from university I would like to go somewhere like United States or somewhere in Europe like Spain, Holland, Germany, etc to get a doctor's degree in some scientific area for a semester or a year so I can also get the chance to learn from that country and get to know new places.
It would be perfect if it is a part-time course so I can work during the year, maybe a practice about my career  or just a normal work.

I'm not sure about what specific subjects I want to learn during this studies because is hard to say it when you just started university but it would be perfect to have some laboratories, biochemistry, microbiology, etc.

Maybe i change my mind, maybe not, I still have 5 years to decided so I open my mind to new possibilities and ideas.  

Your future Job

Thinking about my future Job is not that easy because I just started my studies this year and I don't have everything clear about my future but I can think about an ideal job.

In 6 year I would probably be done with university so I would start looking for a Job. In my career we can work in different areas like Administration, Innovation, Quality, etc.

For me the most interesting areas are Innovation and Administration so my ideal job is to work in a big company of food so I can help  creating new products related to the field of the career because in the world the industry of food is growing every year and new products are coming out so I would like to create one who can help the health of everyone not only national but international too so I can travel representing this company in other countries because I love to travel and it can help me to get new ideas as well. Working here should be perfect to start so I can get enough money to have a normal life. But maybe I would not like to stay here forever so I would also like to create my own company with innovative products who can have all nutrients to keep a healthy life because today's problem is that people is not eating the way they should and so many unhealthy products are available for everyone that we as food engineers have to stop these and give good solutions.

Digressing about music: songs, dances, melodies, groups, films ...

Music for me is something that makes me happy everyday and reminds me of some moments of my life. 

My favourite type of music is pop and house music. The first one I like to hear it when i'm studying, when I'm at the metro station or just when I'm chilling at home, and the second one I enjoy it more at partys. My favourite pop singer is Taylor Swift, her music is so inspiring and  girly so I see myself in many of her songs but everyday I hear so many other artists like Sia, Alicia Keys, Adam Levine, etc.

When I was a kid, I used to like Tokio Hotel and now I feel so embarrassed about it because I had my room full with pictures of them and also clothes, I was a "superfan" and suddenly after I went to the concert all my love for them just disappeared.

There are songs that brings you so many memories about situations or movies. For example the soundtrack from "Life is Beautiful", a song that will always reminds you of that movie. Another song is "No time" from "The fault in our stars". 

In my family instruments are so important, we all lerned once how to play one. In my case I love to play the guitar and the piano, it relax me and makes me forget about any stress in my life. Also I like the violin, I don't play it but I like to hear it, I think is a beautiful intstrument with so nice melodies. 

Life without music would be so boring and sad. It makes everything shine and special. 

Our amazing human body: ... Our eyes.

Everything in the world, colors, people, places, etc can be seen just with one thing of our body, the eyes. I think they are an amazing organ because they give us the power of vision, it works like a camera. Without it we couldn't live like we do it everyday and we had to change our lifestyle.

Eyes are organs from the visual system, They detect the light and convert it into electro-chemical impulses in neurons. In the human eye we have different parts of it that controls the system, First it has Lens, if focuses the objects by their distance. Then it has the Pupil it controls the amount of light and its size is controlled by the Iris.

The Human eye is about 2,5 cm of diameter, but it depends on every person. 

Every part of our body can sometimes not work as it should, and that depends on many factor. In the case of the eye we have different problems that can appear during our life. The most common are:

1.- Myopia: When the eye can't easily see objects from a long distance.

2.- Farsightedness: When the eye can't easily see objets from a short distance.

3.- Astigmatism: When the object is seen confused and distorted. 

They can all be fix with special glasses.

According to the Eye National Institute, to keep our eyes healthy we have to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, also  knowing your family record about any eye illness so it can help to prevent, another thing is that we should check them once a year with a doctor and protect them with sunglasses. 

In conclusion the eyes are a very important and sensible organ which we have to protect a lot.

Your best holidays or concert ever.

When I think about holidays I can't stop thinking about summer, family, fun, travelling, beach, etc. 
Choosing the best one in my life is not that easy, but I will always remember the one in summer 2016.

On february of that year I travelled with my mom, dad and brother to Punta Cana and Miami for 1 week each. 

In Punta Cana we stayed in "Bavaro Princess Hotel", a big hotel in front of the beach with beautiful rooms and 7 restaurants with different types of food (Indian, Chinese, Tailand, Italian, etc). There you have  a lot of activities to do like dancing, sports, club, casino and everynight there was a different show at the theater. 
With my family we went one day to drive boogies around the city but  you also get so dirty with mud, it sounds disgusting but it is really fun. 

The second week we travelled to Miami, it was exciting too, the first days we just went shopping to this big outlets where you can find very good clothes for a lower price. Then, we went to visit the Key West (southernmost tip of the Florida Keys), its like 5 hours from Miami. We also did these tour around the Island of famous people, where you can see the mansions of Shakira, Will Smith, Madonna, etc. 

In conclusion I can say that these Holidays were perfect for me because I spended a lot of time with mi family before I moved to Santiago so I enjoyed it so much. 

A country you would like to visit.

Traveling is an exciting way of learning about cultures, history and incredible landscapes. Everyone wants to go somewhere because of movies, a documentary or just because is famous.

If you ask me I would say Spain because there is beautiful beaches with a lot of night life and cities with so many history and a lot of  interesting old buildings.
Spain is the third country in the world with more monuments declared world heritage so I would really like to see many of them.

What I would like to do in Spain is going to Barcelona, Madrid, Salamanca and Ibiza. Those cities are the ones I would like to visit the most because I have seen pictures and they look so amazing.
I would like to study there for a semester after I finish my studies here so I can get to know new people and learn how it is to live there.

I hope I can go there someday!