Learning English

I think that the university making it mandatory as part of its curriculum is a good opportunity for students. It has been a good experience, has allowed me to meet people from other careers, even if they know much more than me and I feel that I don't know how to express myself in many situations. I think that the face-to-face classes are much better, but because as students we participate much more, in Zoom we are very shy which is problematic.

Writing blogs was more difficult than I thought it would be, because I couldn't find the right way to express what I wanted to say. I realized that I lack a lot of practice in this regard to get used to the correct use of verbs according to tenses, and I’ve been learning, but not as much as I would like.

I try to use English at home, generally when singing or watching movies in their original language, and not reading subtitles. I would like to have an English speaking family member to constantly practice English with.

Finally, I think that what I still find most difficult is to express myself according to the verb tenses, and my way to improve would be to continue writing in English, and someday to be able to travel to an English speaking country, where the daily use of the language is also very useful to learn and improve this aspect.

Psychology

I’m currently a Psychology student, I’m in my fourth year, with very little load due to a delay in my courses. For the same reason, I’ve been able to value more objectively my career and the subjects I’ve taken. Courses such as social history of Chile or anthropology, I consider them very necessary to situate us in the reality in which we have to go out to work once we practice. Regarding the academic load, I think it is adequate.

However, within the subjects of psychology, there is a lack of practical experiences in which we’re close to some of the realities of the various fields that psychology can deal with. Only this year I’ve had an approach where I’ve been able to see the work of a school psychologist, and it is very late considering that next year I’ve to decide in which area I would like to work.

In terms of infrastructure, the university has managed to meet the needs of the career, and the implementation of the various courses, for the number of students who enter each year.

Finally, the use of technologies is adequate, and the teaching staff is mostly qualified, except for a few cases, which can be explained by the fact that most of them don’t have a teaching care
er and are academics, so they may fail in teaching or evaluation methods.

Vikings!

I really like the belief that we exist in other forms in other times, and from that, an era that has always caught my attention is the time of the Vikings, their way of living life and linking with the gods that cared for them and drove them. 

What I would most like to do would be to make weapons, learn blacksmithing and meet the people who believed in sea dragons that would attack ships, and that they had to protect themselves. On the other hand, their lifestyle sheltered by the gods seems to me extremely amusing. Being able to battle and die, destined to pass on to the afterlife, where they would await the final battle against their gods or beasts that gave meaning to their existence, particularly appeals to me. 

However, I hardly think I would consider living there, because of how violent they were, how devastating they were to other peoples, their continuous abuse of women and razing any other culture to the ground seem to me, with my present eyes, atrocious acts. For the same reason, I think I would spend time in their villages, but not on the battlefields, and after learning, I would like to go back to my time, and keep that learning of what it was really like to live among Vikings.

A job do you like to have in the future

I think the job I would most like to do in the future would be to be a teacher. 

A couple of years ago I had the opportunity to teach history at a pre-university, where people from the lower income population attended. We not only did expository classes on universal history, Chilean history or civic education, we also invented activities so that students could learn in a better way.

What I like the most about teaching classes is to be able to open a space in the student's heads for them to recognize things they did not know, and that this leads them to think critically about the reality they live, so I believe that history is a very necessary tool to be useful people and generators of change in society.

Finally, the things that are most needed to teach classes are confidence in what one knows, to transmit that to the students, and closeness to what is going on in the student’s world, makes it easier to deliver the knowledge and make them have a good time learning.