English Language challenges

Hello everyone, in this blog I will talk about my experience learning English at university.

My experience hasn´t been as useful as I thought, I feel like, because this course isn’t directly involved with my major, this class is not prioritized in the curriculum, so I ended up focusing more on other courses instead of this one, and I haven´t learned as much as I wanted to. Nevertheless, I always tried keeping up with the assignments and handing the blogs and videos on time, and I do think that if I had been more motivated to attend the classes and focus more on the blogs, I might have learned more things.

About the use of blogs, I do feel that this method of learning helped me familiarize myself more with English grammar and writing in a cohesive and coherent way. I also thought the topics that we discussed in the blogs were interesting.

Regarding the things that I need to improve, I think I mainly must improve my grammar and my vocabulary, because I consider them difficult aspects to learn. I feel like I should practice them more by writing about topics that are entertaining and interesting to me.

Outside the class, I use English to understand the lyrics of the songs that I like and to watch shows in which the characters speak in English. I also use it to read some articles for other classes that are written by English speaking authors.

Thank you for reading my blog, and hope you have a nice rest of the semester!

Changes to my study programme

 Hello everyone, in this blog I will talk about some changes that I think could be made to my study programme. 

In the first place, in general, I consider that the curriculum of the sociology undergraduate programme it's very complete but I would like to make a critique about a specific subject that is taken by every major that takes part in the faculty of social sciences. This subject is called “Curso de Facultad”  or faculty course and this is the first time that I have to take this class, and in my experience, it isn't going very well because the amount of work that we have to do in this subject is not equal to the quantity of skills that we learn in the class. This subject works as an online program and tries to develop skills that were already taught before like writing and learning to have a better understanding of academic literature, so in the end it just gives more work to the students but without teaching them anything useful. For instance I would take this subject out of the curriculum. 

In the second place, I think the faculty facilities and infrastructure in the faculty of social sciences aren´t optimal because there isn't enough space for all the classes that are taken at the faculty. So because of the lack of space the students have to find other ways to accommodate to the situation and carry out other academic activities. 

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Time travel to the past or future

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In this blog I will talk about traveling to the future or the past.

To be honest, I really wouldn't like traveling to the future because it doesn't make sense to me. I think it would be very boring to know exactly what is going to happen with your life, if you go to the future and then come back to the present nothing would be new, it would feel like you’re watching a movie for the second time, and everything would be very predictable. 

In my case, if I had to choose between traveling to the future or past I would prefer going to the past because I would like to experience a different lifestyle and a system that is not the same as the one that we have in the present. 

I would like to travel specifically to the moment before the french revolution so that I can experience a life before capitalism and know from my own experience how people lived in that type of society. 

As much as I would like to experience a different type of life, I wouldn't like to stay there for too long, because I would miss my life too much and I would also miss the people that I love who live in the present. 

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I’ll see you in the next blog!

My dream job

 Hello everyone, 

In this blog I would like to talk about a job that I would like to have after I finish university. This job consists of doing social studies research for organizations that focus on the area of social inequality. I imagine that this job will give me the chance to learn about other realities and help to improve their wellbeing and give solutions to the problems that affect different communities, from the information gathered on the investigations. 

The skills that I will need for this job are being capable of organizing and planning different studies, having the capacity to persevere through rough and complex situations and having knowledge about the different methods that are used to study the social realities. I will also need to be patient, to have social skills, to be observant and to be able to work with people and treat them with respect. 

I would like to travel for my job, but mainly inside my country because I would like to learn more about the different communities that live in the country, though I wouldn't dislike traveling to other countries. 

I haven't searched for much information about the salary but I hope it's enough to live the life that I want to live. 

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See you in the next blog!

The best concert

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In this post I will talk about the best concert I’ve ever been to, which was Tata Barahona´s show.

I went to this concert in November of last year, in the Centro Arte Alameda. This concert lasted about two hours. Tata Barahona is a Chilean singer and songwriter; his songs are about the social themes that are present in Chilean society.

The atmosphere at the event was intimate because the venue wasn´t big and there were few people there, and it was also very relaxing and peaceful.

I enjoyed this concert because Tata Barahona is my favorite artist and I´ve been wanting to see his show for a long time. I felt very touched and happy because I finally got to see him live and listen to his songs, and he also shared a conversation with his audience, which was nice.

 Besides that, I went there with my girlfriend, and I bumped into my best friend and her boyfriend.

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A country you would like to visit

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In this post I will talk to you about the country that I would like to visit.

I would like to go to Mexico, because the culture of this country is very broad and interesting, and I would like to learn more about it. In this country it´s possible to find a wide range of cultures and traditions, since before the Spanish invasion there was a diversity of indigenous groups that lived in this territory, and there also was an important civilization, which was the Mayas. After Spanish invasion, the cultural resistance from de indigenous groups caused a cultural and religious syncretism, which is still visible in today´s Mexican society. Because of this, I would like to visit museums and temples that have information about this indigenous groups and their culture.

I would like to study there because I think that it´s important to create more knowledge about social studies from Latin America, since most of the investigations about social studies come from North America or Europe.

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