Last post!

I can’t believe how fast has passed this year. We’re almost finishing classes and this is already the last post! I’m scared about feeling that the time flies, we’re getting older every day and there is still a lot of things I want to do but I don’t know if the times will be enough to do everything.

Well, talking about today’s topic, I liked this subject, because I had been like 3 years without English classes, so I needed to strengthen the oral part, and practice. This subject has also allowed me to learn new things, so it has been really helpful, specially the blogs, that are a very good tool to improve the writing skills, when we redact our posts and reading, when we read and comment our classmate’s post.

I thing I still need to practice the spoken part. It has always been difficult to me to talk in English and sound naturally fluent; because I try to think in Spanish and then I translate it, but I’ve always heard that the better way to learn and speak properly is thinking in English the things you want to say, because you sometimes get “lost in translation”, some things are not translated as we understand it or they simply don’t have any meaning in our language. I think I should start reading books in English again (regrettably, with all the things I have to read and study at law school, every time I read less novels and see less my friends), start again watching movies in English without subtitles (thanks to law school again because I haven’t seen a movie in months).

Outside the class, I don’t have many opportunities to practice, but I have a friend that is dating with an Austrian girl, and as she doesn’t speak Spanish, and I don’t speak German, we talk in English, so is very fun to practice with her. Besides that, I just can dream with travelling to an English-spoken country and practice there.

My future job

When you start studying any career, you begin with a lot of expectations and think you will like every subject of the career you chose, because it will help you to get your title and work in the area you want (or at least I did).

Now I realize I have to face subjects or teachers I don’t like and things are not exactly as I expected, but I am still on my way to reach my goal: having my degree of lawyer. I have two future jobs I would like to have: being a lawyer at National Consumer Service or being a judge.

So far, I have not taken any major and try to learn new thing about that, but when it is possible, I would like to take courses about consumer protection and legal argument. 

I would like to have a job that keeps me in movement and always doing new things, and allows me to help people directly. I’m not the kind of law student that is only worried about the money they will earn when they work, I really want to make this world a fairer a better place for at least one person. But it doesn’t mean I will work for free, of course, people have to receive a fair remuneration after studying several years as hard as we do.

About my strengths and weakness, I could say I am very self-demanding. I hate doing things bad or making mediocre works, and sometimes I get very stressed with that… I think I should learn how to make things well without getting so stressed. I think that counts as a good and bad thing about me. Another weakness, is that I don’t like working with people, or having too much human contact xd I am kind of antisocial a lot of times. And a strength, I am very responsible and I will never present a demand out of time or something like that.

In two years more...

When I think about two years from now it looks to me like a lot of time… but when I start thinking about things that happened 5 years ago and I feel like they were yesterday, I realize that it is a very short time.

In two years I will be doing my third year at law school, a very tough year according what I’ve heard, and I hope I don’t fail any subject because it will take me more years to finish my career (and that is something  I really like to avoid). In third year you can postulate to study a semester abroad. You must have very good grades (along with a lot of money) to go, so I am trying since now to have a good grade point average, and save a bit of money too… in the worst case, if can’t go to study to other country, at least I would have had collected enough money for doing something fun.

I would like to do is going to Brazil with my best friends from here to years more. We always say we will do that trip, but we’ve never saved all the money that is required or agree a date… but I hope in two summers from here we can do that. Also boyfriend and I have always wanted to go to Punta Arenas, so if I can get a lot of money I could do both things.

What I can do now for trying to do that in the future is just saving money… I work all summer since 3 years ago, so it has allowed me to do things at holidays, for example, or to buy things that with the money my parent’s give to me I couldn’t get.

Other thing that I would like to do is being an assistant of civil right. It’s my favorite subject and so far I’ve had very good grades, but I will have to make merit because it’s very hard to be accepted when you are just in third year. So I will have to study a lot during these years and try to be the best student in my class to reach that goal.

 Hi there!

I think the most important place where you learn about environmentally friendly practices is at home. You can learn it at school, watching TV, by social networks, but I think the most important is practicing at your home.

My mom is very interested in the topic, so she has always taught to me and my sisters we must take care of the planet, the trees, the rivers, the gas, because is where we live and if we destroy our planet and waste all the resources, in the future we won’t have  a proper place to live. All the manufactured thing take years to degrade and being part of nature again, and while they stay as garbage they cause countless damage to the animals and environment.

I live in Ñuñoa, where like 5 years ago (I’m not sure) a recycling truck started picking all kind of plastic bottles an container, glass, bags, paperboards, tetra-pack boxes, old newspaper, cans… Since then we have 2 different dumpsters: one is for real garbage and other one is for recycling.

I love using my bike as mean of transport. Besides of saving money, I save gas, and that means less air contamination, along with making exercise. Sometimes I must use public transport, so I leave my bike at “bicimetro” station and take the subway. I think it is a very good action the State did, because allows you to mix both means. But there are still very few stations with that service, and sometimes is full.

In Santiago is missing several things, as a recycling truck in every commune, proper bikeways, and mainly, educate people about taking care of the environment. It would help us to have a better health and allow us to have a better quality of life.