English Language Challenges

The year is ending and the beautiful moment arrives that the classes are over and i do not have to write more blogs

The English class of this semester was the same as the previous two, the only thing that changed was the schedule and do not know how felt the rest of my classmates but for me it was horrible have to get up early all Monday's to go to English.

I really do not like the class and I'm not very participative, and having computers available did not help my concentration ability.

In the English class I had to write blogs about topics that the teacher gave us (is the only reason why I create a blog) and this was one of the worst experience of this English course and the previous one, because It is very boring I hate write about topics that do not matter to me.

I love the language, I love watch movies in English, listen to music in English, etc. Usually with I try to speak in English when I am bored or when I want improve my pronunciation that with the grammar is an aspect that I need improve.

In conclusion I am very happy that I finishedthe English course, because next year I will have available the time that I spent in this subject to occupy it in the rest of my subjects that are most important.

Changes to my study program

As I mentioned before I am in second year studying forestry at the University of Chile these two years have gone well, but my last semester has been a bit more difficult and I am freaking out with the idea of failing a subject.

In my career they changed the curriculum five years ago, and was changed it for a "competition-based plan", honestly I do not know what that means but I think it's better than the previous program

I hope to finish my career in 3 more years, but this semester there are a couple of subjects that have made it difficult for me. The main one is biometrics, because I need a high mark in the exam to pass it  and in case I did not get to pass the subject, I can not go to practice and I would delay a year in the career (And that would be veeeery bad).

I do not know if I would change any subject in my program of studies, If someone asked me about that I would not know what to answer. I could say that I would take subjects like statistics, biometrics, among others but I would say it only because I do not like those subjects because i know that those are necessary in the career.

I think my unique suggestion for my study program is that the names of the subjects be not so long. For example in the first year one of the most important subject is called "Characterization and Interaction of the Biotic and Abiotic Components of Ecosystems" and I think it unnecessarily very long.

Summer holidays

  

In my holidays since I was a little girl I go to La Serena during January and to Temuco during February.

 I have two aunts who live in those cities and it is something amazing because I love go and spend my holidays in those cities.

But everything changed upon I start to study forestry in university

My last holidays were more boring than usual because during last January I had practice for the university and lost two weeks of my vacation and I could not go to La Serena like every year.

But I was able to tour many places in region X and I spent a weekend in Puerto Varas with my friends.

During February I went to Antofagasta for one weekend (I went to my uncle's marriage) And the rest of the month I worked in a clothing store.

In summary the only entertainment I did on my last holiday was trekking and swimming in the pool.

But the next holidays will be different because I will go to Viña del Mar for a week and then go to the practice of the university for two weeks (If I pass biometrics) one week will be in Pantanillos and the other in Malleco.

And in February I will go to Machu Picchu and visit different parts of Peru and Bolivia for 20 days.

I'll go with my boyfriend and with a friend and I am very excited about this trip because it will be a lot of fun and a great experience

Astronomy

I don’t know much about this topic, but I find it very interesting and complicated in the sense that investigates the universe, which I believe is one of the most difficult areas to study because it isn’t something tangible and many people think it's infinite.

Two years ago I went to Mamalluca Observatory located 9 kilometers Northwest of Vicuña in the region of Coquimbo.

I went with my dad and two cousins during the holidays and it was a fun trip, we bought the tickets in Vicuña and we had to wait two hours in Vicuña, and it was a little boring because it was 12 AM and there was nothing open and our tour started at 2 AM.

After a long wait we had to go to the observatory and this was very large and the sky looked beautiful full of stars.

When we first arrived the astronomers of the observatory gave us a talk about the universe and the earth, then we were taught to recognize different constellations (And the guide gave us a very powerful laser). We visited a giant telescope (It was the best part of the tour) in which we could saw Saturn (And it was amazing because I never thought I would see her rings). And finally we visited the museum and we returned to La Serena.

It was an incredible experience in which I could learn more about astronomy.