Blog VIII (Last blog!!!!!!!!!!): Essay About English Learning Experience.

English is undoubtedly one of the most popular languages around the world, in Asia, Africa, Europe, Oceania and America. The ability to speak English opens the doors to the world, is a requirement to leave our country, Chile, and it is also a very beautiful language.
The university has given us the opportunity to learn English, but I believe that I haven't learned something useful and good: if I were to speak now with a gringo I will not understand (nothing).

One of my greatest desires is to learn to speak English, but learn well. I would like to understanding what to say those who speak this language, and once understood his message, I would like to have the opportunity to respond, that is, I like to interact with them, so that both of us we could learn.

When I listen recordings of speakers of English I understand very little, and this has me somewhat worried, because I have studied this language by ten years aproximately and it seems that I don't progress, quite the contrary, seems to step back in my learning. I hope not to be a hopeless and learn this language some day.

But I think not just me who has trouble with English, many of my classmates also. When it comes to evaluations, we all get very nervous, and this produces the results of our assessments are not the best. What can we do to learn English? I know that we are completing this course, but I think it is worth saying that one of the important things to learning English is to feel an interest for the language.

We may conclude that English is a necessary tool for logara out into the world and become better professionals, but we must devote much time and effort, since it is not an easy issue.
English should be considered mandatory, but to make this language should be used to learn new strategies to attract more attention to students, and to involve them more in class time. The use of techniques such as "karaoke" can help to student to learn english, a complicated language for us.

Blog VII: Free Post: Music, my guitar and me.

When I was 16 years old, I recieved a beautiful present: my brother gave me a guitar! Wow, it was a very important moment for me, because I love music and guitars.
When I have time to play guitar, I try to feel the sound, I enjoy it. The problem is when I can’t play my guitar, for differents reasons: visits for example, or when somebody has a big headache in my house: I should resist the temptation!!!!.

The first song that I learned to play in my guitar was “Solo crees por primera vez”, a song of Lucybell, my favourite chilean band. I remember that it was in a afternoon of November (or December... I can’t remember very good). The idea is that it was at the end of year, a special day.

Play guitar is very difficult, overall because I have never had classes of guitar (sad :( ).

Who invented the guitar?

The guitar is a stringed instrument like any other, but it seems that it has no definite origin. The guitar is played around the world and different musical styles have born of this instrument, as folk music, pop, rock, cuecas, including cumbia! Who has not seen a guitar in a show? It is practically impossible to think that a guitar is not used in a presentation.

Guitars are very special. I think it is the most used instrument in the world. Although I like other instruments like the accordion, violin, piano, my guitar is my favorite.

Blog VI: Brain and Learning

Hello, this time I will speak about Pedro Maldonado`s talk:

Last Tuesday, we had the oportunity to be in a important presentation for our lifes, I speak about myths of brain, a very interesting topic for the world. One of the parts more important for me was when the expositor, Dr. Pedro Maldonado, spoke about “specials powers” of the brain. Sadly, he did a very short reference about it. I remember that he was trying to explain one neuromyths: we only use the 10% of our brain, and the 90 % is a “mistery”. If we use this 90%, we can develop special powers.
Wow!!!, can you imagine your brain with speacial powers???????? For example, telepathy... I can`t, It is too good for be true.

I have read about people that say have this powers, and makes videos to demostrate it, shows, etc., only to give a surprises to people.

In my opinion, I think that we have this powers. The problem is that we don't develop this capacity. I think that we can use it, but we, as human, are incomplete. We should be best everyday, thinking that we can use this capacities for help the world.

Other myth is about famale and male brain... do you think that brain between men and women is different? The answer is negative. Brain is the same in men and women, but always we have thought the opposite. Afortunatly, men and women have the same brain... Can you imagine different brains between women and men?

Blog V: Abortion 2.0

Hello, this time I would like to speak about the interesting Doctora Binfa’s exposition:

Last Tuesday, Doctora Lorena Binfa spoke about the situation of abortion in Chile. In general, the presentation was a brushstroke of the topic. The idea is to invite us to investigate in the area, because abortion will be an important topic in our future life.

Abortion, in general terms, is a big problem to many countries, specially, by birth rates. In Chile, it is not the case. Here, we can see how female population cries to have the power to decide about what do with the fetus’ life. Also, contraception is other important topic here. Do not forget that church involves a lot in government decisions.

From my point of view:

Population has the capacity to decide about own problems, but for me, abortion is not an issue on which to intervene: we can’t play with life, we can’t decide to other life.

In my opinion, we must be able to understand that life is not a game, not an option: we must know how far we can decide for the life of another, but not limited to stamp it out.

For now, I think we are far from reaching a consensus on policies related to reproduction and sexuality. We are a country which does not like to witness the reality of things, always dodge the truth of things. This is the problem we must first fix, find the real problem.

Abortion is a topic to discuss for a long time.

Blog IV: Stress

Hello, this time I will speak about “STRESS”, an awful problem for everyone:

Well, we know that this last years have been very specials: people are more irritated, overall by job, house’s problems, school, etc. Today, only we have time to stress. It’s bad: all things that we do are a failure.

Numbers shows that aproximately the fifty percent of the people of the world have had stress symptoms in a moment of their lifes (specially if they are associate to some of this topics: job, school problems, salary, family problems, etc.).

Many people have never thought that stress is a important social problem. For this, we should to find stress tipical symtoms: sleep problems, family problems, for example. The idea is preventing other worse consecuences.

For this reason, a lot of professionals are working to help in this problem, overall us: healt professionals. The test is awful, we are trying to do something very difficult: reduce stress indices in the population.

In others countries, healt professionals have helped to reduce this indices, with the diagnosing early to people with stress problems. For this, we study very hard in Chile.

We can not forget the goverment work about stress. The state and health ministry have been working in this topic for a long time. For example, integrating recreational time within working hours, leaving more time to spend with family, reducing the departure times, among others. The idea is create an harmonious society, more quiet:The idea is create a beautiful country, with “relaxed people”.

Blog 3: Emergency Pill

The emergency contraception pill is a very complicated topic in our country. Many women want to choose what do with her life, but always we can see problems about this decision. All the time church has an idea about the life an abortion. For example, some year ago we saw how women were protesting: we can do with our bodies and life what we want! Church won’t be a minute in say that contraception pill means: go against life, and life is a God’s present. Government has never referred to this topic, to avoid the answer of people.

In my opinion, from my point of view as a future midwife and actual student, I think: this pill isn’t an abortion pill, because it acts before the conception (I hope to be in the correct idea).
If we spoke about the Valenzuela’s paper, we would say that the situation is similar, but the discussion isn’t about the abortion effects, unless that they discuss about the pill’s effects during the fertile days (but, better we continue speaking about the previous topic).

To arrange the previous situation, we have to know that everybody in this world is a different person, and we will never be able to reach an agreement. The topic is complicated, because this one involves topics more confused: moral, religion, beliefs, manners, things that is very difficult to change. We must to put much of our part, leaving the prejudices of side, and respecting the opinion of other one; only this way we reach an agreement.

Blog II: Free Post: Music

This time I would like to speak about music:

Always I have believed that music is very necesary to live in this world. Music seems a drug…. Yes, the drug most bought!
Now, for example, I listen “Crazy”, an Aerosmith’s song. It’s great! Elena, a friend went to see this band. She says the show was incredible.
I think the commercial music is very funny, and I enjoy to listen it. The last commercial that I remember is of Arcor: In It we can listen the song “love hurts”, of Nazareth (when I watch the man sings, I can’t stop to laugh).

All my family enjoys to listen music, over all if we speak about dancing music. We downloaded music from Internet every weekends: we know that is bad, illegal, but the temptation is stronger (forgive us God, we can’t stop).
We think that buy a cd music is very expensive, compared with download free music in our hous. It is sad, but true: music is good, but expensive. We prefer: “fall in temptation”.
To finish, I would like to speak about the chilean music: this topic is very confused in our country, principally because we believe that this music is a copy of the american music, and, I don’t know if it’s right, but we should give an oportunity to our music: We should prefer music “made in Chile”, but we know that in likes, nothing is written.

I love music, I love this topic. This blog was very interesting.

Blog I: A BOOK THAT YOU HAVE LIKED

The topic of this blog is very interesting: the book that I love. Wow, I can speak about a lot of books, but in this oportunity I`m going to speak about “The Perfum, story of a killer”. I love this book because the story is good. If you want to think as me, you have to read the book; and I promise that you will enjoy while Jean-Baptiste kills to make the best perfum of the history (he`s the protagonist of The Perfum). Jean Baptiste have a peculiar caracteristic: he can smell as nobody in the world, but he doesn´t have odor. Patrick Suskind is the brain of this great story.
The first time that I read this book: I was 16 years old!: I was in the school. My teacher recomended us this book because he wanted do a test. Even, we saw the movie, but I thik that read the book is better than watch the movie (It isn´t the same).
The best of the story is Jean-Baptiste, a kid that doesn`t know what is bad, what is good. He only wants make the best perfum of the history, and for this, he kills the women with the best aroma of the city.
The end of the story is sad, but to know it, I recomend you read the book, because it will be boring if I relate it.
Only I want to have the oportunity to comment one more time this topic, becouse I would like to speak about: "Canción para caminar sobre las aguas" (Song to walk on water), other book that I read in the school and I love.

Blog 9: Last Blog!

After seeing all the blogs, I can say the following:

Always I had the same mistake: the structure of the sentence, for example; I forgot to use the word “than” when I made a comparative sentence, I didn’t put the verb in past when the sentence was in past, etc, etc. They were the most typical mistakes.
I learned some new words to use in “my poor American life”, for example, furthermore, treatment, etc; these words were freak for me, I didn’t know the meaning of them.
To be honest, I think this activities were a very useful tool for our course, because are an easy form to learn some of English, with the help of internet, of course. But I have a big complain: we have to travel to the English class, and any times I had to travel from Paine only to assist to the famous blog: I think that perfectly we can make the blog in our house. In my opinion, the teachers should make some corrections in the program.
Always the topics were very interesting, overcoat for our future profession. We wrote about our ideal job, for example. When I read the blogs of my classmates, I feel blog is useful, because we can write about topics that don’t speak in classes, principally because we don’t have any time to it.

Last blog….. blog no more!

BLOG 8: Your Ideal Job.

I would like to work in public sector, principally because always I have liked to help poor people (I tell it because I suppose rich people don’t’ go to public hospitals…. they hate the public system!!!).
Well, I prefer to work in an enjoyable environment, natural and welcoming, but, it’s very difficult to find a place with these characteristics; only I hope don’t find an awful place, with unpleasant people: I don’t like to work with bossy people, for example. I just hope to treat nice people.
I would like to treat needy person, that don’t have resources to pay our service, I will work this problem because I fell responsibility to help them.
I have had some responsibilities, but care a pregnant is the biggest test for me, overcoat because I should care for two lives: mother and fetus: I just hope that everything goes well; I wouldn’t like to lose my job!
About my position in my ideal job, I would like to be “the head”, principally because I know that I can manage takes.
To finish, in my opinion, all my classmates will have their ideal job, because I know they are the best, and they can confront anything.

BLOG 7: GRAMMAR REVIEW

One day, a boy found a strange rock, his name was Tony. He thought that it could be a beautiful present for his grandmother. Next day he visited her. In the street to the house he saw a strange being between the trees. He approached to it, and he discovered an alien! Tony thought that this being was awful and bad, but he was wrong. He looked for the rock; and Tony said him that he had it. Suddenly, they heard a big sound in the wood…… It was the enemy of the alien, “Badman”. Badman wanted the beautiful rock to control the universe. Then, Tony and the friendly alien run. Then, the alien advantage to say his name to Tony: Pichiruchi. They run for a long time, while Badman looked for the rock. Tony didn’t know that Badman killed his grandmother. He was the worst of the worst. Next day, Tony and Pichiruchi went to the house, and they found a letter, it said: I want the rock, if you don’t give me it, I will destroy the world. You don’t know that with this object…….. You can revive people. Now, the problem was that Badman left no trace of the grandmother.

Blog 6: Education and Prevention

The easiest form to educate people is making an intervention program about some topic or problem (It’s the most effective, I think), for example: Health System makes a program for infect people with VIH, (the program is special for them). Generally, the program includes education sessions, separate of their treatments.
An educate program is good when everyone learn something of it. For example, we see that breast cancer decreases when we educate women of some place about causes of it (it’s a simple example). Our intervention is very efficient.
Always Ministry of Health tries to make some for the community, overcoat if it has important problems. We can find a lot of problems, for example: nicotine poisoning, alcoholism, poverty, between others. When the System finds a problem, it should specify what the risk group: women, men, pregnant, the poor, the rich, etc, etc, etc. Later, only we should work! The most effective is educate the population, because isn’t an invading method, and the most important, everyone can learn (it is free).
I like to teach about the important of a healthy diet during the gestation, overcoat for my future users (patients): women, because a good diet is a protective factor for them and their sons.
Chile has a lot of educate programs, for example, “Chile develops with you”. It’s a program for pregnant: we hear about it everyday.

Blog 5: Review about Gender Role in Health Care.

In our career, we have some differences between men and women, the biggest is salary. Salary is a big problem: men have better salary that women, principally, because everyone believe that men are more efficient than women; but it is false. We have a social problem: always we make differences between genders, and in our career we see it everyday. But, the salary isn’t the only difference; we know others, for example: responsibilities, professional development, respect, etc.
Men have few responsibilities, less than women. Working for men is easier. Generally, we can say that men are privileged. For this we should change our form to think: The treatment for women should be the same for men. In professional development: men have more opportunities than women to studying, I believe. But, I can’t prove it, because it’s only an idea. I imagine it, because always men have more opportunities, in all areas.
Other difference is respect: treatment between genders is different. For example: we know working conditions, schedules, etc. and working forced: especially for men, we know that it is different (It’s an advantage for women: perhaps working women is more comfortable).

To finish: our career has a lot of differences, and the majority affects women…… but, always we have known that Midwifery was a career for women; so, what happens? Health system is wrong.

Blog 4: Your Future As Midwife.

Always I think about my future as midwife, and I believe that it will be beautiful: I will work in an area that I love, medicine, and specially, the woman’s care. Ideally, I would like to work in the Public System, because I know that this area needs us. I can work in a near Hospital to my house.

I would like to work Monday at Friday, 8 a.m at 5 p.m, but I know that this is impossible, because the Public System need us always, not for few time. All I am asking is consideration: we are humans, not machines; the most probable is that we will have family: I don’t like to work all the day, and leave them alone.

The important is that working, I will be happy, but….. I would like to study, make a specialization, for example: A postgraduate course. The important is don’t stop to study, continue development.

One year ago, I thought that the career was boring; I didn’t know that the career is great. For a moment I thought that I don’t have future whit this. Now, I can say that I was wrong; I didn’t know the trust, I can help a lot of people.

To finish, I imagine that my future will be great as midwife. Only I should wait.

Blog 3: Your career/favourite subject.

Blog 3:

I think that the most interesting subject in our carrier is, between others, Physiology.
It’s a subject that tries to explain how work the things, the human systems. Physiology is divided in areas; for example: obstetric, neonatal and genecology physiology. In our career is one of the most complicate subject, I say that because everyone hate it in a moment, but if we don’t dedicate time for this, we won’t be a complete professional.
The hardest of this is understand how work molecules, hormones and proteins of the body, furthermore, is the longest class. As well, is one of the completer classes.
The easiest of this subject is, is, is, nothing. We should study everyday, and we don’t have time for this. The university is a prison!
Many teachers participate in this subject, but I don’t remember everyone. I can mention: Ocampo, Salech, And, I don’t remember others.
I had grades from a one up to a seven, I suppose; but I think that I had blues more than reds.
To finish, I want to say that: without Physiology, the life don’t have a logical answer, it can’t be explain. To be honest, we need this subject to help people.

BLOG 2: CAREER- RELATED- WEBSITE

When I have a work to the university, I visit Scielo, the Chilean Journal of Obstetric and Genecology. The website is: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?pid=0717-7526&script=sci_serial

The page is a publication of the Chilean Society of Obstetric and Genecology. This site has a searcher that helps to facilitate the work: I have only that put the key word of the theme of research, and, appear a lot of papers related with my question. The work is easier if I shorten my search in the label.

I visit this website always when I have to research some about the career, illnesses, or when I have to make a report, for example, to Fundamentals of Nursing. I remember that in this site I search about PCR, for an exposition. It was very useful for the preparation of the presentation.

I like this page because is a good source to search information for our carrier, overcoat because it is a reliable site of reference, I say this so that in the university, the teachers recommend Scielo. They say that other websites are bad. We as student should select where search.

Blog 1: You and your profession.

Hello, my name is Mario Soto. I’m nineteen years old.
Since the year 2010, I am student of the University of Chile, I will be midwife!
I live in Paine, with all my family. I travel everyday to arrive to the university, when I come to my house, I ‘m very tired!

Now, I’m going to speak about my objectives in my life, thinking in the career, the funniest: Obstetrics!
Is very difficult tell something of my purposes, but the principal reason by which I am studying is that I like to help, overcoat the sick, poor and abandoned people, I believe.

If I had to make a summary about my experience with the earthquake, I can say that it was awful, because it generated disaster in the country. This earthquake is a test for us, because we have the responsibility of watch over the people that resulting affected.