My experience learning English at the university

Hello! How are you? Well today I’m going to talk about my experience learning at the university. At first I wanted to say that at school, I always where in the advanced level. My English professor teach us the Britain way of English, the best of all I think, we always had listening and writing test, and also comprehension test. I think that at school I learnt a lot of English, but also I learnt this language by myself, watching movies, listen to music and talking with people.

I think that when you are in the university, you need to know this language, because you are going to use it all the time, in case that you travel to another country, or when you patient don’t speak Spanish, or also when your make your specialisation.

When you are at the university, you are not going to learn English, you are going to increase your skills about this language, and learn to talk with somebody, with not scary.

Maybe as an advice, the students should talk more, doing activities in peers, or in group to learn the order and pronunciation of the words. And try harder, to learn to speak fluently. If someone is afraid because he or she don’t know the pronunciation of a word, the teacher should every time correct him or her. This is a positive thing from this term, our teacher always correct us. I think that English is easy, the only thing that you need is to like this language and to talk a lot!

I love English but I think that this course should be optional, or for people that don’t speak any word, because we can use this time for learn or for free time.

Well, hope that each of you has a very nice time and a beautiful weekend! Don’t forget to study. See you soon.

My professional practice

Hello everyone! How are you? I hope that fine. Well today I’m going to talk about the beginning of my professional practice. At first, I’m going to explain a little bit of this practice, we need to have a lot of basic skills related with the clinical attention, like knowing about how to take the blood pressure, temperature, pulse and things like that. Another important thing is to know about the semiology, the semiology is the interview with the patient, and it’s the time that you use to make questions to the patient and also hear what they have to say and the reasons why she came to visit you. This interview is very important, because with the information that you recollect, you can know or have an idea about what this patient have. Also it is very important to do and physical exam to prove the information that the patient gave you.

The first thing that the university told us that we need to be sensitive and helpful with the patient, because it is a person with feelings and it deserves a good treatment. Secondly we need to learn to hear without making any judgment, because we are only there to solve their problem, not to tell them how bad they do something. Thirdly, when we don´t know something, we need to ask and learn about our mistakes. And obviously if there is a problem that we cannot solve, we need to send this patient to another area, like to the doctor.

Well, my practice begins tomorrow, and I’m really nervous. My instructor will be there for all of us, to answer our questions and doubts. We are going to work with women who gave birth and with their babies.

I think that it will be a nice experience, because it will be our first contact with our future. Hope that you like what I wrote. Have a nice day.

My investment

Hello everybody! how are you? Hope that fine, today its time to talk about something interesting. Well i´m going to talk about my investment. The investment is a ceremony which gives students a uniform as a symbol of the beginning of medical practices. This ceremony was at friday night. Each student received a stethoscope pine as a symbol of our future profession. The stethoscope pine is an instrument that you can use to hear the heart beating of babies during the pregnancy, and also you can use them for hear the beat of a person´s heart. Our director gave us a speech about the importance of our profession and about the university. Some classmates prepared a dance with a beautiful song called "Alegría", the orquesta was there too, they sang "somewhere over the rainbow" and other songs, they sang very well. We were very nervous, but everything turned out well. We had to invite four persons, from family, friends, boy and girlfriends. The thing is that my family lives in Chillán, far away from Santiago, so they could not come. But I have the luck that i have my boyfriend here. He accompanied me all the time, he was like my little family and it was pretty nice. After the ceremony, all the families gathered to eat and talk about how beautiful it had been all. It was a pretty good time to share with my new friends, in this new city, having new experiences every day, just for growing up and become a mature person.

I think that it was a great time to join with my boyfriend, its really good to know that you always have the support of someone who loves you.

Well, hope that each of you have a pretty week. Have some fun and discover new things, and the most important thing peace and love. See you next time.

Stress is freaking me out!

Hello everyone!, you know what? Today I´m going to talk about "Dealing with the stress at the university", well at first I want to tell you that the university of Chile puts too much pressure on their students, in fact it is very difficult to stay at this university because there are a lot of competition. We have to study a lot, and sometimes there is no time for enjoy with friends or hanging out. In my case, my parents live in another city, and the problem is that I always need to study for tests, so i can´t go to visit them, because I spend too much time traveling.
I think that dealing with the stress is not difficult, well maybe a little bit, but the most important thing is that you need to have faith in you. People need to have selfsteem, because if you don´t trust yourself you are lost, in the university are a lot of cases of depression and the reason is because people don´t organize their time, other reason is because of the pressure of marks and the fear of failure.
So, at first, I would recommend you to love youself, because all the people deserves it and so you, and please, don´t think that you are stupid, it is impossible, humans were created to perfection.
Secondly, you can choose to made a plan of the week and organize your time in studying hours and in free time. The important thing is that in your free time you have to do things not related with the university, like doing sport, listen to music, traveling, watching a movie or listen to music.
Well I hope that you follow my advices, because university life should be the most important and beautiful part of your life.
Have a nice weekend, see you soon.

"There is no time to lose as everything important about the brain is decided bye the age of three"

Hello everyone! How are you?, Well today I´m going to talk about a text called "Brain and Learning". And whe had to choose one of the articles, I choose this one: "There is no time to lose as everything important about the brain is decided bye the age of three". This article talks about the importance of learning when kids are three years old. It says that some people believe that the critical learning stages begin between the birth and the age of three. Neurons are the basic structure of the brain and there are a lot of them. Each one can be connected with a lot of others, this process is called synapses. This connections aloud to develop a lot of skills, like learning, speaking and swimming. While you learn occur new synapses. In babies the amount of synapses increases a lot with a peak at ten months, this process is called synaptogenesis, and after this peak, the synapses decline, this process is called pruning.
For a long time, people used to believe that neurons can´t regenerate. But 20 years later the science discovers that new neurons appear at any point in a person´s life. One hypothesis was that young children must be stimulated in their first period of life in order to increase their learning capacities. Specialists say that the most important thing is the environment and the mother´s education.
So this reasons show us that there is no kid that not have the ability of learn and i´m totally agree with this ideas, it only depends of the evironment of she or he had lived. The parents support is very important and it doesn´t matter if your kid play with earth or listen to "smart" music, so leave this belief and let him be free and happy.
Well hope that you like my summary. Have a nice weekend.
Goodbye

A healthy life style, Is it possible? How?

Hello everyone!, how are you?, you know what? Today i´m going to talk you about a healthy life. There are lots people in this world thinking in work, in life, in their childs, living their lifes. Its easy to leave all in God hands, your heart, your body and also your beautiful life. So much people don´t take care about their bodies, so much people hate their bodies, and the funny thing its that they do nothing for fix it. Bad eating habits with no sport, using cars and smoking like a fireplace, very good.
Sometimes I think that people live in a very depressive life, everything is bad, nothing works enough for them. And oh, the money, what a important thing, people can live without money, only consumerism.
Maybe if you think a little bit more about it, you will see that having a healthy life style its not a big deal. First you must to begin to love yourself, because without love nothing works. Secondly, think about your favourite sport, or what do you really like to do, i don´t know, running, swimming, walking, climbing, also laugh, it is so important to laugh, to smile to be happy. Then, if you smoke, you have to think, mmm is this thing really good for me? Does it make you happy? And the most important thing, Do you really like the taste of the cigarette?. Maybe you should leave it, there are other things that can make you relax.
Other important thing, think about your eating habits!, Every day you need vitamins, minerals, proteins and a lot of vegetables and fresh fruits. Leave the fast food, its not good for your heart, and also not good for your self-esteem, you are only hurting your body and your brain.
In addition to this LIVE YOUR LIFE!, be free!, with no stress, if you are happy, your body is happy, there are connected!
Well, I hope that each of you have a nice week, and take care about your health.
See you soon. Good bye.

Sliding on the rainbows of my childhood dreams

Hello! How are you?, well today I´m going to talk you about my childhood recollections. At first I want to say that when I was a child my family lived in a farm, with a lot of animals, trees and a big lake, everything was green and beautiful. My dad work as a farmer, he made his own wine, and we had a bid plantation of raspberries and onion. My mom worked at house, she made her own bread, marmalade and cheese. We had a lot of cats and dogs, also rabbits and birds. Me and my brother used to play every day with the animals, climbing trees, swimming in the lake and also enjoying our freedom. We used to believe that we were the kings of the farm and we also play cooking with earth. Every night my mother read us stories in German about princesses and castles. I remember those days when we used to cry when we had to return to school. I think that the best recollections where from that time, with the nature, the animals and the freedom. I believe and hope that one day my kids will have the same education and life like me, because the kids of today only play at the computer or watch TV, they have no imagination.
Well I hope that you liked to read about little pieces of my life, and thats it, have a nice week and don´t forget to study or work.
Hugs

Things that I like to do

Hello! How are you?, well today I´m going to talk you about things that I love to do.
Firstly I want to say that i love reading, and yesterday I finished a book called "Las vírgenes del paraíso" from Barbara Wood, its a really good book and it talks about the life from a
Egyptian woman and the mistreatment that she suffered in that country. The reason that I like this book is because it happens in the real life, women are treated like a dog, they have to serve men, and in addition to this they are discriminated with no rights. For example in the book the author talks about a woman that were killed from her husband because she did not well the food. And if you think a little bit about it, it happens, maybe not for that reason but there are lot of homicide and nobody do something for change the mind of that guy or arrest him.
I would recommend you to read it, its a good book and its a good form to know a little bit more about other cultures.
The other think that I like to do is watching alternative movies like "cinema art", the most of them have really good topics, but there are a lot of people that don´t like them because they don´t understand them, maybe that kind of movies are only for people that like interpret and look for and answer.
Well, I hope that you like what I wrote, and have a really nice week.
See you soon.
Goodbye!

Time to say goodbye

Hello guys! How are you?, You know what? This is the last time that I´m going to write in this blog, and the reason is that this course finished today (but just this part).
I think that this course was really good, because of the practice. I have to say that i´m not so good writting. It is hard to learn how to write things in another language, because you have no idea how you can spelled a word.
The advantage of blogging is that you can express your opinion about a topic and also practice your english, maybe its a little bit hard to talk about some topics, for example, if you don´t have a favourite picture, you can not talk about it. This course its also good to find the way to write good.
Another advantage is that you can get to know you classmates, because everyone write a little bit of them every time that they write.
Maybe the disadvantage of this course is that there are people that don´t know how to write in English and so they get bad marks.
Well, the thing is that English is really important, because if you know this language, you can travel to a lot of countries and have no problems with communication. English is like a universal language. And that is one of the reasons that I love English.
In addition to this, I want to say that this course was really good, and I hope that the next one will be the same or better.
Finally, I wanted to say that it was really funny to know a little bit about you, and also write about me.
Take care about yourself and have fun in your holidays, see you in the next English course.
Bye bye!

babies, stuuess or theatre?

Hello guys! How are you?, I hope that right. Today i´m going to talk you about my ideal job.

Since 2 years, I wanted to be stuuess, because I love languages and also traveling.

Its really funny, because I was sure that the day that I left the school, I would never see a teacher again in my life. I wanted to know five languages: French, German, Portuguese, English, Italian. I really have dreamt with that, to meet a lot of people, and get to know another country, with their culture, their eating habits, and the most important thing that i wanted to do is taking pictures.

So, what was the problem?, to be a stuuess, you have to be really tall, like 1.70 m, have a good appearance and also be thin. And I think that these characteristics are very different for me.

But I don´t really care, 3 or 4 cm more or less are not important for being a good person, and if you are fat or thin, its only a discrimination.

In addition to this, people that works in this profession can only work until the age of 35 years. The boss tell you "hey, you are to old to work in this profession", and thats it.

And the age that you can begin to work is with 24 years, and I thought, what i´m going to do?.

I also wanted to be an actress, because I love watching movies, but then I discover that there are a lot of actresses that don´t like their jobs, and that they feel like they have two faces.

If you watch on TV the lifes that they have, with a lot of money, its really crazy. But the most of them have depression, or they do drugs.

Finally, I decided to be a midwife, and the reason is that a love babys and to help people.

So, I hope that each of you have a nice weekend.

Hugs.

The Lovely Tree!

Hello guys!!! how are?, a stressing week right?, Well today I want to introduce me with a phrase (created by me) "The nature is one that connect us with ourselves". The most important thing for me is my family and also the beautiful nature that creates so wonderful things like a sky (like in the picture). One thing, I love the trees and this is one of the reasons that I love the south of Chile, because there are a lot of forests that look like rainforests, like in the jungle.
Well, I choose this picture because it reminds me at my home, with all the flowers, trees, and clean air and water. I took this picture by myself, because since two years ago, one of my favourite hobbies was taking pictures.
But it is very difficult to choose one of thousand pictures, I was between this picture and another that shows a cigarette, the reason of this picture is that in that year I gave up smoking. But I have to accept that I miss a lot my family and also the green color, because of the nature.
So I hope that you like to know every time a little bit more about me!
Have a nice weekend!

OMG! Do you know something about my course?

Hello to everyone? How are you?, i hope that fine!, well firstly i wanted to say that i´m crazy for a long weekend, ajajaja.
Today its the time to talk you about my education, little things about my course. At first you must have vocation, because in my case (midwife), you have to love your course. There are a lot of people that get in a course and really don´t know about it.
Secondly, in my course people teach you to be a good professional of health and to be a person that supports and helps women and their child in every case and also during the pregnancy.
In my case, I must teach women and their partners to have a healty sexual life, and also help them to take care about their babies. In addition to this I help girls giving them information about birth control methods and also i provide them information about having sex without protection.
Thirldy, we can give talks in schools and universities about the sexual transmission diseases.
Another thing, we try to support women when they are pregnant and alone.

So, what do you think? Are the midwifes necessary in your life?
Well, in my opinion I think that the answer is yes, because we can help to the delivery of the baby and prevent the abortion.
I think that it is important to know a little about everything and thats the reason why i show you a little bit of my course.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Bye

hello to everyone!! how are you?, mmm, today i think that i´m going to talk you about the freak people of my university.

First, i want to say that in my unversity are a lot of different kinds of people:
* The people from the dark side, ahahahaha, all their clothes are black, their eyes are with black make up, and they always listen to hard metal.
* The people that believe that money is the most important thing from the world, like posh people, they dress clothes from boutiques or very expensive shops, and their t-shirts say i´m rich and sexy.
* The hippies!, they are people that think that it really doesn´t matter the way that they dress, but also exist the "hippies" that say, well, I´m hippie and i smoke a lot of grass and also I drink like a barrel.

Well, I think that this kind of matters are really cool, because you can dress and speak in the way that you want, and no one is going to tell you what is good or what is wrong. You can think, mmm what is the stereotype that i belong?, there are a lot of people that don´t know where they belong, and the funny thing of this is that it is not necessary to be part of a stereotype, YOU CAN MAKE YOUR ONE STYLE!, i love when people don´t follow the fashion and choose clothes or things that only exist once. I think that i´m one of them, I really don´t care about what people say or think about me, why? they are just people like me.
So I hope that each of you can choose your one style, have a nice weekend! and don´t forget to sleep (like Gaby).
Bye bye!

Do you know something about nursing?

Hello to everybody!.
This time i want to talk you about my favorite subject, well at firts, i thing that i like all my subjects, because all of them are really important.
I think that i like "Fundamentos de enfermería", because all the teachers are obstetrics, and they teach you things like how to take the pressure, or the temperature. We have theoritical classes and also we have hours to practice what we had learnt.
I remmember that one of the first classes of this subject we had to take the pressure, and i was really nervous and excited, because i never took before the pressure, and i never had heard before the sound of the heart with an stethoscope and it was really beautiful and cool. We learnt to take the sistolic and diastolic pressure. It is very interesting and also important to know about the pressure because you can know if a person has a high or al low pressure, the reasons and the desease that are related with this problem.
In addition to this the teacher can teach you about the requirements and the rules of the semiology, this is the interview or the meeting between the professional of health and the pacient.
It is really important to know about this little details, because if you talk to a patcient with a lot of technical terms he or she will not understand you.
Well, i hope that you like the little description of my favorite subject. Have a nice weekend, and don´t forget to study!
Regards

Art on webpages!

Well, today, i´m going to talk you about the webpage that i commonly visited and the reason that i love this page. Firstly i wanna say that i love the photographs, and the way that people can catch the nature or the animals, or just taking pictures of places that are no kown by anybody.
Another reason, is that i love when people can make art just with their hands, it is so beautiful! because you can thing that you are usefull for a lot of things, but everyone is good in something, everyone have a gift. So the only thing that you have to do is to find it.
In this webpage you can look for pictures of famous photographers, or just from people that like taking pictures like a hobby. Also you can find pictures that are photoshoped. I think that i visit this page once a week, because of the time.
If i had time and good camera, i would take pictures and loud them on this page, but i don´t have any of them and this is one of the reasons why a want to work, in the summer, because the last summer, i worked very hard to save mony to buing me a personal computer and i maded!, so this summer, i want to save mony for my camera =).
Well the thing is that i recommend this webpage for all the people that like art and photography!
Here is the link:
http://www.deviantart.com
I hope you like it!

Hugs

my experiences during the earthquake

Hello to everyone!!! well, i´m going to tell you about my experience with the terrible earthquake.
Well, at first, i was sleeping when it happened so it was very confuse and shocking for me, everything was moving and falling everywhere around me, this earthquake surprised me in the second floor of my boyfriend's house.
When it finally diminished, my boyfriend and i ran downstairs and took place in a more secure side of the house. When it stopped, i called my mom to know about her, but the signal of the cellphones were too overload, even now i think that i tried to call her at least fifty times, and then the battery of my cellphone ran out.
after that night, we woke up, and checked the house for damage, and it was a complete disaster. i think that the cleaning and the straighten up lasted for the whole morning and it took me three day to got to my home. My mother was a little angry with me, because in my house all the things like marmalades and soya sauce were on the floor, and she had to clean it all alone. But it wasn´t my fault, because the streets were broken down, and no buses were going to the place where i live.
the thing is that the earthquake was terrible, because many peolpe lost their homes, relatives, and even their lives, i really hope that it never happen again, because it was very shocking and sad for all the people, even around the world.

My profession is midwife, the most important thing from being a midwife is helping women, to advice them and support them when they have problems with her babies. And also help them when they are about to have a baby. We also help women to advice them about methods of contraception, or provide them information about the risk of having sex without protection, because they can to be contagios with sexual transmission disease or get pregnant. And we also help them during the pregnancy.
I expect to be a good midwife and as i say before in the other comment i want to specialize me in a natural way, without all the machines and medical system, Like "shantalla massage", this is a baby massage and it is very cute!, and it helps the mothers to connect them with their babies.
Since i was a child i wanted to be a midwife, because i love babies, and this work is very helpful, because i can help to change minds, to prevent the abortion and helping women when they are alone and pregnant.

Hello, my name is Eva Kaltenbach, i´m from Chillán, from de 8th region. I´m studing obstetrics, and i love my carreer. I´m alone here because my family lives in Chillán. I´m living with a woman, and she is very nice to me, she helps me everytime when i needed.
I love the nature and my favorite colour is green. I like reading books, they makes me feel like in another world. I like watching movies, but i hate horror films, they scare me. My hobbies are practising many sports, like athletism and swimming. My favorite styles of musics are rock, pop, folk, african music, and music with a lot of instruments.
With this blog i expect to know each of you, and to learn more about you. I want to learn to write in a right way. When i finish my carreer i want specialice me in a nature area like "digipuntura" or "shantalla massage", because it is a way to help people without medicine. But i have to have a degree first.