Final post

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Learning English at university has been a good experience for me. Before having these classes I had forgotten a lot of things that I used to know when I was at school that I hadn’t used in the recent time, because I didn’t have another English classes in this years. Now I had remembered a lot of things. It has been a good opportunity for me and for my classmates to improve our English speaking and writing. Also I had learned a lot of new vocabulary doing the activities and writing the blog. 

Writing blogs made the classes more dynamic, and I think that it was a good experience to improve my writing skills, and my ability to express myself. Also I could get to know better my classmates reading and commenting their blogs. 

I think that the most important thing for now and for the future is to practice speaking with other people, because in that moment is when you have to understand and be understood, in my opinion the best solution for this problem is to travel! When you are in a place you don’t know and another language is spoken you have to improvise. Nowadays I don’t use English very often, because the truth is that I don’t need to do it in my daily routine. But I think that if you have the desire to improve your English you just need to do it and start speaking with another people so you can practice the most important thing: the pronunciation.

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Changes to my study programme

I study journalism at Universidad de Chile since 2013, now I’m in 4^th grade, and I think that actually there are some changes that could be done to my career..

First of all, to the curriculum, because I think that there are some subjects that we should learn and we don’t. For example, I think that we should have an history signature. Also I think that there are some subjects that are very similar to each other, especially in the first years, that we use to read more than once the same book or article.

About the length of the studies, this career could be shorter. At first years of the career we use to have four or five signatures, and as I say sometimes it used to be very similar to each other, so if we had more signatures at semester we could finish before our career.

Another thing that I think that could be change is about the faculty facilities, I think we have a good infrastructure, but there are some defects, for example the cafeteria, since the last year we don’t have a place where we can eat or buy a launch, and on rainy days it’s difficult to find someplace to be confortable.

Also, sometimes we don’t have enough equipment to lease, and is very difficult to make some works and filming.  Also I think that the equipment is a little bit old and not like it should be. But I think it is ok, it works...

I think the teaching methods are right. I like that we use to make practical exercises instead of a lot of writing and theoretical tests, because in this way we really learn how to do the things. We always have to write news, reports, chronicles, different essays, filming for the audiovisual signature and last year we had the radio experience.

I think a good thing of my career is that we share subjects with the students of Cinema and television, so we learn different things and not only those related to Journalism, but obviously related to communications. 

Winter holidays

The truth is that I usually I don’t make plans for the winter holidays because we don’t use to have it! All the last years we hadn’t had our winter holidays at the same time of the other people, like my school friends, because of the student mobilizations.

Despite this, with my school friends we always go to “El Quisco” for 4-5 days. My friend Valentina has a house in that beach, and we always go there in a big group and we have a really good time there, resting and enjoying at the same time. We watch movies, go to the beach, eat tasty food and at night we use to have party too, and it’s very fun and also now it’s like a tradition to go there.

This year the situation is similar: we are in a student strike, so it’s very possible that we don’t have the holidays at the same time of them, but if my friends go to “El Quisco” I’m going there with them, I really like to travel and going to the beach is a very good idea.

Also, I think I’m going to have a big trip to Europe in August. I hope that it results because I really want to go there and met Europe for the first time! Besides I’m going with my boyfriend so it will be very fun! At this time, I’m working a lot to raise money for this trip, because we all know that it’s not cheap. 

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"A Meal I like to Cook for Myself"

A meal I like to cook for myself is “Gohan”, but I don’t cook it just for me….

With my friends of the school we use to make something that we call “the tradition”. We get together in some house and we cook something tasty and easy. The meal we like the most is “Gohan”, it is like sushi but with all the ingredients mixed together.

We really like to cook Gohan. For this recipe we use rice, avocado, cream cheese, kanikama, mushroom, scallions. First we make the rice at the “sushi way”, then we mix with the other ingredients and finally and the special touch of the soy sauce.

I like to cook, but I have to admit that I don’t do it so often. Another meal that I cook is the breader chicken, I know how to make the sauce for frying the chicken to make it breader. They are like nuggets. I eat this with rice, and I put a little bit of soy sauce, and I really like it....