English language challenge

English is a very important language in nowadays. English is the science’s language so it is necessary to learn it to favor the communication and understanding of the evidence and literature.

This year I had the goal of learn English and I started with particular classes twice a week and I had a great progress, in the second half of 2017 I started with the class in the University and it was a good experience to have classmates from other programs and other background.

Writing a blog was a really good exercise, because everyone of us must to write our investigation in English to publish it, writing also allow us to organize our ideas and improve our redaction, I would had liked to more feedback and corrections of our writing.

My worst skill in English is listening so I need to improve it more, for this I try to watch movies in English without subtitles or with English subtitles and I watch videos with different accents and that way to recognize them.

outside classes I almost not practice my English, I read everyday papers or investigation or I use a cellphone app (Duolingo), but is difficult to practice speaking and listening for this reason I took English class.

Improving our English, ever will be a good idea. Now, if you don’t know English you are out of the world.

Changes in Post Graduate program

Innovation in education is an important process, educators must be actualized with new trends in education and with the social changes. Nowadays technology is a part of our lives and must be incorporated to education.

I am trying, as a future educator, to know innovative ways to teach and one of my favorite is Kahoot. A page where you can make question and the students can answer from their own cellphone (who has no a smartphone today?).

I would had liked that in my post-graduate program they would had used more technology and new ways to teach. With respect to the curriculum I would add more practical subjects and not only theory, but for that we need more economical resources and a better infrastructure to support all students and in Chile could be difficult.

The length of the program is good, but I would suggest that the thesis could be started from the first year and the theory subjects have less workload, because thesis is the most important activity in a PhD so should be addressed from the beginning.

In conclusion, we are studying in a great university and in our programs, there are excellent professors working the best than they can with limited resources, everything could be better, but sometimes an improvement needs a lot of work in group.

SUMMER HOLIDAYS

Summer is the best moment to escape from Santiago and go the beach, because the capital of Chile in January is a real oven.

This year (this next year 2018) I am going to Easter Island or how natives say: Rapa Nui. A small and mysterious Island in Pacific Ocean, 3700 km from Chile with an ancient culture and enigmatic giant statues that nobody knows how were built, the Moais.

There, I would like to visit Anakena beach, the most famous beach in this island, to rest under the sun and eat a pineapple in a stick. I want to go to the sumit of the Rano Kau volcano with its big crater and I want to see the island from the height of Rano Raraku hill.

These holidays I will spend with my Girlfriend’s family and I think will be a great experience, because I get along very well with them overall with her “little” brother. We will stay in a familiar cabin and will travel as a group.

The main activity that I will do in Easter Island is Dive, Rapa Nui has one the clearer water in the world and is a diver paradise, people from everywhere go there to dive and know the submerged Moai. I am going to get a new diver certification and I am very excited for that.

After my vacations, I will return to work directly and hardly in my thesis, so I need recover a lot of energy from the magical island.

Sumerged Moai in Easter Island