The last blog: My experience learning English at the university

English is something that has been present all my life. In the school, I have 1 or 2 english class in the week each year. In that moment I dont understand why we need so many hours to learn a new languaje that I will not use very much. Now I think very different, I believe that we need all the instruments necessary to be a better preofessional. The University of Chile can give me this excepcional opportunity to learn and do this idiom more familiary, that is so important rigth now in the world. Not all the careers have this great option, only physical therapy and obstetrics, that have a new curriculum (it have the porpouse of integrate all kind of subject and include English, like a neccesary and obligatory matter to the students).

to be continued..........

Challenges...

First, I want to agree that one of the most challenges to us, future physical therapists is to be considere in the society and that they can know that we not only do massages, this great career spans more than that.

My mother is a physical therapist and she told me that in general the people dont know so much about this career, they prefer go to doctor, or for example if a guy have a scoliosis the doctor said him that he need a corset or directly an operation. Some doctors not trust in the results of the treatment of the physical therapists. We have to prove that we get really good results and we can making life better for people.

Another point is to teach people to feel the body and take account of it. I think that is very important because you can avoid problems of breaks, sprains or muscle tear. My mother teach me that, and now I have a notion of the bad postures and positions that we adopt daily and contribute to cause injury to us.

The education is a relevant factor to resolve in the future. I think that there are only few careers that the students in the school know, generally the carees that contributed more money(this is not a specific problem of phisical therapy in specific). If the people dont know us we cant help them.

Finally, and not less relevant, I think that a good relation physical therapist-patient is linked to a better treatment. A pleasent meeting contribute to have a better response of the patient: exercises regulary, willingness to work, etc.

We need more people interested in this carrer and not people that study this because they want to be doctors but they couldnt have the possibility to be one. We need more technology to have a better treatment to patients with reduced movility, like prosthesis. We have to try to extend the work area. We have to be know!

Money Matters

I think that money is a complicate topic. I have lucky for have a really good family, and money is not a problem in our life. But nobody scape for some little difficulties about it; I remember when I was only a child and my father was unemployed. In this period of my life, I have to do a special effort to save money any way. We try to not leave the light on a long time, also to use a little bit of shampoo or toothpaste. Even in my birthday, my parents give me the bike of my oldest sister completely painted new, I never realized. In Christmas they give us new toys mixed with toys that belonged to us (old toys).

I like to lend money to other people when I have, and when I borrow money from other people I try to pay them back quicly, but sometimes I forget it........

Im not involucred so much with money, becuase only my parents manege it... to be continueddd

Suggestions to improve my faculty

The Medicine´s Falculty is ubicate in Independence, It is a big building with many classes, corridors, a great library, a gim, a place to photopic and some kiosks to buy something to eat.

I really think that there are many relevant points to considered to improve this university. The first one is the most important to me: the grassy areas. In compared with another universities, this one have only few areas of grass or "green areas", that in my opinion it is indispensable when we have a free time between classes, or to join with another classmates and have fun or study. This places can be crowded or with the wet grass almost always. It is important that the students have this places to relax and be confortable after a large and sometimes bored class.

The second point to considered are the bathrooms. In a place that the student spend most of the day, it is really necessary to have a good place to satisfy their needs. Most bathroom doors do not close and only in morning and part of the afternoon the bathrrom have toilet paper, we always have to bring some from our house.

Another relevent idea to improve this faculty, is to implement new computers in the library. The numbers of computers is good, but all of them are in really bad conditions. For example when I used internet I know that I´m gooing to take twice as long than if I was in my home.

In conclussion my first step to improve the faculty is to search areas to planting grass, you have to considered: Places are, you only have to find them.

If the Medicine´s Faculty improve this three points I think that it can have more happy students with a better quality of life.

A travel with my family..

Three years ago, the first two weeks of Febreary I and my family went on a trip to the south of our country, Chile and part of Argentina. My grandfather want to do something special to reunited the all family and have a good experience; but also he wanted to say goodbye to his field, a place that have many of our memories when we were kids.
He had to sell his field because he was very old to worked in it and he had not money to keep this great place. This situation caused many problems in my family. His sons (3) and daughters(3), including my mother, take differents positions, some supported the idea to sell the field so my grandfather can have a good retirement, but others thought that this peace of land was a good heredity for them.
Well, my grandfather want to do this trip to join my family again, but in this case would be in another place, Calafate.
I think that it was the best vacation that I had, not only because I have the opportunity to be with my 20 cousins, my 8 uncles and my grandparents, it was great because we were all join in great and magnific places sharing the same happiness together.

Tourist attractions in Santiago

My cousin Francisca Raty live in Coyhaique and when she visited me here in Santiago for five days I chose the best places to show her and have a good time. The first day we went to an ice field in Parque Arauco becuase she love ice skating, then we go to the cinema in the same mall to watch a romance movie and be relax.

The second day we went to the zoo in San Cristobal ´s hill; she want to be a veterinary and the animals are one of her passions. The cablecar its located near in the same hill and I supposed that was a great opportunity to have a view of Santiago from above.

The third day we went to a restaurant that I like very much, Gatsby. The great thing that characterized this restaurant is that you can eat all the food that you want with the same price; It is a buffet, so you pay the plate but not the amount of food. After that great meal we need to do some sport, and in that case tennis was the sport that motive us in that moment. There are a tennis court near my house in Camino El Alba, I like this place because is cheap and not many people go, so it is a quiet area.

The fourth day we go out in the nigth to Murano that is a disco that I go with my friends approximately once a month, so she can met some friends of mine and we dance all nigth.

It was the last day, and she have to leave Santiago in the afternoon so we only have the morning to have fun. I think that Fantasilandia would be the last activity. It is a amusement park with great and scary games that make you scream and some times throw up.: is perfect to leave santiago satisfied and with eager to return.

A COUNTRY I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT

I really want to visit or know a lot of countries but, if I want to choose only one, I think that Sudafrica is the best place to go. One of the motivations that impulse me to go there is that my uncle is leaving in that country and each year he bring us videos and photographs of beautiful and interesting places. But more than the place, is to meet and know new and different people that drives me to choose this country.

The only thing that I know about it are pictures or stories that tell me my uncle about experiences that he had there. My uncle is a priest and a missionary in Sudafrica since 2000; for him I could know two aspects that I find specialy interesting. The First one is the different type of pray that they have compared with Chile, because generaly in the church they sing and even dance, and ours mass are more serious or formal. The other thing that I find interesting is the differents languages that they talk; my uncle have to learn about 7 or 8 languages because in Sudafrica not exit a universal one.

I want to know the life of persons who are not similar to me. I want to learn from them and get a broader view of the world to be more caring and humane.
I dont want to leave there, neither work or study. I only want to have fun, and learn from a different culture and lifestyle.