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.

My First Term

My experiences during this first term are many; First I will talk about the bad points that I had to pass. This year I start to go to the university, and this is a big step in my life. I have to meet new people, study more and get used to a different lifestyle. Now I pass ten hours out of my house and the locomotion is much slower than when I was in the school. This year I am thinking about study the most time of the day, either because I already not study for some test or when I study a lot but I fell nervous.
The other bad point is that I have less time to have fun. I meet with my friends and with my boyfriend almost never, and they are very important to me to lose contact with them. The sports is another activity that I set aside for study. In the school I do atheltics but now the only thing that I do is walk. I need the sports because they are part of my life.
But not all is bad, there are many good points that are important to say. I could experiment new experiences with different people, I do new friends, I strengthened the relation with my boyfriend, and I think that all this study can help me to be the person that I want: A good physical therapist.

Sir Ken Robinson: "Do Schools Kill Creativity"

The talk of the Sir Ken Robinson is one of the really good talks that I heard in my life. I think that the topic is very important to propose in an audience, because like He said, its a thing that involucrated to everyone. When someone show an important idea is very relevant to do in a good way, and he did it possible. He managed to combine differents elements that get as results the listening of all the people that be there. He planted the idea and reforce it by examples of a common day, like the history of the children who draw a picture of God. In consecuence, he try to bring near the problem to the reality, thus, everyone could feel identified.
I agree when he said that the schools kill creativity. When I was in school I think that one of the most important thing of the life is to study and get good marks, because in this way I can have the possibility to go to the university and be a professional. In this society, work and have money are an important elements that you MUST have; If you don´t, you are nobody. For this reason the artistics carees, like music, dance, art, drama wich get money its not easy, are not a good instruments to realize this porpuse.
He said something that I like so much: "Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value more often than not comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things." And He mention in this part the example of the difference between men and women, specifically he and his wife. The second one are better at multi-tasking. When she cook, she can do 5 more things, but when the men cook, he have to be alone and relax, nobody have to interrupted his work. In the same way that men-women are complementary becuase they are differents, the society need a diversty of disciplinary to grow up and development.
The last thing that I like, is that he talk with naturaly, with some jokes ocasionaly, but he never abandoned the opportunity to make us think. In the final of many coments he do questions to try to incorporate us to the problem.

I want to finish this comment with a history. My cousin work in a school, and she told me that one day the teacher ask to the childrens: who wants to be a firefighter?. Some of them raised their hands. But then she said: Who wants to be a lawyer, an engineer, or a doctor? If you want to be one of them you have a premium ice cream. In this moment all the childrens, including those who wanted to be firefighters, raised their hands...

My blogging experience
I never had do or write in a blog and this is a excelent opportunite to create one and write some notes in it. I think that a blog is a good idea to express your fellings or comunicated your ideas to the other ones. Also its can help the teacher to evaluate the english of each one of the students, because sometimes a test or a quiz not show in a good way the really knows of us.
Its a fun way to learn english and get better. Not only I learn this languaje, it can help to me to organize my fellings, my life and speak with my self. I dont have too much time to be alone and think about me and the people that is around to me, I never do that thinks, I prefer in my free times visit friends or my boyfriend, see a movie, help my mother, go to parties,etc. The blog is the oportunity to do that.
The practice of english all the weeks is usefull because is more easy to write things now than in the fisrt class. It help me to improve my inglish and learn new words.
The main disadvantages of blogging in the English class is that the information that you write is exposed to all the people ... to be continued

My ideal job
My ideal job would be something that integrate sports. All my life I have been doing many of them, like volleyball, athletics, gymnastics, tennis, horseback, etc. And because of it I had been very involucred in this area.
I had a lot of physical problems and injuries that pushed me to be attended by a physical therapy, with my mother generally. I had be very close in the treatment and I know the importance of it. And in a high grade, if the person that need a physical therapy is a referent in a specific sport, like the footballers, the people that play in big leagues or the people that is selected nacional in a determinate sport. For this persons the sports are their life; I like to facilited that those dreams never end, I want to remove the barries that impided them to realize their objectives.
I think that I will be good because I have the desire to help. If I am intereste to be better, learn and get best results is much easier.
I dont think that I need many skills, because I think that the more important is to WANT TO DO: have the disposition and the effort to overcome any conflict.
This kind of job is not very difficult to find because I think that always can exist the sports and persons that practice them.

My Favorite Subject
My favorite subject in my career is Anatomy. It is so weird because is the subject that I get the worst marks. But I think that it is a very important area of knowledge, it is relevant to the practice and success of my career. Also the anatomy is something that involve me too because I learn about the components, functions, illness and treatment of my own body. The body is a part of you, and is very important and interesting to know about it, is something that will be with you all your life.
I learnt in this semester the superior part of the body, including head, neck and arms. In each part that I mention before I have to learn all the muscles, arteries, veins, nerves and bones found in this area.
There are four teachers in this subject: Miguel Soto, Rodolfo Sanzana, Elías Fernandez and Ximena Rojas. They are very good teachers, because they teach well and motivate you to learn more.

I want to be...
In the future, I want to be a professional in physical therapy but not only with the learning of the University, I want to travel to another countries to specialize in a specific area because in this way I will do a better treatment to the patients, I can give them more help than before. I would love to learn more about the treatment of the people that do sports. I do athletics for the last 5 years and I have a lot of injuries, so I had to go many times to visit a kinesiologist. In consecuence I know the importance of the... to be continued

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The best Physical Therapist
I think that my mother is the best physical therapist. She is my inspiration, because throught her I could discover and learn about this excellent career.
Sometimes my mother attended her patients in my house and I can saw the exercises that she makes to them. In the end of the treatment the patients are much better than in the beginning of the session, its a visible change.
A lot of times she read me letters of her patients, and the people thanks her because my mother change their lifes: it become so much easier than before the treatment.
My mom not only use the knows of the university, she has done many courses in her proffesional life, principaly in those that focus in back (becuase I have had many back problems) one of this courses is R.P.G, to treat the scoliosis.
I think that my mother is the best becuase always she was trying to be better and learn more to help her patients in a better way, and also she try that the others do the same.

blog 5 to be continued

My friends and I
The picture that I choose is very important to me, because it show an important experience of my life. All the people that were around me are my school´s friends and we are in Punta de Choro, in the north of Antofagasta. These is a travel that I do with my friends for 15 days, just after my graduation, in January. We are 61 parners and we travel in 15 cars, with four persons in each one approximately. The trip start in Punta de Choros, then in Pan de azúcar and end in La Serena. In the photo I appear with 19 persons, of whom 9 are my classmates (only woman) and the other ones are friends of anothers classes. One of them is my boyfriend, who is behind me.
The picture was taken by another friend of mine.
The situation that we were in this moment, its complicated because some cars, about three, were trapped in the sand, and we were trying to remove they.

Morfo
My favorite page of physical therapy is http://www.morfo.cl/, it was very important to me because it help me so much when I had to study anatomy for the university. This page have some contents to the test and also show a variety of photos that support it, like bodies, muscles, ligaments, images of arteries, veins and nerves of a specific part of the body, etc.
This page was created by "Universidad de Chile" to resume three sobjects: Anatomy, neuroanatomy and ontogenesis, with an atlas incorpored in each one; and is for that way that I found it.
I visit these page only a few times, but I am sure that I will visit it a lot of time in the future, especially for the pictures that it show.
Not only for study I can visit these page, also it can help me to resolve personal doubts in the future when I will have to treat patients.

My Computer
My favorite piece of technology is my computer. This object is like a little world, because I have part of my life saved in it: my music, my school`s and universit`s works, a lot of photographs and others personal things. Also It can give me instruments to study and search inmediately information from any parts of the world; when I have a doubts wahtever it was I am sure that the internet have a answer to my question, i recurred always to it. And finally, it is so usefull to comunicate and have a contact with my friends. In these year I not have so much time, and the computer is an interesting way to talk with my friends and boyfriend, without move of my house; the only thing I have to do is sit in front of it and write.
I get a personal computer these year, before that my father have one. I used it all the day to review my mails (so important for the university, because all the information they send to the mail).
If I dont have it, the life can be a little bit complicated.

Pilar Lorenzini

Dear Friend:
Hi my name is Pilar Lorenzini, a chilean girl. I am 18 years old and I study physical therapy in "Universidad de Chile". I leave in Santiago with my parents, my two little bothers, and my sister that is older than me.
This year I dont have too much time, because I pass all the day studing, but when I have a free time I meet with my boyfriend, Francisco Murillo, or with my school´s friends.

This blog can help me to learn more english, that is a very good instrument for comunication if I go to another country or if I read a book in english for the university. Also I can know me better, bacause I have to write personal things and activities in these posts .