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.