It's time to say goodbye...

So, it’s time to say goodbye! This is the last post of the semester and also it is the last post for this class. I think it’s great to keep learning and practicing English at the university, because even though we learned a lot of English when we were in school or in an English Institute, it’s always necessary to use it, so you don’t lose it (it rhymes :D ) A good thing about the blogging activity is that we’ve been able to improve our writing skills as well as our vocabulary, because with the themed posts we had to learn words related to the topic we have to write about, and it’s possible that we didn’t know them.

Personally, I think that I need to keep improving my vocabulary, and I think a great way to do that is reading more things in English, so if on the text there’s a word I don’t know its meaning, I can look it up and make my vocabulary fatter. I have also learned a lot of vocabulary by watching English spook movies and TV series, that’s how you can learn how people use the language on ordinary situations.

Outside the English class, I use my English to contact to some friends that live in Canada. I actually met them because of English, so I believe it’s awesome to have the chance to keep contact with them on Facebook and other social media. I also use my English to talk with some relatives that live in United States, they left Chile decades ago, and now I have little cousins that are learning to speak Spanish, so I teach them some Spanish and they can understand my English, and I think that’s good because if children can understand what you are saying, anyone can. 

A future job...

In this post, we have to talk about our future Jobs. I think it’s pretty obvious why almost all of us are studying here: because we want to be lawyers (I said almost because I don’t know if any of you are here but you want to be something else). I want to be a lawyer because I think it’s a very interesting job. With the education we are receiving here, we can work in a lot of different areas, making this career a very complete one.

I'm not very sure in which area I’d like to have a job, because I'm just on second semester, so I haven’t been that much immersed to be able to choose, but I've always wanted to have a job in another country, so it might be something about International Law.

I think a very important aspect to consider when you choose a job is how comfortable this job would make you feel. Of course most of people look for a job to have a great income, but you can’t just work for the money you could win, and leave behind the amazing experience you can earn if you work in something that you really like.

 If this were an interview for a job, and if I were asked about my strengths and weaknesses, I would probably say that one of my strengths is that I'm a good group worker, because is important to be able to work with anyone that you have to, no matter if they are your friends or not. I’d also say I'm very organized, so I don’t let anything unplanned. About my weaknesses, I'm sure one of the most notorious is that I'm not very punctual, but that is something I'm working on.

Thinking about the future

New Thursday, new post! So, today we have to become some kind of psychics and mention in our posts how we see ourselves in 2 years. Honestly, I don’t usually try to see me in so short amount of time, I've always tried to compare myself today with the picture I can make of my life in 10 more years or something like that.

I believe in two years more I'll be studying here, I hope by that time I'm going to have approved all my classes, even though it’s too much to ask, but until now the plan is working. I'm kinda shy so I also hope by that time I'm going to be a little bit more outgoing, because it is very necessary for our career.

I expect to be working as an attorney to receive my own salary, so I could help more in my house or, at least, pay my own expenses so I wouldn't have to ask my mum for money :) , but I have to improve my grades in some courses in order to have the possibility to postulate to a job like that.

As I said before, I'm not used to think about myself in a very near future, every time I did that the things I wanted to happen never did, so that made me the less imaginative person about the future. But if I think back two years, when I was still in High School, and I see the picture I made that time of today, I can honestly say I'm accomplishing the plan! 

It's not that easy being green...

This week’s post is about being green, but not in a Kermit way J I think people are getting more involved to environmental issues today because it’s a global disease. The kids learn about recycling in kindergarten now, and they make their families to be more careful about it.

In my house, we are trying to incorporate recycling into our habits, reusing plastic stuff, and making fertilizer with organic garbage.

I have to be honest, I don’t ride bikes because I don’t know how to, but I try to use Metro and walk if the place I’m going is nearby.

You can have a vertical garden on any place

I don’t participate on any eco-organizations, but I think it’s important organizations like that exist. When I was in high school, I was part of the Students Council, and with my partners we created a project for the school’s community to participate. It was an environmental week, we wanted to have discussions for the middle and high school kids, and we wanted them to teach the elementary kids about how they could take care of the planet.

I think it’s important that all of us have a garden at home, even a vertical one if you live in a flat. It can help to contain our carbon footprint, and we can also use eco-friendly electronic devices that produce less carbon than a regular electronic device.

Our city isn’t designed to help the environment, because we live in a very low valley that has no ventilation. I think architects that are in charge of design those new skyscrapers that are being built in “Sanhattan” have to have “green facades” instead of mirror ones, so we can reduce the temperature of the city.