English Language Challenges

Hi bloggers

Today I will speak about my experience with the English course.

I am very glad to learn more English ,  this is my third course of English in the university , and I learn a lot of things, for example: two semester ago , I can read in English, but I was awful to listen in English and worse in pronunciation , and thanks to the English course,  I am better today.

I believe this course is well planned, manage the students loose the fear to talk and write in English. The use of blogs is a very important tool, because  promote the use of on-line dictionaries , increase the vocabulary and the students can correct their mistakes.

In my personal case, learn English help me a lot this year, because I am a football couch in my American football team and all of information, playbooks, strategies and manuals of football are in English.

I realized my English is better when I had a football coaches training camp the last month , I have a North American football coach as a teacher, mister Daryl Hayes and he speak only in English. I was very nervous to talk with a native English speaker, I really did not want to talk with he, but I think “well, in the worst of cases, he don’t understand me “but for my surprise, I can speak with he, and he understand almost all of things I said. Was a very good experience.

This is my experience with this English course, I am very thankful to the teacher Lourdes , is a excellent teacher and always is ready to respond all of English questions .

Bye!

my career study program.

Hi bloggers! Today I will speak about my career study program.

I think the study program in agronomics engineering needs a lot of changes.  First is very hard finish the career en five years, because if  you fail only one course ,  almost sure you can`t recover  on time because the schedules are very strict, order courses of different years are impossible. Ok, one more year isn’t terrible ,  but if fail two courses? Or more? This is the real problem.

The knowledge in the courses are very good, I think is very complete, we have courses of basic sciences, of soils, fertilization, watering irrigation, plagues , animals, economics sciences, etc..  But the problem is the point of view of the teachers. Some teachers only want memorize terms, and evaluate only memory.  My opinion is the teachers must evaluate real learning, not only memory.  For example,  probably you pass a course if you memorize all of things , but you don’t learn nothing! However if you learn and understand the concepts , you pass the course (most of the time).

Another thing that make me angry about the teachers is the interest of teach. Some teacher only pass a power point, read some things in the power point, and this was the class… is very discourages.

The infrastructure and use of technology are very good, Study in the University of Chile is a very good experience, the problem is:  are a lot of excellent scientist and professionals, but  very few good teachers.

Thanks for reading! Bye!

summer holidays!

Hi bloggers! Today I will speak about my summer holidays!

This year will be especial for my family, because we will travel in February to brazil. This travel probably will be the last for us, the next year I finish the career, and my brothers just work today, them, the most certain is that in the next years each of us will stop living in the family home.

I am very exciting for travel to brazil, will be my first travel in airplane, but the most exciting is my mom, because she lived in brazil since she was 2 years old to 15 years old. Today she is 50 year-old, that is 35 years since she arrived to Chile… a lot of time for return.

The travel will be like this: first we will arrive to rio , and we will know the places where my mother grew up (this is the bored of the travel , because is one week travel cities and non-touristic places). Later, we travel from rio to the north, for now the beaches and touristic places.

My summer holidays begin the 15 of January (if  I don’t have exams), I want to rest all January,  I like to stay in my house, play videogames, and stay with my girlfriend. Maybe travel with my girlfriend to viña del mar and stay a few days here, and a don’t have more plans for my vacations jajaja

I hope you enjoyed the lecture!

Bye!

Medicinal Plants

Hi Bloggers! today a will talk about medicinal plant

i will be very assertive in this subject , because I think the “medicinal plants” doesn’t  be a  real medicine.

I narrate my experience with the “medicinal plants”. My mom is vegetarian, and she only eat organics foods … I don’t have a problem with these,  sincerely,  I liked my mom care herself, because she have problem with the  thyroid gland, and other problems,  but the problem was when she leave the  common medicine, this is the problem (I think, in my opinion). First a “natural doctor” recommended stop to take the common medication for the problem of tyroid gland (eutirox) , becasuse according to him, she can treat her problem with “medicinal plant” and homeopathy. “Ok” mi father, my brother and me  think “ maybe  this work”,  But no.

After a month, my mom had a crisis, she faint a lot of times, and the family  carry it at the REAL DOCTOR .  very bad experience with the homeopaty and medicinal plants.

I said, I don believe  the medicinal plant be a real medicine, but, I think is a good  COMPLEMENT , and maybe can help  few problems, for example for a headache , or stomachache, but the real problems as a hormonal problem, cardiac problem, need a conventional medicine.

 I didn’t want talked about  the “agronomist opinion”  , because I think the experience is more important.

Bye!!