Study

Hi everyone!

The truth is that it is difficult to think about this topic in a quarantine where we have online classes, because it would clearly change everything in the subjects that I have done online, however I will try to omit that situation.

I think if I could change something it would be the academic load. I consider that many times we are overwhelmed by the amount of tasks and work that we must carry out, generating that many times we leave aside aspects of our lives that are important to us. How can it be sports, organization, etc. And also that if we could have less academic load we would probably have fewer stoppages, and the stoppages would work better, since they would not be taken as rest, which I think is what can currently happen.

On the faculty facilities, I think they lack green areas, which is an element that favors healthier mental health. Since it is depressing to study with so much cement and buildings around, without being able to have a place to make yourself and to be able to relax for a while, especially when we have classes all day.

Regarding teaching methods, I think that the course lacks practical courses, but that in everything else it has greatly facilitated my learning. On the other hand, I would like them to add a branch of personal development, since I consider that bouquets often generate feelings and emotions in us that are difficult to process, so perhaps that would help us much more to get to know ourselves and even to relax.

English course

Hi everyone!

Without a doubt this has been the rarest semester I have had in my academic life haha. I would have much preferred to have face-to-face English, I think it is easier to learn English than through online classes. In fact, comparing it to my last semester, where I had face-to-face English, I think that in this semester I have progressed much less in my learning of English.

I really need to practice more, in order to learn and be able to comunicate better when I speak, becouse I've some troubble with different aspect.

About the aspects that I need to improve I think they are all haha ​​I do not have much vocabulary and I do not pronounce well. I think my ability is to write and read. Pronunciation costs me a lot, even though I listen to music in English and watch series in English, however I don't know how much this has helped me.

I would very much like to learn English to be able to travel and communicate in different countries, but also to have the possibility of studying in countries that do not necessarily speak Spanish.

I usually dont speak much english but I listen to music like Lana del Rey, and others, so I like to understand the lyrics, also I watch friends and other series so I can understand better the language

Sometimes I try to talk to other people in English, like send us audio via WhatsApp, but in general we finish doing it after a while, so I don't practice as much

About quarantines activities.

In this quarantine has felt good. I thought I could feel more lonely than I have ever felt, but it really was a nice time at home. I have been in my city all this time, which makes me happy because I did not really want to return to Santiago.

Regarding the social, I really don't think we will improve as a society. This’s because even in a global pandemic, with situations such as high unemployment without money, there are people who oppose basic issues such as the prohibition of cutting basic supplies for non-payment, the withdrawal of funds from afp, the extension of postnatal , that one realizes that there are people who haven’t humanity or empathy for those who suffer the most

In this quarantine and in this time without class I have rediscovered many activities that I had not had time to do and that I have discovered that I like. For example I have dedicated myself to making dream catchers, I have also seen many history documentaries, because I love history. I have also learned a lot about photography, one of my hobbies.

About the studies, the truth is that as psychology is a lot reading so it is that I have not felt that having online classes is a big problem, however, the fact of not having practical activities I think affects a lot of our professional development.

Finally, I have resigned myself to thinking that the quarantine will last until after September.

Postgraduate Studies

When I entered to study psychology I always thought about continuing studying after graduating. In fact, the idea of ​​practicing as a psychologist did not appeal to me, but the idea of ​​always studying psychology. This is why I would like to dedicate myself to research (especially if I can link it with research techniques related to photography).

An area that I like a lot is community social psychology, I think that in the future we should focus on strengthening community networks as a way to improve the mental health of the population, and for this a community psychologist is very useful.

If I chose a postgraduate degree in community social psychology I would choose a country in Latin America, this because most of the theories of community psychology come from Latin America and because they are theories applicable to our context, since Latin American countries suffer from similar problems; for example, high inequality, racism, classism, etc. I would like to live for a while while studying in the country of my choice to also get to know other realities, other views, and other people. I would not like to study an interesting postgraduate course on the internet, since I believe that it limits learning a lot, since it is more difficult to put theory into practice in this context and lost  many unparalleled experiences of living in another country.

Photography

Well, since I am studying psychology, I hope to practice as a psychologist when I graduate, and in particular I am very interested in everything that has to do with Human Rights. However, I have other ideas in mind, especially related to photography. Lately I learned a lot about photography, actually, some people asked me for some favors related to this, and I’ have beeing discovering that photography is a very wide field. There are different fields within photography, be it photography for journalism, photography for documentarys, portrait photography, advertising photography, etc., and the one I like the most is documentary and landscape photography. Also, I love to travel and better if it is with my camera, then if I could wish, one of my ideal jobs would be to travel around the world documenting experiences and being paid for it. To that end I need to be very professional and I really see it hard now, as I do not dedicate my time 100% to photography haha. Anyway, also I need to have good camera lenses, know well about editing and have a good computer to do this. And regarding my personal skills, I would need to develop my character in front  people I want to photograph, to be less shy in those cases. My main reward is traveling and getting to know other cultures and places and that I am paid to document it. That would be the best!

FRIENDS, the serie

Hi everyone!

In general I don’t like movies. It’s difficult to me focus for two hours or more in one thing. So, when I watch a movie, always a play a simple game in my cellphone, because I need keep my hands occupied.

But I like watch series sometimes. A serie that I love is FRIENDS. I love so much that serie. I watch this a lot of time. The first time I watch this serie was when I was forty years old, and I love it! It’s my favorite serie, and it is about a six friends that live in New York, and they happen a lot of funny things in their daily life. It’s comedy, so it is a serie to watch for laugh, enjoy and relax. Also their episodes last 20 minutes, so it’s very short.

Well, episodes are short, because the serie last ten years, so there are more than 200 episodes!

In general de characters have a very changes through the seasons. That is great when you see how the characters grow up, change, mature, but for that you should watch the serie in order, season by season. Also for meet the history and understand better the plot.

To south of Chile

I love to travel. I would like to travel a lot and meet a lot of countries and places. 
My best holiday was the last year in february, we backpacked all february to the south of Chile, we started on february 5th and went backpacking until the last days of that month. I went with my boyfriend and two friends. 
First we travel in my uncle’s truck to Puerto Montt, and inmediatily go to Cochamo. Then we went to Ancud, Chonchi, Dalcahue, Cucao,  Puerto Varas, Valdivia, Villarrica and Pucon. 

It was a wonderful trip because for the first time I traveled with friends and not with my family or alone. We met a lot of beautiful places and very nice people, who we still keep in touch with. 

We camp too and I love camping. In some places I haven’t a got an internet connection, telephone signal or light, so the contact with nature was the best. I love taking photographs, so I took my camera and I took a lot of pictures of every place. Also I took pictures of the night sky, it was so beautiful! 

At last, I loved sharing my time and stay all month with my friends and boyfriend, it was a enriching experience. I got to knew them better.

This pictures I took in Cochamo, walk to slides.

Cochamo's slides