viernes, 23 de diciembre de 2016

My english learning experience.

The truth is that I don't like so much english I know is important for our future jobs and that's why I have tried to learn as much as I can also because is useful in the daily life.
At university I have learn a lot because every class we have practiced talking and writing as you can see, I think that having a blog has been a good way to practice our writing skills because we must do it every week and because I think that read blogs from our classmates helps us to increase our own habilities. 
Something that I have noticed when I write and more when I speak is that I have a reduce english vocabulary, when I read this is something that can be less notorius because you can know the meaning of the words according to context but is not like you can invent words while you are speaking. Something that I tried this year was every time that I didn't knew a word search it in the dictionary and I have felt that this idea has helped me.
The best part of learning english is that I can apply what I learned in class in other things that are not related to university for example in the summer and during my free time in the first semester I subtitled some series and it was really funny for me. And for this summer I plan to read a book in english that is in my house.
I really hope in the future to have greater dominance of this language because I know is a very good tool when you work in the scientific area and also hope to study or work for a while in a country with english like first language.

viernes, 16 de diciembre de 2016

A recent problem.

This problem happened this year, in fact it was this semester during the week of the Universitary Olympics Games (JOE for its acronym in spanish). I went with a classmate to watch a volleyball game that was in a Beauchef's gym. We watched the game and after that I had to go home. I was not sure if I could remember the way to subway because I almost never learn the ways to anyway when I go for the first time, but this time this was not the problem because I could. When I get to the metro station I charged my card with $400 chilean pesos that was all the money that I had and after that like everyone does I went to the tourniquets where there were two people to enter before me, when it was my turn I payed and I really don't know what happened in that moment but suddenly the card didn't have enough money. It was really strange and I didn't know what to do, the first thing that ocurred to me was looking for the ticket of the charge that I had just done so I sarted with the search but there was a lot of tickets in my backpack, really A LOT, and any of this was the one that I needed in that moment, that ticket never appeared so the first idea was discarded. But ¿what else could I do? ¿Walk all the way home? ¿Ask people passing by for money? None of those ideas convinced me so I kept thinking and suddenly a moment in the past came to my mind. In this scene there was my mother giving me an emergency subway ticket of those you get when the subway fails and me putting it in my wallet. It was my most appreciated memory in that moment. After this flashforward I took the ticket from my wallet and went home. And that's how my problem was solved!