Transantiago!

I think Transantiago in spite of all the criticisms it is a good public transportation system. I think Transantiago is better than the pre-Transantiago system because now there is less smog in Santiago, there is less acoustic contamination and it looks nicer than the pre-Transantiago system.
I think that it can be worse than pre-Transantiago system because it does not benefit all the people of Santiago. It doesn’t benefit them because there are some far places in Santiago that doesn’t have buses to take that people to the center of city.
This “new” system started on February of 2007. I remember that month because people didn’t get use to this system quickly and they were very angry about this. They started to blame drivers about their own ignorance because they didn’t get the information necessarily to use this system in a good way. Well, people are averse to big changes so they didn’t take this very well.
Now I think people are getting use to this system. And I think the government has made good changes since this system started.
I took this big change very well because I always was afraid of the previous system. So, I get used to it very quickly.
I think this system would be better if the frequency of buses increase. I like this system. I’ll always prefer this system than the old one.

A country I would like to visit

Well, I would like to visit so many countries in my life but if I have to choose one, and definitely it would be Italy. I really would like to go there someday. I think that country is so beautiful or at least it looks beautiful in movies.
I don’t know so much about Italy, I know that their language is Italian, the capital is Rome and Lacuna Coil is an Italian group of music.
There, I would like to visit some cities such as Rome, Venice or Milan. It sounds like a cliché, but someday I must know the Rome ruins and the coliseum. In Venice, I would like to know the entire city because I have to see with my own eyes that beautiful city that is over the sea. I’d like to visit Milan because I’d like to know the cathedral of Milan and of course because Milan is one of the most important cities in fashion.
I just want to visit Italy. I don’t know anything about living there or Italians lifestyle so I prefer getting bored and living here in Chile but if I have the opportunity to live there with a nice job as a Psychologist I’ll definitely do that.

First term: good and bad points!

In the first term of 2009 I think that I learned a lot. I had 8 subjects and as normal people, I didn’t like all of them. The subject I liked the most was psychopathology, it was very interesting and I had to learned a lot of new terms, it was the first clinical subject that I had until then. The subject I dislike the most was neurophysiology and it was so boring and the teacher wasn’t so good, that subject was so biological and that made me sick.
I didn’t do any extra activity, but I take Pilates such as a sports course. It was very nice and relaxing, I really enjoy it. I take that course with Andrés y Catalina.
I don’t remember that I had to face too many challenges but I think that neurophysiology was one. It was a challenge because I didn’t like that subject and it’s so difficult to study something when you don’t like it.
In my personal life I think it was good, I can’t complain about it. In winter holydays I saw a lot of my old friends from high school and it was very nice because I didn’t see them since 2008!
That was my first term of 2009, it wasn’t too exciting but it was good to me.

My blogging experience

I think working with bloggs was very interesting. I really enjoyed this because writing in bloggs let me to create and express myself in another language. Work with bloggs really helped me to improve my english because I practice a lot. It is really nice because we are not under stress with this and it's nice to work by yourself because it's another way to learn english.
By the other hand, it's nice to know a little more about our careers in english, it's really cool and I think it really can help us in our future.
But not all it's so nice. I didn't like the fact that we didn't have the corrections of our entries. We have just one, but in class our teacher helped us to correct our entries, but when she didn't helped us, we didn't know if we did it well or no.
I think this is such a great oportunity to work with our english, but we have to take advantage of it.

My ideal job!

I think I would like to have a job where I could be spontaneous in what I do. I think that's why I like humanistic psychology because you have to see people in their particular singularity, that means nobody is the same, that's why you have to be spontaneous and be free to see each person in her/his singularity, skills and abilities.
If I have a job like this I would have to adopt an attitud called epoche, in phenomenology terms it means that you need to leave all preconceptions about people and to see each one as if you don't know her/him, what they are or what they suffer in clincal terms.
I would be good at this job because is what I like, I think it is what I need in my life and I'm sure I would be able to do this.
I think to find this kind of job it will be difficult because there are just a few opportunities of work and maybe I'll have to take one even if it doesn't have the characteristic that I like.

My favorite subject

I think my favourite subject is Psychopathology because it has to be with an important area of psychology, clinical psychology.
We have two teachers Luis Alvarado and José Luis Rossi. We learn the theory with Rossi, his classes are so organize and he knows a lot about clinical psychology, also he always tell us a lot of examples about his experience in clinical psychology, that makes his class very interesting. With Alvarado we learn the real experience in clinical psychology because when we have a class with him, we have to go to "El Salvador" hospital, in there, sometimes he brings patients and he interviews them in front of us.
In this subject we have the perfect combination, theory and see the real practice. That's why I like it. Also, I like it because we learn so many things in that class that we will use in our jobs in future. But not all is good because we have to memorize a lot of new terms.
Well, I've learned a lot in this class, clinical terms, real experience with patients and clinical theory.

Creativity and Education

Sir Ken Robinson talks about creativity and education. He explains that education squander children talents, because its structure. This structure is a hierarchy and it has arts in its bottom. That means that education it is not prepared to take children talents and make them grow up. For example, education in present punishes mistakes and that means we are afraid to make mistakes. Been wrong it is not so bad because if you have never been prepared to make mistakes you will never make something original.
So we have to think about what is going on with education in present and education’s fundamental principles. In this way, education has to see children creativity and take the most of their talents, because they are rich in so many ways. Education has to prepare children to see the future by, in Sir Ken Robinson words, “making something of it”.