My experience learning English (:

Hello classmates! How are you today? I hope you aren’t so tired.

The time pass so fast, I remembered perfectly the first day that I had to write my first work and today it’s my last post. For finished my experience doing blogs, I will talk about my experience learning English at the University.

I started learning English just in April 2010, with another teacher and with other classmates. In the beginning of the year, I didn’t like English because I had to move to another faculty of the University and it’s took me time, time that in that period I didn’t have.

Little by little, English began to like me and came to Quinta Normal wasn’t terrible except in the day before tests. Only those days I hate English because it less me time of study. Being sincere, I have to confess that there were other situations where I wanted that English didn’t exist but I won’t say now.

Talking about the good things of this subject, I can mention some classes where I learnt things that it will be useful for my career. Also I can mention the blogs with which I could perfect my English writing and also learn new words that I didn’t know before.

There is an important comment that I’m forgetting: My classmates. In English classes I made new friends and I stayed good times with them. Obviously, not all my classmates where new for me, but with the people that I knew them from before, I stayed a good time too.

Always the goodbyes are sad, but nothing in the life is forever. I hope you finish in the best way the University, success with all your subjects.
Have a nice end of the year and holidays; see you in the next time (if there is one).
Good bye people!

II Region

Do you know about the second region? Antofagasta? Chuquicamata? Calama? Have you heard these names before? If your answer is no, you have to read this post. And if your answer is yes, you can close this window of Internet.
Antofagasta is in the second region, is the capital of this one. Perhaps, now you are thinking why I’m writing about “Antofa”? Well, the answer is so simple; I came from the second region. I was born in Chuquicamata but I moved off to Antofa when I was only 2 months of life.

All my childhood I lived in Antofagasta. I went to “The Antofagasta British School”, school where I was until seven grade. Some of my ex-classmates are now studying in Santiago so I can see them once a month and remember old times.

My father’s family (it includes grandmother, grandfather, aunts, uncles, cousins) lives in Calama so I travel to the North in special dates like Christmas, New Year or for some birthdays.

If you are reading this and you are preparing a trip and you have never traveled to “Antofa”, I don’t recommend you this city. It’s a little boring and you don’t have many things to do (you can do the typical things: go to the beach, go to parties, go to mall, etc; but nothing new). The only tourist attraction is the monument called “La Portada”.

Near Antofagasta (3 hours if you drive a car) is a tourist attraction that I recommend you visit it, perhaps you have heard speak about this town. It is called “San Pedro de Atacama”. You can’t die without knowing it because is a beautiful city so start saving silver from now!

I don’t have more comments to do.
I wish you have a nice weekend enjoying the things you like.
Bye bye people.

Sports (:

Hello classmates! Today is a new day of post, I will talk about sports especially of soccer.

Sports are something very important in my life. My father told me, since I was little, that sports are very good for health and besides they are entertained.
I remember that I started doing sports when I was 7 or 8 years old, I think that I was on third grade in that time.

The first sport that I practiced was rhythmic gymnastics. I practiced it twice a week in my school. After a year, I started to use cords, tapes, balls and all the things that are used in rythmical gymnastics. I don’t remember why but from one day to another I left this sport and never, until now, I have returned to practice it.

I changed rythmical gymnastics for soccer. I started practicing this sport in my school too (but in another school) when I was 14 years, in 2006 I think. Since that year I have never stopped to play soccer.

My school football team was “San Gaspi” (it name continues still now but I’m not member of it, I’m just a fan). With this team I won many champsionships and, in addition, I knew many pretty people. In fact, some of them are my friends until now.

A few months ago, my friends and I created a football team called “Farolitas” and we participated in a league in the school “San Pedro Nolasco”. We obtained the second place because a team of the University of Chile won the final 5-2.

Today, I’m playing soccer in the university and I’m a member of “Aperradas” (that’s the name of the team).
I hope that this story continues until I die. I also hope that feminine soccer continues growing up.

That’s all for today, good bye.

Dealing with stress at work

It’s time to do a new post in my blog. I hope that you like it (:
In order to be able to speak of stress, I believe that first it is necessary to put to us in agreement in its meaning. For stress I understand “A body's reaction to a change that requires a physical, mental or emotional adjustment or response”. It is obviously that each person has her/his own definition, but in this blog I will consider the definition I said before.
Sometimes stress is a good method to said the body stop. The body needs to rest a specific time and sometimes we can’t carry out this time because we have many things to do. The example more clearly is that we have to sleep at least 8 hours and many of us sleep just 5 or 6 hours every day.
In others cases, stress only gets the situation worse. For example when you have to study and you know the time is little for learn too much contents, you get stress and that makes difficult your concentration and you are delayed more time in learn something that normally you memorizing in a second. Besides, stress changes the mood and causes that one gets angry with more facility. In summary, work or study with stress isn’t convenient but lamentably we cannot avoid it, in fact I believe that the majority of us always get a little bit stress.
Talking in general, not only the stresses in the university, many of the Chileans gets stress constantly. A good business is creating a plan to eliminate the stress of our lifes, now the question is… how can we do it? Well, it is in the imagination of each one.
See you, bye bye

We only used 10% of our brain? :S

Hi people! How are you? I hope that the spring is caused happiness in your life ;).

Today I’m going to write about an article called “Brain and learning”. I choose the part “But I read somewhere that we only use 10% of our brain anyway”. The next things that I’m going to tell you are like a summary of the article.

In 1930, a man whose name was Karl Lashley believed that the brain had areas with not function. Now, this theory is incorrect because neuroscience findings show that the brain is 100% active. Even during sleep the brain haven’t areas inactive!!

Today, the brain can be described in functional areas (someone controlled the information perceived by the eye, other the information perceive by the ear, etc) and all the areas are linked to permit the production and comprehension of the language.

People with problems in their brains, have some areas useless because of the “trauma”. But the brain has an extraordinary plasticity, its means that the neurons are able to replace the neuron’s networks that were destroyed and reconfigure the networks to overcome the defect, that is to say, the brain can be recovered.

Well, like an opinion of this part of the chapter 6 I could say that the myth “We only use 10% of our brain” is completely wrong. In fact, thanks to our brain we can do all the thinks of the diary life (to walk, to talk, to eat, etc). Due to the complex processes that our brain controls, it has to be so difficult for the study. I know that scientists have discovered a lot of the connections that are in the brain, but I’m sure that it still lacks many.

Ok! That’s all for today.
See you in the next opportunity.
Good bye classmates.

A healthy lifestyle

Hi people! How the week goes? I hope that incredible.

Today I have to talk about if is it possible to have a healthy lifestyle If the answer is yes, how you can achieve?

Well, I think that have a healthy lifestyle it is possible if you want, it only depends on you. For me, a healthy lifestyle includes eat well and practice sports.

To carry out a good “diet” is important have breakfast, lunch and dinner at the same time every day, that is to say, to make a routine in the hours to eat food. Another important is to have a healthy feeding. This considers eat fruits and vegetables and not too much carbohydrate. It is obvious that you can eat “bad food” like Mc Donald’s or Doggis, but in a low quantity.
You don’t have to forget that a healthy feeding is synonyms of having a balanced diet!!

For continue the idea of have a healthy lifestyle, it’s time to talk about the sports. In a personal opinion I think that do sports is the best thing that you can do in the life. Sports make me happy and also are good for my health, is it something better? I haven’t more words to explain it… if you like a sport, make a time in your life and practice it (:

Having a healthy lifestyle is not only good for look and feel well with ourselves, but also is good to avoid diseases like diabetes, cardiac problems, obesity, etc.

The finish this post, I recommend you (and for all the people that are reading now) that you try (only try) to carry out a healthy lifestyle. It is better if you can do it ;)

See you in the next situation, have a nice week. Good bye.

PD: As a freak information, the number of hours that you sleep influences in the risk of having obesity.

Best memory of my childhood :D

Hi classmates! How are you? So long time that I haven`t written here!
Well, today I will talk about my best memory of my childhood. It’s very difficult to choose only one because I remember many histories of when I was a little girl. However, after thinking about all my memories, I decide to tell you about my trip to Disney.
To started, I have to mention that I don’t remember the year of the trip, I think that was in 2002 or 2003. Well, I travel with my father and my brother Rodrigo; that was the first time that my brother and I left Chile.
The first disadvantage was that we weren´t able to find the hotel. After 2 hours of search, we could find it and our happiness was maximum. The next day the adventure began: the first park that we visited was “Magic Kingdom”. In this park we took photos with all the personages from Disney and saw shows that these same ones did.
On the following day, we visited another called park "MGM". This park is characterized to have big dippers. Unique the bad thing: There were too much people and because of that, the time that we have to wait for the games was too much.
The following days, we continued crossing the parks that were in Disney. But as everything in the life has its final, this time was not the exception.
I hope I could repeat the trip some day because the experience was incredible.
Enjoy reading my history, see you in the next time, bye bye :)