Post 10: The last one!

So, in this last post, we’re gonna comment about how has been this experience about learning english at university. And a method that is used here is about writing posts in blogs, I think that the use of this is a nice way to learn english, it could improve your vocabulary and also help with the writing. 

That’s because I think that I need to improve my vocabulary and something that usually helps me is writing about a new topic. Because we can discover new words and as a help with this I think that watching some movies and listening to music in english helps me with it. 

That’s why I usually watch movies in english and with those subtitles, so on this way it can help me with vocabulary and pronunciation at the same time. 

But although this I think that I don’t usually use english in another context, just maybe when I’m looking for some information for a class and there’s anything left. Also when I watch some YouTube videos, I prefer watching them in english, also movies, I think that them are better in their original language. 

And as a final thing to say is that, in a professional context I would like to use english for an exchange in a country of english language of course. And if I can’t do this, maybe someday I could work in another country and use my english for that, so that’s a reason to start practicing more and try to make it as better as possible. 

And also this could help me with my career, by meeting news cultures and work with them. 

Changes to my study programme

I’m studying architecture at the University of Chile and what I need to say about the career is that I think that all the courses in the program are justified, because the new order that they give to this new program is quite logical, just because they have everything in an order where every course is consequence of the ones that comes before. And what we learnt is according to what we can understand. So, in this way, I’m comfortable with the schedule, but not so much with the academic charge, they always ask for too much.

And also, with something that I’m not comfortable with is the infrastructure of the faculty, because we don’t have enough rooms or different places to work in our tasks and this is something terrible, because all of us need a place to work in groups and all that, even my career has the necessity of a space where we can do our assignments. So, I’m not comfortable with our place to study, what I would like them to do, is open the grille between the two faculties of this campus as a way for us to function as a campus.

This grille isn’t a good option in here, because we don’t work as a campus. Like, we usually don’t have areas in common and even, they don’t know what all of us do and how stressful is every career in here. I have talk with some of them and they even think of us as a lazy person and I have to say that this makes me angry. 

Personal Opinion

What is your opinion about "vertical ghettos"?

A “vertical ghetto” is a building that takes place in the town center, like Santiago Centro, which is a district of our region; and this type of building has a particular characteristic which is the height, because this one can have lots of floors, but the apartments are particularly tiny and sometimes they don’t even have enough elevators for all the people that lives there. So, this types of buildings aren’t of my type, because people don’t have quality of life in there.

What is your opinion about owning an exotic pet?

I think that an exotic animal isn’t a pet, because they don’t have the conditions to live at the place of where they are taken. For example, owning a tiger or something like that isn’t an animal to have in a house where it doesn’t have the possibilities to go out and enjoy of the wild life and develop in the ways of where it was brought up. So, in this way the zoo isn’t my favourite place to go.

What is your opinion about television?

In the past decades the television has arisen in every culture and I think that this type of way to communicate is better, because people has images to support what people are saying. Although in the past years and by the way of how smartphones are becoming more needed in every culture, television has being apart of the communicative ways that we have, so maybe this one wouldn’t be necessary to have.

What is your opinion about tattoos?

I think that since the beginning of our society we are used to have some tattoos, just to have something to identify ourselves and as a reflection of our society. This way of look at what they represent my opinion, because we can show to the rest of our culture our worth. And even I think that tattoos are a mark of how we are developing and what we went through, but also could be something that we like.