this is the end... my only friend

It doesn’t matter which one is your mother tongue, you must learn the Empire language. There is no escape, English it’s the new element of our DNA. I may not like this, but it’s the true. The globalization forces us to use a common language. That’s why today I’m writing this essay, because one way or another, learning English it’s the world way of being baptized to grow in this incredible, an shocking sometimes, connected world. This final English course may be the gate, and this essay the baptism ceremony to begin our renewal lives on global times. However, I’ve been baptized before, and it didn’t work.

Of course, this ceremony forces me to make a little trip to remember how this experience has been. Everything starts when I was a freshman. That’s when I realize that English language Empire was calling me. I was obligated to take this course, because if I didn’t take it, I couldn’t graduate me of psychologist. So that’s where my history begins. If anyone asks me now if I’m sorry for taking this course, I respond that absolutely not. I’ve learn many things that I might use in the future. But this couldn’t be like that, without my teacher. I think that I have to give an honorific mention to Alvaro, because he is a great guy, and I think that this course wouldn’t be so great if he had not been there.

Another reason why I find this course has been successful is for the use of social networks as blogs. Using blogs allows us to being always writing, and trying to be updated. If someone asks me for some suggestions to this blog sessions, I would probably say that should be allowed to students write about their favorite topics always. Other suggestion would be that all classmates should write in a chat, so that every student was forced to interact and had to think and write something English in real time. I hope that those things will be consider for future English courses.

Finally, I’ve enjoy a lot this travel despite all other funny (but real) things that I’ve say about “English: the language of the Empire”. And now, some final conclusions about my experience. I think that this two years have been useful, because I’ve learn, talk, and write every Friday in English, but the most important thing, is that this course was more like a fun and relax time to spend with my classmates, then a rigid and boring English class. In a environment like that, English learning it’s a lot more easy and durable I think. Who knows, maybe this “baptism” may work.

This is not a great blog.

I think that we have many challenges at this time, because this discipline is always changing, and being updated. Now I’m going to talk about technology challenges for psychology, for example, behavior psychologists need many instruments to make their experiments and measure their results. A solution for this problem may be investing more in this area, to make this psychology area more competitive and efficient. In Education, I think that psychology could make better suggestions than in many other areas because there are many investigations that could make useful for teachers and students. I suggest that psychologist may interact more with education specialist, because this work is intradisciplinary, and just a psychology view won’t be enough. About social matters, social and communitarian psychology know best what to do. They can solve social conflicts such as drug addiction, or try to intervene communities to make their life better.
I think that psychology should question more there bases, their epistemological foundations, and then try to change the world. If we don’t criticize ourselves, we could never make a real change in this Earth. Psychology, as many other social sciences, is always changing, and thinking about what are they doing, their mission.
And now, I don’t want to write more about this, because I’m tired, so I will full with words until I complete 350 words. So I don’t know about what you want to talk about it, but I just want to go home and cry, because I’m an slave in this room, and my teacher won’t let me go if I don’t write 350 beautiful words.
I don’t know what else I could to talk about it. I hope you enjoy my lalala. Now, I’m going to say you bye bye, because I don’t want to keep talking. I think that I’ve repeat that like 350 times.
I want to sleep, because I haven’t sleep. I don’t know anything. This might be the worse blog that I’ve written in much time. And I hope that you excuse me, but I don’t have any more ideas to put in here. That’s my challenge.

Activities I enjoy the most

The activities I enjoy the most when I have some free time are listening music, watching films, and have long conversations whit my friends. This activities I usually do at any time, I don’t need free time to do this. For example, yesterday I have to do some work for University, a thing that I should send many hours ago, however, I decided that I want it to spend time talking with some friends. So that’s why I say that you can do what you want at any time. Nevertheless, I don’t recommend this strategy, because you must do anyway all that activities that you decide to postpone. I usually enjoy my time with my university friends, because they are who I see more often on my week. Some of that friends possibly are reading this blog, and they must be laughing with this, because I should be with them in class right now, however I’m desperately trying to end a piece of alkjdsalk (you-know-what). I don’t know what else to talk about the activities that I enjoy the most. Well, listening to music it’s other of my favorites things, that in this last month I’ve really enjoy a lot. When I’m in my home, in my bed, trying to get some sleep, I usually turn on the radio to be calmer and relax. Other activity that I’m sure that many of the readers of this blog most enjoy, it’s watching films. I love do that, because that allows me to think better, like when you don’t want to thing in some thing, you could turn on the tv, and watch a film in which one you can put all your stress in stand by, so you can relax, and then, after the film, you may thing better about things that you have to do. Other activity that I enjoy, it’s going to the gym with a very funny partner, and talking about anything, and laughs and exudes a lot. After the gym I’m always happier.
Finally, I think that people should always do what they want it to.

improve your life

Faculty facilities here in FACSO are really nice to me at least, I mean if we compare this with other facilities such as Exact Science Faculty, which current infrastructure it’s not adequate for their students, and their rooms are too small for all their lab instruments. However I thing that this faculty may need some place to relax ours beautiful and stressed minds and bodies, that’s why I recommended to build a room to sleep, and listening to your favorite music. Well, my first steps to become this demand in a real thing, I think it will be to knock down all the Faculty to build a meditation center, where even the rats used for experimentation could have their own space, and will be happy to participate in some conductist experiments, even so, I think that if the ambience will be greater, all rats will give their consent to make of them science prostitutes. Well, I resolve this situation, as I say before, building a meditative center with swimming pools with music under the water.
The benefits of building a place like this, will be amazing, because all people will be so relaxed that will never fight, and if they do, they could resolve their problems faster, because their minds will be clearer than in other minutes when they live and share in that brown old knocked down Faculty.
And further recommendations for new social scientists, it’s that they invent a new hugging machine to make their life happy.
And the absolutely real recommendation it’s just, enjoy life, love your family and friends. Have a great day dear you :)

MUSIC BEIBIIIII

I love music and any kind of artistic manifestations, but what I like the most it’s argentinean rock music. That country gives us so many masters such as Charly García, Fito Páez, Fabiana Cantilo, and many others. Of course, I hope you will remember a legendary band as Soda Stereo, which main principal voice was Gustavo Cerati, or Los Fabulosos Cadillacs which last presentation was last Sunday here in Santiago, on the Club Hipico. As all this artists, I share their passion for music, because this “thing” makes you so happy; a beautiful drug that you can’t stop drinking, eating, smoking, fucking! Because that’s how I experiment it. Music it’s a human need, and any noise it’s a potential music that will blow your mind, that make your spirit free or in the other hand, could make you a suffering slave in this planet. But sometimes I forget to enjoy, and the only music that I hear is what radio gives mean while I do any other things. I don’t dedicate enough time to listen to my favorite music.
I think that music it’s great for health. Endorphins are waiting for music to run free for your body. And finally, here you have a link of my favorite musician, Fito Paez:
http://www.ciudadfitopaez.blogspot.com/
Enjoy :)

The guardian article

Original article from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/may/01/universityguide.psychology
This article talks about psychology as a career for future students. This expose try to answer four questions. What will I learn?, ¿What skills will it give me? , ¿What job can I get? and finally ¿What will look good on the CV?. This question became a university guide for future students. The first question gives you a general perspective about what it is psychology and what do you need to do learn to become a psychologist. You must initiate with a general grounding in biological, to finally end with a cognitive psychology. The second question talks about what skills will you develop in a career like this. Some of those are research skills, of course, when students graduate they will have plenty of background knowledge, and will be able to demonstrate critical and independent thinking. The third question talks about jobs that a psychologist can get, those jobs could involve work in educational area, or do some work as clinical psychologist, or an occupational one. Finally, the fourth question ¿what will look good on the CV?. And the answer of the text is this, the ability to apply multiple perspectives to psychological issues and the effective team working skills.

My favorite dish

My favorite dish is tallarines with tomatoes sauce. I’m so traditional for this, but I love to eat this. It’s so easy to prepare it, and you can do it in a few minutes. Besides, you can cook this with many salsas, like sauce alfredo, or any that you want to invent. The special flavor that I think this dish has, it’s in the sauce, in the tomatoes, and how you prepare it. I enjoy cooking anything, and it’s so interesting to know how other people cook with their own personal ingredients. Well, I think that any person who has cook for others, knows how rewarding is to do it. Cook for your friends and family, and see how they enjoy, or at least try to, it’s great.
If I have to put a remembrance related to this dish, I think that I will always remember when I was on vacations with my friends, and the only think that we have to cook and eat, it was this. Noodles always make you feel full in your stomach, and it’s so cheap, so you don’t need to spend much money and time in this.
I always recommend coke with any dish, at any hour. Drink coke always and you will be happy… and fat. And if you have a little of Ron, that coke will taste better. That’s all that I have to say for now. I recommend this dish! You must eat! It so “exclusive”! I don’t know what else to say so, bye.

What to do and where to go in Santiago.

Santiago is a great city to visit, because in this country we have so many things to see, to have fun with. I feel like if I was a tourist sometimes, because it’s too big this capital, and there are so many historic places that you can’t miss. So, if I had to give a tourist a little tour for this city, maybe I will begin with those places that I like, such as Santiago’s library, an amazing place to have fun with millions of books and videos that you can share with your friends and family. Some other places that I suggest a tourist to visit may be Matucana 100, an art place in which Chileans and foreigners artist show their work. Those two places are close to Quinta Normal, a beautiful and big park in which one child could play and have fun. Inside of that park, you can find the Nature History Museum, and a culture place such as Balmaceda. But a tourist must visit La Moneda, an historic place in which way the government take many important decisions.
If the tourists are bohemian maybe they will like to visit Bellavista and its surroundings, like the Forestal Park, and “Bellas Artes” Museum. Finally, I suggest visiting all this places using the subway, because it’s less difficult and safer.

En la cama

Well, the last film that I saw was “En la cama”, a movie by Matias Bize, a young Chilean director who has done other movies such as “Lo bueno de llorar”. However, his first movie was “En la cama”. This history begins with a couple of strangers that have a casual sexual relation in a motel, nevertheless this anonymous casualty gives them a intimacy feeling in which one they nude all their lives and shows their true emotions, like if this were a church confessionary without any retaliation.
What I love about this film is that everything happens in the same room. You can see all their transformations, their feelings being exposed in that same little sad room. Everything stops! In the film only exists those two, in that bed, having sex, feeling, crying, just being there like if no one else exist. Those two were Gonzalo Valenzuela and Blanca Lewin, playing to Bruno and Daniela respectively. I went alone to Cine hoyts to see that movie, and I recommend it a lot. You most see it! It’s incredible.
You never know when will be the day in which one your life will change forever, maybe the amazing of this film, is that makes you think that any day could be that day.

Transantiago: before and after

Well, this is a very difficult subject because there are many points of views, however I’m going to talk about how I think and feel about this new system.
Firs of all the “yellow” busses weren’t great. I remember that when I had to go to school, I had to wake very early because all busses were full. That’s why I think that Transantiago is a better system then the old one. Although is necessary to emphasize, that exists two moments in this new system. Because when this system started, it wasn’t functional, I couldn’t even get in to the bus, it was chaotic. However, now my experience it’s very different, because I don’t have to wait more then five minutes to catch the bus, or try to get in for back doors. Now I can wait calm the bus, and if it comes full, I can wait for other because I have certainty that busses will arrive soon.

Well, if I could make some changes to this system, I will try to get better in infrastructure. Get more machines on the street, and try to eliminate all the old yellow busses that are still around the city. Other change might be the extension of the routes. With this we could try to get better the real problem now, the subway. That might be the real conflict in this new system.

A country I would like to visit

I would like to visit South Africa, because I think that it might be interesting know something absolutely different from my own country. I really don’t know much about this country, I mean I know some things that you can see on TV, like safaris, or maybe some tribes, but I don’t know anything in detail. Well, if I could stay there for a few months, maybe a year, it would be great because I might learn a lot about people who lives there. However, I don’t know if my discipline could be helpful there, and not because I don’t think that psychology is not important, but I think that maybe they could have some other needs, more important than psychology. I understand that this could result difficult to understand, but if people die every day for AIDS or hunger, maybe psychology could wait for a while.

South Africa has some many textures and worldviews that it is worth to go there with our ingenuity, and make an effort to apprehend all of them, all their culture, I mean, try to connect whit others wisdoms that here in Occident we have lost or sale in favor of a few oil barrels and U.S.A dollars.

Post 1 FIRST TERM: GOOD AND BAD POINTS OF 2009

Well, I think that my experiences during the first term of 2009 were very interesting. First of all, I’ve learned a lot about psychopathology, and how can I identify many abnormalities or difficulties in people’s personalities. Other things, or issues that I learned, was about neuroscience, and how the brain works and has and incredible participation in our behavior. If we talk about other activities, maybe I should mention my work in “pilates”, an sport that fortify your muscles, and keep your mind free during the exercise. Some other activities that I did during 2009, was practice some artistic activities in a Okupa-house, like to climb in sometime that looks like a rope, but it is sometime else, like a fabric material.
Some of the challenges that I faced involved my family, my sister, who leave the house to live alone with her boyfriend. It was hard at the beginning because some days I missed her a lot, but at the end things get better when I visited her.
Finally, I hope that the second part of this year it will be successful, and I hope that I can pass all my subjects to have a great end of the year, and start a renewed 2010.

Blogging experience

Well, this is the end, my only friend… “The doors” couldn’t say it better, but it doesn’t have any relation with my declaration today.

I’ve enjoy this experience, because I’ve never write English like I do now. I think that write every week in this blog makes you improve your English capacities, your vocabulary, because we are obligated to do this. So every week was a new challenge for me, some days we have to write about some boring things, and some others we have to talk about some interesting issues. One of the most interesting blogs for me was about education, because we have to analyze the education phenomenon from another point of view. We have to understand that public education in our times is not the best, because the government tries to develop some specific areas of our brain, in particular the children works there logical-mathematical hemisphere. That’s what I enjoy. However, when you have to do this against time, or you have to write about topics that doesn’t like you, that’s when this task become into a something boring, that stress you, and doesn’t allows you to work in peace.

The advantages of this blog, is that you can you use your imagination and write about anything, even we you have a specific subject to talk about. That’s when you have to use your brain, and try to change a boring task, into a funny one, where you enjoy it. Evidently, other advantage was that we have to learn about so many things in English, so many words that we have to replace for others. Some disadvantages of doing this blog, was that in moments like now, when you don’t know what to write about, you write about anything, just for refill this blog. Bye, I hope that you enjoy this experience too.

My ideal job

My ideal job would be photographer, columnist and a writer. Yes, I don’t have just “one” ideal job, I would like to mix all those jobs into one. Qualities and skills that I need for this job, would be a very sociable person, have a good disposition to change of city real quick, and train to adapt any place. Maybe I would need to do some wonderful pictures, and have an interesting writing. Versatility is the key for this job. I would be good for this job because I love to do all those things, and if I had the opportunity to do that, I do my best to do it well. I like to travel, to find some new things. I’m always train to catch those moments; mental pictures of the city, the people, and all kinds of things that are walking in the street. I think that it would be very difficult to find that kind of job, maybe in magazine or some newspaper. I don’t know if there exist some people that pay you for do that, and give you money and allows you travel for the world, meeting people and new places for your own happiness.

Talks Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

Do we value ours bodies? Does the people knows there capacities? Or just we’ve born to be restricted for other simplifier minds? Ken Robinson says that children are an extremely creative people, but the public education system limits them. You can’t be a writer or a musician in this world; you have to do what this evil system needs. The industrialization has ordered our priorities for their self conservation. So, the education system reproduces tools for system convenience. Our brains has been development in one area only. Arts, or other creativity activities are obsolete in our minds, because we’ve been educated to serve others interest, and not our owns. But in this times, where global warming is in each corner, perspectives are changing. Maybe we have to do a change in ourselves, and think in create something, and don’t produce things. I think that difference in this thing, maybe the value that we attach them. Are children the future? Or just a reproduction of the past?

My favorite subject this term

My favorite subject this semester is psychopathology. This subject is TEACHED by Luis Alvarado and Jose Luis Rossi. The first one is psychiatrist, and whit him we have seen some patients on the Salvador’s Hospital. In the other corner, is Jose Luis Rossi who is a psychologist and teach us some things more academics about this subject, whit him we don’t see any patients; however we learn a lot about his experience on this field. I like this subject because I see in the practice how the personality disorders and structures are working. In this semester, I’ve learn that normality it’s not a healthy parameter necessarily, even more, this factor could be trigger for a psychopathology whose name is “normopathy”. This affection talks about people that it can’t be “abnormal”; it just can’t be act different to the social rules. Other things that I’ve learn this semester are some important distinctions between delirious and hallucinations.

The futureeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Where do I going to live in a few years? Will I do a master’s? Who knows (well, this is a rhetoric question, obviously I should know something about it). I don’t have any big plan for the future; I would like to be alive. I don’t know if it’s going to be a great future, or just a common one, but I will like to be studying for many many years, maybe do a master’s on gender. I’m going to study other career in this faculty, probably Anthropology. Personally I would like to spend the time with someone I care. In five more years I’m going to buy a house, in a place quiet, but in the middle town, something very difficult in this times. I wish that I can help to others with their problems being a psychologist, try to make a difference in their lives. Something like that will make me happy. And that’s for now, this could change, who knows, I just one to sleep peacefully in the future.

The best teacher on my field

Jose Luis Rossi is the best teacher of psychology, because he tries to make you understand everything about his class. Well, his specialty is the psychopathology and he knows everything about it. In his class, he doesn’t use any additional technologic resources like power points. More teachers should be like him, because he tries that every one of the students understands his subject, and what he is talking about. Always tries to join the theory with the practical, and that’s why his classes are so entertainment and compressible, because he has so many histories about his own patients that makes you want to graduate rapidly to have experiences like he does. He enjoys what he does, and that’s transmitting in his class. That as an important point for any teacher, that he loves what he is doing, and put his best efforts in there teaching. Finally, I don’t find any photo of him. But its okay, what is real important is what he is talking about.

My career

I’m studying psychology because I like to work with people, to be involved with others and train to make their life better. Psychologists contribute to society trying to help people when they feel that their behaviors are not the best, or when they don’t feel comfortable with their thoughts and emotions. In the future I’m going to need to have a better curriculum, because a psychologist needs to be getting better every day, because this discipline it’s in continuous expanding, so you have to study more to obtain more degrees. In this era, any professional has to do a magister or a PhD in some specific areas of there discipline.
My favorite subject in psychology, at this moment because it can change, is psychopathology because this covers an area very interesting, about the personality disorders and there treatment. But the subject that I thing that makes a difference with the others careers, is the continuous questioning about the “normality”, and how we conceive the human being. In particular, this last sentence about how is conceived the “humanity” is the real deal in psychology. You have to understand that are many points of view in the career that are not complementary. So, every point of view it’s a political manifestation of power. Neutrality doesn’t exist in science. Are we a science? Or just a political instrument that adapts people better to the capitalist system? Promote dissidence or adaption?

Website www.psicoactiva.com

I don't usually visit web sites about my career, however I'm going to visit some pages now to learn and discover some things new about the discipline that I'm studying. Well, the first site that I'm interested to visit is www.psicoactiva.com. The first thing that take my attention is that this site has a link or a folder about "tests". Well this is very funny, because many people usually make this tests to know more about them selfs, or to compare with other people, however this things doesn't say anything serious about whou you are. The problem about this web site is that many people really thinks that test had a very high certainty about there answers, however people doesn't know that every test "should" be validate it in every country to be used. Some things that I do like about the web site, is that you can find many cientific articles about psicology. Finally, i found this web site through www.google.cl. It's a very easy way to found many things. However, there are millions of pages, and you have to filter this to found that really can help you out. That's it.

My favorite piece of technology

My favorite piece of technology is the mp3 player. I didn't buy this product, because Santa Claus gave it to me at Christmas (yes, he exists). So, I got it in December 24, and then we fell in love. I use it to listen to my favorite songs, however, I can use it to save any document from a computer, and then I put those files in my mp3 (connecting this device throw their usb port). You don't need to know much about this great invention to use it. It's very easy, you just have to turn on this technology pushing the "play" button. This button you can identify it really easy and fast because it has a triangle that indicates the turn on button, that works too for turning off the device. That "incredible" button permits you to open folders that you have already created on your pc. Well, I use this thing every day, every minute of silence it's a perfect oportunnity to use it. I like this device, because allows me to feel like if I were suspended. I don't know, maybe this thing creates a place for yourself just when you need it to. For example, when you are surrounded for people, and you want to escape from them and you can't, well, that is a perfect example for what I'm talking about. And finally, my life it wouldn't change a lot. The difference will be that when I want escape for a minute, I will open a book instead of playing my mp3.

This is who I am Mr. or Mrs YOU

Hello!, my name is Andrés Rincón, and I'm in a course of English. That's the reason why i do this introduction for you. Well, I'm 20 years old, i was born in a beatiful country, Venezuela. You may know this place for their excellent ron that calls "Pampero", maybe you are drinking a glass of that, and you don't care what I'm writing a about.