Your experience learning English at university / a reflection

Hi! Finally we are at the end of the year and now is the time to meditate about the year, the classes, the moments, the people and everything. One of this think to meditate is English classes.

My English classes at school wasn’t really good, they have no a high level of difficulty. And they were not so complete. For example I have no interact classes where we talk with another partner or the teacher. We only made writings and they were a little bored.

The English I know is because I like to hear music in English, read the lyrics and then I learnt them. Also I like to watch movies in English and if it’s possible without subtitles. And other thing that helped me to learn English is that sometimes I talk with my brother in English just for fun. But now I cans say that it has been very helpful.

This semester at English classes I could talk a lot in this language and I could hear flowing conversations with my teacher and my partners. The thing I like the most of this class is that the items that we reviewed were all related with the issue of health. I learnt parts of the body, illness, remedies, questions that a doctor made to a patient, etc…

I liked very much this English classes because I think is very important that a health professional handless in this area because of any emergency, like for example, someone that is working at the hospital, and suddenly a person that is French arrives with a lesion, and he doesn’t know to talk Spanish, that professional must know to talk in English to make the person feel better and to ask him what happened and all things that he must know to help the French person.

But I must say English doesn’t finish here, this semester, it continues all life, because all the time is appearing new things that is important to know them.

Friends :)

What are friends? Do you call friend to the real one? Do you act like a real friend for others?

If you look for a friend’s definition in the internet or in a dictionary maybe you will find something like: “friend is someone friendly, pleasant”, “someone with whom you share happy and entertainment moments”. But I really think that a friend is so much than that. For me a friend is someone that knows you, that put up with your anger, someone that back you up in bad and sad moments, someone that is not afraid to tell you the truth and to tell you what are you doing wrong and what mistakes have you committed, even though it hurts. Friend, for me, is someone that having the best party ever, to wich you were not invited, she or he prefers to stay with you watching a movie or just been with you. Is someone that doesn’t ever get bored with you, and always enjoy a little time together. Is someone that have seen you cry hundreds of times and never think you are a crying baby and always have the exactly word to tell you, that word that make you happy in just a few seconds.

Nowadays people call friend anyone, more above them who take them for the bad road. Sometimes, people choose their friends just because they accompany to all the parties in the world, and get drunk together, but in bad moments that persons always run away. Those are not friends.

Other times, we act like bad friends; we are so involved in our space and little hole, studying, working, etc, that we forget to worry about our real friends. Sometimes this happens but oneself must realize that is committing a horrible mistake.

Don’t’ ever let time, or another external cause take you far away from your friends. Friends and family are the better gift of the life. Take care of them.

Female soccer

Since ever, women have fought to obtain the same rights, opportunities and benefits like men. It hasn’t been easy, but women have an extraordinary potential to obtain whatever they want. Football has been one example of that.

Female soccer exists too many years ago, but it hadn’t been recognized.  There are records of this sport played by women in “Han dynasty” which played an ancient version of the game called “Tsu Chu”, the first female football match was developed  in Scotland, also a women rights’ defender,  Nettie Honeyball, founded the first sport club called  British Ladies Football Club, because she wanted to demonstrate that women could participate  and become emancipated just like men could. The fist world war also was a fact that influenced female soccer, because men must go to fight and women must take care of the factories, and many of them had their own football’s team. But recent after the Men World Cup of 1966 the F.A. decided to incorporate women soccer.

These days female soccer is a popular sport, played by too many women around the world. There are women’s league, female’s teams, female´s clubs and others, in all derivates of football: baby football, beach football, football of 7 (little football), etc.

The mass of the female football has allowed the development of the Female World Cup, been the first an extra-official tournament in Italy where the winner was Denmark. But it wasn’t until 1991, organized by Chine and won by EEUU, when the Female World Cup was recognized by the FIFA.

In Chile happens the same that in the whole world. I played football in my school and we participate in a lot of school’s tournament because people are taking advantage of this phenomenon.

Women have improved too much that there are women that are so much better than some men. Maybe one day, in a near future, all women will be better that men.

Some help for stress :)

These days, most people is stressed, because of many reasons, just like work, studies, family troubles, love troubles, etc. But I think the real reason and the center of this whole situation is that time isn’t enough to do all things we like and relax us, and we must use that time doing things that take our energy away.

A very efficient solution is to practice sports, it helps you to oxygenate your brain, and it makes you think better, and also it’s oxygenate all your body and it makes you feel good and with lot of energy, so you could develop your day’s activity in a better way and you probably will do them with a smile in your face. But the hard thing is that you must find and dedicate a space of your day to practice it. Life is no life if you don’t dedicate some time to yourself. Time ago I practiced swimming, and it helps me to have more energy, and not only that; I could organize my time and I had a very good performance at school.

Another solution to avoid stress is to practice Yoga, there you learn to breathe well and you oxygenate better so you will be full of energy. And it is not necessary to go to a famous place and to pay; you can practice it at home with your friends, family, boyfriend, etc, watching videos in youtube.

And finally another solution I think is very helpful is to listen music and to dance. Dance helps you to feel you in freedom, just like shout out loud. You will fell better and you life will take a little change. Don’t forget it: Life has wonderful things, you only must learn to enjoy them and the smile in your face will never go away.

A healthy lifestyle, is it posible? how?

I must say I was a very healthy person few years ago. I practiced swimming six days a week, I slept eight hours every day, I had all my foods, breakfast, lunch, I ate at 5 o clock and I had dinner in night. Also I spent time with my family and friends. But when I stopped practicing sport my lifestyle got worse. This year I entered to study at university and my lifestyle got even worse.

 

It is not easy to have a healthy lifestyle when you are studying at the university, because it requires time, disposition and some help; and time is exactly what you don't have. In morning you are always hurry because you don't want to loose the bus, later in lunch you eat fast to go to study, or maybe you have time but unfortunately that day you forgot your lunch at home, so you must buy some hot dog or something like that. In night, most of the times you stay studying until two, three or four o clock in the morning, and that is the moment when you begin to eat food with lot of sugar or you drink a lot of coffee for not getting slept. The time that you have left is so little that you only want to rest, to sleep, to be with your family and friends, and you don't have the desire of practicing some sport.

 

It's hard to have a healthy lifestyle but if you think the consequences you will understand that it's so important and it worth your time and preoccupation. That's why I can recommend you to visit a nutritionist because she could prepare you a diet, taking into account your studies, your time and a lot of factors. And also she can give you an exercise routine. If you do all this, you will have more energy, if you have more energy, you could study better and you will take advantage of your time, if you do that, you will sleep the hours you need to be ok, and every time you will have more time to spend with your family and friends.

My childhood. Enjoy every moment.

Hi classmates! I should tell that doing this writing I remembered so many memories! I can´t complain about my childhood, they were years of entertainment, laughter and unconcern. A life without problems, a time when nothing really matters and places I will never forget.

I lived beautiful moments but I must tell that one of them that marked me the most was when I met Paloma, my best friend until today. I knew her in 1996 when we entered to Saint Gaspar College and since that day she is my right arm. Paloma have taught me so many things about life, love, friendship, family, enjoying and I am thankful about that. We have lived wonderfull moments, sadnesses, rages, joys, shames, etc and all of them have served to value our friendship. She was, is and always be part of my family.

Talking about family, another memory that always is in my mind, is the holidays when my mom, brother and my dad went to the beach. I remember our routine: we wake up not so late; we had breakfast all together, we walked in the beach, we laugh and then we returned to the house to have lunch. Later we went to the beach and we swam in the sea, we all played in the waves, my mom dried us with the towels while my dad bought us (my brother and I) some cuchuflis. We came back to the house, we had a shower, dinner and then we went out again, we saw the sunset in family, I enjoyed so much that moment. Then it was the time to go to the games and to the artisan fair. And finally we went back to home and played cards a little time and obviously we ate some chipses.

Now that those moments are gone, I think each person must enjoy to the maximum every moment. Because but small that is it, it always will carry you a happiness and you never know when you will lose those important persons.

The Best Movie Ever

There are really great and extraordinary movies, but neither one compares with the rythm, the music and the vitality of Step Up. Of course, exist Setp Up 1 and Step Up 2. The first is about a young man that lives in the streets and he likes to dance Hip Hop.One night, he and his "bad friends" entered into an Modern Dance's Academy and broke things, he was discovered and he is punished: he must clean the Academy for a long time. There he meets this girl who dance there and he helps her in her dance presentation, giving her "the touch" of Hip Hop. Finally they fall in love. I like this movie because it mixs the rythm of Hip hop and the modern dance, it has incredible dance's steps. When you see this movie suddenly the music inspired you and you only want to dance, because the songs are really good, from distinguished singers, like Flo rida, Chris brown, etc. Also I like this movie because it has a love story and I am a very romantic girl. So I can recommend this movie to anyone because it will make you dance with your friends and family and you could spend your time with your boyfriend. Step Up 2 its like a continuation of Step Up 1 with others characters but in the same Dance's Academy, but this time the "bad person" is a girl, and she entered to the Academy for move away from criminality that exists in the streets. Now I am waitinf for Step Up 3.