My experience learning English at the university / A general reflection

My experience learning English was different compared with the school english, and it is not bad, would be bad if this wasn't like that. Learn English is a important thing to the sciences in this moment, almost "papers" are published in english. When a researcher need to publish a research, almost time he prefer to publish in english like in a international language. Sometimes some views see that like a research more serious and reliable, but this isn't a good reason to a research, may be once a research could publish a good research in spanish and not in english, but this is strange.

I think that I like english since I am a little boy, maybe because almost things that was amusing, I saw or listen there in english, maybe the films, maybe the music, or maybe the something else.

When I studied in my school I remember that at the begining, english was complicated and no so entertainig, but this was when I was so little, but next when I began to be more mature school student I took more taste to the english: I could repeat the words in english, I could pronounce similar to the teacher and this was fine. Later I listen my father to say: "English is important, you must learn english, you could take a English course..."; but in this moment I didn't want take a english course...

When I have something like 20 years I convinced myself that english was an important thing to learn, that was at the university, and subsecuently I arrive to the Physical Therapy carreer and I could take a interesting course of english.


Now I know that the english is important and necesary because now I face with the investigations and most of "papers" are in English. Not always I think such aquiscent with english because I said: "Wy everything (the important) is in englsh?", "Why not in sapnish?" and today I maintain this question, but now the research are this. I don't want resign, but to study I need english now, in the other hand I like english so well, but ... researchs in spanish... would be nice some moments.

English is an atractive language, I don´t have the reason but I sense something like historic oportunities, conditioning, cultural constructs, and finally consensus in order to communicate with foreigners. On the other hand I have a little taste about english, and when someone (in my opinion) learn something it is more entertaining and interesting, because is an achievement. There are also reasonable questions, but I need some of comprension, tolerance and no-pride to live in this world, and love with this and to be happy with the english, with the people at the university and in God.

Nice travell

I want to write about travells. That is so nice. I like the travells, specially the adventures ones. My drean is to travell to a mountain or something like that where I can climb or do jogging with a team, like a competition betweeen teems, that is my more precious dream in travells. But I travelled before, thank's for God.

I travlled to Chiloé Island, that was great! The latest time when I stayed in Chiloé was when I decided to do a "mochileo"; that was not extream like you could think, because before of the "mochileo" I stay there with other people, that travelled too to a Catholic Mision. So in this oportunity we travelled to do volunteer work about sharing with the people and talking about our friend Jesus. So, as you can understand, after the Mision, a little group decided to stay in the south of our country and next, when began to knew other sites of the Island. In this oportunity we stay some days (if I'm not wrong) in Dalcaue, later we travelled to Castro and stayed there more time than at Dalcaue. Next we travelled to Linares and we could stay in a friend house. She have a horse, and I could ride the horse, was the first time that I could ride a horse, was fun, because the horse was gentle.

I can tell you too that other places that I want to visit they are Brazil and Haiti. Because Brazil is a place where we thought with Jeannette to visit in the summer, and Haití because is the home country of a good friend Tebo, and is a place where maybe I could share and talk with the people, maybe about the earthquake, or maybe about the hope, or maybe about God.

Movies

About movies is a good way to amuse oneself. The movies that I prefer are the movies where I can enjoy with the special effects, like the action movies, epic movies, sometimes science and fiction.

When I go to the cinema to watch a movie, I hope enjoy with this, I do not like the movies to get out sacrried or crying, sometimes I prefer a good movie where I could see some values, where I could found too a teaching for my life or a moral.

When I stay in my house I prefer to see the movies that would not seen at the cinema. like the homorous ones or comedienne, and the arthouse.

A movie that I remember is "The Lord of the Rings", I liked it, because I enjoyed with it and I could see the beauty of the scenes and characterization, and the beauty digital work about the monsters.

At the past, more time back I have greet memories of "The Independence Day", I studied at school when I saw it, and was very amusing saw the aliens and the aircrafts and the extraterrestres ships flying and circunventing the rocky mountains.

The movie that I remember more was the movie when I stayed with her, my special friend, I think that the movie was not so good but the time spent with her to see the movie was unforgettable.

The stress

Stress, is a physilogical reaction of our body to confront a menacing situaction. Therefore is not a patholy, it is a normal and necesary response to live. For example: when you find an animal that menacing you, you react in front of this situation, then you prepare to defend, if the animal wants to attack yourself.

Exist diferents classification of stress, they can be pathological or not.

When the stress is pathologial, for example when is accompannied with "uncontrollable" anxiety, this require a treatment.

The trigger factors are some like this:

- situations where needed procecing information quickly.
- harmful environmental stimulus.
- threat perceptions.
- physiologic functions alterated.
- isolation and confinement.
- locks in our interests.
- group pressure.
- frustration.

You can combat the stress with respiratory excersises, namely a voluntary control.

Nowadays in general it is perceived like a illness but this is not a reality always, because we need this reaction to face some situations to emerge graceful.

A examples of pathologic stress are:

- postraumatic stress: is the stress that emerge after terrifying event.
- work stress: when the work expectations are highest exceed the worker capacity.

To combat the stress is necesary mantain a good health (with happyness) and take the problems with calm, and concentrate in the thing that is present at the moment. If we are to confronted something the first step is work in one problem or thing and the next step is to take the other. The other important thing is mantain the hope, and trust about if "I have something in front, I may to get over", and trust in God.

Healthy people

The healthy lifestyle I think that is a form to love oneself, and this is a important thing.

You can be a person that do excecises. The excercise is a important thing, besides of the daily physical activity like walk to move from an one place to an other. It is recomended does excercise 3 times on the week and minumum an hour or an half hour daily. If you do that you can feel that your body has more energy and you feel too that you need other types of food, more healthy.

The food that you must eat is everything, but the clue is to eat not a lot of some food, but diferents foods in a low proportion. For example if you eat 4 portion of bread probabily you can feel plenty in a moment but if you continue with this habit, probabily in a month you could see the increase of your weight, because the excess of carbohydrates (that contain the bread) was converted in fatty. But if you eat one portion of bread and you eat diferents vegetables and a portion of any meat, you will be eat a diferent vitamins and protein that you need in your body including the bread (but one).

With the colors you can know if you are consume the diferents vitamins that we need, you can think like each colour is a vitamin.

Other thing that you need to know is the sleeps hours, is said that we need 8 hours of sleep to recover the energy, therefore if you need to wake up at the 6 A.M. you must consider that you must to go to bed at the 10 P.M.

Other thing that I can say you is love. Love each other, like Jesus said, with attitudes, simple gifts like a smile to the other because if you are happy you are healthy, if you give you don´t contain the things in yourself and this can not spoil in you. Share with other people: be happy and be healthy.

My favourite get-away

Now I will coment you about my favorite get-away. I can relate you about the places that I remember that I loved, for example the south of Chili, like Chiloé Island. I have been to Chiloé when I have fifteen years old once with "Juventud Misionera" of my School and my family in other opotunity.

That was great, I remember the green landscape, the big leaf of the nature, elder trees and animals grazing, that environment was so beautifull to me.

If I think in a place near to Santiago I think in Algarrobo: a beach, where we have a calm swell and we can swim with out a big waves of water, in general I have travelled to there with my parents where we can share a familiar time.

Also a place that I kneew was Valarpaíso, I had gone when I was too little, but the past summer I went with one of my best friend, that was great: the place was so beautifull now, not like the Chiloé landscape where we could see a lot of nature, now we can contemplate the human fabrication: the buildings and the houses with a paricular arquitecture adapted to the hills of the Valparaíso place. Of course the near to the beach, the summer sun and the discotheques were good to entertain ourselves.

When I travell I search a places where I can stay in calm in general, where I can think, take air to my lungs and meet with the friends, family and God.

My music

The music that I like is in general a melodic music, not so much like Heavy Metal. I like artist like Eric Clapton, other group like Oasis, Blur, Keane and The Verve. Other music that I like is the 70's and 80's songs. But I think that the artist that him music like me more than the others is the music of Beck.

Now I listen the music from the internet, generally from Youtube. I have I little mount discs only two: one of Beck and one of Eric Clapton, but recording now I can't find the first (Beck one) I think that I lost it during the the earthquake.

When I study I don't listen music, I'am get used study without music. The other kind of music that I like sometimes is the Classical Music.

I think that the music is an accompanyment, a good accompanyment sometimes.

I avoid the music, how I say in at the begining, that it is not tidy or better, when it is violent.

Other group that I like is The Doors, I like the sound of keyboard and the rhythm.

I started to listen music more regularly when I finished the school. But in the school I play keyboard but I did't listen music very much.

I think that the music is a good form to amuse oneself and is a good way to pass on fellings to the other people, that I prefer the goods ones.