Transantiago!

I think the transantiago isn’t bad for me because where I live the transantiago System is very useful and fast. But in other places the transantiago don’t works very well. I can’t talk much about the pre- transantiago system because I live in Santiago since 2008, when the transantiago system it was installed. But years ago I use the pre-transantiago system in summer vacations here in Santiago. I think the transantiago is better because there are more buses and more routes but the buses are few any way. The Bip card is the best thing about the new system because the driver don’t use money in the bus and the thieves don’t assault them anymore, but for the people is more difficult because sometimes they forget the Bip card and they have troubles to use the bus.

For me the new system is good because I don’t have troubles. The buses pass near of my department and near of the university.

I don’t stay in Santiago when it started the system but I saw in the news the troubles with the transantiago. I think that now is better because there are more routes and busses and the people don’t have many troubles to travel in transantiago as the first months.

I change the frecuence of the busses and I add more busses.

A COUNTRY I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT

There exist many places where I would like to go, but my favorite place is Egypt. I would like to go to the Sahara desert because that my dream since I was a child, a long time ago.

In the Sahara desert we can find the most wonderful monuments in the world. These monuments are the pyramids, the Giza pyramid complex and its great sphinx, and the Valley of the Kings, there are more but they are not so important. I really want to know the sphinx and its mysteries, history and secrets; it is very interesting for me.

If I traveled to Egypt I would like to visit the Cairo museum, because there are the most representative things of the ancient Egypt and the sculptures of the different Pharaohs and gods. I would like to visit the different places where the Egyptologists do their research about the mummies and the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians.

I would like to study in Egypt, but I don’t want to study psychology there, I would like to study Egyptology with Zahi Hawas the most important Egyptologist in that country. He knows everything about Egypt and its mysteries, also the University of Cairo is the best in history and obviously in Egyptian history, and for that reason I would like to study there.

I hope visit Egypt some day.

FIRST TERM: GOOD AND BAD POINTS

My experiences during the first term of this year were very interesting because I learned a lot of things.

During the first term I went to neurohypnosis classes, it was a workshop here in the Universidad de Chile. I went with my classmates of psychology to the classes so it was really funny. I learned to hypnotize only with my voice and a pencil. Now a can I say to my patients: “you are very relaxed and you want to sleep” and when the patient is in trance I request her/him to do things such as to talk about something or do something with the body, for example, elevate the arms. The hypnosis was the best thing of the first term.

In psychology I had six subjects: psychopathology, neurophysiology, statistics, developing psychology, social psychology and theory and systems. My favorite subject was psychopathology because we studied the personality disorders and their classification of symptoms. Obviously the other subjects were very useful for the career but I didn’t like then much.

I didn’t practice sports, but during the first semester I went to the gym.

Challenges? I had a lot during all the term. Because in every subject we had very difficult tests and written works. We needed much time to do all the works and to study for the tests, I didn’t have much time for me but it doesn’t matter because the university is the most important now. So I didn’t see much my family or friends.

English four!!!!

blogging experience

It is the first time that I use the internet and specifically the blog for a subject, there was a very interesting experience, and very useful for me and my classmates, because I learned to write better in English, I understand how to use the grammar, not only memorize the forms, for example subject plus verb plus other thing, it was very useful for that, and I feel that I learn more than the last year and I really learn more than all the English years in the school.

I enjoy doing the blog because was a new experience and I could learn a lot of things that I didn’t know, so it was very beneficial for my English education, almost the review of the blog in class or by mail, there was beneficial for me because I could learn about my mistakes and the mistakes of my classmates.

Like I said before, the blogging experience improve it my English, but this is my impression so I hope seeing reflect in the last marks of the subject. And finally my opinion about the experience I think that use of the blog had two advantages, first give us a new education method and the second one it is the use of the new technology for the English education, use something that everybody use like the blogs.

My ideal job

My ideal work, I don’t know maybe it would be watching TV all day and someone pays me for that, but that is so unreal, and also it is useless for the humanity, and for that I think it is not something to do the whole life.

Now talking seriously, my ideal work would be to work in a psyachiatric hospital, in the experimental area doing research about schizophrenia and the personality disorders, maybe to find some cure or a better method for the treatments of those disorders, and giving a better quality life to people who have this problem. The ideal part of a job for me would be to help others with their illnesses and see the good results of a treatment, to live through with the patient all the progress of the recovery.

The only thing that I need to do this work is empathy and th enough sensibility to understand the patient’s problems.
I think that I have these abilities, so I would be good for the job if I have the opportunity to do it. Because it is difficult to find a job like that because investigation in psychology is difficult to do because I need a lot of money to do it, but working in a clinic is not so difficult so I will start to do that when I finish the career.

My favorite subject

I think my favorite subject is psychopathology because I love the class and the contents of the subject are very interesting for me. Some contents of this semester were personality disorders, perception disorders, delirium and schizophrenia. It was very interesting when the teacher did the delirium class because he told us a lot of examples about clinical cases that he personally saw in the psychiatric hospital; also he imitated some patients for us, so we could understand what he said.

Other interesting thing about this subject was the visit to the “El Salvador” hospital. We visited the psychiatric area of the hospital, but not the place where they have the patient interned. We had some classes in a classroom inside the hospital and the teacher sometimes brought patients to the class. One of them called Eliza did the class, but she talk about herself and her delirium, and explained us her life and why she was interned. That was very rare, but necessary because reading about the disorders is not the same as seeing them. And we must be prepared for the future, therefore we must confront the reality and see patients, not only read or listen about them.