English language challenges

Learning English at the university has been funny and relax, the thing that I appreciate is that it hasn’t represent a stress to me, I think is enough with the pressure that all of the other subjects represent. I like to write blogs, I really enjoy it, some themes have been more complicated to write, like my dream job or postgrads studies because it is not something that I think frequently.

The most difficult part of learning English to me is to speak in front of the people, I don’t know, I feel like I’m going to say a wrong word or it is going to sound bad. This is the reason why it is important to lose fear and to dare to speak even if our pronunciation doesn’t sound like we want.  

 I didn’t talk in English in a very long time, because the last year I didn’t have a subject related with it, and this year I really felt like I was out of training. I think it is so important to practice this language because it is so easy that we forget something that we don’t practice regularly. A good idea, almost for me, it is to watch movies and series in English, it’s an Entertaining way of learning because we can hear how the words should be pronounce and our ear can hear some different accents from different countries.

I really really enjoy watching series in English, I watched all the season of game of thrones, and I loved the accents of the characters, all of them were different. Another serie that I watched in vacations was outlander, the Irish and British accents were incredible amazing.  

Changes to my study programme

Talking about the subjects that we have to study in the next years, I really don’t know exactly what subjects are coming; I just know that the chemistry is going to be really more difficult, almost for me.

One thing that I didn’t know when I apply to this career is that anatomy it was going to be out of the study programme. I was so happy when I knew it, I hate this subject. In my older career, I had anatomy in the first semester and I didn’t approve it, it was so stressed try to learn every part of the body and which part is connect with another one, I used to hate my teacher, well, not my teacher exactly, it was the guy who showed what we ‘learned’ in classes in a real human body, he was so handsome and young and so intelligent because he had 25 years and he knew everything about the body, he was a medical Technologist in  imaging mention and with all of this characteristics, he was so arrogant, irritant. Well, how I said before, I hate this subject, so, I’m really happy that is not part of the study programme anymore.

anatomy auditorium

Moving on, the buildings and the infrastructure are not enough for all the students, sometimes it is really difficult to find a place to eat or to study. I like the faculty, it is really cozy, I like the trees and the ricoffee, even if it is a small place, I like my faculty but I can say that I prefer the medicine faculty, its library is amazing, it is bigger than ours and all the places seem to have its own life.

Summer holidays

Looking back in my last holiday, I spent almost all the summer in a small town near to Pelluhue, it calls Chanco, yep, like the cheese. I’m in love with that small town, it is so peaceful there and it is a good place to scape after an overwhelmed year. My grandmother has a house there and my father’s family lives in the country side, so, we go to their houses, and it’s so funny for me because I love those long walks across the forest or the rides bike with my cousin. I love the food too, it’s like I gain 2 kilos when I return to Santiago. Another thing that I enjoy when I go to my aunt’s house is that is full of dogs and I really, really love to play with them, they’re so cute.  So, I hope to go this summer again, I need it; I need my quote of fresh air to start a new year.

Of course, there’s so many other places that I would like to go with my friends, we have so many dreams about it, but the summer vacations, I like to spend them with my parents, it is the only time in the year the we can be really together because we run from one place to another during all the year.

I would like to visit the south of Chile and I would like to go to Europe, but the second it is impossible to realize right now. Someday I will go every place that I’ve always wanted to go.

Addiction: from coffee and tea to drugs of abuse

The most common drug of abuse is marihuana; it’s out everywhere, in every social meeting, but I’m not going to talk about it, because I don’t have much to say.

By the way, it is not a drug of abuse but I’m addicted to tea, I love it and my day is no complete without three or four cups of tea.

About a year ago the doctor banned me the tea because I had anemia but I didn’t listen to him, the addiction was louder.  The doctor explained to me that the tannins in the tea block the absorption of iron, so, as he said, the tea is harmful for the anemia, it’s like every treatment is no working if I’m drinking 3 cups of tea every day. By the way, it was a long time ago, I took iron in pills and I ate every piece of meat that my grandmother put in front of me, it was a part of the treatment and I used to hate it because in that time I’d really wanted to stop to eat meat but, again, the doctor said that I couldn’t.

Another substance that I drink a lot it is the energy drinks, I used to consume it three or four times a week, I don’t know how many it is recommended but I really like how they taste. The most of the time, the reason why I drink energy drink it is not because I feel sleepy or something like that, it is because I need to drink something really cold in a hot day. I think, every substance is not recommended in a high dose, but that’s what addiction are, not be able to stop consuming.  

Post Graduate studies

It’s difficult to think about the future, almost for me, because I’m barely sure that I’m in the right place here, studying pharmacy. By the way, I like this career; I’m not passionate about it but I feel comfortable.

Looking in the courses that this university offers to us, pharmacology could be one related with my interests but I hope to discover new areas in the next years of the career. Another area that I discover the last semester that I want it, is internal medicine, so I would like to do a course related with this area, I don’t know if what I want right now it is going to be what I going to want in the next five years because there’s so many subjects that I going to discover in the last years of the career.

I would like to study abroad, it would be a great opportunity, besides to improve my knowledge, I would know about another culture and another point of view about the career. Besides, I could improve my English too, if I could have the opportunity to do a post grade in an English country.  

I think it is better to make a classroom course than a distance course through internet, because it let us to know new people or colleagues and it is important to live the whole experience.

Your Future Job...

I have never been imagining how my life is going to be. I don’t know, I think that every choice that I make is in the moment. That’s new in me, when I was younger I used to have everything under my control, everything planned and it was a little overwhelmed. I used to get stressed when something didn’t happen like I wanted.

 By the way, if I start to dream about my future, I used to see myself working in a lab but now, that I’m discovering new parts of this career I have started imagine myself working in a hospital. The last semester we had the opportunity to visit the hospital and I really like it, it was an intense experience because we visit patients with cancer and there was a special one who impact me so much, he was hopeless and in state of coma, the instructions for the nurses and pharmacists, as the pharmacist said, it was if he suffered a heart attack or a multisystem failure, they had to let him to past away.

Talking about salary, I just hope to earn enough money to save because I want to travel around the world, that’s my dream. I want to visit every mystic place that it exists in every country. There’s so many cultures and different ways of living and that’s amaze me.

Digressing about music: songs, dances, melodies, groups, films...

Talking about music, there’s so many memories that came to my mind. Sometimes, when I heard a song that I haven’t listened in a while and an old memory comes to my mind about the time when I used to listen that song. I can remember listening Phoenix by fall out boy or hurricane by 30 seconds to mars, after preu, when me and my friend used to walk from Universidad Catolica to Cal y canto. It is a little nostalgic remember those days, that’s why a song is more than a song, it’s the feeling that come with it.

When I was younger I used to love a lot the boy bands and Disney and all that kind of girly things. Of course, I grow up but I still remember that part of my life and I wouldn’t change a thing.

Today… I don’t have a favorite group, I have in my phone songs of fall out boy, 30stm, Ed Sheeran (I think I love every single song that he had wrote), Adele, DNCE, the killers and many others. I used to listen a lot of song, the old and the new ones and if I like them, I add to my playlist in spotify. I have two Ella Henderson’ songs, I used to listen them in sad days because the lyric is about love, sad. She was a participant of x factor UK like a lot of others singers that I heard sometimes. About old songs, I love some of The Beatles like yesterday or let it be, I also have in my playlist Billie Jean by Michael Jackson.

Moving on into films, the music of titanic has the power to make cry a lot. I think the music is perfect for the movie because awake all the feeling that we supposed to feel. That’s what music is, feelings. 

the song that I listened while I was writing the blog :)