My summer holidays

These vacations are the first ones that I will have with normality. Often since I entered to the university throughout the classes's year were paralyzed by student movements. On the other hand, this year not was paralyzed, for what it will be the first time that ends my academic year in November! Still I have not thought what is what I want to do, but undoubtedly travel. I have been thinking very much on supporting my academic activity during the vacations not to lose the pace, at the same time as to play sports with more frequency and enthusiasm. Without the requirements of the university, to have more free time to do the things that I want is a possibility.

Even this way, it wanted to travel towards the north of Chile, and if it is possible, up to Peru and Bolivia. I don’t know with who nor how, but it is one of my bigger desires to be able to know the cities, peoples and persons on the north of Chile. More that to know places in specific, really I would like to do is to live through a culture of my own country of a different way. I think that of this form the body itself learns new things of relating to the environment. To feel the great heat of the north, about having longer days, to do long treks, is to live in a place and in a time totally different from the habitual. It is what more I wish of my vacations, not to turn into a parenthesis of the academic year, or of "the reality" that I live, but are a way in the life differently from that of the rest of the year

My bad day

It is the final week of October, and I realized of on my times and the busy thing that I am. Initially of the semester, I took activities and matters. Now, at the end of season, I realize the saturated that I am.

I have my six subjects. Slightly totally normal and common, but in addition I am taking a sports course, and have extracurricular activities. When I think about the difficulty that it is to do everything, I ask myself how there will be the people who has more things to do. Occasionally I think that I am a sluggish person. But went I go home, I don’t want to go out any more! And it is due to the little time that I am in.

My mom always jokes with me on how much I go out the weekends, but always I try to support my social slightly active life. Sometimes it is the only thing that supports me afloat besides the sport. My way of resting is very unusual, really i don't know what is rest. To see television? To sleep? To realize some another activity? Or simply to do nothing? Sometimes I feel complicated on not having done anything, since my companions always are in any task occupation, and again I wonder: how can I rest?

Regularly I do not feel irritated not suffocated not put stress, nevertheless, occasionally I hate to the whole world. Today I feel that. Probably simply it is an evil day, but still I have for doing, can lower the arms still!

My future Job!

The employment that I want to have still I don't have it clear. Apparently the majority of my blogs seem to be mas doubts that answers. Of all forms the type of work I have it a bit clear, which more is interested is to be employed with children at situation of social vulnerability.

My aunt is employed at this, and I think that she inspired me to want to be employed at this too. I imagine having to visit homes, schools, realizing groups activities, conversing with parents, mothers, uncles, aunts, grandparents and grandmothers; and the most important thing, with the children. Often I have thought that thanks to the career that I am studying, psychology, I have many tools to be able to realize a good work.

In relation to the trips, I am not interested in thinking very much about it, I would like to be able to be employed here at Chile, not necessarily at Santiago, but in any region. If it had to travel, it would do it for my studies and my formation, there are many things for learning in other countries!

Finally with regard to my work and the salary, the majority of the people seeks to gain money, but definitively it is not for what I look. The most important thing for me will be to realize my goals, and the money will not be an impediment for it, Probably occasionally I will have to live with " the tight belt ", but it will not be a problem, I seek neither have a great house, nor will seek stay in a good neighborhood, nor will seek have many luxuries!

Something about my career

Nowadays in my career, in the second semester of the third year, it is when I must take the subjects of specialization. The aim of these subjects is to be educated on the matter in that more we are interested. Of this form it is that the matters divide in five different areas of work, and inside these areas there are 11 lines of work. These lines are Community Psychology, Social Psychology, Educational Psychology, Juridical Psychology, Labor Psychology, Neuropsychology and experimental psychology. These 6 lines that I have named correspond to 4 areas of work. Incredible, not? This owes to in 5th area of work, is 5 lines working on it, which are Clinical Systemic Psychology, Clinical Psychology Psiconoanalítica, Clinical Cognitive Behavioral Psychology, Clinical Psychology Construccionista and Clinical Humanist Psychology.

All these lines of work have different subjects for the students, and from already it is that we begin to " to fall in love " with the work that we will have to realize. From very early many students choose for the work of the Clinical Psychology, since it is the one that more calls the attention and more work has.

In end, already I will have to choose for someone. In general I would like to work overcoat with young persons, since from my opinion, it is the most important stage of the life. But will I work from the Clinical Psychology? Or maybe from an Educational Psychology? Or a Social Psychology? I don't know yet, but soon I will have to know it!

The last Blog!

Every week, just after finishing the blog class, I must comment on my classmates’ blogs, three blogs every week, and they comment on mine, but all classes I finish last and rarely I receive a comment. In any case, I always read all the comments, and I read the others blog comments!

In the last months, the blogs that I have written have been the most difficult English texts in the year, and before, I only wrote in English at school, never in other contexts. As I had never written before in public, now my classmates are able to read my blogs and this makes all more difficult, because I must write for others and these others have to understand my blog.

Concerning the blog activities, it has been very entertaining, it makes me think about things of my life that I had never thought commonly, such as “person/academic that I admire”, “career-related websites” and “photograph that I like more”.

Finally, now in the end of the semester I feel quieter at the moment of writing in English. Now I know the key words to start any idea that I want to express, it is like losing the fear in writing, and a learning about my form how to write.

Admire?

Really, is very difficult for me think a person or professor that I admire, principally because one never know all about their lifes. I think that to fanatical admire is a bad activity, because the images that you have about the person is only one part of his life, and if one guide a field of his life base on this image, It will be difficult find yourself as individual.

I can admire postulates or hypothesis from someone, and some dazzle me, as Foucault, Feyerabend and Maturana, but I can’t admire the person’s body as image, or academic’s image, or scientist’s image. Relate an idea, postulate or hypothesis with a person image, academic image, scientist image, in my view is wrong. Nobody reach an idea alone, even though the articles and books have their names.

In any case, if I must choose any person to admire in my career field, could be Foucault (1926 -1984). Was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, philologist and literary critic. His theories addressed the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Foucault´s postulates about control and power, generate me explanations about dynamics social institutions and their history, objectives and consequences in the people and habits related to this institutions.

Life and games

Yesterday after the classes, I waited for a friend to see a movie together in ICEI. He arrived with his friend, an acquaintance for me. To arrived, Vuvuzela, my friend, and Katy, had greeted a girl who seemed to be their friend. We came into the cinema’s room, we saw that it was very empty, and we sat near the screen. A guy was talking to introduce the movie. The movie is about the game’s reality, and the reality, with “bioports” to enter games. The characters move into a game and reality, but they don’t know where they are. Finally, after the end of the movie, some persons discussed about the philosophy behind the movie, and the director’s objectives with the movie, we didn’t understand anything.

Prepare to the reality!

When we left the university, we walked to a place in front. Vuvuzela and his friend went to play in the park, Katy and I stayed talking. She told me about her university, her family, and her problems about the university. The principal problem that told me was about the conflict in her decisions. Really when I knew someone with these problems, it is very complicated because I have them too, but I know every person resolves their problems in different ways, just like the movie! After, we really felt in a real game, with game's problems with game's decisions!