Let’s talk about my blogging experience…

Hello everybody! It’s sad to me to say that probably this would be my last entry in the blog. The semester is over and the English class too, so I’m going to talk about how it was my blogging experience.

Well, I wrote about many things here and that was very fun, I can say that I enjoyed this activity. Also I learnt more about my classmates, their thoughts and hopes, I really liked that.

Respecting my writing skills I think that I have accomplished mi initial goal, who was improve my English. Maybe I don’t have a perfect writing redaction and grammar but is something.

Blogging in an English class has many advantages, the students can improve their vocabulary, redaction and grammar, and why not, it could be a self-knowing experience. But it has disadvantages too, for example the correction feedback, to improve our English we need a constant check and revision about what we are doing, and during the semester we had only one or two corrections. I know that the Teacher has many students under her supervision but she had to solve that. It had been a good idea to give us as homework the correction of one or two classmates blogs at least, that It had been a good way to learn from our mistakes and to improve our reading comprehension too.

That’s all, thanks for reading my blog,

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My ideal job…

Hello people! In this blog session I’m going to talk about what would be my ideal job. This is a very entertaining subject to me and I’m going to tell you why.

Now I’m studying psychology but my ideal job is not related with my career, ¿How is this possible? Well, since I was a kid that I was fascinated by World’s mysteries and beauties, so since I was young that I want to be… Explorer!! Hahaha. I mean an explorer who travels the world helping cartographers to do maps.

To do this activity I would need multiple skills, principally surviving ones, but being more specific I would need drawing skills to register locations, mathematical skills for register measures according to a scale, mountaineering skills for climbing mountains, etc.

And maybe more important than skills are the qualities that I would need as explorer. I would need to be very courageous to explore unknown places, and I would to be persistent to reach far places. I would need to be very confident of myself, having and iron motivation for not lose my “spirit” during the expedition. And the major quality that an explorer would have is: to be a child at heart.

I would be good at this job because I really would enjoy the adventure. I always had had a natural motivation for explore new places. And I think that motivation is the key to be success in any job or activity. I can say that I really have a vocation for explore.

In spite of my will, there are many difficulties to get this job. Principally, there is the fact that almost every place in the world is well documented and explored at this time. Also, there is not an “explorer career” in any university, so if I want to be an explorer I would have to prepare myself by my own.

Well, that was my unusual ideal job,

thanks for reading,

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My Favorite Subject is…

Hello everyone, this time I'm going to talk about my favorite subject. This semester my favorite subject is, believe it or not, English.

When I was in school I was a good student. I had very good marks in many subjects, but in one subject I had always seven (the max score in my country, like A plus), It was English. Even my friends thought in that time that I had plans for study English because my motivation.

English language plays an important role in my life, I use it daily. For example, I read many science papers in English, I see a lot videos and movies in English and I often listen music and play games in that language.

I don’t have many friends that speak English, so for practice I try to think in English every time I can. I really want to improve my English, which is one of my goals in life.

That’s why I like English and even is my favorite subject. In class Miss Zagal (my English teacher) teach us the basics to improve our speaking and writing English abilities. I had learnt a lot, and I want to learn more.

Thanks for reading,

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Do schools kill creativity...

Hello people! In this opportunity I’m going to write a brief review about Sir Ken Robinson's talk video "Do Schools Kill Creativity".

What can I say about it? Brilliant, is a clever and entertaining way to show the actual educational system reality, that doesn’t nurture the creativity and restrict the dynamic, plastic, natural intelligence of children.

We have to think about what is the function of the educational system, is to make people more intelligent or creative? The educational system is built to help people to fit in a particular economic system, to make good workers. It restricts the human capacities to a certain “kind” of intelligence according the interests of the market. The students commonly are mere listeners in this system, forced to retain the information given by teachers. The schools system doesn’t help to develop the critical thinking in children, they are punished if they have different ideas, and things like this undermine the creativity.

Well, remember to see the video, and always think by yourself!
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My future...

Well, I don’t have many expectations about my future; I prefer to live the present, so I don’t know certainly what I will do in five years more.

Nevertheless I have some idea about my future, a vague one. In five years more I will be working, earning money to pay my university debts (about six millions of Chilean pesos), therefore it’s very probable that I would be still living with my parents, saving all the money I can (food, rent, etc.).

In five years more I will be working as a psychologist, I don’t know what specialty, but I know what approach, the cognitive behavioral one.

Personally, I will be single, because I don’t want to marry in any future. Maybe I will have a girlfriend, or two hahaha, the future is very unpredictable.

An ideal future will be one where I have good health and job. It will be ideal that in my future I would be practising Taekwondo, my favorite sport. And finally the most important issue about my future, I really hope to be alive in five years more.

Thanks for reading,
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The best in my area...

Choose the best in Psychology is like to choose the best man in all time sports, very difficult because psychology, like sports, have many different areas. Nevertheless, if I have to choose someone I will choose B. F. Skinner.

Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform, and poet. In few words I chose him because his contributions to the Experimental Psychology development and by his efforts to make psychology a science. By the way, he founded his own school of experimental research psychology—the experimental analysis of behaviour. He discovers the power of reinforcement on behaviour and develop the operant conditioning. Also he was a prolific author who published 21 books and 180 articles.

Well thanks for reading,
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