Post 10 : English Language Challenges

Hi bloggers!! This post is about my experience in this subject.
Unfortunately, this is last post of class but writing them was very useful, because learning English is very difficult to me, especially talking and writing. So, practice these it helps me to develop my skills English.

In school my teachers weren’t too good to explain these, they always taught us the grammar and some structure of phrases, reading texts or see some videos, but the pronunciation and how to develop some conversation never were the principal topic. Therefore, these skills always were my weakness, and I think it still being the most difficult to me L.

However, in this subject I put in practice these, although not always I participate giving opinions or
answering the questions, I tried to do it and I learn of every mistake that I made.

Writing blogs was very interesting because was an instance for talking about things related our careers, about our interest and opinions in general. It was my second opportunity to write them, so I keeping the same opinion of last semester, that it was that the blogs are the best way to learn how to develop an opinion in English.

For improve my weakness skills I want to take a course with my sister outside the university,
maybe this holidays or next year, I don’t know yet.

Obviously, is very important learn English, because all the important information and scientific research are in English, so everything that I search I have to searching in English and reading papers and documents in English ... in the end all is in English hahaha even the good series sound better in English.

Well, it is all, see you!!

Post 9 : Changes to my study program

Hi everyone!!  Today the topic is about my study program.

Personally I don’t know all the changes that have made to the program in the recent years, but I’m going to talk about of my opinion about the changes that should make.

I always complain about the few field trips that we have in the different subject, because they are so important for our professional training. It helps us to improve our communicational and observation skills, because we can learn making things by ourselves, and put into practice all the things that we learned on class.

For example, in forest engineer, when the classes start the first activity is in field, instead of us (agronomist) that we have the first field trip only in one subject, two weeks later.

Also, I think several subjects have a wrong planning. For example, “Práctica III and IV” are completely useless. The professors are so irresponsible, they never came to classes early; the classes were too boring and I didn’t learn something useful.  Definitely, these subjects should change and incorporate others topic on them, specially things more practices.

 In this semester I have “práctica IV” and can’t believe that we had 1 month learning history of Chile, instead of learning agrarian politics, something that necessary we should learn.

The same situation happens in the subjects related to economy department, like “Agronegocios” and “Gestión de proyectos y marketing”. In these subjects we view practically the same topics, so instead of have two subjects should be only one, it will be so much better and that way, could be incorporate other subjects more useful.

Finally, the study program also should incorporate subjects similar to natural resources engineering, because we are falling behind in learn about the new technologies for field management .

Post 8 : Summer Holidays

Hi guys!

Today the topic is about my summer holidays. I’m very excited for finish the classes in the university because this year have been so exhausting. Is for that reason I feel that I deserve a relaxing vacation.

Unfortunately,  because of the strike of the students, all the courses will finish the classes in middle of January. But despite of that, I would like to journey anyway, as far as I can on that month.
My idea for this summer holidays is: first, go with my family to the central coast, specifically to Algarrobo, because my grandmother has a house there near the beach, and if I go there, I would like to go for two weeks. Later, I would like to go with my boyfriend and make a tour on the south of Chile. Our plan is to know completly Chiloé and try to travel around all the island and explore all the places that we don't known yet, because we went there in 2015. We liked that place due to all the beautiful landscapes that the island has. Also, I remember that we liked to wake up and walk along the shore of the lake, it was wonderful and relaxing.

In view of the limited time of the vacations, I don't think that I can do all the things that I had planned at the start of the year. It was to travel through the "Carretera Austral" that runs from Puerto Montt to Villa O'Higgins through rural Patagonia, but I hope to make it in the next year.

Post 7 : Medicinal Plants

Hello!! Today the topic is about medicinal plants, a very interesting topic to discuss, because there are several opinions about their functionality. Some people are against the use of medicinal plants for curing a disease, whereas some other people agree to use them. I’m part of this group, because it’s a natural option and doesn’t produce any addiction.

I can say that I normally use some plants. I like drinking shakes and infusions almost every day, with ginger, mint, boldo, chamomile, oregano, etc. I use them, since they are good for my health, helping to eliminate toxins, reduces troubles related with indigestion and they also help to lose weight. These properties are important for me, because I usually suffer from stomach ache (I eat something at lunch or breakfast and immediately I feel some malaise on my stomach). For that reason, I’m used to drinking them, in the morning and evening, practically every day.

I always recommend to make these infusions, not only for the properties but also because they are very tasty and refreshing.

In my house, we have some plants in our vegetable garden, such as stevia, mint and oregano. They are very rustic plants, because I don’t take care of them frequently, and they are so big and good.

Definitely is good to have our medicinal plants, because is a better way to make infusions; also we can incorporate them on our food.

I hope you can try making infusions with some medicinal plants, It’s so much better!! :)

Post 6 : Postgraduate Studies

 Hello guys!! Today the topic is postgraduate studies.

I’m at the fourth year of my career, so this semester I decided to do a Master in Management of soil and water, so I had to apply to “continuous education” in September. The interview was in October and the results were in November. Meanwhile I had to choose a topic for my thesis. It was very difficult, because the topics that the professors shows in the document of the postgraduate’s website weren’t of my likes. Any of them I liked too much to choose one, so I went to talk with a professor that had topics more interesting and relevant to me. 

He shows me all the projects that he had, and I liked one related with monitoring evapotranspiration on raspberry with remote sensing. This project had something special, because the objective is help to small farmers that they are working in communities, to improve the consumption of water by different options that I have to create.

I decided to do a Master, because I think that is a possibility to learn something more related with our interests, due to the opportunity to choose freely the courses that we want. I couldn’t take some professionals elective courses because the schedule wasn’t allowed and I never had free time to take those.

So I hope that with this Master I can to develop my skills and learn more about how confront the problems of our country, with a vision more sustainable and responsible.

Post 5 : My Future Job

Hi, today the topic is about my future job, but I really don’t know exactly what I’ll do in the future.
Because agronomy has so many areas to dedicate, and each one has something special and different, that can attract your attention.
However, since entering in the career, I always came with the idea of learning more about how to make the current agricultural production had a goal beyond the production itself, if not more sustainable.

So I have tried to be focus on learning new tools, so in that way in the future my work could make small changes. I believe that in this university, the great majority of teachers have this same vision, and try to make us responsible agronomists, concerned about the externalities of our work.

Is for that reason my intention is to travel around Chile, trying to help little farmerst, doing them asessorie and help them to be more efficent in the management of the resources. I can't imagine myself working in a office, because definititily I want to work on the outdoor, in the field, or somewhere similar. In the future I would love to live on the south of Chile, and from there can exercise like an agronomist and create my own company, with the objetive of bring near the farmers to the new technologies that the world had been developed it, such as remote sensing.

Bye!

Post 4: Free topic "Role of gender"

Hi guys, today I going to write about a topic very controversial and that is “the end of role of gender”.
I choose that because I always wondered why we have to classify our beliefs, acts, likes, etc , in a category , I mean why the society have to decide for us for example what type of clothes we have to wear, is stupid. I don’t think that it’s be okey.
Besides of being women and men for our sexual characteristic, what it’s mean be masculine or feminine? You act like a man or woman? Why is the difference?
 Why we say to a little boy “that is of girls, you don’t have to play with that” or “you don’t have to wear skirts”,  I think nobody can tell you what you have to do or act or say, everyone will have to decide for itself how to be. In special when we are child, when our personality is being created and developed according to experience that we live. So if we don’t teach to children that the stereotypes of gender are wrong, and don’t leave they make their own decisions about clothes, toys, etc, we will continue promoting gender differences, instead of stopping these social expectative that nothing helped us to become a more egalitarian society.