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.

post 3: My favorite book

Hi guys!! Today I'm going to talk about my favorite books. It’s a little bit difficult to me choose only one, because I liked a lot of books. However, I have a favorite type of literary worlds, that is the wonderful world.

This characterized for have magic and acts supernatural or illogic on actual world. So normally have some characters such as fairies, elves, mermaids, etc . A great example for understand what I say, is the Lord of de rings.The book describes places with so much characteristics and elements and you can imagine all that and feel as if you were there. I think that is one of the reasons of you can’t stop reading still you finished it. Also I like the magical realism. A big reference of this is “Cien años de soledad” of Gabriel García Márquez, and this book is one of my favorite. Some people think that his history is difficult to understand for the big family tree and all of them have the similar names, so yeah is confuse, but on that is the beauty of this book, because show the complexity and depth of the individuality of man making no character resembles another. Besides it emphasize on identity, heritage and feeling of belong.

Now I want to read “King Kong theory” of Virginie Despentes, but I can’t found it anywhere  This book belies the myth of woman submissive that the society tries to impose, deposes taboos and demystifies the supposed ideal of perfect woman, talking about how is the change of transformation of old model of gender and sexuality.

Post 2 : The best concert "SOAD in Chile"

Hi everyone, today I will tell you about the best concert I ever been. It was in the “Bicentenario de la Florida” stadium on 7^th October of 2011, where the American band “System of a down” made the performance.

I went with my sister Constanza, in that time I was 16 years old and she was 12 years old.

We had bought ticket to upper circle too away of the stage, but when we came at stadium my mom talked with the security guard of the queue and he let us into other queue more small, so after that the guards checked us, we got a big surprise because we were on sector VIP or “orchestra section”, too near to the stage.  That was awesome, I mean we could see Serj Tankian (vocalist) and Daron Malakian (guitarist) in front of us.

Before the concert a Chilean band was on the stage, and suddely started raining, so we were completely wet. After that SOAD started to play, and all the people got crazy, we started to jump and singing all the songs, my sister film his favorite song but she could film only one because it was so difficult stay still. We had an amazing time, was so fun and crazy. Besides, this band it’s one of my favorite, so was a more special experience. 

Post 1: A country you'd like to visit

                                    

Hi everyone!! What countries I would like to visit, it’s a question very easy to me, because always I wanted to know the nordic countries like Iceland, Norway or Sweden and the celta territory like Ireland.

In the fantastic movies always showed up the landscape of that countries, like the woods, lakes, glaciers, mountains, houses, castles, Northern Lights, etc, and I think are amazing, and that it’s one of the reason because I like to watch this type of movies. The colours, diversity and life of the nature it’s something that I love. I can imagine who I feel seeing that, so pure, so small, absorbing all the good energy of the nature.

Besides, all these countries have a mitology so special and magic,  with stories about celts and vikings, and I think that it's so interesting, I really I would like to visit these places for know more about his history and mitology.

When I work I’ll hope save a lot of money and go there in my vacation, I would like to visit all the places that I can, and with that I’ll feel so complete with my self, because this it’s my biggest dream of my life.

About me

Hi everyone my name is Catherine Vargas, I'm 21 years old.I'm studying agriculture in "Universidad de Chile", and now I'm at the fourth year on my carrer. Next year I want to do a master of management of soil and water to continue my studies, so I applied this semester and I hope that everything goes well. 

 In my free time I like to play videogames , watch TV series, draw mandalas on my sketchbook, and in the weekend  I try to go out to natural places.