My Experience Learning English at the University

To think that the university is a place where students just come to learn about things only involved in those topics for which they enrolled to the university, all that it would be correct, but in the case of our university, the UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE, we would be in a mistake.
One of the thing that our university promotes, it is an integral student, who not just must develop skills in his area, but also in other areas, as sport, community activities, and much more thing. One of the skills expected for the university is that student can engage a talk with anyone. For this the university gives English class.

In my case, I’m almost finishing this subject, and I have to say that has been very rewarding. I just had learnt some of English in school, but not enough. This year of English I’ve learnt many things about English and everyday I feel that I know more and more about it.
Also I have to say other things not so good, because as all in life, there are good things and bad things. I think that the university should have a planning much more, for example in other levels there are people that don’t have a good basis, they don’t know much grammar and also they must learn things about medical areas without learning things basic of English, it is very difficult for them.

Other things bad, that I did not like, it was, the approach with which we learnt English, for example there were partners of different areas, one of medicine, others of midwives(as me),and another of physical therapy. The guides were very generals, and almost just focused to medicine and a little bit to obstetrics.

Despite all it was a big experience, which not just I learnt new thing about English, but also I met new people, which is very good, though to ones more than others, also I could meet a big teacher, whom I gave all acknowledgment.
It has been a great experience despite all…I’ll see you in any time, BYE!

the tipical myth: we only use 10% of our brain

How many of us have heard that phrase several times on television or in everyday life? Another major current fallacies and enduring nearly a century.

It is totally false that we only use 10% of our brain. We use 100%, albeit not simultaneously. As happens to our muscles, we used brain regions depending on the activity we are doing. The greater complexity, greater use of the brain. Perhaps one of the reasons that the myth arose was that some people twisted the statement that use 10% of our brain in a conscious way, while 90% is unconscious (in charge of tasks such as controlling the heart rate , intestinal peristalsis, dilation or contraction of the pupils, etc). At the end, all that and was upset as the myth now.

If the claim were true 10%, with the least brain injury result in death, and that's not true. When there is an injury, and if it is small, the adjacent areas of the region altered attempt to compensate for loss of function through a slow process of neuronal plasticity. Also, if we used only 10% would be plants or be dead. No one can live with that percentage of brain activity.

The origin of this myth is very diffuse.But despite all investigations, no one knows for sure what was the triggering event. Among the various hypotheses that are believed to handle scientific findings emerged misunderstood or misinterpreted by people who did not understand the field and was subsequently broadcast. Some people say it came from Einstein who responded once during an interview that he only used 10% of his brain.

This is an example of what some call "Psycho" Done. " A belief that, although not supported by actual evidence, is taken as real because its constant repetition changes the way we experience life. The people who have more knowledge, know no more than repeat over and over again.

what's the meaning of having a work stress?

Stress is a biopsychosocial disorder that now affects the poblaciónmundial, which is immersed in a global society that demands and are increasingly demanding qualified and trained individuals to address and resolve each of the issues involving labor, social and emotional that submitted.

Occupational stress one of the most serious health problems currently affecting society in general, because not only hurts the workers to cause them physical or mental disability in the Development work activities, but also employers and governments, as many researchers studying this issue have noted the effects on the economy that causes stress.

Applying the concept of stress to the workplace, it can be set as a perceived imbalance between professional demands and the person's ability to carry them out, which is generated by a series of phenomena that occur in the body worker involvement of some stressors which may come to affect worker health.


Not all workers react the same way, so you can say that if the requirement presented in the paper is appropriate to the skills, knowledge and health status of a particular employee, the stress will tend to decrease and may have signosestimulantes, allowing you to make progress in the workplace and have greater projection in it.

The opposite of what was proposed earlier would result in debilitating stress worker skills and personal values, which lead him to states of frustration or apathy to the work done would prevent him from fully and achieve in the professional field.

"The effects of stress vary between individuals. The symptoms and even the effects of stress are different in different people." (Peiró, 1993, p.11)

What's the meaning of having a healthy lifestyle?

To venture into the theme of Healthy Lifestyles, can not be done through a list of individual and collective behaviors that define what to do or not do to live more or less years, regardless of how you live. It is necessary in the first instance, get into the concept of Quality of Life and a little further into this as a component of human development oriented to do, individually and collectively, to the satisfaction of human needs.

As I say recently, to venture into theme of healthy lifestyles, it is need to know that human being has needs, and therefore sometimes this one breaks his lifestyle, as when drinks alcohol, eats enough and then gets fat, and other thing more. Now the problem of actual human being is this: why his needs are drinking, eating; instead why these needs cannot be for example, running, eat well, etc? There is the real problem I think.

However as I say firstly, the human being is very complex, so to know how to have a healthy lifestyle, I just can recommend what I used to do, which I think is enough healthy, for example: eat well, do physical exercise at least three times per week.

Now using my imagination I think, that healthy people should use sport clothes, however not necessarily, but I say because I used to wear thus.

Anyway, I think that shape a person, to have a healthy lifestyle, it is unnecessary, because, each person knows and feels if what one is doing , it is good or bad, and if person thinks that has a healthy lifestyle, that’ good.
Therefore, in short, what for me is healthy, not necessarily is healthy to other people, you just have to feel good with yourself, that’s my council.

San Cristobal Hill

Really it is enough difficult to me saying a place I can get-away absolutely of rest of the world, because I try to think and I could not a place where I might rest, to hide me, and other things. However I think that I can have a place appropriate to do all those things said previously.
Firstly, it is need to say that I like too much sport. Specifically I enjoy enough of running, I can relax, and it is a time where I can think many things, some plans, things that I have done, and anymore.
But I think that my favorite place where I can totally this that I have said is in San Cristobal Hill.
Each morning on Saturday I get up about 8 o’clock and I go to San Cristobal hill to run. More than making exercises I do it because it is a place very quiet, very pacific, with many people running around me, and that works to me at least to help me to think so much better some things, but also it is a place where I can relax, specifically in top of the hill, and the virgin, the great virgin that looks to Santiago. There, in the top it is a place full of peace.
I try to go each Saturday, not just when I need to be alone; really it is a awesome place to be, to find oneself.

Music: A Eternal Partner

Every morning when I go to the university, before to go out of my house I catch my ipod and I tune my favourite music.Music is a elemental thing in my life, it is a necesity, it is a part of me.
Now what kind of music I like it?...mmm...I like a wide variety of music, for example: pop,a little of romantic,regaetton(so little), but my favourute kind of music is rock, specially 80's rock.
The music that I listen to,I get it from internet, with a software named ARES,it is a software so good, I download all the music that I like and then I listen to from my ipod,though sometimes I buy music in music shop, but only sometimes because in Chile,to buy originals things:as books or music even software,it is very expensive cause the high taxes,so for that reason people get those things through internet.
Well I like many bands of music as aerosmith, coldplay, the smiths,the rolling stones, the beatles, but whom I follow unconditionally is to Bon Jovi, even I am going to go to his concert in october,1st.I paid for the ticket $81000, because I really like his songs,Jon Bon Jovi has all kind of music, he is , from rock till the most romantic song.
Now I listen to different kind of music in some situations for example when I study I listen pop as coldplay, keane.When I am happy I listen rock , and when I am sad I listen romantic music.
As I said previously music is a partner , without music the world would be so boring..

The incredible art of writing a blog

This first semester I think that has happened very quickly, it is incredible and I have already written ten blogs, which is too much for me, because I do not like to write, I really prefer to read, or listening. However the writing has been sometimes very fun but another times I was too bored, because I think that had blogs which I did not what to write, so in this cases I was required to write, so that was very boring. For example there were a blogs very interesting, like things that I love to eat, or too my ideal job, I enjoyed very much of these, because those topics are very interesting and they have much to speak, or more precisely to write, because it is a blog, but also I like to speak about this.
Although there were classes very fun and other very boring, I learned a lot, for example I learned new words, I improve my vocabulary, also my pronunciation and many different other things.
Now I think that blogging in class, it is a mistake, because I think that could write in house or any other place, but not in class, in this sense I think this could be a complementary task, so thinking thus it would be a lost class, I think there are a lots of other things to do, but to improve our English.
So I suggest for second semester we could do blogging in any other place but not in class, and in class we could listen conversation in radio, also to promote English speaking, thus we could improve so much yet this language so used in the world.

My ideal job in the future:
I really think it’s too soon for saying in what I will work from here to seven more years, because, I want to study other career , that career is medicine, and I am going to try to study it, and that career requires at least seven years.
However I pretend to be a medical and I would like to work in public health about in eight more years more less. I imagine working in a public hospital, but he question is ¿why to study in public area, if in the private area medicals are better paid? Well, the answer to me it is very easy. It is cause in public area medicals know about all kind of people, and the learning is much better, but they earn less money, which also it is a point very important, because I have to support by myself. In this sense I pretend then of working in public health, I would like to work in private health, also I think that is the way that must follow any health professional: first to work in public area, and when one has enough experience with all kind of people and all kind of diseases, just there, one is in conditions for working in private area.
But more specifically I would work in my own clinic, and that I would like to do it after working in private health, because that needs enough money.
Now if I work in my own clinic, there would be nobody saying, just work , and work, and work, I myself would be my boss, and I would have colleagues very hard-working and with much service vocation. Thus I imagine working in the future, however still a long time for that (I believe).

Obstetrics as a way to prevent.

Obstetrics as a way to prevent.
In my study field, I mean obstetric is very important the prevention more than regret, because there are diseases incurable as SIDA, it just has a treatment but not a cure.
So in this sense is very important and the best is the prevention than cure.

Actually the prevention is possible cause technology in health is very advanced. Though a lot time ago, I mean fifty years ago, knowledge about health were very few, and it was impossible the prevention to people in those times.
But now this word: the prevention, it is possible, but the question is, how we can to prevent for example sexual transmission diseases (STD), very called in this time.
So in my field, the obstetrics, the midwife is person responsible of this. Our labours are lots as midwife, one of that is familiar planning.
This topic is very important to family, because it is related about when, where and how the family wants to have a baby or babies, so midwife can help the family in this very important subject. A way of planning about when to have babies is with help of midwife, who will help them, with some contraceptives, also to the same time they prevent sexual transmission sexual diseases specifically using condom. So thus midwife is a very important person for the family and society in general.

Different Stereotipes in our Society.

Today we live in a society that is constantly changing and one of those changes is stereotypes. Formerly stereotypes in our society were very defined, for example women had to be in the house, doing domestic work, as the laundry, the cooking for the family, taking the children to school, and getting back home to continue doing domestic things until her husband came home, it means that women at the end of the day were very tired and even they had to be happy to greet her husband, which really was a sacrifice for women.
But today they have other stereotypes but more than stereotypes are different roles, I mean now women go out of house to work, they are now more independent than before, they buy their things by themselves, without help of their husbands, also in the family both parents doing domestic things(in some cases), and both parents take the children to school, and many other things.
Also I think that in our society no gender has lost her place in actual society, in this world there are places for everyone, males and females, and for they make the things that they like.
Now as I am a student of obstetric career, I share with many women in my life, and in that sense I get along with women, which it is incredible because I studied in school of men. But now I share much with the opposite gender.

Food, a pleasure or a necessity?

well, food is something that I enjoy so much!, however there are foods that I like more that other t.For example I like "las empanadas"(all kind),noodles,rice,and anymore that in this moment I can not remember.But also, like I previously said there are foods , that I preferer more than others, for example, steak, this I like too much, with some salads.Also I like seafoods, very tasty.
However the food most tasty that I have eaten , it's a tipical food from Hawai is named ophiu, a small mollusk that can be yellow, red or black.This is a seafood only of this place.I said it when a I went to honululu, Hawai, one year ago more less.
This food is the Hawaiian version of "ceviche", but much more tasty.I can be made with any fish, but in the island is made with tuna marinated in vinegar, tomato, onion and soy sauce. Lamentably in Santiago , there are no places for eating it because it is a seafood from Hawai.I don't feel guilty for eating it, not at all, even I enjoy it!
But also there are other food that I should eat, like milk,cereals, carbohydrates, although I eat it.
these are very important because have nutrients necessary for body.But also there are bad foods like burgers, chips and more though these are very tasty.

what's the meaning of being midwife??

The midwife has traditionally been the companion of women in the task to bring children into the world.She is who has the knowledge to supporting and assisting the medical care of pregnant women in the last period
gestation, increasing her work during the pre and delivery, where she is practically indispensable.

The midwife is part of the medical team is usually next to the pregnant since the beginning of labor until after birth. Even in some cases their support extends from the first weeks of gestation untill the last postpasturm controls.

She also has the skills to assist normal deliveries, care for mother and newborn after giving birth, and seeing that everything runs smoothly. The midwife is able to control the process of expansion, contraction and fetal monitoring, alerting of any abnormalities in the mother or child.

I don’t know the why I chose this career, I just knew that wanted to be in the healthy topic, whatever career, now I am not sorry for my choice, I now love my career, and I hope that it continues, each more time.

The website that I visited is http://www.colegiodematronasdechile.cl/

This is the first time that I visit this, this site is about college of midwives, this website is related with my career, because it gives information about the last news in this sense.
This website has many sections, these are: national directory, regional councils, source and evolution of this college, union diary, professional practice, gender issues and publications about the college.
Also this website has more information about, midwife in the AUGE.
(AUGE is a healthy program in Chile).
This website is much updated, because it has information of the most recent in the health in Chile related with obstetric. For example, there is news related with a Chilean research, this research speaks about benefits of normal birth. Specifically says that about the eighty percent of woman have normal births, it means: no caesarean, get a best relationship with her baby.
Anyway, this website has a lot of information, and the best, this information is very updated…
As I previously said this is the first time that I visit this website, and I liked so much, it is very funny, so I could not response the questions about the why I like this website.
Well this is it.

my hobbies

well I have many hobbies , I don't know if these hobbies I am going to post , are really hobbies, but I like to do it.The first thing that I really like doing is running!, I like it, I go every week to SAN CRISTOBAL hill, and I run till the top, also I like going by bike. I enjoy that too.

And I like the football, tennis, swimming, I really love the sports, I am very sane!!jejeje , even enough sane.
Secondly, I like reading , I read books like, thus spoke zaratustra, Socrates apology, and these kind of book, philosophic book. But also I often read novels, tales, and much more.
Also one of my hobby is to play STATION, I love to play it, I play games about the sports.
Other of my hobby is seeing movies, of all subjects, terror, drama, comedy, and something more. One of my favourites movies is butterfly effect, also mechanic orange,And many more!.
Also my hobby is the foods, I cook in my free time, only when I’m starving. I cook since an egg till ….. I don’t till where!!jejje, but I like food, I like eating, like rice, spaghetti, meat, I enjoy meat, with salads, it is very delicious, mmmmm.
And the last hobby that I have is get out with my dog, we both run every morning Sunday for park, after of this we both are very tired, and we go to lunch!!, it is the best.
Well , all this that I have said is what I like doing in my free time, and I don’t know if these are really a hobbies, but I enjoy doing all this, but now I don’t have much free time because I am at the university, but I Like it , and I will do one way or another!!

The last February twenty-seven a big earthquake moved us, the impact was very very terrible.

Now for me, it was not so terrible; I lived that experience very quiet, at least me, because the rest of my family was very worried. I lived thus the earthquake, that night:

I was in my room, I was almost sleeping, till my TV was turned on, I remember that I was watching TV , the festival de Viña del Mar, I guess, so I changed the channel, I don’t remember clearly that channel specifically , but I was almost sleeping.

And when about was 3.30, the earth began to move. At the first I thought that would be a earth movement more, but when started to increase the movement, my mother still was awake called me, she was so frightened, and the came my two sister , they were sleeping, and come , and together , we stayed at the door, waiting , until that earthquake stopped. There was a big silence, and much dust at the environment, was a strange sensation.

After earthquake, my mother was till scared, but me I was not scared. It was the first time that I lived a earthquake, really I thought that would be worse, but It was very quiet.

I learned many thing but the most imporant was that material things are nothing, everybody affects us , independent the economic status.

Well, what to say about me??
mmm, so much.My name is Ignacio , I'm a student of the Universidad de Chile.I'm studying the obstetrics course!For now this course I've liked so much, so I'm very happy!
what else?well , Im' 18 years, I like the sport , too much, even the last sunday I ran the Santiago marathon, I ran 42K, really it was a awesome experiencie.Also I love football, tennis, anyway all the sports!!!
well for the moment this is it!!