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English Language Challenges

Hi, today I will talk about my changes in english this year. This is my last blog, so I hope you enjoy it and make a comment! We are finishing the semester, and we are in the last classes of english. During the semester I noticed positives changes learning english. First I improve in the way of write. With all the blogs that we had to do, I was improving each week. Second, making the videos I improved my talk abilities. However, I think the university needs to teach a better english course, with more hours and where content is taught, not only based on blogs. I feel that when we finish this course, the level is not enough to do a course abroad. Also students do not usually practice outsideof class, because of a very heavy academic workload. Outside the english class, I only used english when I watch a film (but with spanish subtitles), or when I listening to music. Rarely, I have to read an article in eglish, but it is difficult, especially because of the vocabulary. I need to impro
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Postgraduate Studies

Hi everyone, this time I will talk about what postgraduate studies I would like to do! It´s difficult to me say now what postgrade I would like to do, because I´m not decided yet about what I will dedicate in the future. But I have some ideas... for example I think it´s interesting do a master in "territorial dynamics and developmnr" or "environmet and sustainability". Mainly I am interested in increasing my studies in social relations and ecologically sustainable system. It´s not enough finish my carrer with my degree in geography, because the laboral competition is very strong, and it´s important to specialize in a subject. I would like to do my postgrade abroad, in a english speaking country, to have a better language level. I would like to travel to an univeristy city, and live there until I get my grade. In this way I could study and know a new place, it would be a good experience! maybe, I could apply for the exchange program, and travel next year in the se
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Social Issues

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Abortion I choose this picture, because the "abortion" is a topic that we often heard in our society. Recently was approve the abortion for the three causals:  Danger to the life of women, fetal unfeasibility of lethal character and pregnancy for rape. It still not enough, but means a great advance in chilean legislation. Education and public schools This picture I think it represents one of the most important social issues of Chile.  Since 2011 students organized as a movement began to manifest themselves demanding a better education, free and without profit. Work and occupations The chilean society works in poor conditions and under a lot of stress. One example are the bus drivers of the transantiago. They have to use the bus like them bathroom. It's inhuman... Also they work with the stress of the constant doorbell´s sound, and the violent environment of the streets of the city.
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Post 9

Hi everyone, today i´ll talk about what changes I would like to do in my program. In my opinion, I think we need a better organization to prevent hard times of workload, such the last weeks with tests, essays, presentations and a lot of works to do, that consume all your time, even the sleep time. Other thing, it´s the comply with the "terrenos", because we have lost many of them, or the buses have arrived more than 4 hours of  delay! About the subjects I'm quite satiesfied, we have good teachers and interesting subjects... well not for all, with the little exception of two boring teachers that really I don´t see any interest from them about the class. For example they do bad practices like only read the presentation... About the  infrastructure, I really like FAU, with its old buildings and painted walls (a lot of murals are great!). However, the students need more computers to work, it´s frequent go to the computer laboratory for work and find the room is full! Plea
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Summer Holidays

Hi, today in my blog I'll write about my plans for this summer's holiday. This summer is very special because I'm traveling to Germany to visit my girlfriend. It will be the first time that I travel abroad, for two months and visit one of the biggest countries in the world, like it is Germany. I do not meet with my girlfriend in a long time, she left Chile in August to start her university studies in Berlin. When I arrive, at the end of December, she will be studying, so I'll have half a time to be with her and half to know Berlin by myself. However, we will have three weeks to travel together and visiting other cities or maybe other countries. We want to travel to Spain to spend the new year in Barcelona, and then visit a friend who lives in Madrid. I would like to visit museums, know emblematic places, drink the best beers, eat a lot of hot dogs and döners and spend the most of time with my girlfriend. Now she is knowing the best places in Berlin that she thinks I
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Camping

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Today I will talk about one of my experiences camping. It´s was a crazy, funny and a little disagreeable experience (not too much jaja). That happened this summer when my girlfriend and I were travelling around the "Carretera Austral". The afternoon it was raining and we had descended the truck that brought us to the national park Queulat. We needed to quickly find a place to camp, before getting wet and before it was too late and dark to make our tent. We started the searching but we got bad news: the best camping it was full and far away to arrive early, and the nearest had all the stands full except the "Magic Bus". The Magic Bus is an old and abandoned bus located in the first camping of Queulat. Strangely it became in a mythical bus which give lodging to travellers from all parts of the world (even japanese cyclists). Indoors, the bus shows a lot of phrases and stories written by his visitors. We decided to past the night there, and it was a great experi
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Animals

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I remember to love animals since I was a boy. I dreamed becoming an explorer, travelling in the middle of the jungle and having contact with the most wild and amazing animals of the world. I spent my time watching films or tv programs about animals and their life in the nature. Also I used to read magazines, most of them from National Geographic.  In this time I was impressed with bears and wolfs, and I learned about some species of bears. My favourite was Grizzly or “Brown Bear”, one of the biggest bears in the world. They can measure two meters and more, and weigh more than three hundred kilograms. They live in North America, in the woods of Canada, United States and Alaska. They feed on salmon, using their claws to capture the fish in the river. In USA a big number of them are killed by hunters but in Canada and Alaska there are near 30.000 bears living freely. A picture of bears catching salmons! Other species of bears are North American Black Bear, Polar Bear, Asia
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