MY FACULTY

When i finished highschool, I decided to study at the university of Chile because I believed that it was the best university of Chile. Now, I don’t feel the same passion that I felt in that time, but I keep believing that although it has a loto f economical, administrative problema, it keep being a pluralist, research maker and demanding university. This was one of the reasons that i considered in my decision to be part of this study house. The second one was related with random. In the beggining I wanted to study law, but my score at PSU didn’t let me get inside of this career. Study Public Management was my second Choice, but i’m so happy to had have this decision, because I love my career, I feel very happy to study and read all the things that Ido, because I’m sure that it would be important to develop changes inside of the government and the way to create and evaluate public policies. My first impression when I started studyng there was surprising, because the school was very small, and old. At the beggining it seemed a kind of ugky for me, but with the time, i liked the ancient structure and it size, because you Could see all the people everywhere. My current school is small, but beautiful, andi t has an Amazing administrative staff, they are the best characteristic of our school. When I have Windows, I come back to my home, but when I stay at the school, I read some texts for classes, or stay at the playground talking with my friends. When I finish my caree I will miss my friends, my daily life worry about the books and the researchs, the parties, the interesting talkings, everything.

HOW GREEN ARE YOU?

Hello! Today I’m going to talk about the environment!

I think that people learn about environmentally friendly practices into their families, or into their schools, in a less level, they could learn through the media, I mean, through some propaganda or some social campaign of some green organization. In my case, I’m not used to participate or do green activities, for example, I don’t have incorporated recycling into my habits, I’m not pretty much concerned about it, sometimes I try to separate trash according to the trash can, if it has a title or something that say: wood, paper, glass, etc. I don’t use the bicycle, actually I don’t know how to ride it, but I like to walk, I walk from my home up to the school everyday, I love it! I think that I help to the environment just by case, because I don’t support any eco-organizations, because I don’t really interested about, not because I don’t believe that it is an important issue for the world, and for the governments, it’s just because I don’t feel passion about it. I think that I can be more sensitive about the topic, and maybe when I work, and I have more money, I can give some money for an eco-organization. I didn’t do anything conscious to reduce my carbon footprint, but after this post, I promise to do to something about it. Finally, if our society (specially Government and the formal institutions) didn’t consider this issue, it would missing a lot of improvements in terms of energy efficiency, nature care, and future environment resources that it going to be so important in our development as a country.

EUTHANASIA

When I think in euthanasia I think in a very difficult moment into a family. I think in an important and spiritual decision that someone has to take in relation with the “life” of someone else. I write “life” because the health conditions of people who are in some medical state that suggest the necessity to decide about the life prolongation through machine, that situation for me, it is not life. In this moment, I cannot remember any famous case of euthanasia but an image that come to my mind, is one of the most emotional scenes of the movie “million dollar baby”, when the protagonist ask to her coach that please help her to die. The debate about the euthanasia is main related with a value debate, and religion is an important element to consider. I am a catholic girl, I believe in god, but there are a lot of things about “the church’s rules” that I am not agree with. One of them is the position of the church about euthanasia. I agree with. The position of the social, religious and political institutions has a clue influence on the fact that euthanasia can consider as murder or as a tool to stop suffering people alive. Government should lead the debate about this topic, put it into its political agenda, and dialogue with the all actors involved. Only with a serious debate about it will help to disclose this complex topic.

Unemployment falls again as US adds 200,000 jobs in December

By Dominic Rushe

The article is about the increase of jobs in the US economy. It was happened due to the added of 200,000 jobs by the employers private companies in December, it causes an unemployment fell to 8.5%, its lowest level since February 2009.
In the text appear different opinions about the increase of employment by economical organism like the US Labor department, the MB Capital, ADP consultancy, firm Challenger, Gray &Christmas, which analyze the phenomenon from a similar point of view: the increase by the private sector, they were the responsible of the added of 325,000 jobs in December, while the public sector suffered shrank by 12,000. In the other hand, the experts recommend that caution should be the position of the different economical actors, as ADP’s said “ADP's figures do not always tally with the government's, and economists cautioned that seasonal factors may have boosted the figures. Even so, all the major measures of the job market appear to be improving.
Finally, the article shows a summary of the last main economical milestones of the US economy. Challenger firm tally that “job cuts for the whole of 2011 was 606,082, 14% higher than the 529,973 job cuts announced in 2010. The numbers were still far lower than the recession peak's 1.2m job cuts in 2009 but they were driven higher by big cuts in government employment.


Check out on the link below!
Referencia: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/06/unemployment-falls-jobs-added-december

WHAT MUSIC MEANS TO ME

Music is very important to me. It is everywhere; it has been across all my life. It is the memory –as a soundtrack- of my happiest and saddest life experiences. Music is my daily partner, it helps me to stop thinking, to be relaxed, to smile and keep walking.
I like rock-pop music, in English or Spanish, and also I like folk music, especially music from Andean cultures, but I don’t like heavy metal music, or music of that kind, at all. I don’t have just one favorite band or singer, but I have a top ten list of favorite bands, today a bands that I’ve listened a lot are The smiths and Jack Johnsons, and by the side of Chilean bands my favorite I have listened Astro and Denver, actually last Saturday I went to a concert of them. I love to go to concerts, now I’m pretty exciting about my future concerts: Morrisey’s and Artic Monkey’s. I used to download music from different web sites, and I looking for some new bands or singers at different blogs, magazines and radio, one of my favorite Chilean radios is Horizonte (103.3) I don’t sing very well, but I love to do it! Especially at karaokes, especially when I go out with some friends, at some bar like “constitucion bar” to have a funny time playing as a rockstar in the “kararocker”, which is like the common karaoke but with a rock band playing the music alive.
I think music is so important for people and culture, it is an amazing tool to express ideals, feelings, emotions, complains, and many other kind of human expressions.

A country I'd like to visit

For me, there are some staffs that I’m really interested about. Music, history, culture, people. Specially people. I’ve always thought that if you want to know a city or a country, you have to taking contact with someone who has lived or lives in that place. Moreover, if you want to walk into some interesting streets or go to a folk traditional concert, a “story teller” is always the best choice. Considering this, I mean, the human factor as an important tool to create amazing places from the experience to share with its people, I’d like to visit England, because since I was a kid I’ve been fascinated about its music culture, the cold-grey face of its streets and that kind of rock atmosphere that surrounds cities like London and Liverpool. If someday I can travel to Liverpool, I’d like to go to all the rock-and-roll bars, like The Cavern Club, and the inevitable photo with the Buckingham palace in London, hearing in my head the classic “good save the queen” of the Sex Pistols. Share with its people in all this places would be so amazing! Finally I’d love to study in London, maybe a few fears doing a post graduate program into an old and prestigious university like Oxford, Cambridge or the London of Economics School.

TV and Movies

I like movies. Specially on Sunday’s afternoon. For that reason I’m not used to go to the cinema or rent films. For me, the ideal scene is downloads movies from some web site as “cuevana” into the commodity of my bedroom. I have too many “favorites movies”, but one the most amazing for me is a movie called Blow up, a very underground English movie, it’s about a photographer who discover a murder when he develop a photo. I really love this movie because its photography is absolutely beautiful, the colors, the music, the characters, everything on it are so sophisticated and cool. I think that I have seen it like 10 times or a bit more and I obviously recommend it if you want to have a good time.
About the Chilean TV, I’m not a fan of it, but I usually see its program. I prefer the American one, because is funnier and creative than the Chilean one, and in terms of sensationalism and soups I think that they get it. Reality shows like Keeping up with the Kardashian are one of my favorites. And finally if someday someone decides to make a film about my life, I’d like that my film would be a comedy-drama, and hope you can laugh and cry a lot!

A new and strange term

My expectations about this term aren’t so hopeful, the Santiago’s weather is very suffocating, and to be far away from my family for this time, it is kind of difficult to me. But I like so much my career, and I have very good friends here, so I trust that this term is going to be funny no matter what. Now I’m taking 5 subjects related with policy science, international affairs, public management theory, financial management of the state, and human resources.Studying at Christmas time has been so hard too. In my case, I couldn’t travel to my home, which is located in Arica, because I had too much tests on that period. On the other hand, studying in summer in Santiago is one of the most uncomfortable situations that I have ever lived in my university life. I’m from Arica; I used to pass my holiday time sitting on the sand, taking sun, having fun, not reading books or studying all night long for some test

NEW CLASS

English IV

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My blog experience...

The blog experience has been fun, it is a different way to learn, practice and imagine ideas in english, if talk in english it is difficult, write your ideas and make it work it is difficult too, but this hard works, it is the clue to improve our master in english.

In my opinion, the exercise made in this blog, it was so useful to improve my english, because I have to make sentences in a coherent way, to check every word, every verb, every adjective that make up the sentence and also I learn a lot of new words.

The use of the blog it is a great tool to practice and improve the master of knowledge, but I think that it could be less frecuency, I mean, write on blog twice at month and in the other classes some exercise related to the oral practice of english, maybe some oral presentations, some short dialogues, to try to improve our pronunciation too. But the blog experience should be a constant activity in the english class. It was so useful, and practice!!

The right girl in the right place...

My ideal job would be to work in some international organization related to social help, or related to international relationships. In my opinion the skills or qualities to get this job would be: first of all the master of english, the master of economical and political theories and the master of human resources, I mean dealing with people. I think that I'm going to be good for this job because I really want to do it, which is an important step, and because I feel that I will be qualified to do it, not only in academic way, but also in a personal one: I am a persistent person, I like to know new places, new people, new languages, new lifestyles, I think that I could resist to live in another country, with a different culture and a different lifestyle, as the same way that I am now living in Santiago without my family, and old friends, finding the beauty of this place and my new life.

But the real difficulty to find this kind of job will be to get the oportunity to apply for it, to get to master all the qualities that I mentioned before in the right moment, in the moment of the decision to appoint the professional who will be encharged to represent Chile or any kind of Institution abroad, I mean the right man in the right place, but in my case the right girl in the right place...

My favorite "hard beauty" subject...

My favorite subject is History of the political and public Institutions of Chile, the teacher who gives this subject is Bernardo Navarrete. This subject is one of the most difficult ones in the semester, because we have to read a lot of books related with political, institutional and economy theories, it has been so hard for me, but at the same time it is a kind of challenge in academic and pesonal way. Because the real goal is not only "read" and get "good marks", but also understand what the books are talking about, how I can put into practice all these knowledge to understand our current reality, and try to solve the future problems that I will have to face in 5 years more.

This is the "hard beauty" of the subject, although it is difficult, it is so interesting, and it has showed me a new kind of knowledge world, now I can understand a lot of political and social situations, and not only understand, but also analyze , not like an expert, but in a better way than 4 months before.

Do school kill creativity?

I agree with Sir Ken Robinson ideas, because sometimes schools and teachers has a wrong perception about what is important to be a good student, or to be educated. Most of the time we can see how the educational authority kill the creativity of the children banning the free expression of their talents, rather than foster their skills, with the technical and deep knowledge that a teacher should master, maybe this is the problem...
If the schools foster the creativity of the children they could develop a lot of skills that will be so important in the future of the students, and why not, in their future work. Academic knowledge and creativity are important in the same way.
In the end, everything is related with a decision, a decision to widen the limits of the "formal knowledge" and believe in children, believe in their talent, believe in their capacity, and understand that times has changed, and it is necessary to improve the methods to educate our future generations.

The man who fights for our rights...

A man delicate with social affairs, a man who fought for his convictions in spite of the personal threats, a man who represented all the interests of his people, a man who devoted his life to liberate his country of the ruling National Party's apartheid, I'm talking about Nelson Mandela, the best example that "impossible is nothing". He was consistent with his ideals, persistent with his dreams, delicate with his people, responsable of his own deeds, clever and proactive. All these qualities let him to be the first black President of South Africa.

I admire Nelson Mandela because he represents for me the social vocation to do the right things, to be responsable and compasive, to fight for built a fair society, that respects the human rights, and tolerates the diversity. He is the best symbol of the resistence against apartheid movement, he is the best example of the pacific fight, and HE IS THE MAN WHO FIGHTS FOR OUR RIGHTS!

My future

In five years more, I'm going to finishing my career (Public Administration), and I will be starting a new one (laws), After this two years more of study, I'm going to work in some ministery for two or three years more, to practice all the knowledge that I'm going to learn in this 7 years of study. I will be a great professional, and I'm going to win a scholarship to study in Harvard or in Oxford some post-graduate program related with policy science or public policy.In the time that I'm going to be abroad, I'm going to travel around the world, meeting new people, living "the single life", after this time I'm going to come back to Chile, to help and share with my family. Then I'm going to come back to my worklife, using all my knowledge and experiene in some international organism: maybe in ONU, OEA but in areas related with social or humanitarian help.

My career

My career is related with the management of public affairs, the service to the State and the Gobernment, the Public Administration is the executive work of the Government (as many authors define the career). I chose it because of I like the social service and I feel the commitment with public service and its implications with the national progress.

One of the things that I really like about the career is the diversity of study areas related to: economy, policy science, laws, sociology, history, administration science and many others, this breadth of knowledge will enabe to work in different areas of the STATE. But there is something that I dislike about it, and it is the subjects related with mathematics, although this career is essentially humanistic, we have to learn about math (because of economy and investigations subjects) and this situation is so terrible for my brain.

My expectations for my future is to do a post-graduate studies and to work in some international organism related with humanitarian help, and obviously to be a good profesional not only in the academic way, but also in the ethical one.

My Favorite Photograph

My favorite photograph was taken in the Plaza de Armas in Santiago, when I lived here. It's a beautiful photograph, and it is so important to me in this moment in my life. In the picture appears all my family: my parents, my sister, my brother and my grandparents. The picture was taken in one of our family walks around the city when my grandparents came to see us to Santiago (They lived in Arica). I was 5 or 6 years when this picture was taken, my life was so great, I lived with the people that I most loved, and all seem easy and funny for me.

When I moved to Santiago, this year, I kept the photo with me, now it is such a huge motivation to still with my new life, it is a kind of bridge between all the good moments that my family gave me in the past, and all the good moments that I want to give them now and not in a distance future.
Every single day, when I am sad or happy, when I wake up, or when I go to the bed, I look my picture and all returns to make sense again...

My Most Preciuos Posessions...

I have a lot of precious "possesions", I write "posessions" because I can mention my family or my friends, but I think that they are not objects therefore they are not posessions.
But I have a very important posession that represents something bigger than everything, something that includes the love that I feel for my family, for my friends, and for all the things that I'm doing now.

This posession is a cross, a missionary cross. It is a small cross, divided in five parts, one in each extreme and one in the center. Each part has a color that represent one continent. So it was given to me, when I participated in a missionaty activity with children in my church, I worked with them for 5 years, we lived a lost of beautiful expiriences related with the mission that helped us to realiza that we are lucky people, and that we as christian must do something to help people and try to built a better place to live. My cross represents all this intentions, my cross represents my wish to be a better person.

My last Vacation...

My last Vacation was in the same place that I have lived the last 10 years, but in this time was different. Although I wasn't born in a Arica is like my hometown, I feel very confortable in its places, with its weather and its people.

Well. my last vacation was shared with the most important people of my life, it started with the new year (31st december) and finished the day that I came to Santiago.

The weather in Arica was hot, beautiful days with blue sky, big sun, and a great sea breeze.

In this vacation I shared and lived beautiful and funny moments, with my closer friends, and my family. With my family I used to go to the beach, to play rackets and to have dinner, sometimes we went to the beach in the night just for walk and talk.
With my firends was a little bit different, in the evening we did relaxed activities sucha as to take sun and swim in the beach, but in the night we used to go out to pub, discos, parties barbecues, because firstable is sooo funny, and second i had to take advantage of this amazing moments because this was my last vacation as a resident of Arica.

One of the most remarkables event was when with my friends decide to go to the beach and cook something easy in my home (my home is very near to the beach), when we were in the beach we started to have a huge whim to eat a barbecue, but no one of us knew how to do a barbecue, but our whim was stronger, so we went to buy all the ingredients and finally we went to my home to try to do something.
In my home the barbecue was excellent! although no ne knew haw to do it, for that reason we finished black, because of the fire and coal, and we shouted a lot because we were so nervous, we spent a funny time together, and we ate a delicious barbecue all the afternoon, when we finished our excited lunch, we went to the living room to rest and talk and talk all the rest of the day, we talked about our new lifes, far of home, far of our families and friends, it was a simple but beautiful moments to talk among friends the topics that really cares.

I will never forget this vacation baecause it was the most closer that I have had with my people, I devoted to be with them, to talk about our lives, our future, to share simple things, to be happy with only their presence, no more. Maybe this vacation was special because I felt that I'd need a lot of good memories of them when I started my new life in Santiago, far of this beautiful moments.