Improving your Faculty Facilities

Hello classmates!
Today I'm going to talk about the absence of somes facilities in my faculty.It's truth that not all is bad but always it can be somes improvements, specially if we want to open the comunnities to all kind of people.
For example, for handicap people it will be impossible to log into the faculty. First because the few access for handicap are not visible and secondly because the few that we have are hardly accessible.

Another thing, which is a problem (I supose for all student) is the scarse books that the library have. Sometimes we have to go to another faculty searching a book which are of our own careers. So is very frustrating go to YOUR library and not found a book of your carrer or if it exist there are only one copy of it. In the same issues, exist the problem that the days you can keep a book of another library, sometimes is too short.

About the infraestructure in my faculty, I think is not too bad, but , like I say previously it can always improve. In this topic, I think the ventilation of the classroom are not very good, because when you have a class with 60 persons and only two windows, it can be hard to follow what the teacher says if you are stifled in the room.

So, what would be my first steps to dealing with this situation? Say what I think in the spaces created for express student opinions and propose some solution for this problems. For example, for the problem to the access for handicaps we have to install more ramps and signage for all people know where there are. To improve the libraries problem, first I will buy more books and then install an egalitarian system of loan for all students. Finally, we most improve the ventilation system of rooms.

All this things, I think will improve the student life, making ease some aspects very important for a student like the case of the purchase of books and oxygen for our brains to paid attention in class.

Well, I think that's all for now.
See you soon!

Election Day

Hi classmates!
Today I'm going to talk about the election day. I have to say that I'm not registered to vote. Why? Simple. Because I don't beleave in any politician who presented in this election year (or in any election, because i believe the politician system in our country is worn and very tainted). I think anyone represented me, so why I have to give my vote to someone who don't represented me?
Also I think electoral campaings are appalling, they don`t say anything real, utopias are sold promising a better country (promeses that they don't not intend to keep) and the method to win votes is disgusting.Because all candidates go to rural sectors to give gift to people to some way to buy them and buy they votes.
If you ask me, about what the qualities I think a person for running for president must have, I have to say that this person have to be honest, inteligent (with at least with an university carreer) and with the real force to make change and not left alone with the words. But this person doesn't exist yet in my country , because old politicians no leave young people and minorities be included in the system.

Talking about politicians, I've have to say that I never though in become a politician because I think I don´t won't to be a a public figure. So if, I have the "chance" ( if we can talk like a chance, a good think to became a politician) to work in a ministry I think it would be in the culture ministery. Making what? I don't know....

Problems or rather thematics that I think require an immediate solution in my country are in the area of education (access, price), health , transport, correction of the binominal system and review the financial system of proyect in culture.
Well, that's all for today.
See you in class!

Criminal Laws

Hello Classmates!
Today I'm going to talk about criminal laws in my country. Well if you ask me how the criminal and judicial system in my country is, I have to answer that it is very bad, but not because there is no professional people to do their work, instead the problem is the laws that they have to apply are wrong, the system is very slow and tedious, with a lot of papers to fill in and give it to many people (which is in different places!).

But, despite all this things that don't work, I think the capital punishment is not the solution for criminality, because I think people can change, so I think instead of spending money to introduce this method, they have to invest in rehabilitation and education for them. Because in that form, when they are free, they will be able to work in something or have at least the chance to search for a decent job and not fall again in criminal acts. Also I think we have to generate moments were the family could have psychological assistence to help them to reincorporate her/his relative who has been in jail.

About the measure that I think the government has to take is to increase the criminality rates in Chile, are first of all, more prevention in communities of hight risks and secondly "hard hand" with recidivist.

On the other hand I think criminality has increased lately because there is a lot of opportunities to have fast and easy money for people who don't have it. So I insist that prevention is fundamental to decrease the number of robberies, burglary, pick pocketing etc...

Well that's all for today!
See you in class!!

What to do / Where to go in Santiago

Hi classmates!
Today, I have to talk about what places a foreigner must visit in Santiago.
For me is very dificult to say, because I live in this city since 2008 so I don't know (yet, this is an insinuation for my friends to take me to the most important places here:) )all the city or all the important places.
For all this, in this blog I will talk about places that I know and that I think it would be interesting for a tourist or a foreigner.

My top 5 of activities and places that I think a tourist must visit are:

1. Bellas Artes Museum, because, for example at this time there are an exposition of a chilean sculptor call Mario Irarrazábal which work is very good. Also I think this is a beautiful place to know and to walk because it has a wonderful park next it.

2. The palace La Moneda (of course!) because is the presidential house, so is a very important place and it has a museum in the underground which , in general, have very good expositions.

3. La Vega, the market place, to see the vegetables and fruits that we have in our country, and like it is very cheap, encouraged to buy some of this food for taste it. Also you can eat seafood for a modest price.

4. La Piojera, to know a typical places and a typical drink (cheapest) in Chile, like the terremoto, which is a drink done with pinneapple ice cream, pipeño and fernet.

5. Finally up the San Cristóbal's hill for have a wonderful view of the enormous city of Santiago.

Well, I think this is all for now.
See you in class!

Education

Hello Classmates! Tooday I'm going to talk about my experience in High School.
Well, I have been in the same school since I was 5 years old, so I had the same classmates since tehnthen to Cuarto Medio. I think, it was a very good experience, because I had the chance to study at Aliana Francesa, so since I was a little girl I learned a second language and then when I arrived to High School I learned my third language that was english. I have to admit, that I always hate this subject, because it was so difficult to me, and understand the grammar of this new language was so hard to me, even today I have difficulty to distinguish tenses.So I think, that was the subject that I hated the most, even most than math!
But, I have to say, that I always have very good teachers in all subject, and there were very kind and precupate by their students.

Respect of the question how much the level of education that I received affect my decisions in life, I think that affect my decision a lot. Because, in my case, high school was a very important opportunate to know and learn a little bit more about the world, in an academic sense.

If you ask me, there are so many things to improve in our current educational system, specially in public system, who really sucks! Because theirs a confluence of factors that affect the educational lever, as for example the teacher's pay that is very miserable or the low level in infraestructure, to give some examples...

About the question how responsable is every person in his own education, I think he/she is responsable of the 50%, and the other 50% depends of his social condition, and it´s hard to say but its a raw truth, how much he/she can spend in his education. Because in this country, for have a good education level you have to be capable to pay a private school for give it.

And finally, about the sense"when the student is ready the teacher appears", I think it's not truth one hundred percent, because most time the student are never ready, or when he/she finally is, the teacher don't appear. It´s sad, but I think is the awfull truth.

Well, that´s all for now, see you at next week!

Transantiago: Before and After

Hi classmates!
I think I'm not authorized to talk before the transantiago began because I live in Santiago since 2008, so I don't know about the old system very much. But I can tell you about my experience in these two years with this public transport system.
If you ask me, my experience is very good, because going to the university I have to take only one bus, which leaves me one block away from the entrance of my university, and ( fortunately) the bus stop is near my home ( I have to walk only four blocks straight on down my street) so I don't have problems with this new public system. But I think it's safer and it's easier to have information as for example, what bus I have to take to go somewhere or what combination I have to do, because the webpage that they have is very clear.
But, of course it is not a perfect system, I think it's important to have more buses to decrease the waiting time, because there are people are not as lucky as I am and don't have to take two buses very early in the morning and they have to wait sometimes an hour to take the right bus because (specially at peak hours between 7 at 9 am) the buses can`t take the demand at these hours.
In summer, this new system works well for me, but it clearly has a lot of failures (furtunately all with solutions , but it requires time to make it work better than today)
Well that's all for today!
See you in class next monday!

A Country You Would like to Visit?

Hi everyone! Today I'm going to talk about a country I would like to visit. I think, among all countries that I would like to know, at this moment I would like to go to Greece, specially Athens, because, since I was a little girl I loved Greek mythology so I always dream to go there and know about the places I had read about.
I don't know everythingabout Greece , actually I don't know anything at all, but I want to discover in this epic trip the secrets of a country that I only knew by books.
Despite, everything I say in paragraph before, I think (for me) Greece is not a country where I would like to live (or maybe in my trip I would change my opinion) for two reasons. First, because I don't speak Greek and I think it's a very difficult language. And secondly, because I love the rain, and as I know, Greece has a meditarrian climate, where it doesn't rain very much. So, if I had the chance to go it would be like a simple tourist who wants to know a little bit more about the stories that heard in history class at school and in its mythological books.
Well, I think that's all for now
See you at my next post!