Movies

This is my last blog and it can be about anything that I want so I am going to talk about movies.

I love all kind of movies bacause they make me create new worlds. I can`t tell you how many movies I have seen because there are too many!

What I like about movies is that they are the perfect excuse if you want to meet with your friends or if you want to invite someone on a date.
I think that the most complicated thing if you want to invite someone to the movietheater is to choose what kind of movie you want to see, because there exist there three kind of movie drama, comedy and terror.

It is difficult to decide what movie is my favorite because I enjoy all of them, but I can tell you that my favourite director is Tim Burton because his films are amazing. He is very creative and original.
His last creation was Alice in Wonderland, this is an old film that he change a little bit of it in order to be more representative to the world were living in.(186)

“Edward scissor hands” is other if his films, this story is wonderfull, it is about a man who has scissor instead of hands, this man was created by a scientist who died at the beggining of the film so Edward had to learn how to live in a normal world. This is one of the most popular film in the history.

So I invite you to see more films and to learn what they are tying to tell us, because every movie teach us different things.

My experience learning English at the Faculty

It is very important to know how to communicate with people in all the possible ways. For example you can use body expression, your eyes and your language and this is in every country in the world.
So if we want to know how the different cultures communicate we must know how to talk in Spanish very well and we have to learn different languages like English, because it is a universal language so it will be useful in every part of the world.

Last year our University decided to change the curriculum, and it included English as an obligatory subject so we are having this asignature. This is very positive for us because it is a new way to interact with people from other careers and with this we can learn how to work in team and how to respect one from another.
It has been very difficult this year because we don’t have a lot of free time so we can’t dedicate a lot of time to the thing that we want, or to practice more this new language that we are learning which is very important to our develop as a health workers.
So it is a great idea to have this subject but obviously there are a lot of thing that we can improve, for example, there are a lot of teachers that participate in the English program but, every one of them teaches in different ways. Maybe it would be better to use a common system so that the students will learn the same, considering that it the classroom every student have a different style of learning.
And the other important thing is that every teacher must teach English related medicine, because this is the most important part for us to learn.

The second semester has been very different because we have learned a lot of medicine terms in English. This is very necessary because nowadays all the information that we constantly need to complement our study is in English like articles, books and internet. So we have to keep learning and if you have the time and motivation youm may even learn 2 or 3 more languages.

My experience learning English at the Faculty

It is very important to know how to communicate with people in all the possible ways. For example you can use body expression, our eyes and our language and this is in every country in the world.
So if we want to know how the different cultures communicate we must know how to talk in Spanish very well and we have to learn different languages like English, because it is a universal language so it will be useful in every part of the world.

Last year our University decided to change the curriculum, and it included English as an obligatory subject so we are having this asignature. This is very positive for us because is a new way to interact with people from other careers and with this we can learn how to work in team and how to respect the other.
It have been very difficult this year because we don’t have a lot of free time so we can’t dedicate a lot of time to the thing that we want, or to practice more this new language that we are learning which is very important to our develop as a personal of the health system.
So it is a great idea to have this subject but obviously there are a lot of thing that we can improve, for example, there are a lot of teachers that participate in the English program but, every one of them teach in different ways. Maybe it would be better to use a common system so that the students will learn the same, considering that it the classroom every student have a different level of knowing.
And the other important thing is that every teacher must teach English related medicine, because this is the most important part for us to learn.

The second semester have been very different because we learned a lot of medicine terms in English. This is very necessary because nowadays all the information that we constantly need to complement our study is in English like articles, books and internet. So we have to keep learning and if you have the time and motivation you can learn 2 or 3 languages more.

Brain Myths!

On Thursday, novembre 4 an Amazing person came to see our class in order to talk about the brain. Pedro Maldonado is an excelente professor of the University and I have to say that I admired him very much because he is brilliant and he dedicated some of his time to give us a little talk about the brain that is a very interesting subject.

He said a lot of interesting things, he start telling us that there are a lot of myths about the brain and he help us to clear up a lot of them.
For example he told us that when we are doing something all our brain is working, some areas more than others because he never rest, and all of this areas are connected with each other.When we learn our brain changes, this is the reason why when we do something a lot of times we improved because our brain create new connections.

Human Brain is important because of his biology, it help us in our education and for our mental health, this is why some people believe that everything is in the brain like personality, things that we said, things that we need and diseases. So it is very important to continue investigating on it, because this could help us to discover more about a lot of diseases, helping us finding the reason why the human been have some wear actitud when he face up to different kind of problems.

I think that the brain represent all that we are, we should take care of it.

Let’s talk about stress.

Stress is a very common subject in our days, because everyone of us have it, some are more stress than others, it depends of the way of living.

Actually we live in a country that is always in a hurry, the people wake up very early in the morning and they arrive to their houses very late in the afternoon. This is because a lot of them have a very long laboral working day or some of them do some extra work, that is exhausting.

So the people do not have enough time for themselves, they are not used to have leisure time and if the have a little time they do not enjoy it very much in family or doing some sports, they prefer to watch TV, clearly that is not a good way of relaxing.

This way of living is not very different for students, because most of them have an exhausting class day. You have so much to do like studing for a test, you have to do a work and a homework all for the same day.
I think that Universities are not considering that students need to do different kind of thing in order to be a complete professional, for example, you need time to read a good book, or to do some sports and do thing that help you to reduce stress.

This is very important because it have influence in how I am going to be as a professional. It is very difficult to change the whole system so we have to start for changing oru way of living, for example spending more of my free time doing those thing that I love like dancing.

Obesity crisis 'cannot be solved by exercise alone'

This post is a summary about an article that I read in the guardian newspaper.

Obesity is an epidemic disease that has increased in the last years.
This article said that in all of the different countries and experts all over the world they recommend to do a lot of exercise for several hours a day in order to loss weight.
This part is very difficult for the people who have this disease because they could prefer to eat less.

Professor John Speakman of the energetic research group at Aberdeen University said that is more effective to reduce the calories that they consume, because if you reduced them in one third this is equivalent to exercising for around five hours a day and that is not possible., it is not real.

In a study that this doctor did, they found that people in the world is not becoming more sedentary this has been the same from about 25 years ago, from the other point or view obesity has risen in the last year as a result of eating more high-calorie food than exercising more not of doing less exercises.

John Speakman said that to recommend exercise is always a good idea because it is beneficial in a lot of aspects of life, for example it protects you against heart disease, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis and high blood pressure. But if you want that your patients lose weight they will have to start with healthy eating and diets.

So if you want good health you have to combine both of them, eating well and do some sports.


Here is the link of the article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/sep/15/obesity-crisis-cannot-solved-exercise

Levonorgestrel as an emergency contraception.

As a woman I fell with the duty of knowing how to take care of myself and how women all around the world use different kind of anticonceptions.
One of this anticonceptions is Levonorgestrel.

Last Thursday Dr. Valenzuela, a very important man in the ICBM, he a very interesting man and very brilliant. He came to our english class because we wanted to tell us how does levonorgestrel work in case of and emergency contraception.
It was an amazing presentation about a controversial medical subject. He told us his thought about abortion and he told us a lot about how did he investigate the subject in which he discovered that levonorgestrel is very usefull in an anticonception way but it is also effective when you use it like in emergency contraception.

I think that is very important, before using this, you have to make an opinion about abortion and when do yo believe that life start.

Actually Chile is living that problem, if the goberment should or should not give the drug for free, because there a lot of different opinions and of course that no one can say wich point of view is the correct one.

Dr Valenzuela told us that if a woman have coitus in her ovulation period and she take levonorgestrel 3 or 5 day after coitus, this drug prevent the implantation of the embryo in the uterus, blooking the pass from the ovario to the uterus, in the investigation the saw that this could increase the probability of having stopic pregnancy, so if you have an emergency contraception this drug is not the better way.

Health as a right!!

Last Tuesday we saw a film about the differents kind of health systems around the world.

It was really interesting because there were a lot thing that I did not know.

For example I am very conscius about the situation here in Chile, with the film I realized that we have the same problem than USA.

There exist a lot of health security companys that seld insurance around that country, in this kind of insurance, people have to pay a monthly instalments in order to accredit that this insurance will cover every kind of desease that thy could have.

It is important to considered that the insurance do not cover all kind of desease and it is very difficult to obtain because when you want to by one, the company investigate all your personal history that had all kind of desease and health problem that you had had in your life.

This system is very bad and unfair, because if you can not pay for that insurence you can not have the right to access to health care in a good hospital, so there are a lot of people that do not have this and they learned how to live with the consecuences.

In the film we saw that Canada and France have a different health system.

All the people have the same opportunity and right to get a good and fast medical attention in any kind of desease, in exchange of paying a high tax.

There exist a different point of view because they think that it is very fair to pay for that people who are sick.

So If we want to change the health care in Chile we have to start changing minds.

My favorite movie

I am a very good fan of movies, so it is very difficult for me to choose only one movie and talk about it.

In this case I am going to talk about a movie called, "The Persiut of hapiness" which is a film inspired in the true story of Chris Gardner.

He was a simple salesman of United States, he sold machines for a few hospitals and that was the way that he aerned money.

Chris has a wife and a five years old son called Christopher. One day he started to have problems with his wife so she decided to go away and left Chris taking care of their son alone.

It was really hard for him to sale the machines so he and his son were avicted from their apartament and has to sleep in homeless shelter or in the bathroom of the metro station.

With this situation he started to look for a job in a Wall Street company and he worked really hard in order to win an important position.

Finally he got the job and became the most important man in this business.

I like this movie because it talks about a real situation that hapenned in a simple man's life. And makes me believe that miracles really exist.

The main actor of this movie is Will Smith with his little son Jaden Smith.

They make a really good representation, and it seems to be the first movie in which they worked together.

So it is....

This is the last blog that I am going to write in this english level. Pre-intermidiate.

I created this blog in order to write about different subjects imposed by the teacher.

And in this course we wrote in our blog every Friday during all the first semester.

I think that having a blog is very useful because you can communicate to your classmates your point or view about different subjects and you can read what they think about different kind of things.

Writing in a blog is a great idea because it is the best way to learn vocabulary and grammar.

But there are some things that I did not like, for example, in one or the first class that we had the teacher asked us what kind of subjects did we wanted to write about and we gave him a very long list. But at the end the subjects that the teacher chose weren't the most entertaining for us, maybe it is a good idea to let the student choose the subject.

Other thing that I did not like was that the teacher never gave us a feedback about our writing, so I did not know what kind of grammar mistakes I am committing so I didn't improve my writing very much. The only option to see your mistakes was asking to the teacher while your were writing in the computer of the university on Friday, but sometimes I didn't have enough time to finish my writing and ask at the same time.

I suggest for the next semester to think in some way to improve this, for example the teacher can post like a comment telling you what to fix in the vocabulary and grammar.

Finally I have to say that I enjoyed writing very much, because I knew more about my classmates and I learned a lot of new words.

When I grow up...

It is very hard to talk about this because all my life I have cuestined myself what kind of things I enjoy doing.

When I was at school I was really good at sports, I spent all my childhood practicing gimnastic, because of this I started to fall in love with human body little by little and all of the subjects related with it.

This career have three principal areas of working: respiratory, neurology and traumathology.
This clasification is very limited because there are a lot of things that you can do as a physical therapist.
My favourite part of all of this is the fundamental rol that physical therapists have in rehab because it is very involve with people´s life and families.

It is hard to define which of this three I am going to choose because I am in second year and I have very little information about them.
But there are some things that I am sure that I want to do, in seven more years I would like to work in a public hospital because I think that they are the perfect place to learn and acquire labour experiences.

After this I pretend to go to study to another country like Spain or France, because this is a real challenge for anyone and it is the better way to learn about different cultures and about myself. I think that it is too soon to decide because there are so much more things to know that can be crucial for my desition.
So do not worry and relax, but always be prepared for the future.

Education and prevention in health care.

There are a lot of things that could cause illness, so it is impossible to avoid all of them.

This is a very important subject for the people who works in health area, because there a lot of illness that we can prevent, for example different kind of infections that are very common in winter like a cold or easy transmission illness.

In this case, health professional have to do a doble work, because they have to cure pain and educate the people.

I think that this is not fair because it is necessary that every country create differents kind of prevention programs for every type of illness in order to start educating at school.

If we start aplicating this programs at school we can teach basic tips showing how to have a healthy life for example teaching how to eat well, the importance of washing your hands everytime you go to the bathroom, motivating to do some sport and teaching others basic hygiene tips.

This is a fundamental point because this kids could teach this programs to their families and this is the better way to expand them.

This sounds wonderfull but it is very difficult because not all of the professional are educating about prevention so I think that the goverment should invest not only in public health but in specialist in order to improve the health of the country preventing illness.

It is better with us than against us... (Gender roles)

There is a book called: " Men are from Mars and women are from Venus" that talks about the differences between male and female. It is a very good book, because it remainds us that every gender have differents postures and points of view about differents subjects.

In the past the world considered that women was created in order to proceate, so women used to stay at home and take care about children education.
They did not used to express any kind of feeling or idea because study was only for men so the world was on their hands.

This happened because in that time the role of Religion was fundamental in human lifes and it controlled everything.

Now this has change because women has fought in differents ways and areas in order to create a space in society.
First they started with the education area, because they proove that they were able to think and learn, so little by little they started to take important places. A very good example of this is that nurses were fundamental in war because they take care and safe soldiers life.

With this kind of situations men saw the importance of women participitacion, obviusly there are a lot of exceptions around the world because it depend of the culture that you have.
Actually , in the occidental culture, it is not weird to see a woman as a boss in an important company or as a president.

So men have to assume that if we want to create a better world it is better with us than against us...

FOOD!!!

Talking about food is a very important subject in a healthy life, because we are not used to analize every little thing that we eat in a day.

I have to admit that I love to eat but only the things that I like, because I am very skillfull.

This started because when I was younger like 4 or 5 years ago I was a little fat, because I didn't have the habit of eating well.

So when I decided to dedicated more of my time to practice sports I change my diet, because the overweight wasn´t helping me in my performance.

When I started to eat healthy food I realized that in general chilean people doesn't care or doesn´t know what is the meaning of eating well, this is because Chile doesn´t have an appropriated education in this subject.

This should begin at school, for example teaching how to eat, the consequences of overweight and the real importance of doing sports.

Is also very important to teach in a dinamic and entertaining way in order to motivate a healthy life.

In case of adults is a vicious circle, because most of the people in Chile work from 9 am to 6 pm, so they use as an excuse that they are always tired so they didn't do any sports, and in lunch time they prefer to eat fast food because is cheaper, faster and the taste is not that bad.

So we have to control what we eat and do some sports in order to reduce the stress, improve our mood and our external beauty, but it is good to take a break sometimes.

My career!

I think that if you study any health career you have to be prepared to serve and help different kind of people with differents kind of deseases.

The most important thing to consider is that you are going to work with a real person who has feelings and troubles, is not only a patient, is not a customer.



Kinesiology is a very fun and intertaining career because there are a lot of things to do, for example you can work in a sport center, or at the IRA section in some hospital (acute respiratory infection) . This is a very important area in kinesiology because respiratory deseases are very common in children and third age, because Santiago have a lot of contaminations problems.



I Dont know what area of kinesiology choose yet, because I am only in second year and I want to have more experience before I decide.

But I feel prepared to be a support in somebody's life, giving all my knowledge and company in order to contribute in a perfect rehab.

Why I am studing Kinesiology?

I spent the last two years of my life trying to decide what to study, that's the reason why I chose Bachillerato.
I wanted to be a dentist at first but little by little I realized that I was in love with the human body, and the most important thing is that I love helping people.

In Bachillerato I met a friend, her name is Camila. Camila suffered a terrible accident.
One day she was riding her bike when a car hit her in the hip and she almost lost a leg.
So she told me that she started to walk again because a physical therapist helped her with her rehab, that took almost 2 years.
I found that it was a very emotional situation and in that moment I realized that Physical Therapy was my career.

Last year I met Rodrigo Latorre, that is a physical therapist and professor of Functional Anatomy in the University of Chile.
He is very important for me because he teaches me and my classmates Manual Therapy.
This subject is very important in Physical Therapy because we have to recognize every single part of the human body like bones, muscles , etc.

I think that one of the most important things in this career is to have a good personality, like being nice, entertainig, responsible and reliable.
So I can say that I admired Rodrigo because he is very young, succesful and he is a great person, always worried about his patients and students.

I like ritmic gimnastic.

When I was younger, I went to a catholic girl's school.
One day I was doing sport with my classmates and a teacher invited me to participate in gimnastics.
I wasn't very happy because all my friends were invited to play volleyball, but finally I decided to go to gimnastic because my mom told me that it was going to be fun and that was a good oportunity to learn something new.

So, I am practicing gimnastic since then (like 12 years)
I think that this sport is perfect for me because it has all the things that I love doing, is the best combination of ballet and modern music. Also, you have to use different kind of elements like ribbon, hoop, ball and string.

I went to a lot of competitions, in which I won a lot of medals.
Also, I received a lot of prizes at school for being a constant and persevering girl, because I used to spend a lot of time practicing and in spite of that I was a really good student.
So I can say that doing sport helped me to build up my personality, I became very responsible, I learnt how to work in group and how to face the frustation of losing.

Went I started college, all my free time was dedicated to study, because I was in bachillerato, that is a very difficult career.
I was very sad and stressed because gimnasctic has always been my way of distraction and relax. So I started to play football with some friends and we created a team.

Last year I arrived to Kinesiology,I has more free time so I talked with my old gimnastic coach and she decided to train me again, because this university doesn't have ritmic gimnastic as a sport.
So now I am working in order to improve my elongation and gimnastic skills in order to represent this university in some competition any time soon, without leaving football.

A horrible 27!

It was a wonderful february friday, I was in the beach house that my parents have in Consitorial, that is a little beach near El tabo.

I was alone with my sister and in that afternoon my parents arrived from Santiago in order to spend some time with us.

My family and I loved the sea and that day when we went to the beach we found it a bit different from the other days, but we didn´t say anything about it.



At night my mother and I decided to see Ricardo Arjona because he was going to present his songs in the Viña Festival, so I decided to stay at home and I didn´t go to any party.

When Arjona´s presentation was over I realized that my mom was sleeping and I went to bed too, because i was too tired.



My dog was next to my bed and at 3 am she started to cry, so I went outside with her.

When I was coming back to my bed the floor started to move very slowly for a while, but then the movement became more agressive, it was definitely an earthquare.

I was very scared, my dad took the car, I put some thing on it like bags and food.

The funny part was that my mother was making the beds while my dad was closing the house, because she was very nervous.



We arrived to Stgo like 3 hours later and we started to call all my family to know if they where OK.

That month was terrible, the TV showed disasters everywhere and a lot of people in the south of Chile was suffering, so I went to Pichidegua, a place near Rancagua in order to help in anything that they needed.

It was a very shoking experience, but I have learn a lot of it, like how to value every simple and litlle thing of life, because every day could be the last one.

Why Do I Have this blog?

I'm a student of Kinesiologia, second year, in the University of Chile.
This year is very importante because I have been transferred from Bachillerato to Kinesiologia, that means a big step for me because it was really hard to approve all the differents subjects that bachillerato have and to stay in the university.

Now I'm trying something new in english class. Me and my classmates created a blog that connect us with our teacher and he send us different kind of activities through this blog, so I think that is a very modern and entertaining way to learn.

So welcome to my blog, I'll see you soon.