Transantiago

I don’t take buses usually because I drive a car, I either can say how was the system of buses before Transantiago System, because in that time my dad used to take me to the school. I use Transantiago eventualy since its implementation, but my experiencie had been awfu at the first timel! Some background I can give tell about it are that Transantiago is a public transport system born to improve the old yellow buses system in Santiago, it would be a big chance for everybody in the city for best, but despite of the great plan of the creators of this system it was a chaos. In the first day of operation only 1400 buses took to the streets, a 72% than the total of buses, the lack routes generated chaos in various parts of the capital, which continued in the days following, agglomeration, travel delays and widespread discomfort between cityzens, faillure in implementation of recovery rate system. When I was a user of this system I hated, buses was fulled I was always delayed and as secudary effect Underground became a jungle!! It was horrible! Today Transantiago is better than before there’re more routes, the system is more coordinated, there’re more buses, the frecuency is better and the system of recovery rates is working without any major problems.
Some things that I would like to change from this system is frequency of the buses It could be more regular and quality of the machines it could be better adapted for older people and handicapped people and that buses could have their own way on the streets.

Favorite music

Actually I don’t have a specific favorite kind of music, I have a very diverse taste. I like classical music, rock music, dancing music, chill out music, blues, movie soundtracks, brazilian music, etc.

In classical music one of my favorite composer is Tchaikovsky, he is perfect! In relation with that, when I was younger I studied flute at the Conservatory of Universidad de Chile, I dreamt of becoming a good musician, but I quit, because I had to study something else, a traditional career. My favorite flute player was James Galway.

Well I love dancing all night long! So I like dancing music, regeatton, for example and also I like a little bit of electronic music. I love chillout music, New Age, piano instrumental songs played by Jim Brickman or Emile Pandolfi. It’s very relaxing, makes me think and calms me down. I love movie soundtracks too, some composers that I like are most are James Horner and Ennio Morricone, their music are very dramatic. In relation to rock music, I like progressive rock as Dream Theater, sometimes they sound quite heavy, but they are great musicians anyway, they’re very talented. Other singers that I like, I can mention Norah Jones, Eva Cassidy and Sarah MacLachlan.

A country that I would like to visit

One country that I would like to visit is England, specifically the city of London, I’ve never been there I only have seen pictures of it, but I dream to visit that country. I love its history, its architecture, its monuments, the people seem to be quiet nice and the culture is interesting. If I go there I would take a lot of pictures of the greastest places there as the Big Ben, Thames River, Buckingham palace, London Bridge, Westminster Abbey, Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Street and its beautiful parks as Green Park, Victoria’s park, Saint James Park! Of course, I would like to buy souvenir for my friends and family. I’d like to travel with my family and with my boyfriend too. I’d love to eat different kind of foods, I’ve never heard about english food it’s such a mystery to me, I hope I like it.
I think I am a very open person who loves meeting new people, new cultures and doing new things. Another thing that I would really like to do is going to see the London Orchestra. I like classical music.
When I was younger I dreamt of living in London but I changed my mind maybe I'd only study there, because I think there’re good universities and it’s a good place to do a postgraduate course.

Experiences during the first term

My experience during the first term was good, I’ve learnt a lot of things and I got good marks, that made myself feel proud. I studied about specific areas of my career, for example, educational psychology, clinical psychology, organizational psychology, community psychology, forensic psychology and some other general things as english, which I improved a lot. While I had good results, however I end up the term a little bit confused about my vocation, but I’m better right now, at least I’m trying. Despite of anything I had company of my friends Carolina and Constanza, without them everything could be worst.
In my free time I did volunteer work at Teleton, my passion, actually. Working with families and handicaped children, I felt fulfilled and motivated!
I also passed good times with my boyfriend, we hung out, we went to dance and gathered with other friends, we traveled together and we did many fun things.
Some challenges I had to face was the academic load, sometimes I couldn’t do some things that I like most, because I had to study or do many works for university.
The worst thing I had to face was the death of a very dear friend one mouth ago, it was veryhard. Well another bad things were my car crashing and when I had all my documents lost (ID, drive lincence, etc).
Well, I hope I have a better term, but I am happy anyway!

My blogging experience

Honestly my blogging experience was a very interesting experience, it was a new way of learning english that I’ve never used before. It was fun and entertaining too! I honestly enjoyed it, because I could use my imagination and I could explore about topics related to my area. It also helped me to improve my english, of course, because I had to apply more vocabulary, learn new expression while I’m writing, por example. I also felt free to express my opinions about many topics and talk about my plans in the future.

I could talk and develop ideas about my career, It made me reflects on issues related. I could also talk about my favorite areas in psychology as neuropsychology, neurosciences, clinical psychology with children, and so on. We could interact with our classmates and with our teacher too, who gave us feedbacks constantly about our performances and supported us for a better learning, resolving doubts and helping us every time we need.

The main advantages are: this method of learning uses technology as a new way of teaching and learning, actually it helps us to improve our english very much, it’s a interactive, fun, dynamic and innovative method, it motivated me to participate in english class and kept me attentive about the topics we have to write about each week. Some of disvantages are, it takes too much time, sometimes we are very tired this moment of the day and it’s hard to think creatively hahaha (just kidding) well, another disvantage is, we have to be connected always even when you lose a class, because it’s continuously evaluated, sometimes the topics are not so diverse and it gets boring sometimes. But despite of every distavantages I evaluate the blogging experience positively, I liked it and I suggest this method has to keep being applied.

Education kills creativity!

This video is about a conference made by Kim Robinson who sets up the importance of creativity and how tradition education undermines it. He shows his interesting about education and how this topic is one of those that goes deep with people like religion, money and things like those.

He emphasizes children capacity of innovation and how many children have tremendous talents. He talks about the importance of creativity saying that it has to be taken in the same status as education. Another thing that he says is children are not afraid of being wrong, which doesn’t mean creativity is the same as being wrong, he means, if you don’t take the change you may never come up with nothing original, that’s why we should be prepared to be wrong. The thing is, children start losing this capacity when they grow up because education system sees the mistake like the worst thing you can make.

He talks about the hierarchy of subjects at schools which is the same all over the world, mathematic and languages, then humanities and the bottom are the arts and within the arts there’s a hierarchy too, normally music and art are given high status than drama and dance. But then he wonders, why dance is less teached than mathematics? The body has to be considered as the head is considered in education.

In this regard, public education seems to be focused on producing "university professors" who are disembodied and who live in their heads. This is because public education responds to the needs of industrialism. He says that we need to rethink our concept of intelligence, because this is diverse, dynamic, and distinct.

Finally he says he believes that our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology where we can reconstitute the conception of the richness of the human capacity and rethink the principles which the education of our children are based on, and above all thing we should take as a responsibility making children develop their precious gift of imagination.

Clinical Psychology

Well, I like all subjects of my career, it’s hard to choose one of them, but I can say that my favourite one is Clinical Psychology and is teached by a group of teachers who are experts on this area, they are psychologists and psiquiatrists. This discipline is responsible for doing research about all the factors, assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, rehabilitation and prevention concerning mental health, but not restricted to mental disorders, but all conditions that may cause discomfort and suffering on a person. I like it because that’s what I want to do in the future. This subject shows as how important is to know about how to work in a clinic and how to deal with patients. We’ve learnt about function of the clinical psychologist, legal and ethic aspects, psychology in the ambit of heath and educational institutions, preventive and therapeutic interventions and so on. Personally, I’m keen on children psychology and I’ve been able to learn more about it. I love it!!