Post 8, English languaje challenges

 

The pandemic caused the English classes to be by zoom and starting next year they will be face to face but this year I finish the 4 semesters of English so I will never have the experience of attending a face to face English class.

This time I have learned a lot of English. My boyfriend speaks perfect English and he has told me that he is surprised with my progress and that I have learned much more than I knew before taking the English semesters although I still have to improve.

The teacher told me that I need to learn to pronounce in English and recommended me to practice speaking out loud so that I can listen to my pronunciation so I can realize if I am pronouncing well or badly and the other thing is to learn the verbs in English since many times I can't finish the sentences because I don't know or I don't remember which verb to use.

My favorite bands sing in English so I usually use English to sing but in private because I sing badly and my English is not perfect and that motivates me to improve in English besides the fact that it is not pleasant when movies or series don't have Spanish subtitles and I have to watch them in the original language and I don't understand anything.

English is the universal language and if you ever travel abroad you should know English because it is not the idea to go to all the tourist places and struggle trying to explain something to the locals and they don't understand what you are saying.

Post 7, Changes to my study programme

 

The University of Chile is one of the best in our country along with the Catholic University, its teaching methods help to bring out many future professionals. Aesthetics is the only thing that is not in its favor since it has not been renovated in more than 20 years its internal structure is still made of asbestos which was a construction material used in houses in the last century but it is toxic if inhaled. Fortunately there have been no incidents because it is encapsulated in the walls of the university but it is a problem that must be fixed because if the walls crumble the asbestos will come out and can endanger those who are in the place.

The university has many damages caused by the passage of time, moisture, wear of the paint, the wood on the second floor creaks when you step on it as if it were going to collapse, the electricity system needs to be redone because some lights give the impression that at any moment they will fall on us and the university does not even have medical supplies for small accidents such as cuts, scrapes, once by accident I cut my finger in class and fortunately a classmate had band-aids because when I asked in the secretary's office they had nothing.

The classrooms and workshops need new instruments and remodeling of spaces since some of the machinery is very worn out and old, which means double the work as opposed to modern machinery.

It is true that remodeling and upgrades cost a lot of money but the end result will be worth it.

Post 6, Time travel to the future

 

I have seen the movie back to the future but I would not travel to any of those times in which the plot takes place but I would like to travel to prehistory more specifically to the cretaceous period since it was in that period that the tyrannosaurus lived which is my favorite dinosaur.

Once I get there I would make sure to get there early in the morning around 10 am to take advantage of all the time I can before it gets dark because if I stay until night or I wouldn't be able to see anything even if I brought a flashlight and I don't want to imagine what would happen if I accidentally step on a sleeping dinosaur.

It is not only the danger that makes me not want to stay in the Cretaceous but also I could not live without my family I have already made my life here in this place and in this time and I want to stay here even if it changes as the years go by.

I only wish I could take a picture of a tyrannosaurus and if that is not possible I will be happy if I can at least see one since the dinosaurs we know are only representations that give an idea of what they could have looked like physically.