Final Post:

I´ve enjoyed this English class, especially all the blog and posting thing, it ended up to be pretty fun writing about all the different topics and reading everybody’s posts. I think it turned out great the system of having something specific to write about, I mean, to write on certain topics like movies, or ecology, because those are things sometimes we don´t think every day and when you write something down you realize better, it´s kind of taking conscious more clearly of your thoughts. And it´s also really interesting to read how different people can think on some issues, like the job thing, or movies, and almost everything, and how you end up like unavoidable making a profile of each person just by reading their opinions and thoughts on such different subjects.

I think what I have to improve with my english is mostly the things you get just by practicing, by talking on regular bases, that helps you get the fluency and the vocabulary. It´s like the hearing thing, you can´t really study how to be able to understand people talking in english just by hearing, that´s something you get just living for a while in an english speaking country.., you get the “ear” to understand everything without much concentration needed..(I mean understand people like .., I don´t know, from the south of USA.., that have a weird accent..)

I don´t use my english much outside this class.., even though, my brother has being traveling to USA a lot this year so I ask him to bring me books in english. I like a lot reading, and reading in english makes it even more fun and challenging, right now I’m reading a book called “Balzac and the little seamstress”, a book I already read on Spanish and really liked.

Future job………:

Ok, here we go again with a question I have no answer for…

I have no idea what job I would like to have, actually i´m much more clear on what job I wouldn´t want to have… I have not taken any major neither

Well, assuming studying law means a job related to that.., I just know that I wouldn´t want to work on a private study, or be a notary,  both jobs I´m related to because of my dad

I like nothing too practical, i´m much more interested on theory, so , I would consider that; I would like to work on something more related to that.., like .. making studies, investigations or whatever..

It might be weird specially because of how “painfully” practical the career gets while passing the semesters.., but I didn´t get on it because I wanted to be a lawyer, i did it because they are a lot of lawyers in my family and well.., they just convinced me law study helps you think the world in a certain and very useful way, and from that you can end up doing a lot of things in a lot of different areas, so that would be the job I like…, pretty undetermined right now

Even though, if I end up working on something related  specifically with laws, I would like to work on criminal law, or public law at least (don´t know the specific area of it..)

On a job interview, I would say my strength is my weakness at the same time, i´m passionate on what I like…, but have no problem with not doing my best on what I don´t..

Hard question because i don´t really have an answer for it
I´m only in the second year of the career, so there is a long way to go..
The thing is..,  studying law makes it pretty hard to make big changes or have big goals out of what all the college responsibility means
Since we are all law students, we know how "time demanding" this turned out to be, so it´s quite hard to make plans or projects that need time too..
Because of that, unless i decide to make a total change (like dropping out college or something..) i try not to think too far away on time, right now my main goal is to be able to keep on the road with the studies but still make it possible not to totally abandon all the other things i like doing.., i mean like "everyday homework"
So my goal and where i see myself in two years is all about that.., pretty simple.., just keeping studying and doing what i like in everyday terms, like reading books just for pleasure (which is quite difficult because we have so much to read for classes that it´s almost like the brain gets exhausted of reading), listening to music, hang out with my school friends, etc.., just simple things i love and sometimes i forget to do
Anyways.., if talking "big" goals.., i have two.., one is learn  to play the guitar,  the second one is writing a book, that´s the most ambitious one probably, but i hope i´ll get to make it...

Post 7 

Ecology sure is an issue nowadays, and I think the best place to search about it is the web…

I do recycle at home, we separate the plastic bottles, the milk cartons, and the wine bottles and once a month go to the municipality "green points" to leave it all

I also have a composter where every vegetable waste goes to, and worms on a box. Once the material inside the composter is quite decomposed, i put it in the worms box, the worms eat that compost and make something called "humus" , a fertilizer.

I live one block away from a subway station, so actually i don´t usually have the need of using the car, eventhough, i don´t really like the subway, so i actually use the bike as my main transportation, i come to classes on it and almost everywhere.

Now that i write about it, i realize i might be like an "unconscious ecologist", i´m not really into "eco activism", i´m not in any eco-organization neither... i think i just do it like a normal and an everyday thing and also because i just have fun doing it. Besides, i have no idea how my carbon footprint is, so i have never thought about how to reduce it….

I think in Santiago we need more initiatives from the authorities on the issue, like the bikeways, in the last few years a few have been built, but some are not really well designed and there´s not good connection between them.

On the other side, we need more information, because there are some good initiatives that people don´t know about, and we Chileans are kind of lazy to get informed by ourselves…

*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLNiNC3EM8o
If you have time to, i totally recommend you to watch this speech  , the uruguayan president at "Rio + 20", he talks about everything, economic system, ecology..., and.., just life, and it´s interesting and "moving" how, i think, he mostly tries to talk to the normal people, not just governments,  to make us understand ecology, economic system, etc etc it´s not only about the big companies...it also depends on us, on our everyday decisions

News from the guardian

I chose a news about the human traffic in the UK.
According to it, the traffic of persons into the UK has rised in the last few years. They are 300 children being traded a year in the UK.

Criminal and organized gangs from China, Vietnam, Nigeria, Slovakia and Romania make human trade and use their victims for sex, labour and domestic slavery, but they also force children to get into crime and even street begging. And, as in a science fiction book, the UK has recently had its first organ harvesting cases, with one case with a victim whose kidneys were planned to be sold by his captors...

The interesting thing is that the UK government has started an entire plan to avoid an solve this huge problem. For example, they have been educating the airlines workers and border staff to be able to identify those that can be victims of trafficking.
But even more important is that the government is working with those countries governments too to solve the problem right in its source by changing their laws 
On the other side, there's also an organized system to help victims and support them through the justice process.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/oct/18/human-trafficking-uk-rising

Favourite movie

My favourite movie is an argentinian one, "El secreto de sus ojos", "the secret in their eyes", the name in english..
It was released in 2009, and i simply love it. For me it has it all, it´s a suspense but at the same time romantic and even politic story. The movie developes everything around a crime: a full in love man who loses his wife, and about the lawyer getting involved so deeply that his own life turned out to be absolutely changed and influenced by that homicide.
It also has great music and a bunch of the best argentinian actors, starting with Ricardo Darin, who has an extraordinary taste to pick his movies (i truly recommend watching "9 reinas" and "un cuento chino", they are great too) and Soledad Villamil, but also amazing performances for the secondary characters, like Guillermo Francella. He is mostly known in his country for being a great tv humorist, but in this movie his performance is absolutely incredible, it's like you forget it's Francella acting there because the character he plays is totally different from what you could' ve seeen from him before.
Well i think i also like it so much because i was living in Buenos Aires by the time it was on the cinemas, and i have great memories just walking to the cinema with friends, and the walk back, talking about how great the movie was.
The movie won the Oscar award for best foreign language film that year, so, even though in the last few years sometimes Oscars are not a great measure of how good a movie is, this time i totally agree..

Great holidays memory

I've had many great holidays in many different places with friends and family, but if i had to say wich one is very meaningful i would say the scout camp on summer 2005...
We went to Mincha, a very little town in the north, i think in the 4th region, i wouldn't even know how to get there now..., we got there in a bus and we left in a bus, and usually we didn´t pay much attention on the road...
It was so hot, and so dry.., and we didn´t make the camp right beside the town, so we had to walk like 3 kms every two or three days to buy food, and get drinkable water. We stayed there for about 15 days, just doing games, making some fun activities, singing, talking, or just hanging around..
We were so tired and starving! at the final days we just wanted to eat proper food, and something sweet (chocolate!, cookies!.. what ever...we even ended up eating the chocolate powder for the milk with our hands like if we had never tried something so good)

In scout we were organized in small groups of around ten girls, with whom you share a tent, cook, and all that kind of stuff, eventhough all the activities were with all the other girls. Around 40 or 45 girls camping in the middle of, almost, nothing..

It sounds awfull, i know..
but it was the best, and is so meaningful to me because it wasn´t about an incredible place, it wasn´t about doing crazy and amazing things.., it was just about beeing young girls, with nothing to worry about but that moment. And at the same time, we knew we were getting older, we knew there weren´t going to be many more camps like that one, or the many ones we had before that one, me and my friends there we were already 15 years old, and for the next long summer camp we would be 16...and the thing is, when you grow up you end up losing the naive and childish you , whatever you like it or not

Well, that´s all.. As it´s obviuos, i just to be scout, i spent almost every single saturday afternoon in a park just "beeing a scout", i'm not anymore, but, eventhough many people find it silly, they don´t know anything about it, for me it was such a great an amazing experience i will always remember, and that's why that holiday was so important, because it resumed it all.., basically, now i remember it as an extract  of everything that was important at that moment.., like a time machine that gets me to what beeing a young girl or a "teenager" was