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