English Language Challenges

Hi everyone!

Almost it’s the end of the semester and I think this year passed very fast. Well, this is my last post, number ten. So, today, I'm going to talk about my English Courses and the use of blogs. In my opinion, the English courses has been very necessary for me and for any professional, because English language is important nowadays, because in most cases or in all cases, the important papers, publications, books for my career and for any career are in English; so it's necessary to learn this language for professional life. Besides, it’s one of my challenges to learn very well English. So, I liked this subject at University and from my point of view is a great initiative.

The use of blogs in this course is very important, because with their use I learned to express my opinion in English; also I learned grammar and how writing in English, this is a point very important, because when I have to write a paper, I'll have to write the document in Spanish and English too, so it's very necessary learn to write in English and the blogs are a way to learn to write in this language. 

The aspects of my English that I need to be improved are: a little of grammar, the order when I’m writing, listening and my confidence to speak in English then, my plan for improved this things is reading books and documents in English, seeing movies and series without subtitles in English.

In these days, I using English almost all days for translate songs and for read papers that professors give me.

Best wishes!

Year 2014!

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Today, I'm going to talk about year 2014. Well, this year has been good and bad; also I’m so impress, because time passes so fast. So, this year has been good, because the first semester I passed all my subjects, my cousins and my uncles arrived from Venezuela, my uncle cut my hair and I’m so happy for that. Besides, in this year I knew different places of Chile, because I went to Frutillar (practice) and Tongoy in the summer and in the winter I went to “Cerro el Roble” and “Jardín Botánico de Viña del Mar”; also I’m an assistant of a subject about botany and taxonomy of plants and I went to concert of Demi Lovato with my sister.

This year has been bad, because has been a year since my cousin death and I miss him so much and I still don’t accept the notice about his death. Besides, in this semester I got a very bad mark in an exam and I’m so sad for that.

In this year I’ve achieved many things: I achieved be an assistant of a subject and I achieved work in a lab; also in this year I achieved go to the psychologist, because I needed it for personal motives. On the other hand, the last part of this year I hope achieve some of my goals, I would like to learn more about identification of woods, botany, lichens and moss, because this topics are very interesting for me and I hope to work in the future about that.

Bye c:

Facebook

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Today, I'm going to talk about Facebook. Since 6 years ago I have a Facebook’s account, because all my “friends” had an account on Facebook and  I bored so much, because I didn’t know to use it, but one day my uncle shows me a game called “Pet society” and I liked so much. Actually, I use it to “talk” with my friends and my family and it’s useful to organize different things, like work of University; also I use this virtual platform to obtain information about interesting topics, like mushroom, plants, Bryophyte, animals, different activities for save the world (Greenpeace activities) and obtain information about my favorite TV series, singers, actors and actress. So, I like Facebook, because it’s funny and I can share with other people the things that I like. Besides, I like it, because I can find members of my family, lost members and I can find to my childhood friends. On the other hand, Facebook has negative aspects and positive aspects. The negative aspects are: reduce the direct communication between people; also, some people use Facebook to hack account and they write bad things on your account. Furthermore, also some people use Facebook to trick people and commit crimes. By contrast, the positive aspects is that Facebook can reduce the distances with our friends and familiars, for example I have a friend in Mexico and I have familiars in Venezuela and thank to Facebook I can establish a long distance conversation with them.  

Bye c: 

Think green!

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Today, I'm going to talk about environment. Nowadays, many people don’t understand that the earth need us, it means, the earth need our attention. I think that this happen, because many people don't want to learn how to take care of environment; also it’s not easy to recycle in some countries, for example, in Chile don’t exist a place to recycle batteries or computer pieces. In my opinion that is horrible, because if you want recycle this things, you don’t how to do it. Besides, in general, people learn about environmentally friendly practices at school only, but many people forget it and it doesn’t practice it. In my case, I’m not recycling, because to my family really don’t care do it. So, it’s hard for me recycle in my house. So, for help to environment and reduce my carbon footprint, I use my legs, I try use less paper, I’m trying do a vegetable patch and I supported to Greenpeace, collecting signatures for saves to polar bears, because I want to help and change this world; also other way for change or help a little this world, I would like to be vegetarian, because I want to finish with animal maltreatment. Besides, I would like to recycle. On the other hand, I think that Santiago is a little missing regarding this issue, because many people really don’t care for nothing how to take care of environment and this is unfortunate.

Bye c:

GMOs

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Today, I'm going to talk about GMOs (Genetic Modified Organisms). Well, I have to confess that I don't know anything about GMOs, but I searched information about that. GMO is an organism, such as, a plant, a mushroom or bacteria and an animal. This organism have had specific changes introduced into their DNA using the methods of genetic engineering to produce proteins of industrial interest or to improve some characteristics of organism, like resistance to plagues, nutrition quality, tolerance to frost and others characteristics.

GMOs are used, in agriculture to produce plants or animals that contain special characteristics, like fruit production, wood quality, resistance to plagues, milk and meat production, delay in maturation of food, for example tomatoes, this modification allow it have a better flavor. Besides, GMOs are used in Forestry, principally, in plantations, for example the genetic modification of forest trees allow a better growth, resistance to plagues and frost and a change in the contain of lignin, this point is useful to pulp and paper industry. By contrast, the modification of forest trees can be harmful, because these changes into their DNA can cause damages in the endemic fauna and flora of a place.

In my point of view GMOs can be useful to improve different kind of plants, but it must be used with caution. However, I reject the idea about used animals like GMOs.

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My Future Job

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Today, I'm going to talk about my future job. Well, in this moment I’m studying Forestry at University of Chile and in the future I would like work in identification of wood and plants, because I like wood and its structure and composition and I like plants, because plants are interesting and amazing, regarding its forms, structures, compositions, heights. So, in the future I would like to work outdoors (forests), because I don’t like offices; also my career is about nature and environment. So, in my future job I imagine in a forest, identifying species of plants and save the environment, besides I would like to travel around the world and I would like to know different landscape of the world and I would like to identify species of plants; however, I would like to know all woods of the world and its structure; besides one of my dreams is known to Hyperion (Sequoia sempervirens), tallest tree in the world, because it’s my favorite tree and I love it. This tree is located in the Redwood National Park, California, United Stated and someday, I hope work in that park. Furthermore, the major that I thinking of taking is wood identification and paleobotany, because I like fossils very much; also with the paleobotany, you can change the taxonomy of some plants and discover new plants and this is amazing for me.

Bye c:

Animals

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Today, I'm going to talk about animals. Well, my favorite animals are: Sloth, because is an animal very beautiful and adorable and it has a happy face, Eagle, because I think that eagle’s hunting skills is amazing, Elephant, because is a huge animal and crocodile, because is very similar to Dinosaurs and I love Dinosaurs. So, my dream was know dinosaurs, above everything to T-Rex, but unfortunately, they are extinct.

In my life I had 3 pets; the first one I had a dog, the second one I had a hamster, called Stuart, but I didn’t this name and it died, because Stuart was too old :c and the third one I had a guinea pig, called Milka, but it died and now I have a guinea pig again, its name is Mostaza and its favorite food is lettuce, Mostaza is fat and lazy, but my dream pet is a Bobtail, because is a dog very hairy and I love it.

Lastly, I’m going to talk about avoid abandoned dogs. Well, I think that is horrible abandoned dogs, because they suffer when you abandoned without mercy, this topic is a problem, because dogs can turn in a plague.

Bye c: