Painful but entertaining experience

Uuuufff... How was my blogging experience? It was an exhausting experience, but I could enjoy it.
To do the blog sessions was exhausting because I needed much time to put in order my ideas and to can write this in a foreign language. It wasn’t habitual for me. My level of English first only allowed me to read and to understand English texts, but I couldn’t write in English quickly. Before, I needed to think the phrases in Spanish and then I could translate them. Now, I can do faster than before, but not at the speed that I would like. Still I sometimes need to do the exercise of think and then translate the phrases.
I could enjoy it because I like to search music, pictures, and videos, and then to edit my posts adding something of compiled audiovisual material. I used much of the session time editing the contents of my blog in laboratory or in my house. I enjoy it, but it exhausts me too. Sometimes I had neck ache or other kinds of muscular ache, product of keep in uncomfortable body position.
Now I think my blogging experience helped me to increase some skills related with reading and writing in English. But continue my difficulties to talk in English. My biggest problem with this foreign language is can’t to keep a fluid conversation, and blog activities haven’t could help me in this way.
But its advantage is helping us to practice and remember our writing skills. Still, the time that we used posting in blog is too much, and we would use it better in class, trying to talk in English and learn more grammatical knowledge of this language.
I hope you will consider this opinion, and the charge persons reduce the time and number of blog sessions.

That’s all folks!
See you in the future!




BONUS TRACK
In the last post I add two videos of famous guitarists, but they are men.
The next video is a song of Kaki King, an american guitarist. She plays the guitar in beautiful and amazing way.

I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day ♪ !

My ideal job, in this moment, could be an idle person. Yes, would be ideal to rest a lot of time of the day and to win money doing nothing, or could do anything that I like to do, could be happy with the important persons in my life, with my friends and family. To enjoy each moments, each seconds of my life, and making them happy.
But the reality is different.

Everyday we are exposed to different events that can change our life in many ways. Things can happen although we don’t want it. In this aspect, we can make decisions and choose between different options. We can do something that we would do to be happy.
Really, my ideal job isn’t to do absolute nothing. My ideal job is to do something that I like to do: I would be a musician. I would like to be a component of a little band, but a little band that could to reach many people with its music. I would like to play the guitar, and to play amazing riffs and guitar solos. But before, I need to increase my creativity and to learn special techniques used on the guitar, because this activity needs speed and precision of hands movements, as the sweep pecking that basically it’s a technique that "economize" the pick movements, making a few moves to make many notes quickly.
I think I would be good in this job because I can do some techniques as palm mute, legato, slide, hammer-ons and pull-offs, tapping, natural and artificial harmonics, among others. Other quality that I would need is patience, because in a band can always be differences of opinion.
The difficulty to be a guitarist would be the lack of resources and time, and the difficulty to find a good manager and a label to record the disks. Also, is very hard be recognized in the current market: full of different artists, bands, and styles.
Still, it’s something that I would do in parallel to my life of psychologist.




Two of many guitar styles:
Neo-classical (mixing classical compositions and rock)


Instrumental Rock (incorporating jazz, fusion, new age, and country and western music into his recordings)


Take care and I hope you are what you want to be =)

Review of "Schools kill creativity"

“We have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we're educating our children.” If we start to think how the educational system around the world is configured, we would never ask ourselves why are math and language more important in every curriculum or the world. We are so used to think that these subject are mor eimportant that we even desestimate others things such as art and music. We even discourage kids, and not only kids, we make adults feel as if they were not smart enough to be as successful, and make people think that if they are better at art they are never going to succed in life, what at the time tends to obligate people to study something thats useful for production and the capitalist way of life in which we are now living in.
That´s one of the biggest problems in current societies, education was formed during industrialism. So now, as a consequence, the world needs people to work in the different levels that capitalism needs. We are taking creativity out of kids just for our functional needs, we are forming adults for production. Let´s value art and music as a form of intelligence. Academic achivment it´s not only being good at math. Let´s forget about that sort of achivment imposed by work needs. Let´s value differents ways of creating things, let´s value creativity itself.

I vote for Community Psychology!

My favorite subject is Community Psychology, one of the five introductory subjects of this semester. The proffesors who teaches this subject are Rodolfo Sapiains, Germán Rozas and Rodrigo Quiroz.

I like this subject because this stream of thought and work shows a clear political commitment in favor of the oppressed and the respect for the fundamental human rights. This discipline promotes the community development and the empowerment of social actors, so they can build their own reality. Additionally, Community Psychology was born on the quest for more humanitary solutions to issues of health, and for it, this discipline feeds on the knowledge from anthropology, sociology, psychology, psychiatry and other areas.
This semester I have learned to know the nuances of community work, its limitations, and possibilities for action, and also I had the opportunity to visit a community center called Centro Remolinos. This center works with childrens, victims of commercial sexual exploitation, resignified traumas and abuses suffered by them.

The next semester I hope to take subjects related with the community area.

♪ Our future life will be glorious, come with me.. FUTURE WORLD!! ♪ ♪ !

In the next 5 years, I’m going to finish my university studies of Psychology. Then, I’ll hope to work in a school as a educational psychologist, or in an nongovernment organization (NGO) as a community psychologist.

And in 5 years from now, I would like to do a master in psychology. Now I don’t have decided what kind of paradigm will guide my job, but I know that will not be the psychoanalysis. Maybe, I’ll work as Clinical Psychology, but I don’t like to classify people as healthy or ill as if I use labels. I prefer help in other way.

Personally, I’ll hope to live in a quiet place, and I would like to travel to Europe or Polynesian Islands. Maybe, I’ll live with a girl that I can love in the future. But we will not have any children until we will be older than 28 years old. I’ll hope to have a healthy life again.

I would like that the things could be better than now, in many ways. Now I’m working for it, I’m living in the best possible way; I’m studying a lot, and I’m taking care me the best that I can.

Now, I leave you with one of the better and famous songs of Helloween. This song have a special message.

I'm studying psychology because.... chan ♪ !

Hi, Today I'm talking about why I'm studying Psychology.

When I was 16, I had not decided what I would like to be after the secundary. I had two options on my mind: to be an army officer or to be a psychologist.
My father and my brother are army soldiers, and I thought that it could like to me. My father always said: "Jorge, only you must to decide. You can do anything you want, but you have only one chance".
I did the army service when I was in 3rd grade, some saturdays of the year. But I didn't like this. I wasn't good to follow the orders of my superiors in mechanic way. For this, I deleted this option of my mind. Still, I did a good job, and now I'm a reservist sergeant.
I decided to study psychology because I like to think and to analize the human behavior and feelings. I have always dedicated much time to do this, and I needed to put in order my ideas and to summarise them. The best way was to study psychology in one of the best chilean universities.

A psychologist can contribute to society in many ways, not only in the health area: working in schools and improving the educational system, doing school programs to enable children to attain maximum achievement and adjustment; helping in the selection, placement, and promotion of the personnel in differents organizations, recommending changes to increase efficiency and decrease accident rate; investigating social behavior and colaborating to the empowerment of communities and people. In the university we can develop differents habilities and we can learn to use many tools that we could to need in the future.

Personally, I prefeer the Social Psychology, also called Community Psichology, and the Educational Psychology, because I would like to work with several people at once.
In the future, I will need to be very empathic, observer, innovator and to have much tolerance for frustration, also I will need to manage knowledge in application of many psychological tests and knowledge in the relationship and educational areas.

I hope to do my best job, and you also do your best job in your favorite area.

Take care!

I love them

Hi. The last week I didn't go to the english class, because I didn't feel very well. Now I feel better, and I can upload one of my photograph collection. First, I have to say that I don't have my laptop because I send it to the technical service, and I can't access to search my files.

I rescued this photograph of my Facebook Profile. In it you can see a girl and a baby. The girl is Sonia, an anthropology student who was my girlfriend. The baby is my nephew, Álvaro Maximiliano. I took this photograph in August 31 of the last year, the day after his first birthday.

I like this picture because here appears two persons that I love so much. I know them since one and one-half year aproximately, and in this little time they have become very important to me =)

And that's all folks friends!
Take care and I hope that you will like the photograph.


Bye Bye!