Hobbies

Hello everyone, the topic of this task is: Hobbies, things that you like to do, that you really enjoy to do. For me it isn`t a very easy topic to talk about, because thinking about the things that I like to do, I don`t do it all the time. For example I really enjoy going to the cinema, but the last time that I saw a movie at the cinema was I dont know 4 months ago?
So thinking and thinking I`ve decided that my hobby is watching movies, not only at the cinema however at home on a dvd or on cable.
This hobby doesn`t cost a lot of money, because you can watch it on tv, or download a movie from the internet, and if you agree with the idea you can buy a “pirated movie” on dvd on the street. And if you are really an addict of watching movies it can take a lot of time, because a movie ussually lasts an hour and half so if you watch two movies in a row you will be in front of the tv about three hours.
I enjoy this particular hobby because watching movies I can connect with the feelings of the characters, also you learn a lot in a movies about the time period, and you can laugh a lot if you watch a comedy.
I usually watch movies alone, when I go to bed I turn on the tv and look for an interesting movie, but when I go to the cinema I go with others, like my sister or my boyfriend.
I`ve been doing this hobby all my life I think, I changed the cartoons for movies.
Well, talking about hobbies, I would like to do a new hobby and that is play tennis, I know that tennis is a sport, but if you practise for fun I think that it can be a hobby too.

TRANSANTIAGO >> BEFORE AND AFTER

Hello, today I`m going to talk about a really interesting topic for all the people that live in Chile, specifically in Santiago: Transantiago.

Transantiago is the new transport system of Santiago, Chile. Well, it is not so new, it started in 2007 I think, and its implementation caused a lot of problems for the people that use this way of transport every day to go to there work, schools, or universities.

After all the troubles that the implementation of this new transport system causes, I think that Transantiago is better than the old system for many reasons. First, thinking about the Transantiago drivers (called “Transantiago-operators”), this new system is so much safer than the other, because the operators only have to drive. But in the old system the driver was a driver and a cashier too, which was very dangerous for the driver who has to do both things at the same time. In addition to of the elimination of the double responsability of the driver (as a driver and a cashier) in the pre-Transantiago system,it is very important to mention the fact that the drivers don`t handle money any more, which means that it reduces the possibilities of being assaulted, something very common in the old system. Another benefit for the Transantiago drivers is the fact that now they have a constant salary, wich one doesn`t depend on the sale of tickets anymore.

Thinking about the passengers, I think that the Transantiago system is better than the other system too. Because now you know where is the bus stop for sure, the bus doesn`t stop in every corner anymore, or in the middle of the street.

My experience with this new system has been good. When the system started it was a little bit caotic, because the number of buses that I usually could use from my house reduce to half. But now I don`t have very big problems, only the low frequency of buses in the morning, at 7 am.

I think that the most important change in order to make the Transantiago more effective is to regulate the frequency of the buses, and it is something that needs to be regulated. It iIs not possible that people have to wait hours in the bus stop because the bus doesn`t pass, or it just doesn´t stop because it is full.

First task of psych4 group5

During the first semester of 2009, I think that I learned a lot about my career: psychology, and that`s because last semester was the first one dedicated entirely to psychology. The courses that I had were: Clinical Psychology, Communitary Psychology, Occupational Psychology, Legal Psychology, Educational Psychology. All these courses were introductory courses to the field of work that psychology has. My favourite course was Clinical Psychology, specifically because in that course I learnead about the Humanistic Psychology and I get really interested in how consider and treat the human being. Doing the required work of that course, reading and looking for information I learned and studied relevant things, like how to treat at the human being as a unit, no treat only the mind, but with mind and body.

One of the challenges that I had to face was the subject of Occupational Psychology, it was so boring that I didn`t go to all the clases, besides the class was on Monday`s at eigth thirty o`clock, so early! I really didn`t found anything relevant in this subject.

When I wasn´t studying or reading for the University, I spend my free time with my family, boyfriend and friends. When the schedule of every member of my family was the same we had lunch together, and the lunch it was so long that sometimes we didn´t get up of the table until the dinner. With my friends I went to some parties. I spend the most part of my free time with my boyfriend we watched movies, or just went out for a walk.

See you!!!

My blogging experience

Well, this one is going to be my last task of the blog, since the course of English level three has come to his end, at least for this semester. So I`m going to write about how has been my blogging experience along the course.

I must say that I enjoyed doing my blog, because it was a useful way of practising constant, once a week at least. In addition the tasks topics were related to our career, and you had the opportunity to look at the blogs of other classmates and leave a commentary in their blog.

I think that this “blogging experience” helped me to improve my English, because the practice that it needs to learn a foreign language implies to practise the writing, and I believe that exactly it is what is done when you have a blog.

In my opinion, blogging in the English class had advantages and disadvantages.

The advantages of blogging in the English class, they were:

My Ideal Job

I would like to work in the Humanistic area of the Psychology, specifically my ideal job would be a Gestaltic Therapist. I`m really interested in the Gestalt, because the way that this psychotheraphy understands and treats the human being as a totality, it made me so much sense.
To do this job you need to have some qualities, and to develope some very usefulls skills. I can mention empathy, patience, be known deeply to be able to differentiate our own aspects from those of the patient, really like to work with people, to work with groups, to be ready to experiment the here and now and work from there.
I would be good at this job because I`m very interested on it, I`m really interested to develop all the skills that this job requieres and because I think that I have the most important quality to be good in this job: I`m motivated.
Now, I don`t really know how difficult it would be to find a Gestaltic Therapist job, because I don`t know any, but I know that there are some Institutes where you can do posgrades studies, and I think that once studying there the possibility to konw somebody that can to advise you or to contact you with someone who is interested in contracting a gestaltic therapist they grows enormously, I hope!

Do Schools Kill Creativity

I watched the Sir Ken Robinson's talk titled: "Do Schools Kill Creativity", and I found it very interesting. Sir Robinson`s manages to create a very special atmosphere mixing intelligents arguments that show us how we privilege certain areas of knowledge over others, and at the same time, how when we do that, we help to kill the creativity that we all have.

I`m really agree with with what he says, I believe that we all have toughts at some time of how our life would be like if we followed another way, a way that fomented the creativity, and if nowadays we were real artists, like a famous painter, or a singer, or a sculptor, or any other profession that is not the regular one...How would be our life?

Another important question that Sir Robinson`s raises in his conversation, is that if we want that this situation continues of the same way. Well, I don`t.

My Favourite Subject

My favourite subject at this term is Community Psychology, in this subject I have three teachers: Germán Rozas, Rodolfo Sapiains and Rodrigo Quiroz. I like Comunitary Psychology because it makes you think how the human being is related with the enviroment, and how they need each other to live. It gives a network view of the human relations. I have learnt this semester about the work in area that a community psychologist can realize, like work in a NGO (not governmental organization), or in a system of helth like COSAM (Community Center of Mental Helth), etc. I think that the most imortant thing in this area is his network view, because it`s not enough to help people to solve his problems in one minute, when there are material issues that are preventing this process of improvement. And if you as a psychologist can`t see this, or can you but don´t do anything about it, I really doubt that you can do a work that costs a sorrow.