Work and fields

Well, to star I really need to say that this is a very hard topic to talk about, I mean, for many of us. Trying to imagine our future is not easy, specially when you study social sciences, But, well, here is my try.

As a future psychologist, I would like to job in communitarian area. That’s means that I would like to work with a specific community and territory, in a specific space and time. My truly dream when I wonder about my working future is to work in a place or space that can mix the best of communitarian psychology, education, sports and healthy lifestyle. So, I dream about a kind of sport club that is looking for a psychologist to develop an impact social project, either with children, teenagers or adults.

Other area that I like is juridical or legal psychology. At the present time I’m not very sure in what specific area of this field, but I believe that this is a very critical and important job.

If this is ask a lot, or if I don’t have that luck, I don’t close the door to the clinical or educational area. I think I can deal with the job at school while I’m enjoying sharing time with the children, but also this work can be very difficult due to critical problems of each child or school.

Talking about studies, I would like to do a major, but, because I don’t decide my field yet, this topic also can wait a little bit more. I think that in the next semesters I can have a better idea of both topics, but, meanwhile, I maintain my first idea of working in a sports club.

Instagram

My favorite social media is instagram. In the early 2010’s, Facebook was a great platform, but over the time it was widely overtaken by instagram. This new social media has a several new useful and very entertaining applications, allowing you to share a lot of content instantly. Now you know why Insta-gram name comes from.

However, this intact action all the time makes me sick. In fact, I used to check my instagram account every time I could in the day, either for seeing and sending memes, to see some news or simply to avoid boring or “die” moments in the day. Because of that, I decided to uninstall the social networks on my phone. I was tired of being full connected all the time, I was really needing a rest.

So, I start with facebook some months ago and now I don’t have instagram on my phone either. Despite that, I don’t close my accounts, because i really doesn’t pretend to do that, I can still have fun entering to my account one day, when I have time and I’m relaxed, but, for now, I prefer to concentrate on the important things of life, like sharing with my friends, family and spent my time studying or doing exercise and sports.

Ska-P concert

My favorite concert was the Ska-P concert. It was at Movistar Arena, in Santiago, Chile. Ska-P is an Ska-Punk band established in Vallecas, Madrid in the 90's. They have powerful lyrics about the freedom and social troubles of the working class and the third world, all of it mixed with stunning trumpets, basses and other nice sounds and instruments that i like much.



In the event, i was so excited because it was the first ever concert in which i attend without my parents or family. I had Twelve years and i went with some school friends that like the band too. Because of that, i was very attentive to the atmosphere, and i see a lot of people, more of them adult people replenishing the Arena.

When the concert start i felt so excited because it was a very favourite group of mine since i was very young and i know all the songs, so i sang and danced all of them.

In summary, it was a wonderful experience, so much for being one of my first independent experiences as a child as for having seen one of my favorite bands.

United Kingdom

I would like to visit U.K., I don't love this entire country or culture, but i'm a British Football enthusiastic. British invented football around 200 years ago, so, in my opinion, they have the best leagues in the world.

So, obviously, the activities that I would like to do in this country is attend to the stadiums to watch football. There are several cities with a lot of footbal history, Like Liverpool, Manchester, London, and others. Manchester has a stadium called Old Trafford, better known as "Theatre of dreams". London have 4 bigs profesional stadiums in which the top tier teams usually play. They are Emirates Stadium, White Hart Lane, Stamford Brigde and the legendary Wembley Stadium, in where Marcelo Salas scored a historic goal for our natinoal team.

Wembley Stadium, London.

So there is some basic information about the parts of United Kingdom that i would like to visit inmediatly if i could go. I think that United Kingdom is a very well conected country, with big and fast underground lines. Some stadiums have their own underground station. For example, Emirates Stadium has the Arsenal Station.

Is important to see the way that football, and particulary english football, is conected with social troubles. in the next photo we can see how the English Football Association started a campaign against homophobia and for the respect of erveyone. The hashtag for this day was "Make sport everyone's game".

Arsenal Underground Station. The Rainbow is part of a campaign against homophobia.

Altough i like football the most, there are more interesting activities to do in United Kingdom, like visit museums, library, squares and, why not, pubs and bars. Is in this way that i imagine United Kingdom.

Jordan Herdenson, Liverpool's Captain, wearing the captain band with the respect message.

WEB QUEST 2

Part 1-  What’s the average carbon footprint of a person?

• The average footprint for people in Chile is 3.87 metric tons
• The average worldwide carbon footprint is about 4 metric tons

 

Part 2 - Take these Recycling Quizzes

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/quiz-going-green/

http://www.quizmoz.com/quizzes/Science-Quizzes/r/Recycling-Quiz.asp

Questions:

Ø Hand washing dishes can use up to 50 % more of water than using an efficient dishwasher.

Ø Only about 8 % of global energy comes from renewables.

Ø True or false? Appliances that are turned off don’t use any electricity. 

-false

Ø Can you make paper out of hemp? 

-yes. In fact, is the better material mentioned in the quiz.

 

Part 3- Video >> Top ten tips for recycling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjbSEIOUp4w

Watch the video and choose the best 3 tips in your opinion.

1. Reuse the bags each time you going to shop

2. Squash plastic bottles to save space.

3. Minimize the waste that we create

English 3

In Preintermediate English, we practice a little bit of grammar, vocabulary and a lot of speaking and pronunciation, which is important because it’s not typical skills that you trained at school.

In a typical class we discuss about any topic, but always giving opinion or finding new and different ways to express a thing. The teacher explains ways to say or giving an opinion and then we discuss in pairs or in small groups.

In the last classes, we are discussing about gender and stereotypes in the society. I think that is very good that this discussion is given in that subject, because in the future you can argue with people of another country about that, and English subjects are commonly characterized by treating eclectic topics, thing that I don’t like.

I enjoy this subject because it’s a place where you can explain yourself and talk about your feelings, thoughts or points of views, in spite of the other subjects, in which you only repeat and repeat all the time. This subject also teaches you how to express yourself in other language, which is always positive.

Other important point is that because they are few students in the classroom, the class is more customed and also lets and makes you get involved to it. Also the few classmates make the place more cohesive and familiar.

At the end of the day, it’s a good experience in which you can met new classmates and know better the older ones at the same time that you are learning a new language.

Scielo (not heaven)

http://www.scielo.org/php/index.php?lang=es

http://www.scielo.cl/?lng=es

Scientific electronic library online is a quite good website to search a lot of information and papers from much respected organizations that works in the most various fields (universities, indexed journals). Also, it includes databases from very countries of Latin America and also Spain, Portugal and South Africa.

The international site of Scielo provides you direct links to each of the national version of the library, and direct links to specialised areas, like Health Sciences, Biological Sciences, Humanities, etc. and also shows the news about the organization with the twitter tool.

I visit this website every time that I need to do a university work, and it’s like almost all the days of the week.  However, I enjoy visiting it because it’s a very good site in which you can easily find a lot of results searching a few keywords, introducing you to a topic of your interest and bringing you a good back-up. Also, in a free time, it’s interesting to look for new topics and works that are important to me and social sciences.

For these and many other reasons, I recommend Scielo, either for work and personal curiosity.