Blog Session 11: English Lenguage Challenges

This was the first year I made an English subject at the university, English IV, and I found it interesting. It has been useful because I have refreshed a lot my memory in the use of English and I also have learned some new words. Every lesson consists of two parts: in the first one you talk about different topics that are given by the teacher (Belén) and in the second part we write in our blogs also about a given topic. My favorite part is the first one, because you are able to practice the speaking (I don´t have many chances to do that normally) and also because the topics are funny, and you always end talking about a different thing, unrelated to the initial subject and it doesn´t matter on condition that you continue speaking in English. The second part is sometimes a little boring, but the use of blogs was something new for me, and that´s always interesting.

As you can see my English is far from being perfect, I can improve in many aspects, but I think it´s harder for me to talk, than to write, because when you write, you have more time to think what you want to say (and you can even correct some mistakes you make), but when you speak, your mind must think faster so that the conversation doesn´t get boring.

I didn´t use to use my English outside the English class, but today I have to read papers for some subjects in the university that aren´t translated to Spanish, because they´re relatively new. When we first begun to do that was when I found out that I have to practice also my reading a little more, because I have to use a lot of time so I can understand complete texts, because I must search for a lot of words in the dictionary. 

Blog session 10: Good and bad points

Good and bad points

This year so far has been as a summary a very interesting year for me. A lot of good things happened and also a couple bad things.

This is the year that I had the most academic troubles as a University student. For the first time I couldn´t pass a couple of subjects and I feel like I never have time to do anything just for me. But as I told, not everything has been like that. In fact, the most part of the things that happened to me this year are good.  

To begin, I have shared this year with a very important person for me, my boyfriend Nicolás. We have reached one year together not very long ago, and he makes me very happy. Another things that makes me happy is that with this turbulent year in the academic field, I could realize that I like what I´m studying, because, in spite of the nights without sleeping very well, I think sociology is a very interesting career, and at the moment I don´t see myself studying a different thing.

This year has also been good because I achieved some things I proposed myself to do. One of these things is that I applied for “ayudante” of a subject I liked a lot and I was chosen to do it. “Ayudante” is a job where you help a teacher with the subject and you also help the students with the reading of the bibliography given in the subject and with the questions they have. I enjoy a lot with it, because the students are very likeable. Another achievement is that I applied and won a scholarship to go to Germany this summer, to make an intensive German course in the University of Freiburg.

So that is something I still have to do this year, I´m very happy about it.