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Chile's bicentennial year

This year is special for our country Chile because we celebrate 200 years the independence and republican country.
The last September 18th we commemorated an important landmark of our history: the beginning of the process of independence by means of the formation of the First Cabinet Meeting.
Chile's bicentennial year is a reason to celebrate and reflect about whom Chilean people are? and What the progresses that we have had as nation are?

To beginning, I will give you some information about our nation. Chile has more 17.000.000 habitants that are distributed in 15 regions along of the territory.
We have along the country different ethnic groups that increase the diversity of our people and the habits.
All this allow us to show to the world the great variety and diversity of foods, traditions and other things that characterize the different areas of our country.
With this we can show an image that whom the Chilean people are and since this we can ask us how the foreigners see us?
Chilean people consider that they are supportive, happy and hard-working.
The negative aspects are the unpunctuality and some are liars.
The foreigners think that the Chilean people are cheerful, attentive and that we have a big fortitude to confront the different situation and problems as the earthquake that affected the last 27th february or the heroic story of 33 trapped miners in The Mine San José.

For other hand, we can check the advances in the different areas as health and economy and the new challenges in the future.
In the health we have had good progresses because in 2005 the president of Chile Michelle Bachelet announced the creation of a plan called AUGE that covered the treatment of 69 pathologies. This plan is a public healthy regulations that guarantee the access to promotion, protection and recuperation of the health.
In the economy Chile has explanded its boundary to other country in differents continents as Europe or Asia where has signed differents trades agreements.
In addition Chile has increased its incomes through the mining industry or exportations of fruits and wine.

Even we have new challenges and goal in all the areas for to be a good country.

Travel experiences

Hello everybody! Today I’m going to talk about travel.
A lot of people consider that travel is a good idea to relax and know a new places, overcoat in the holidays when the families or friends plan where to go.
In my case, I have had good lucky and good opportunities to know other countries and cities.


With my family have traveled some holidays to Santiago by car and we have known differents regions of the north of Chile.
In the studios tour I traveled with my classmates to Iguaçú Falls for 1 week. In addition, we knowed Salta in the north of Argentina where we practice rafting. If you enjoy live the adrenaline, I recommend it you!

But up to now my best trip was when I traveled with my family to Paris where we lived one year for the job of my dad.

There we knew Eiffel Tower and The Triumphal Arch. In addition we visited differents museums as Louvre where we looked The Monalisa, Venus of Milo and hundreds of work of arts of differents artists.
We navegated the river Sena in somme opportunities.

We traveled to other countries too as London, Rome and a little town called Brugges in Belgium. In all this traveled we stayed for 3 or 4 days visited differents attractives tourists as Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Picadilly Circus, Trevi’s Fountain, Coliseum, Vatican City and Sistine Chapel and a long list with other places.
If you have the opportunities to travel to other country, take it because is a big ocassion to know other culture and customs.

Movies

Hello everybody! Today I’m going to talk about a topic that for some people is very interesting and fascinating; even there are some people that are fanatical: this is “The Films”.

Who have not seen a film? I think that a little of people can answer no to this questions.
For me the films are a form to relax me and have a good moment with my friends or family. All depend to the kind of the movie. My kinds of films that I like are the comedy and the action movies. In some opportunities I like to watch drama or children’s films.

In the last period I have not very time to go cinema, but I would like to watch some movies that are in hoarding in this moment as “All a labor” or “Vampires suck”. I believe that when I finish the university I will go to the cinema.

One of the movies that I liked was “The Hangover” by Todd Phillips. Is a comedy about a stag party that finish very, very bad. Two days ago of the wedding, Doug, their best friends Phil y Stu and his future brother in law Alan go to The Vegas by car to celebrate his stag party unforgettablely. But when they wake to the next day, with a infernal headache, they don’t remember nothing. The luxurious room in the hotel where they were staying is totally destroyed it and the fiancé is missing. They must reconstruct the last night and discover in the mess that they're involved.

Myths of the brain

Hello everybody! Today I am going to talk about the myths in relation to the brain.

In some opportunities we have listed for example that we use only the 10% of our brain when we do an activity.
Well through this blog I will try to give an answer.

In my opinion I think that this myth is false because when we do something we use differents organs. Never we utilize an organ to do something. An example for this situation is when we drive a car. We need the vision, the movements in ours arms and legs, the coordination; we must to pay attention and react before an unforeseen.
For this reason I believe that we can not use only the 10% when we do differents activities.
In the class with the Dr. Maldonado he said that this myth was false and the argument that he used to justify it was by means of imagens of computerised tomography or scanners. This imagens showed that in differents situation the brain activate differents areas. For example the occipital side is the region for the vision or the temporal side is the region for the language. For that reason we use more of the 10% all the time.
Even while we sleep our brain is active in some region.

Therefore it is very important that we take care our brain because is one of the fundamental organs to trigger the differents processes, movements and functions in all the systems of our body.

Stress and work

Hello everybody! Today I am going to talk about stress and their relation with work.
Nowadays all the people say that is stressed, but what mean to be stressed?
The experts say that the stress is a physiology condition of the organism. Is a mechanism of defense to confront a menacing situation.
The stress is a natural answer for survival, but in some cases converts it in pathology.
About this reason is very important that we recognized this signs and we made the appropriate changes in our life.
What are the stressful factors that trigger the stress? Well the most important are the external factors as pressure group or frustration. In addition, we find other factors very important like the responsibility in the work and the decisions that the people must take in their jobs.
And what are the common symptoms that you can perceive in a stress? We have a long list with different symptoms. Some of them are:

- Headache
- Nauseas
- Stomachache
- Indigestion
- Hypersensitivity
- Low concentration
- Nervous habit
- Insomnia
And hold on

All these symptoms can get involve and develop a clinic profile that we know stress.
The stress we can saw in the work. The people in high positions have the conflict between the need of result and the necessary resources for obtain them, mainly time and money.
And the employees have the pressure to make a good work, efficient and productive.

If you have stress you need make some changes in your life and overcoat to BE HAPPY!

Healthy lifstyle

Hello everybody! How are you?

Today I am going to talk about topic that is very common listen it in the media, but maybe you do not know very well. This is the healthy lifstyle.

First of all we need to know the meaning of concept. A healthy lifstyle is the group of behaviors that reduce the risk to get into a sick as suitable control, exercises, a diet based in vegetals and fruits and avoid the substance like nicotine, caffeine and alcohol.

All this behaviors must put in practice of consistent way and keep in the daily.



If you want have a healthy lifstyle in first place you have to be convinced that you want and need to change. This is the point more important in the process.

In second place you need to change some topics in your life of progressive way as the nutrition that must to be low in calories and fats and high in fibers, vegetals, fruits, omega 3 and 6 (fishes) and so on.

Other example is the exercice that must to begin the gentle way. Ideally is that you begin with a exercice of low impact.

About my own experience I said you that the healthy lifstyles ever give us many benefits. For example I go to the gym twice per week and in a short time I noticed the first changes in my body, in my mind and in my energy.

For this raison I invite you to change your lifstyles for a healthy lifstyle.

My favourite get away

Hello everybody!

How are you? I believe that you are very eagers because the September’s holidays approach already and this is the best reason to get away to that special place where you relax and enjoy oneself.

Therefore today in my blog I’m going to talk about my favourite get away.
Well after I have arrived to Santiago, I think that my favourite get away is the city where my family is: Iquique.


Now I appreciated all the special things that this city can give me.
Nowadays I go twice or three times during the year, because the distance between Santiago and Iquique is 1800 km.! Not very close that we say.
For this reason, when I go there, I enjoy to the maximun the landscape, the beach and the clear air.

Iquique offers to the visitor a calm city with beautiful beachs and temperatures very nices during all year.
In my opinion, the best of the city is the beach because when I am there, I feel that I am in other place, far of the city and the conglomeration. This place give me peace and serenity. I can “recharge my batteries” and find with myself.
Other thing that I love it is the marine food as a fresh fish and the exotic fruits, for example, mango, guayaba and maracuyá.


Finally I recommended this city for her contrast between sea and desert, for the beachs and the sports that you can practice and because you will have a great stay.

Music

Hello everybody! How are you?

This is the beginning of the end. This is the last part of the english course and I must write the blogs again.
I have news classmates and a new teacher. I hope that this part of the course be the best.

To beginning, in this opportunity, I am going to talk about music. I think that a lot of people will hate me for my comment but I don’t like very much listening music. In some opportunities I listen it, but I prefer watch tv or use the computer.
Sometimes I listen music in the radio of my house when I need relax or when the home is in silence or in others opportunities, for example I listen it when I study or I do the tasks.

In general I prefer the romantic music as the music that play in Fm2 or Play FM.
Some weekends I listen the radio Disney, it plays pop music.

I don’t have a favorite singer or group. I listen music for example of Luis Fonsi, Maroon Five, Michael Bublé and others. I remember that the last summer I went with my sister to Festival of Iquique where were Luis Fonsi and Tom Jones.
The music for me is just a accompaniment in different moments of the week. All depend of my mood or my activities.

My last blog

Hello everybody! Today is a special day because is the last blog and in this I’m going to talk about my blogging experience.
First of all, I must to say that this experience in the beginning was some worrying for me because I had never written so much in English in a one day and evaluated it too.
About the comments I believe that I learned a new words but I need more practice.
My teacher correct me mainly some verbs and some articles in the different blogs and the order of some sentences too.
Related with the topics in the blogs, I think that the majority were very interesting because were related with the career that I am studying.
For me the topics most difficult were the “Gender role in the health” and “Career-related website” because I did not have more information about the topic and I consider that the topic was not very interesting to write a blog.
The blog that I liked more was “My favorite subject” and “My future as a midwife”, because this blog were related with my career.
About the blog of my classmates I think that every were very interesting because I had the opportunity of know more about my partners.

The ideal job

Hello everybody! In this opportunity I’m going to talk about my ideal job.
To begin, I project me working in a hospital, paying attention in a labour or in the area of neonatology or in a “consultorio”, paying attention to all pregnancies and all women that need it. Therefore, I think that I will work in the public system, delivering all my help and my knowledge to the people.
I think that I will emigrate to other city, because I don’t like Santiago, I just stay here for my studies and for the university, that is very prestigious and distinguished. I believe that I will emigrate to my city Iquique or other in the north of the country.
About my responsibilities I would like to be a good professional that carry out with all the obligations in the camp work and I would like that the people were satisfied with my dedication toward them.
I would like that my environment of work was pleasant and quiet. I hope that in the personnel of health where it works there are good relations and comradeship.
Finally, related with the kind of people and the patients that I would like pay attention, I believe that I will attend all the people that need it, especially all the women, pregnancies and newborn baby.

The victory of Chile in the South Africa's Mundial

Welcome everybody to my blog! Today I have to write a free topic. For this opportunity I’m going to related how lived the Chilean people in our country and the fan in South Africa the first match Chile-Honduras in the Mundial 2010.
The majority of the Chileans were very, very attentive with all the notices deliver in the news about the Chilean Selection in South Africa related with the training of the players and mainly with the lesion of the player Chupete Suazo, that is a of the players more important in the selection. He is the scorer.
The previous day a lot of fan decided to meet in different places as in a house, in a bar or even the fans in Nelspruit in South Africa decided wait in the streets even though of the cold.
For some fans the wait was very, very long, but the hour arrived.
The 07:30 all the people were installed front to the television or to the computer waiting the opening of the game. Even some fans saw the game in the bus stop.
The Chilean players had some opportunities before to score in the minute 35 the goal that the selection scored took them to the victory in this game.
All the people celebrated with the “vuvuzelas”, flags and applauses.

Education and Prevention in Health

Hello everybody! In this opportunity I’m going to talk about education and prevention in the area of health.
First of all, specifically in my career, we have some subjects related with the social area that will give us the tools that will allow us in the future develop us in the education of the people. As well, we will have the enormous responsibility of prevent so much to the women as to her family in different field.
In my career the subjects more related in give health topics on education are “Education for the Health”, “Investigation in Health” and “Interaction in the Social Science in the Attention of Health”. With the tools that these subjects give us we will can teach through of educational projects, talks, with interventions in the community and others techniques.
The education that we will give must be with the people and for the people, because is very important that the people take part in the process for discover and determine the needs that exist there.
Principally the kind of people to educate in my area are the women in fertile age and the pregnant.
About prevention, we will have a huge role, because we will pay attention healthy women and we will try of keep the health of these.
In other topic, the needs of the Chilean people in health related with our area are mainly about contraceptive and in general the principal problem is the nutrition, because nowadays Chile presents one of the percentages more high of obesity compared with other countries.

Gender role in health care

Hello everybody! Today I’m going to talk about gender role in health care.
For decades the differences between men and women in the area of health was very evident overcoat in the salaries and in the responsibilities assigned. But with the revolution and for the fight of the women, these differences have gone reduce.
In the old days my career was only for women because the society considered that this work could do only the women. Nowadays this idea is changing in all the areas of heath. Specifically in my career in this last time the admission the men every year is in increase as well as other careers like medicine and nursing.
About the professional development in our career as much men as women have the same work camp and the same opportunities for development them in the different areas that offer our career. The same thing happens in the responsibilities because the programs of the subjects are direct to give us all the tools and abilities to be good professionals.
In the salaries I don’t know if exist difference between women and men. In my opinion this differences should not exist.
Finally about kind of patients in my point of view I think that this depend of every professional. Personality, I prefer attend all kind of patients especially the people with problems.

My future as a midwife

Hello everybody! Today I’m going to talk about of my future as a midwife.
Nowadays, I’m studying the second year of Midwifery in the University of Chile.
This semester I have subjects related with my profession, that have make me think about my professional future in the practice.
I believe that I will emigrate of Santiago to other city as Iquique, because my family is there and I like it.
In Iquique I would work in the hospital or in a “consultorio”, because I lived the experience for one day in the clinical camp the last year and I liked it for the attention delivered in this opportunity for the midwife.
I would like work with the people and for the people teaching them and prevent them in the different areas related with my task.
I think that after of finish the career, I would like work in day’s shifts and night’s shifts for increase my experience and acquire practice skills for be a good professional.
In the future I would like work in the area of obstetric or gynecology because, by one hand, I like relate with the people and deliver them all the knowledge that I know and, by other hand, I would like pay attention to all mother in this beautiful moment in her life and of her family.
Finally, I would like to do a specialization in neonatology after my studies.

My favorite subject

Hello everybody! This week I’m going to talk about my favorite subject in my career. This semester in my innovated curriculum of Midwifery, I have Obstetric Physiology that is a subject very related with my future profession, because delivers the technical concepts for the next subjects and for confront the work camp of the next semester.
This subject delivers a sound grounding in science and the foundations for explain the physiologic process in the women and her fertile cycle and the morphology changes in the fetus.
To date, I have seen the locals and generals anatomic changes in the mother and the fetus during the gestation. To my mind, this is very interesting because is the pillar principal of this career. Without her, we are not at all.
The easiest contents of this subject are the changes of the embryo and the most difficult of the class are the contents that we are learning now, that are the locals and generals anatomic and physiology changes in the mother in the second and third semester.
The teachers that give this class are midwives of the Midwifery School and a veterinarian that taught us the changes in the fetus.
About my grades this are not bad. This are in the average.
Now I hope learn all the concepts for be a good midwife.

Career-related website

Hello everyone! Today I’m going to talk about a career-related website that I visit. This is www.u-cursos.cl.

This website is a digital tool for the students and teachers of the University of Chile that consists to provide the support’s material, like papers, presentations and other for facilitate the studies of the different subjects.

This material is uploaded everyday for the teachers and can be downloaded for every student that has a password.

I visit this website once or twice daily, to know the news of the university or of the class.
This website has a list of the subject that I study this semester. As well has a forum, an email, for contact to the teachers and classmate, a section for publish the partial marks and a section for upload the material for the students.

In my opinion this website is very important and necessary for all the students, because is a support for the best performance and preparation of the different subjects. It’s important that the teachers are engaged with this tool and deliver their presentations to the students.

I and my profession

Hello! My name is Victoria Soto. I am 21 years old. I am from Iquique. Nowadays, I live with my grandmother and my school friend Pia, in the Flower.
I´m studying second level of Midwifery in the University of Chile.

This year, I have a new challenge in this subject: create a blog and write different things every session. To finally this semester I hope to achieve with this blogs write and speak english more fluent and to increase my vocabulary, because it is very important to know this principal language for the academic and professional develop.

Changing topic, I´m going to talk about my experience with the earthquake. Fortunately, for this date, I were not here. I were in Iquique with my family and my grandmother, but we knew to 4 o´clock of this catastrophe for a friend. We were very worried.
My reaction as future midwife is to face up a catatrophe will be help to people and carry campaigns of collection.