My experience learning English at univrsity / a reflection

Hello, this is finally my last blog! I can deny I’m happy…write this blog has been a very exhausting activity to me. Especially when you have to do this for two semesters!
Today I’m going to talk about my experience learning English at the university.
Last year, in my first day of class, when teachers explained the courses they told us about English course too. They said it consisted in four levels: Starter, Beginner, Pre-intermediate and Intermediate. But we had to give a previous exam to take the corresponding level to each one.
I stared in level two, Beginner. That was a great course because I learnt a lot. The teacher has an excellent methodology. I think the best part was note the huge differences between the kind of English classes that I had in my school and comparing them with English classes at the university.
For years I trained my listening and writing English skills, but during this course I had to talk in English. Just what I needed. Because even you know how to write in English or even you understand everything that someone told in this language is useless if you don’t know how to keep a conversation in English.
Pre-intermediate level forces me to talk. Big parts of the activities were related with develop our oral skills. I have to say sometime these were so frustrating to me because I’m pretty sure about my knowledge in this language but I never had the opportunity to talk with someone and practice before. So, face up those new situations was quite dramatic.
Intermediate level was awful, at first. First month was horrible because I was with classmates who entered to this level immediately. The differences that we have were so obvious. And they were enormous! I was very depressed. I didn’t want to go to classes because I was feeling out of place. Then I decided to change my attitude and tried to do my best.

Let's do excercise!

Hello everyone, today I’m going to talk about doing exercise.
The idea of physical activity is referred to all intentional natural body movements made by humans in a period of time, resulting a considerable increase in energy expenditure, and also to interact with others and the environment.

Health and physical activity concepts are closely related, because if you want to have a healthy life you need a balanced diet and physical activity. These two ideas are essential to maintain necessary body balance.

Physical activity is very important for a healthy life because this provides great benefits for our organism if you do it regularly and systematically. Some benefits are: increased coordination, muscle mass gain which produce an increase in the basal metabolism, body fat decrease, less body fatigue, an improvement in blood circulation, regulation of heart rate, blood pressure decrease, improvement in lung capacity and the subsequent oxygenation, muscle strength development which produce an increase in bone strength, better body position by strengthening lumbar muscles; diseases prevention such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity and osteoporosis.

Regular physical activity produce an improvement in organs functions, creates a sense of emotional wellbeing, which has positive consequences directly related to confidence in development of daily tasks and also a strengthens self-image,

Probably you could say that you don’t have any money to expend it in a gym, but that is not the only way to do excercise. You don’t need to go to the gym to do any physical activity. You just could walk in the park or run in every place you like. Maybe it could be an instance to share with friends and family. This is a great opportunity to do something all together, like play football or basketball.

Chile has high sedentary levels. 91% of the chilean population is sedentary, and most of them don’t see the problem.

We are young and we are able to change this statistics. As futures members of a health team, we must to contribute changing these levels, promoting physical activity and a balance diet as a lifestyle.

The Big Bang Theory, one of my favorite tv series

Hi everyone! This time I’m going to talk about one of my favorite television series: The Big Bang Theory (TBBT), on Warner Channel.

The sitcom is about two geniuses who work for California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. Both are brilliant in their work areas, However they have a remarkable deficiency to interact with other people, especially with women, resulting funny situations.

They share an apartment and across the hall from them lives an attractive neighbor who has aspirations of a career in show business.

The Big Bang Theory’s main characters are Sheldon Cooper, a theoretical physicist, and Leonard Hofstadter, an experimental physicist.

The first one, played by Jim Parsons, was a prodigy child who started college when he was 11 years old. He has a master degree, two Ph.Ds and an IQ of 187. He loves maintain a routine in his life, he doesn’t understand irony, sarcasm or humor and he shows a complete lack of humility. He also is uncapable to lie and keeps secrets. His logical vision of each circumstance forces him to do things with strictly scientifics results. Sheldon Cooper features’ are the focus of most of the serie’s episodes.

The second one, played by Johnny Galecki, has an IQ of 173 and he recieved his Ph.D when he was 24 years old. While Leonard is much more sociable than Sheldon, he never has been successful with women. He is in love with his neighbor, Penny, who eventually had a short love relationship with him.
Kaley Cuoco plays Penny, a beautiful blonde actress who hasn’t had success in spite of having a thousand of auditions. Meantime she works as a waitress at The Cheesecake Factory.

Friends group gets complete with Howard Wolowitz, an aerospace engineer and and Rajesh Koothrappali, a particle astrophysicist who can't talk to women.

The funniest thing about this serie is watch the intellect and lack of common sense of this four guys contrasted with Penny's social skills.