My experience learning English at the university

When I was in the school, I had a teacher that have the same method that the teachers in the university. For this reason it wasn`t much difficult to me learn and adapt to the system. The first time that I come to the university, I had to do a test for know in what level of english I was. I really felt that I was a basic knowledge in english and I though that I would be in an advanced course, but it`s wasn`t. I had to begin with “started”. In the beginning it wasn`t like me but then, I saw this situation like an opportunity to practice and improve my english.

I think that the english at the university is very good for us. We have to know and speak english because our profession demands a strong understanding of this language. We have to read a lot of papers and if you want to send to a famous magazine some work or your thesis, it has to be in english.

The only problem is that when you finish all the levels of english that you have to do in an obligatory way, you don`t have other courses in the degree. For this reason, you forget a lot of words and you lose the practice. Is true that we have to read papers and things like that, but you don`t have a space to peak with someone else in this language. This is the thing that motivates me to take this subject. I felt that I had to take up again the english or it would pass to be just a memory in my mind.

I feel that I have learned very much in this “Pilot” course. The only problem is that I`m so shy and is difficult to me speak when people are looking me. I enjoyed gritting my blogs and I think that my vocabulary is better than before.

To finish, I can say that my career have to put obligatory english all years and in this way we will be more prepare to face up the future. The teachers should motive us to speak in english. In the other hand, I know that a lot of people didn`t have a good english in the school, so the university should have more programs to level these students. To people who know english, maybe the university could foster other language that could be useful on our life like French or Chinese. I really want to learn more english because I think that is very important to me. I hope that some day I can travel to other countries to perfect my knowledge and be a better vet, so I will need to manage a universal language like english.

Challenges in Veterinary Medicine

Veterinary Medicine is a career that has a lot of challenges in different areas. For example, in public health, pharmacology, politics and in the creation of new investigation about animals and human. In the next lines I will detail the most important challenges in this discipline for me.

In public health a vet have several challenges in relation with grant to people a good health and a good environment to live. We the responsibility of watch for the welfare of the population. The challenge here is try to matein a good sanitary state to animals and human. To achieve this point, the vet has to know the principal zoonotic diseases and have knowledges of the public political. We have to explain to people how have a good possession of their pets and how they can prevent diseases like mange or ringworm.

In veterinary medicine we have a lot of drug that can be use in human but not in animals. We have to investigate in this area and create new and effectives drugs that can be useful in own area. For example aspirin is very good to the head pain in human but it can be toxic to animals like the cat.

Also like a vet we have a lot of challenges in politics because we have the duty to push government for found new laws about animal welfare and animal maltreat. To obtain this, we have to study more about the constitution of our country and have the faculty of draw up proposes that could be present in the parliament. The vet has to be ready to interfere in political. We can`t permit that animals be maltreat.

Another challenge is in investigation. We have to know more about the diseases that affect our animals and how we can fight with that. I think that the University of Chile, like a public institution, has to demand more recourses to the government to execute studies. In this way, we will have more tools and knowledges to give to animals a best treatment when they are sick. Also with the studies in the diseases of animals we can have a lot of benefits to human because we share many problems with animals like lupus, cancer or cardiologic diseases.

We can see that vet a much work to do yet, but nothing is impossible. Just we have to found the way to resolve and catch these challenges.

Red list 2009: Endangered species for every country in the world

The human be is responsible of the increase of the number of endangered species. This list of species on ranger of extinction had been going up because animals are losing their habitats. IUCN species programme compiled in a list all this animals and this is the best source of data that we have now.

Some people try to preserve this species with program of breeding in captivity and it`s work very good. The problem is that human still making things that damage the environment and consequently damage the species around the world.

Of all of this endangered species, 6% matches just to one country: Brazil. This can be explained with the deforestation in a zone with a great biodiversity.

Singapore that is a little island, have a lot of endangered species in spite of the small size that Singapore have. They have more endangered species in comparison with other places like USA.

In the TV exits some documentaries that help people to have conscience about what are happened in our planet and with the animals that live here. For example you have: Planet Earth and End of the Line. They try to teach that with just change the food that we eat, we can make the difference.

All people have to think about it if we have to help and save the animals that live with us in this world.

YOU CAN FIND THIS ARTICULATE IN:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/datablog/2009/oct/23/endangered-species-red-list-data-review

My Faculty

I`m studying veterinary medicine in the Faculty of Science Veterinaries and Livestock of the University of Chile. I think that is a great faculty but we have a lot of thing to improve.

In my opinion the actual situation is not so good because we have a new studying program and it isn`t so good at the moment. The problems of this program are:

- You have mixed subjects. For example, you have parasites and infectious in the same subject. The last year I had 3 or 4 notebooks.

- The new program supposed give us more time to do think like stay in our home or make electives and it isn`t true.

- The evaluation is not appropriated.

- Sometime the doctors teach you fewer contents that they have to pass us.

Another think that it´s not good is the infrastructure. For example, we don`t have a good play to do sports and we need better places to practice our profession. Also the bathrooms are disgusting.

I think that other think that could be better is the relationship between teachers and students. To me is not good that sometimes the teachers treat you like if you were anything.

The best way to improve all of these topics is start to be more auto critical. The program has to give us the tools to be good vets. I think that the program have to be revaluation. We can`t have mixed subject anymore or we will crazy in the end. Also we have to have more time to do things no related with the career so the university has to give us the opportunity and the time to do more electives.

To improve the infrastructure the authorities have to invest more money in our faculty. Maybe could be great if the faculty more people for clean and keep the order.

To finish is important that people who teach in the faculty could have a course of pedagogy. They have to learn how to try with the student and how to teach in a best way.

If all these things could come true, our faculty would be better.

My favorite animal

In the world are a lot of interesting and amazing animals. You can find different species with spectaculars characteristics so, always is difficult to my when someone ask my which is my favorite. For example, I love dogs, whales and exotic animals like the big felines. I think that I like all the animals, but if I have to choose just one of them, I will choose dogs.

The scientific name of dog is Canis lupus familiaris. This specie has around of 300 different races. Is so incredible think about it because all of these types of dog come from the one ancestor: the wolf. For this reason they have the attention of people who study genetic.

I have lot of reasons to love these animals. Following I will explain why I like dogs.

Dogs are very intelligent animals. They can resolve problems like bring something if you ask for them. In internet you a can studies that confirm this attribute of dog. For example, a scientific investigates the ability of dog to recognize an object when you show them with your finger. They discover that dog really look the object and play attention of what are you saying.

They can know what you feel. In my life I have had too dogs. The first was Pelusa and now I have Clementine. I notice that both have a similar comportment in fixed situations. When I was crying, Pelusa always come to me and look to my eyes like saying “don´t cry everything is going to be good” and then she use to put her head in my hands. Clementine makes the same thing and even she knows when you are angry for something that she made.

I like to help dogs just because they deserve this. They are faithful to us and give a lot of love. We have to fight for their rights and have that government legislate about it. Dogs don´t have voice, we have to be their voice. If you don´t like animals, try to think that they are alive like you. Dogs have pain and illness like any human be so we have to make something about it.

I hope be a good vet to help my favorite animals and give them a better quality of life.

WHAT TO DO/ WHERE TO GO IN SANTIAGO

Santiago is a beautiful place to travel across. You can find great places to take someone who want to know our city. In the next lines I will recommend you where you have to go if you are in Santiago.

First I think that a good place that you should go is “Plaza de Armas”. This is a historic place and here are a lot of museums. Also you can see old buildings that date of the colony times. For example, the cathedral or post office.

Other place to go is the Santa Lucia´s hill. Here you will see a kind of castle with a nice park to have a rest. The only problem is that you have to be careful because here are a lot of delinquents.

Another place that you should go is Moneda´s Palace because this is other historic place. Maybe if you have lucky you can see the president of the republic.

If you want to drink something or have a good time with your friends you have to go to “Bella vista”. Here you will find a lot of pubs and places to, like we say in Chile, “carretiar” for a moment. Even you can meet someone and have a nice conversation with this person.

To finish a place that in my opinion is very nice and represent the Chilean people is “Paseo Ahumada”. I love this place because always you can see mimes, actors or musicians that I shore will make you a very good time.

Well I hope you enjoy your stay in my loved Santiago city.

Death Penalty

Well, this is a difficult topic to me, because I have two different opinions about it. In my view it has positives and negative things. To my mind death penalty is bad cause we don´t have the power to decide if someone have to die or have to live. Too years ago, someone said: “if you don´t have any sin, throw the first stone”. All of as deserve a second chance to change and to by sorry about our actions. Also we have to think that these people have a family and independently of their acts, their children and wife will be alone. On the other hand, to be honest, death penalty has a good thing. People commit crimes because they know that they will be free soon and in the prison they will be better than now. In this place the prisoners have free food and a bed to sleep. All these things are paid with the tax of honest people. I think that if death penalty would be valid, maybe criminal will not make bad things because they would be afraid. It can sound cruel but this is the only way to people can understand that they don´t have to make things like kill someone else. To finish, from my point of view the solution to stop with all this violence is the education and prevention. Maybe we have to try to do things for children in social risk because they could be the criminals of the future.

A COUNTRY I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT

I like to go to Tailandia someday. This is a very beautiful country with amazing landscapes. The people of this place have a millennial culture. Also, you can find a high diversity of flora and fauna. Here you can see the most spectaculars beaches in the world: with white and soft sand, tropical climate and near of these great places you can see jungles with palm trees. Even Hollywood arrived to this paradise: they film the movie “the beach” with Leonardo Dicaprio like the man character. Tailandia is a country of Asia. They have two principal religions: Buddhism and Islam. I saw in the TV that in this country exists a “floating market”. To buy something here, you have to go to the river in a boat. The traders sail in canoes and offer their products. I would like to study something related animals of this place, but I wouldn´t like to live forever in this country. Every time that I see in the TV the beauty of this place, I close my eyes and I try to see me in this paradise. I hope that someday I can go to Tailandia and admire all of these things by my own eyes.

The last year

The second term of 2009 was so difficult to me. All people used to say to me that the third year was complicated but I never thought that it will be true. I really was so tired and all that I wanted was the year finished soon. The good think about third year is that you are nearly to be a vet. You have subjects that are more related with medicine and animals. You learn a lot of interesting thinks about how you can tackle the pathologies of our patients. Also I take a subject that was name was “Gym dance”. My friends and I had to create a choreography. It was very funny but I`m a little shy so it was so embarrassing to me. Other good thing of the second term was that I meet new people that today are excellent friends. The subject that was more difficult to me was physiopathology. You have to memorize a million of different things and you don`t have the necessary time to do this. The only thing that I really enjoyed of physiopathology was a clinic case that my group and I had to make. To this work we had a dog called Piri. He was adorable. The problem was that he had a seriously type of cancer and he died. With all the things that I made in the second term of 2009 I discovered that I really love my profession and I want to be the best veterinary.

TRANSANTIAGO: BEFORE AND AFTER

Four years ago, people used to mobilize in a system very different of buses. The machines were yellow and had different numbering and routes. Today, we have a new one called “Transantiago”. To obtain this project the government had to buy new buses and promote the new system. They were helped for a famous football player called Iván Zamorano. I thing that the new system is better because the machines produce less pollution and have more space to people can use it. The only thing that is worse than the pre-transantiago system is the time that you have to wait to take a bus. One time, I stayed two hours watting for a bus and then I was so bored, so I decided to walk to my home. I think that Transantiago system could be better if they improve the timetable of buses and cleaning these machines more often.