My last post

Well, as i'm writing this i have mixed feelings. In one hand i'm happy of have ended this subject with satisfaction, but in the other hand i'm nostalgic because this is my last semester as an undergraduate student, certainly the best time in my life.

I really enjoy this course, it was a great blowoff valve among all the stress of the week. All you had to do was attend to class and interact with the teacher and with the classmates; and at blog session i noticed that progesively, week by week, i started to think in english while writing the post. Some of them proved to be funnier that i could think, like the one with the movies. And in class, sessions like the one when we were World leaders and have to decide if you tell people we were all gonna die, was remarkable!

About the aspects of my english to improve, i believe that the fluency on the oral part it is a need for me. I also will like to improve my reading, specifically, more complicated stuff like papers with a more advanced vocabulary. I'm actually doing something for it: i partipate in sessions with native english talking at Providencia's “café literario” this has been a really good experience. And about the second, i imagine that during the summer i'm gonna have more time to read and read in english.

Sometimes i also talk with my friends, chileans friends, in english as a way of practicing; in addition with that i talk with my younger sister as well.

So, i'm very satisfied with this subject, the teacher and classmates it has been a really good experience, totally enriching. I encourage to all of you, to keep learning and practicing this useful language.

My future job

I’ve always thought in make the living as a lawyer and along with that teaching in the University as a way to compatibilize both activities. I’d like this double work because I’m attracted to both areas: professional and academic.

To the first one because I’m actually studying to become a lawyer and it is a necessary requirement having professional experience to apply for an academic career.

I think that this option has a regular difficulty, because nowadays is always necessary to endeavor yourself in order to have a job that lets you develop all your plans, ideas, dreams, and interests. I know it’s going to be hard, but I’m sure of achieving it.

For choosing this double job I consider my preferences for the academic activity and professional development as a lawyer, probably working in criminal cases, either as a prosecutor or public attorney. In order to accomplish this, I haven’t taken any major because the undergraduate program doesn’t include it but I’ve signed up in electives of my preference: criminal law. So, in a manner of speaking I’ve made a minor in criminal law during the undergraduate period.

About weakness and strengths, last semester I went to several job interviews for work as procurator and I learned to be honest when it comes to that question. I said I was diligent, good at teamwork and persevering. And about my weak side, I recognized being perfectionist and having what I call “paralysis by analysis” sometimes.

Job interviews are a great experience, even though I couldn’t continue the process of job seeking because I had an unlucky surprise meanwhile.

It will be grateful for me to have this double work, as academic and independent lawyer so nowadays I’m putting all my energy in this aim. 

Myself in two years

My plan for the next two years is to complete the process to become a lawyer. For that I need to pass all my subjects this semester (8), my last as an undergraduate student. This great amount is because I need to end in the 5 years since I can’t pay an extra year –the University credit doesn’t cover it- and I’d rather work hard that keep increasing the debt. So, I’m having a fully loaded semester, dealing with that and it has been tough.

Next, from March 2013 I have to start the most traumatic and stressful period: preparing the degree examination. This is a big step in the way to achieve the final goal. I’m gonna need full dedication for an average of an eight-month period. And it is gonna be hard deal with that, because in one hand you have a lot of available time or you’re exposed a lot of distractions pretty much interesting that study the hole day; but in the other hand you feel the anxious and stress.

I think the key is the organization, I have friends that already pass the exam and they gave me this advice: “You can do whatever you want, but in predefined times”. So the best way will be to weigh up the present and the final objective: Pass the exam.

Once I pass the degree exam, I’m gonna finish my thesis project. A good point is that I have the 60% finished and only rest to complement it. That way I will only left to do the practice experience that last 6 months and maybe in that time I would need a job so maybe I look for one.

If every goes right, on June 2015 I’ll be ready to go to the Court and do the oath to be invested as an attorney.

My life is definitely going to change, it is gonna be hard but it will be for something better so I only need to put all my energy on and be persevering.  All the changes will represent a challenge, with costs and benefits. What I’m going to do is having a big holidays to get rid of all the stress and then scheduling the studying and the free time.

Maybe I won’t have much time as I like to be with my girlfriend, family and friends, but it is the required effort to make my dreams come true.

So, i invite you all to comment! See you in class

Post 7 (Week 9) >> HOW GREEN ARE YOU?

"Half green"

In the last years enviromental care has been a recurrent topic in media. Almost every day you can read news about pollution, toxic accidents and eco-organisations claiming about it. As well, every day there is many information avalaible about how friendly practices with the echo system and i think both ways, among others, have contributed to install the issue in the citizenship.

As an example, last year in Chile there was a big controversy about HidroAysen, a big proyect that will build several Mega-dams in the south of the contry and besides, it will cross thousands of territory with the high tension towers, causing an irreparable damage for the nature and the people who lives there.
As a consecuence of this, people have learned much more about the impacts in the enviroment that the economic growth has, perhaps a deeper learning that the schools gives.

I've seen a lot of documentaries about echo-system and i like'em pretty much, but i haven't made a considerable change or acquired recycling habits for that. Something that i actually do, and it can be considered as a recycling habits are simple things like write on the both sides of the paper, turn lights off that i'm not using or unplug the appliances in order to safe electricity so imagine that way i'm reducing my carbon footprint.

Nowadays I don't have a bike but i really want to have one, not only for health, but also for reduce the pollution and the hundreds of cars in the city. I'd like to join to “Furisosos ciclistas” a gruop of bikers that makes peaceful demonstration of opposition to the city's desings claiming for more bike's roads in the town. This could be an option to minimize the air pollution.

I think that in Santiago year by year population continues growing so that way the enviroment suffers for contamination and lack of enviromental concern due the big mass of people that never stops (or without time to do it) to think how they're living and what they could do to improve the echo system.