Election day

      Hello! Today I will write about elections, politicians and vote. I think that vote is an important thing as a citizen of a country, because we exert our rights like persons of a nation, and we can make the difference through voting, making the change. I registered to vote, since I was 18 years old ( I register to vote one week after I turned 18 years old). I registered because It's a very important thing for a country, that their citizens have the right to vote, because we have to get involved in the political and social situation of our country. On the other hand, I think that electoral campaings are digusting, because the politicians make a lot of promises that they will not perform and carry out. They promise things like high quality health, good education, good social politics, etc.  In adition to this, they fill the streets with political advertising, spending a lot of money in this election propanga that pollute and contamine the city, and that don't have an important message, because they show their faces, but no their political programs. I think that the quality that a person who wants to run for a public positions should have is, first of all, the honesty and sincerity. This person, has to be close to the people of their city and community, being always in touch with their citizens. I never considered becoming a politician, because I don't like it and I think that it is a stressfull job too, full of bad moments. Like a constructive criticism to the electoral caimpaings in my district, I will say to the candidates that they have to be honest with the people, because the people put their trust in the politicians to direct their lives, in a certain way, so they have a very important work.

About educational psychologists at "The Guardian"

        The article that I selected is related to my area of studies and future career: Childhood and adolescence Psychology. This article from "The Guardian", is about the work of educational psychologists and the funds reduction, from the UK Minister for children , for the training of new professionals in this area of Psychology. According to this article , an educational psychologist is an expert on child development, and with the topics related to this specialization such as cognitive, emocional and social development, and the most important thing : their work with children that has special educational needs, and children with autism, cerebral palsy, depression, mental deficiency, etc. The problem in UK, is that almost a quarter of children population has special needs, and there is a deficit of professionals from this area. Besides, and this is the most important thing of this articicle, is that the government wants to reduce the national budget to prepare professionals in educational psychology. A few of psychology organizations, think that the government doesn't understand the important role that has a psychologist at this area, and maybe this is one of the possible reasons that can be related with this reduction of the national funds. The same thing happens in Chile educational systems and public politics, where the role that plays a educational psychologist is not recognized in an important place. It`s sad, but I hope that this situation changes with time .

This is an interesting topic. See you the next week =)

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2006/mar/07/schools.children?INTCMP=SRCH

My best Friend in the world

        Hi! Today I will talk about my best friend. I think that friendship is a very important thing in the life of a person, because this is what makes us happy and knowing that we can trust in someone is a beautiful feeling. I think that I have a couple of good friends, but my best friends are my boyfriend Christian and my friend Paloma, however I will talk about my dear Paloma. I met her when I was 5 years old ( she is 2 years older than me), at her birthday party, because her aunt is my uncle's wife, and my uncle took me to this birthday party and met her, so sometimes we tell that we are cousins hahaha. We have been friends during 18 year ... It's a very long time!!. She is my best friend because we have a lot of subjects in common, we laugh a lot when we are together and we can talk about important things too. She is studying veterinary medicine.  The best memomy that I have with my friend is when we camped ( thing that we used to do every summer ) when we were about 10 years old, it  was very fun, because we laughed a lot hahaha ( we always do the same thing haha) . I really love my best friend Paloma. 

See you the next post!! Greetings!