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!

My best Holidays

     Hi! this friday I will talk about my best holidays. I have very good memories about my holidays, specially when I was a little girl. I used to go on vacations with all my cousins to camp with my aunt Rosita and uncle Manuel to the "mountains" and It was very fun, because it was always an adventure for us, like If we were explorers in the jungle hahaha. We spend there almost a week, and we stay in tents, It was very nice wake up at mornings with the pleasant wind of the place. I think that my best holidays were this summer, because I went to "La rufina" , a place in the middle of the mountains, near to San Fernando and It's a beautiful place, I really love it. I were there with my best friend Paloma, my friend Ignacio and my cousin Patricio, and we stayed in a cabin for five days. In this place, we spend the nights around a bonfire talking about our lifes and laughing, and at day, we went for long walks near the river. This holidays were very fun because I was happy with my friends, in a beautiful place close to the nature.  

This is for now, see you all the next week =)

 

This is " La Rufina" 

A country I would like to visit

      Hello! Today I will talk about a contry I would like to visit, I hope that this happen very soon. I only know parts of Chile, so It's one of my wishes to know another parts of the world. I would like to visit China, India, Iceland and Russia, but at this moment of my life, my whishes are focused in England. I would like to visit this country because It's a place with beautiful architecture, good people and a very different and rich culture. I have some knowledge about this country, basically related to music and culture, like some things about its buldings like the Big Ben, royal family and information about music because this is the country of one of my favorite bands in the world: The beatles. If I have the possibility to travel to England, I would like to visit all the country, but mostly, the city of Liverpool, because this is the city where the members of The beatles were born. In Liverpool, I would like to visit places related to the history of my favorite band, such as "The cavern club", where they gave their first presentations, Abbey Road ( the place of one of the most mitically pictures in the history of music) and Saville Road, the place where they played the famous " Roof top concert". Furthermore, it's one of my plans in the future, to be able to go and study some degree related to children and adolescents psychology. 

See you in the next post. Bye!!!!

This is Abbey Road!!! A beautiful picture

My first term of 2012

       

         Hello!! today I will talk about my firs term of this year. My first term of the 2012, was an interesenting time, because I was taking an active part in a lot of things. In first place, I took subjetcs that need a lot of practice rather than a theoretical learning, that was the method of the previous semesters. I learned a lot of thing about childhood and adolescence, that is the subject that it will be my specialization in a short time . In addition to, I was participating in two assistantship , one of Clinical Psychology and the second was Neurophysiology, in wich I learned a lot of things, but it was a lot of work too. In my free times, I was participating in a theater class, where at the final of the semester, we represented a play. On the other hand, the challenges and problems that I had to face during the semester, were mainly related to organize my time, and be able to do all the things I had to. Besides, during june and july, I was working at Censo 2012, and it was very fun, but it was a job which requires a lot of time as well, so it was very tiring. However, I always had the time to share with my family and boyfriend, so it was a very good first term of 2012 for me. 
Bye! =)

SECOND SEMESTER