English Language Challenges

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When I started the English classes, I thought that it would be like the classes in the school: with the teacher speaking all the time, and students listening. But I discovered that the things were very different. I like the method of the classes, because they are more educational and didactic. And you can practice all the different skills of the language: speaking, listening, reading comprehension and writing, instead the school, where you only practice writing or reading, but you never speak  so your pronunciation is not very good. I think that is wrong, because If you want to travel or stay in another country, you will need to speak English perfectly.

I believe that my writing has improved a lot. In the past, I didn´t used to write so much like now. But I´m still a little complicated with listening, I think that is the most difficult skill for me. Now that I´m on vacations, I´m going to take advantage, and listening English music and series. I used to do this before, it is so good, because you listen the pronunciation and the way that people speak, so you become used to listen they.

Outside the classes, I didn´t use English in my daily life, but is very useful when I help my sister or my brother in their homeworks, or when I listen a new song, it´s easy for me learn it. I hope that I would travel one day and use everything that I know.

Changes to My Study Programme

Now, the semester is only some days away to finish, and even though I have been here for four months, I think I can say some things about the University and the career that I would like to change. First, I want to say that I like so much the quality of the teachers here and their willingness to teach, and I really love all the subjects that we have, because I think there are interesting and very necessary for our formation like psychologists. nevertheless I think that It would be better If the classes were more didactic, because sometimes, the classes become a little boring, if you are only listening the teacher all the time. Another thing I think is important, is about the workload, there are some works, essays and exams that are not difficult, even so, they become hard because there are a lot of things to do, and sometimes, you don´t have the time to do all these things, so you came stressed and tired, but it wouldn't be necessary, if teachers could organize better, in order not to do and pass all the works at the same time, and the students could do our works better.

The other thing, is not about the teachers or exams, is about the building, I'm sure I'm not the only one who think that there are too little bathrooms, and it is very tedious have to wait for a free bathroom in the breaks, because you waste your time there, when you could be doing something else.

These are the things that I would change, If I could.

Winter Holidays

Even though the winter holidays are some weeks away, I´m thinking about it, and I can´t wait to be free of the  exams, works and all the things that I´m doing now at the University.  Maybe the first week, I will stay at home, spending my time watching tv or writting. But I would like to meet my friends too, because I haven´t seen them for about one month, and probably when I start the classes again, I won´t have much time to go out with them. Maybe we are going to go to the cinema, or have a meeting at someone´s house, we have a lot of things to tell each other.

The other days maybe I will go out with my family, my aunt has a smallholding next to Rancagua, and some weekends we go there,and my uncles make a barbecue. Also in the winter, we use to go to Cajón del Maipo, at least one day a year, so I think we are going to go this year too, Some winters there´s a lot of snow, and we can play with it, and have snow fights, and other winters there´s nothing, but it´s great too, because the landscape is beautiful and we can eat empanadas. 

But there are only suppositions, the only thing that I´m sure, is that I will rest from the University, I´m not thinking about working or studying, I just want to enjoy my vacations.