English language Challenges

Studyng a diferent language represents always a big challenge. And that not only because a new language require a lot of time to learn it well, it is also very important to incorporate the  new grammathic structure of the language and manage it well. And that isn't a easy work to do for us as spanish speakers, because english  have a very diferent grammathical structure that forces to think the language in a completly new form. A example for that is the verb 'to be', that for a spanish speaker can have two diferent meaning, namely, 'ser' or 'estar' depending of the context of the sentence. But, at the other hand, english learning have a big advantage: English is nowadays the universal language of the whole world. This special condition of english makes it a little more easier to learn, because it is very easy to get in contact with the language throught tv series, movies, books, adverticements, etc. Fortunately, this special condition makes that at least a basic level of english 'floats in the air and can be catch by anyone'.

I think for me isn't very dificult english to speak and learn, maybe because I already know the german language that seems like english. Despite that, knwoing german has also a bad side: I tend to confuse some words or expresions of the two languages. 

The english lessons have been a successful experience for me because it give me a instans to write and think in english, that is always a good excercise to practice a language. I think that a method like this, that is focus in the use of the language and not only in memorize it, is better to learn it because the method makes sense to the student and not only force him to do some things in order to reach a sufficient level of english.     

My future job

I don't know what I will work at in the future, the only thing that I'm pretty sure is that I will not work as a tipical sociologist. I know that it sounds very naive, but I really expect that in the future I won't do the same work as a tipical sociologer of our country. The reason behind my determination is that I hate my career when it becomes a meaningless practice, like the sociologers that spend much of their workdays studyng irrelevant things like the toothpaste preferences of the old people or the sexual behavior of the women after eating a chocolate tablet. Thatsway for me is very important to find a workplace in where I can do something full of meaning for me, like for example work in a ONG that thinks about the way of making a society without pollution and poverty, or maybe work with people that are thinking to implement a new social model. All this options would be nice for me, but I know that it isn't easy to find such a job, thatsway it is importan to do things every time in order to reach a good job and not only sit down on a chair and wait to get it. Based in this conviction I started to write my ideas in a notebook, tryng allways to give them a clearly structure that could be understand by anyone. I'm convinced that only through this efforts I will get a job that will be in the line of my thoughts and beliefs and not only sell myself to the labour market.      

Discrimination

Discrimination isn't a isolated problem of some people, in fact it is one of the most important aspects of the human being. This is a very sad reality that every society and also every single person of the world should fight, but there is some obstacles that make it a difficult fight to win. The first difficulty come from the psychological structure of the human being. It is wellknown that one way to give yourself as a person more selfconfidence and esteem is to discriminate another person and make him fell bad. That also works to hide your own problems, because when you discriminate somebody you externalyse your own problems and weaknesses. At the other hand, in what social life refer, the discrimination works reforcing the social links of a human group by damaging another group that is consider from the principal group as an inferior one. One historic example is the german people against the jews in the second world war, period inwhich the nazis built their own identity in opposition of the jew identity.
Thatswhy discrimination is a difficult human problem to fix. A lot of scientist and thinkers believe that it isn't posible to change this situation because the tendency to discriminate is one of our deeplier instincts. Howerever, in my personal opinion, I believe that we aren't totally governed by our tendency, we can change this situation if we take more conscious control of our cultur enviroment. And that's because the human cultur is the most poweful weapon that we have created, it can transform our way of life like not other animal can do. Then, why wold be so imposible for the humang being to change a basic tendency, if our culture do that every time?   A cuestion that we all should think about.        

How green are you?

If I have to give an answer to the cuestion "How green are you?" i would probably answer that I isn't  green enough. This afirmation doesn't mean that I pollute more than the normal people, in fact I practitice some habits that not every people do like riding to the university with my bike or recycling part of my trash. The reason that support my initial afirmation is that I think that we all should do much more for the envirommet to fix the huge ecological crisis that we produce with our urban way of living.  First of all, I think that we all should turn off our electric devices like the TV or the computer while we don`t use them. It's very annoying to see how many families let the TV on only to hear the noise of this infernal device! Other basic issue to save the planet is to save water. It is so common to see people that brush their teeth with the tap water open and the water flowing like a little waterfall. That should be change also! Other important point is to change the consume habits. If we try to reuse and not to throw away the things when they become "out", the mass of full of enthropy human objects would be reduce and that has a powerful impact on the ecosystem.
All the examples that were exposed in this article can help to fix the damage produce by us, and also there are a lot of more suggestions that you can follow to change this situation. But in general therms It isn't posible to revert the ecological crisis if we don't do a deep transformation of our social structures, like the economy or the sciencies. I'm convinced that only a new society that wouldn't be build over the consumism and the competence can face this challenge.    

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My best Holydays: A trip with my schoolclass

In 2008 January my class and I had our study trip in high school. We went to Brazil for 10 days and we were like 30 people. We worked trough all 2007 collecting money to pay the cost of the trip. 
Of course we didn't collect enough money to pay everyone's ticket, so we shared out what we have with our classmates who had the biggest economic problems.
In Brazil we went to Camboriú, a seaside city with amazing beaches and a humid weather. We had parties every night and we knew there the famous "Caipirinha", obviously I didn't drink a drop. During the day we visited some historic and some entertainment places of the city.
After a few days we went to another fantastic place: Foz do Iguaçu. There we visited the rainforest (actually almost everywhere in that city is a tropical rainforest) and the Iguazú waterfalls (an amazing experience, just look at the picture and you'll nearly understand). 
This falls was truly the best of the trip. You look at them and you start to fell a mix of respect, fear, love and a lot of other feelings. Something wonderful.
There we stayed for two more days and we get back to Santiago. I remember on that day I slept like 24 hours on a row. The trip let me really tired, but it was worthy.
One of the better trips that I've had.