My pet

I have a lovely dog, her name is Flower and she is very affectionate, even with strangers and has many other friends of his race in the neighborhood, all children also like to play with it. Flor came to my house for my birthday, was a surprise gift. She is very sweet and looks like the puppies of TV commercials, it's funny like a little clown and very playful like babies, also she likes to have all the attention of people. The only pet that I had previously was a canary but soon escaped from his cage, I think it is better because now is free, also was not very entertaining.

I think my life would be very different without my pet because she is with me every day and she turn up my mood when I'm worried. I not think it necessary to have a pet, but I have to admit that every day is better if you have one.

I think it's important for children to care for their pets, because they can learn to be responsable, and learn that having a pet can be very entertaining but also they must take good care of it. It is also necessary that pets also feel happy at home.

I personally would consider adopting an abandoned animal, but not now because right now I have to take very good care of Flor, and I want to be a good owner.

I'm so sad about the puppies that were abandoned in Chaiten, but a friend who will be veterinarian told me that in his university had a plan to help them so I think that will be in good hands.

What to do and where to go in Santiago

I think that a tourist can visit many places in Santiago, and although it is not the most entertaining city in the country, Santiago is the capital and you can do many different activities. For example, a tourist (depending on age) may visit the Cerro Santa Lucia, the zoo, the Bellavista neighborhood and many other parts.

In Santiago, a tourist could do many things like go to get some ice cream, make a camping, going to museums, go skiing in the snow or just take a walk and a coffee.

If I had to recommend to a tourist five places to visit I would say:

1) Spend a weekend in the snow. he could take one of the buses that leave daily, and let the ski equipment in the sky park. I recommend this place because there is everything to have a good weekend.

2) I'd also recommend having a picnic in the "Nature Sanctuary", for that would have to leave early in the morning and to take food for lunch, also I recommend to take warm clothes for the evening. I like this place because it is quiet and relaxing.

3) In addition I would recommend visiting the Museo de La Moneda as there are always interesting exhibitions and he can know more of the culture. It would be good to go in the afternoon after lunch.

4) If the tourist liked to visit the snow I would recommend to go ice skating at the Parque Arauco track, it just needs to arrive early and have enough energy, right there is a place for lunch if you get hungry. It can be a fun time but he must be careful of falling.

5) Finally I would recommend going for a drink at a pub in Bellavista to know the city at night, there he can meet some friends. This place is good because he can choose various places.

Before the start of Transantiago I was in the school and I used very little the public transport, so that I can not say much of that time, but I think that the old buses were more uncomfortable and old. Just when Transantiago started I was in the south in vacations and I came to Santiago when the system was starting, so the change was very difficult to me, I had to do a test run to calculate how much I would take me go to the university. In that time, I used to take two bus and it took me like a fifty minutes, and I used to wait in the bus stop even more that twenty minutes, now it’s that much, I think it has been improving a little with time.

I recently changed from home and now I live closer to the university but the problem now is that you never know how time it's going to take the bus to pass, for example, get here I took from twenty minutes to an hour, and this is so much different.

I think that the system is better than in the beginning, but remains a poor transport system because there is no orden of times and Santiago have a lot of jams in the “pick hours” and I think that is even dangerous for people because it can cause a lot of accidents.

So, to improve the system I would regulate the frequency of the buses making it more reliable, that way people have more confidence in the system and I would campaign for people to take the initiative to use other means of transport.

Music

The kinds of music that I like are romantic and “happy music”, when I say “happy music” I am talking about music for dancing, for example merengue, and I listen to other kinds of music too, but I hate metal music, I can´t find it good or pleasant.

So if I must choose, I think that my favourite singer is Juan Luis Guerra, because some of his songs are nice to listen, and others good for dancing. So my favourite song to listen is “quisiera” and my favourite song to dance is “me enamoro de ella”.

My first encounter with music was when I was very young and I listened to “Mazapán” with my brothers, but as I got older I changed my musical tastes. For example, the first time that I went to a concert was one of Shakira`s (very different from Mazapán), and I also went to see Arjona several times because I like his music too.

Looking back, when I was only a little girl I dreamed of being a singer many times because I liked to sing and watch music videos on television, but then I learned that the life of musicians is very sacrificed, because they spend many days of the year traveling and away from their families and friends. And also obviously I am not talented enought to be a singer.

Know another country

I would like to travel to Colombia because my boyfriend is from this country, so I want to go at there with him. I think that there is a very interesting place because I saw photographs of, for example, the favorite beach of him, Santa Marta, and this is a very beautifull place. And I know that the people there are very sympathetic.

First, I would to visit the city where my boyfriend born (Barranquilla), and then go to visit his family that live there, or near there, to meet they too. After that, I would eat a lot of typicall food (although I've already eaten at his home), and I really want to drink good ron and coffee. I could take photographs in every place that I can know, to keep as a memory of this days. And I would buy a lot of things like ornaments, clothes and food.

I think that, for the moment, I only want to go to Colombia to have vacations, because I want to study here in Chile and end my career soon. But I dont discard live there in the future, for example, If I continue with my boyfriend, but we must not forget that there are parts of that country that are very dangerous. But If you ask me “Which country would you like to go?” I will answer that I want to go to Colombia for have vacations.

My first term

The relevant things that I learnt in the first term was the contents that we reviewed in the five subjects that we had; clinical, educational, legal, community and laboral psychology, because I think that all of these areas of psychology are very important to be a good profesional, so I learnt all that I liked. But one bad thing was the little time that we had to learn the elementary contents of every subject because we only had four months in the first term.

In the first term I had to do sports because in my career it is an obligation do at least two sports in the University, and I decided to do “training and health”. The negative point is that I think this course was very boring, but I think that it is always positive to do sports, so this is the good part of “training and health”.

The most difficult challenge that I had to face was to do a lot of works in groups because it was very difficult to be coordinated. But the best point was that I visited a lot of parts, for example, a community center.

In the first term I was with my friends and my boyfriend a lot of time and that made me happy, so I think that in general I had a good first term.

My ideal job

My ideal job would be work in a center of alternative therapy. In this type of job I could do differents types of therapy, por example, treat patients individually, I belive that following the humanistic approach. But this is not the unique type of work that I could be do. I would love to work with reiki, yoga and other complementary therapies.

I think that in the University I have learned only part of the tools that I need to work on this job, the more traditional theoretical part. So I have to learn techniques outside the University, in specialized centers.

Maybe I can be good at this job because it interest me a lot since some time, so I am very eager to learn this type of techniques and work on it.

I think that get this job will not be very difficult because today are more and more people that are searching to have this type of therapies, and they go to this type of centers, at least that´s the idea that I have because I have heard a lot about this centers and I seen they on many websites. I would love to have my own center of alternative therapies, but I think that is a dream. I have to start little by little, to be as professional as possible.