Learning English at University is a good experience because it allows us to keep practicing this language, something very important if we consider there are not many chances to do it if you are not directly involved with it.

 English is something that employers ask for you as an applicant for jobs increasingly in this everyday more globalized world. But it’s not only important for this. I like learning English for others reasons too, more important, like watching series without having to read the subtitles or to understand songs.

The English blog really helps to practice that language because it requires me to search for words I didn’t know or popular expressions that are not easy to translate.

Good things of blogging in the English class are practicing the language (like I said before), expressing our ideas in English and knowing about classmates too. I think a bad thing is you have to write in few words topics that demands more explanations.

I know I have to improve my English because I used to talk stuttering, something totally related to my insecurity with the language. So, I’ll have to focus specially on my speaking and listening skills.

If I could change something about the use of the blogs in this class, maybe I’d change the moment when you have to comment others entries because sometimes I don’t know what to say about what I am reading but that’s a problem of my boring head.

Outside the English class I don’t use so much English, but I used to watch a lot of series and hear music in English so I try to understand what people say in this language without drawing on subtitles or lyrics.

Sincerely, this year has been one of the worst in several respects. There has been stressing and terrible facts that I don’t wish they happened in my life.

                First of all, I started the year too worried about my mom and the possibility that she could have breast cancer. The only chance that my mom could have this stupid disease was a shock for me and it makes me think about a lot of sad things of the day my mother passed away. She had to come to Santiago to Fundación Arturo López Perez, one of the best of the country about cancer, to make a biopsy and to know what doctors saw in one of her breasts. Happily, the analysis of the tissue of biopsy doesn’t show anything bad and she is healthy.

                Other terrible thing: In March, a few weeks after I arrived to Santiago from Copiapó to start University, there was a disaster in my city. Unusual weather phenomenon makes rains like few times before in the history of Región de Atacama happened. I had the luck to be in touch with my family all the time and most of them were not affected by the flood but friends and a cousin lost a lot of things.

                And the worst thing it happened to me this year is the unexpected death of a love one who suffers a heart attack. She was about two weeks fighting for her life after a surgery, but she couldn’t survive and left us. It has been one of the saddest things I’ve had to live and I think it’s something I never will able to get over, but I don’t really want to get it over.

                Like someone said, there is no reason to be bitter.

      I really hope next year could be better.

         I do really love summertime, but not because I can travel to amazing places and live unbelievable adventures like tv shows or like people use to post in their social networks. December is one of my favorite months because is the moment when everything starting to end and hopes about holidays comes to reality. January is the month I love most than any other because I love the heat. I love to be in bed knocked out by the 35 degrees.

The reason because I love summer is that I can stay in my city with family and friends, hanging around with them and visiting places such as beaches or valley near of Copiapó.

           This season is the one I wait for because is the moment when I can read a lot of books and write whenever I want without being worried about university works or wasting time assisting to classes I don’t like. My family usually gives me many books of my favorite authors in Christmas, which ones I spend all January reading. Once I end those books I search for others in the web to upload them to my tablet so I keep myself entertained all the time between books and tv series.

         You can see I’m not a person who likes moving and sporting so much, so in this season I use to gain weight (more than others. I don’t have a season when I lose weight :( ). But it’s the moment to reload energy for the rest of the year, I need to do absolutely nothing.