This is the last one

In this last blog of the semester, I have to talk about English, and my experience in this university regarding to this subject.

I think that it is planned in a very didactic way; it was not at all like school teaches English because we barely had any traditional classes. We used a lot of multimedia contents which we combined with written activities of the book and oral interactions. I enjoyed the movie we watched; also I think it is a very useful way to improve listening and understanding skills.

There was always a part of the class that we used to make blog entries in which we had to talk about different topics and the numbers of words increased every week. It became very challenging and most of the time I had no idea what to blog about, but it was a fun alternative to the traditional kind of learning a subject.

I think there are a lot of things that I have to fix and improve according to English, like my oral interaction skills and my vocabulary, I constantly have troubles with the way I talk, because my lack of vocabulary restricts my oral interactions and sometimes I end up saying something that I was not planning to say. I think I missed the opportunity to talk in English with my mom –she is studying something related to this language- and I will try to improve my fluency doing that.

Finally, and connected with what I just said, I’m not using English so much in my routine, because even though I have the opportunity to talk with somebody in this language, I don’t take it; I think it’s because I’m too lazy to do this. Nevertheless, I always try to watch the TV series that I like with subtitles in order to learn new words J 

Bye!

Future JOB!

Today we have to talk about what job we would like/love to have, but as usual, is becoming very very difficult for me to choose something, so I will go with the easier option, the career that I already chose to study.

 I will choose sociology as my first option, because after all I am studying this. I don’t know what I will do when I finish this career, but I know there is a lot of possibilities. I hope that I will never have to work making surveys, because I think they restrict a rewarding process that can be accomplished with other kind of methods. I would really like to work with anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists making public policies in relation to the topic of Work, because I think that besides Education it is one of the most important areas in which sociology moves. (I expect that, someday, I will finally know what to do with my career choice L )

I choose this career among others because I didn’t have any interest to work with calculus or biology in the future and also because I think it can give me some tools that will help me understand society and work I something that I really care, not like building houses (that was my former career).

If I were in a job interview I would say that among my strengths I count with working well under pressure, being responsible and the interest in learning new things. In regard to my weaknesses I would have to say that the most important ones are my lack of punctuality and my eternal hate to work as a routine.

Thanks for reading this blog entry, goodbye J