BLOGGING AT FACSO

This year I started studying at University of Chile. When the year started, they told me about an English course. It was obligatory and had 4 levels, each level last one semester.

I started at level 3 so in this year I should be finishing the course.

I can say that I thought it was a good idea to have this kind of courses because we could dominate English, which is necessary for any career.

But I was in a mistake. I still think it is necessary, but it hasn't help too much for reading text of Anthropology because it is not focused on each career.

However, if you ask me if I have learned English: I do. I just don’t think that I am totally prepared for being a bilingual anthropologist.

But it has not finished for me, because I pretend to keep studying English out of the course. If you are wondering how, I can say:  in part reading text in English and in part, speaking in English with people who know more than me.

Using blogs was funny, although I’m not very comfortable sharing all my hobbies and thoughts. But I’ve progressed in my way of communicating in English (at least I feel like that, I hope I really did).

I think that most of all, I need to improve my way of speaking in English because It is difficult for me to talk even in Spanish. I use to be confused about words and its meanings. But it is something that, like I said before, I’m going to keep learning.

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It is common to make a recount when the year is finishing. Today we are just begging the month number eleven, but we are close to finish classes, so it is a good moment to make it.

This year has been very different from the rest of my life because it is my first year at the University and I had to move to another city and start knowing people again. There have been a lot of changes in my life, some of them have been good, and others weren’t good at all.

 So, this year I had to move to another house twice. I started January living in Talca, as always, but in February I was living in Rancagua; by April I was living in Santiago. It was difficult to learn living in other places but now I can look at the past and say: I’ve survived.

This situation has been a little bad because I don’t like too much living in a bedroom of other house, I feel like I interrupt their life and I can’t feel that room like ‘home’.

 But there is a good part too. In Santiago I’ve met nice people; in fact, I can say that this is the first time that I really like my friends. I used to meet people from my school, but I never really felt like I was in front of the funniest persons of the life. Now I do.

So I can say that this year I learned living under bad –not the worse- conditions at the same I made good friends.

However, there is still year and there are other things that rest to do, for example, I have like 500 pages for read before the year is over.