English Language Challenges

Hi bloggers! today is my last post on this blog, so I will talk about english courses at university. 
First of all I would like to tell you that I took 3 courses at university (levels 2,3 and 4) and I think it was awesome because the main reason why I took english 3 and 4 after 2 was that it was a really interesting class, it was funny, relaxed and also very helpfull in the learning part, because it is not the common way of taught it, it is a lot more real since the moment that they teach you how to face real life's situations in this foreign language (english).
About the use of blog I think it is a good tool to learn and practice english language. I had to wrote them in level 3 and 4 and even when it was tedious sometimes, I think it helps me a lot to progress and increase my vocabulary.
I think what I have to improve the most in english is my speaking, but most of all because I have lack of confidence when I speak in front of someone else, so I want to improve that travelling to places where I can practice this.
Beside this class I use my knowlodge of english to understand most of all scientific papers, studies, etc,. It is also a selective tool at the moment of postulate at a lot of jobs and that makes it a very important language to manage. In addition is importat to know english when you travel, because it is the most common and universal language in the world. 
Good bye bloggers! See you around :)

Year 2014: Good and Bad Points

Hi Bloggers, today I will talk about good and bad points about year 2014. We are already close to the end of it, so it is time to do it.
This year has been very exhausting but I think that's a good thing because it means that I do a lot of stuff, and I really do. 
Every year I expect to do a lot of things but nothing in particular, I mean what I want every year is to do things that I could keep on my memory forever, and this year I did at least 2 stuff that I would foundly remembe. First of all I started my year with the right foot, doing a 5 days trekking for the first time on my life with my sister and with no physical conditions at that moment but we did it succesfully, so even when at the second day I was already deeply regret about it, at the end (fiveth day) I felt the joy for my achievement.
And the second one, is to be part of the student union of my career that most of the time gives me a headache, but at the end I think that I will get useful lessons for the future.
An achievement that makes me proud of, is make sports part of my life again, because thanks to that my life has been so much colorful now than last year.
I think that the only pending stuff that I have to do this year, is to approve all my subjects at the University, and I am working to make it possible (finger crossed)

Facebook

Hello bloggers today's topic is Facebook! In my case I don't use it very much and when I do is because I'm bored and I have nothing else to do (at least that I WANT to do) and most of the time that I have to use it, is because it's a common and easy way of communicate with my friends or classmates to make some group work because we can discuss about it and do it fast without having to leave my house to do it.
I think that the most helpful use is to connect people all over the world, because now you can speak and see them by a videochat by facebook and it's cheaper than speaking by phone.
Another hepfully stuff that facebook gives is the "birthday reminder" because I'm really bad with dates. I think that in generally it's a good virtual space to share some things like travel photos, but I really hate people that share too much information! like what are they doing or what are they eating or if they're tired or angry or whatever, I mean who cares? I really think that is very annoying and that people have no personal lifes! 
Some of the bad things that Facebook cause is that people start to prefer comunicate with each other in this "virtual relationship" which I think it's awful because they are losing so much knowlodge from the others, I think that people isn't the same in person than under a screen.
I think facebook is a great virtual platform to communicate but only when you have some limits to do it, because it isn't the only way, or the easiest, is just the most "comfortable" (lazy) one.

How green I am

Hello Bloggers, today's topic is something that everybody talks nowadays: Environment. What kind of things we do to contribute to preserve it? I think not so much because many times we don't have the tools to do it. In Chile there are few programs that promote enviromentally friendly practices, but since 2007 when the Environment Ministry was created, some environmental rules, in agriculture for example, were truly regulated like greenhouse gas emissions, water management, etc.. Maybe there's not a perfect regulation, but I optimistic think that we're on way to do it.

I personally admit that in my house there's no recycling management because we have no near store place to left that trash and make the management worth, 

Also I think that even when there is a lot of information about it, there is no always accessible for people, or there's no big promotion of it, besides the fact that it should be something teach at school but it isn't.

To contribute to preserve the environment I prefer to walk or to use a bus or subway to travel than get to anywhere by car, even when I have a licence, a car to do it and a common route that is traffic jum free, but I prefer no to use it because I really think that is unnecessary pollution and also much more expensive than public transport in my case.

I haven't joined or supported any eco-organisations because I don't trust in them, maybe I'm too mistrustful about it but I just can't trust them.

Anyway I repeat that the only way of progress in this matter is teaching about it in every school of our country. And obviously having politics that could guarantee environmental's preserving.

Trash Management

Hi Bloggers! Today's topic is Trash Management, this is about specifically of Municipal solid waste (MSW) wich is also known as garbage or trash. This is everything we use everyday and throw away like bottles, clothes, food waste, product packaging, furnitures, newspaper, etc...

The trash management could be understand in different ways:

• Source Reduction: This is the design of products that minimise the amount of waste that later will be thrown away. 
• Recycling: Is the recovery from trash of useful materials like glass, metals, plastics and paper to make some new products.
• Composting: This envolves the collection of organic waste like yard trimming, food waste or animal's waste. It should be storage under designed conditions to be useful as a fertilizer later. (Chemical process)
• Energy recovered from waste: Is the conversion of non-recyclable waste materials into useable heat, fuel or electricity. I think this is the biggest achievement on this study field.

In Chile, we have a really few knowlodge about trash management or, actually, thoughtlessness about the destiny and damage that we produced everytime we throw away our waste, but I think that gladly everyday there are some much more people interested on it.

In Chile we have 2 companies that work on trash management KDM, and EMERES (just in Santiago). 

EMERES is a private company that brings a lot of services at the 21 Municipalities associated, such as Management of municipal solid waste, inspection of landfills and transfer stations, Minimise the amount of solid waste and also they make studies, personnel training, and counsels.

I think we have all the conditions to make a trash management but we must to educated the society first, starting in school to create conscience since child.

My future job

Hello my dear bloggers, today I would like to told you about my dreamed future job, wich I hope it could be truth some day! 

Well, as you know I'm studyng Agronomic engeneering so I really want to work outdoor, watch all the plant's growth and people working in the field, at least for my that is a beautiful picture. So my dreamed future work is on a flower field, but I would loved to have my own flower field on greenhouses but for that I need to have some money to begin it, and for that I'll have to work really hard at first.

I know that the flower's business is hard but I can't avoid to loved the idea of it. I think this love for flowers is because of my dad who had every year a little garden of liliums in diferent colours, and in the harvest season (summer) my house looks so beautiful with lilums everywhere.

I would like to study more about this, but first I want to do a profesional practice in a flower field on Holland, New Zealand or Australia (in order of preference) and for that I'm already saving money and planning everything to (I hope) doing it on 2016 with all of my subjects pass in the University. 

Genetic Modified Organisms

Hi bloggers, today i'll talk about GMOs or Genetic Modified Organisms. 
First of all I would like to say what they are, GMOs are refered to a living organisms that has been genetically modified by molecular genetic techniques like protein engineering or gene cloning. This GMOs can be used in different areas like agriculture searching for a solution to malnutrition in poor countries, in other cases are used to create plants resistant to diseases or pesticides for example. Another area where GMOs could be used is the fish industry specifically salmons where they selected some genes that could improve the number of eggs and also they modified this fishes to live only in the ocean without to travel to rivers avoiding hemorrhages in the salmons.

In this blog I want to talk specifically about plants and food that has been genetically modified, I think they are useful in the management of crops because it allow to use some herbicides for example to kill every plant present in the field except for the Genetic modified crop of interest, because it has a resistant to the weed-killer. Even when it is a solution for a lot of problems in the agriculture management it is a solution for world nutrition too, because there are some crops genetically modified for nutriotional facts like addition of proteins, antioxidants, vitamins, etc...
However there is no establish control about this matter and the risk of contamination to other native crops its too high and that is the big problem today, so in that context it could be really harmful for biodiversity of the world besides the lack of awareness of society in this matter.

Food and Sustainability

Hello bloggers! Today's topic is food and sustainability about it I would like to talk about an interesting video "7 food forests in 7 minutes with Geoff Lawton" about permaculture.

Geoff Lawton shows how the design of sustainable systems can improve the soil conditions for agriculture. 

He analized his system in 7 different stages of growth and different seasons, showing the changes in the ecosystem like presence of nodules in the soil added to the plant's roots, diameter of canopys over the time, etc..

In my personal opinion I think this is a system based on people's concern about future wich is a really nice sign, because permaculture is a solution for resources shortage, and also a solution for remains control.

In Chile, we have a lot to work on it, because we don't have the tools as society to make a sustainable country. Everyone should be educated on this matter at school and that way we could have a brilliant future in the hands of the future society.

So, come on! be inspired and search about it to be able to help with a grain of sand to our future.

Post 1: A country I'd like to visit

Hello bloggers! Today I would like to talk to you about another country that I'd like to visit, Holland.

I think this country its really beautiful, with an unique culture and it had a great diversity of natural attractions beside the famous flowers.

I would really like to taste some of their foods like a Stroopwafel wich its a traditional cookie of Holland or some Snert wich its something like a soup. I also liked to known the flower fields and maybe work in some of them. The flower festival had catch my attention since I knew it exist. The flowerist made really big figures with nothing but flowers and they show them to the crowd in a parade from Noordwiik to Haarlem (42 km).

I would like to know Amsterdam and visit some Chilean friends that I met on summer how live there. I would like to go all over this city on a bike, walk over the beautiful bridges and go though the canals in boat.

Finally I want to add that I really loved Holland’s culture and I hope to know this country soon…

A country I'd like to visit

Hello everyone! today's topic is travels. Since I was a child I dreamed about visiting differents countrys all over the world and actually until today I dreamed about visit Morocco, there's something about the sand, the culture and their food that makes me enthusiastic about knowing it. I would like to visit saidia's beach, also to visit the Sahara desert, and finally visit the city of Marrakech, wich is the biggest touristic city of Morocco, in there you can visit the Majorelle garden, the 170 Saadíes graves, Alaminar of koutoubia (praying place) and Zocos of Marrakech (street market). 

I also must said that i'm interested in this country in only a tourist way, i would't like to live or work in there because of their sexist culture and my vision of today's women. 
If I had to lived in another country I would prefer New Zealand, because I think it's a great country in every posible ways.
Finally I would like to say that travelling today it's so much easy than 20 years ago, because there are more posibilities for pay that trips and also there's a lot more information and conection between countrys all over the world.

My favorite film

 

Today's topic is films, I really love to watch a lot of them. I specially like the comedy films, romantic and drama films, and sometimes animated ones too. My favourite actors are Robert Downey Junior from drama/action movies, Jack Nicholson and Leonardo Di Caprio from the classic films and Michael Cera from the newest films. My favourite actress are Keira Knightley in romantic movies, Kathy Bates and Meryl Streep in classic comedies and romance films.

If you ask me if I have a favourite director, I really can't say I do because there are so many good ones now that it's difficult choose one, but I always like the classic ones as Quentin Tarantino with Kill Bill (vol. 1 and vol. 2) and Django, or Tim Burton with movies like Edward Scissorhands or Big Fish, what I like about this director is that in all of their films they left their signature and it makes them uniques in the film industry.

Another difficult question is "What's my favourite movie?" because I loved a lot of films, but If I have to pick only one, I choose Pride and Prejudice based on the novel by Jane Austen, I don't know why, but I could see that film a hundred of times and everytime I'll find something else to love about it, from the clothes, to the story and the landscape that it's very beautiful. I also like the actors and actress that work in that movie, they've made a really good job performing the characters.

 

Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett. Pride and Prejudice.

 

 



"If people really wanted ethically produced products, they would already be buying them"

Today’s society is worry about the composition, origin and manufacture of food, however the time is money, so it’s not a priority because this products are expensive and hard to find also a few of them are really what they appear to be, like organics, ethically produced, innocuous, etc…

I think it should be a governmental issue to promote consume of innocuous and ethically produced products, because it’s something good for society’s health, they should protect us, having laws to control the big companies and check outs of the products such as vegetables.

In the case of vegetables in Chili there is not precaution about control of pesticides, fertilizer, etc… that affects directly in humans health. In the other hand fruits are mostly very innocuous products because it’s a business focus on exportation, staying in Chili the “worst products” which means the fruit that doesn’t have the necessary requirement of color, size, shape between others.

My favorite photograph

Hello everyone! Today I would like to show you one of my favorites photographs, I choose it because it was took in a special moment of my life where I was trying to refound myself and this place was so magic that I really reconect myself with nature, my sister and happiness.

Tantauco's park, Chiloé island.

The photograph was taken in Tantauco's park ubicated in Chiloé's island (nearly to Quellón), this summer (2014) and it was took by my sister. 

She and I have an amazing trip doing a really hard and difficult trekking of 54 kilometers; we end it with a lot of wounds (injurys), really tired and wet because of three days of rain, but still we felt happy and proud of ourselfs. 

If you ask me "Why I love this picture?" I can tell that the answer its easy for me.. because that photograph shows one of the biggest adventure that I had in my and also the beauty of the landscape, the colors, the wood and of course the always green forest.
I hope you'll enjoy this picture as much as I do!
See you readers!

Yann Arthus-Bertrand: A wide-angle view of fragile Earth

The topic of the video "A wide-angle view of fragile Earth", by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, was about human relationship with the earth in every possible ways, I mean, the french expositor didn't used the typical ecological approach because he combined it with peoples relationships at each other. 
Across the presentation, Yann Arthus-Bertrand gave some alarming numbers related to important consecuences of global warming, like the amount of CO2 emitted by a simple plane flight (9 tonnes), and insterest fact like 100 percent of the coral in Coral reef in Caledonia, may be wiped out before 2050 affecting sea biodiversity. He also shows pictures about the consecuences of global warming in mountains wich have loose over an 80 percent of it ice, and how in north pole the thickness of the artic decreased more than 40 percent since 1960.

"One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live" said the french guy, and then included "Today now 70% of the fish stock are over-exploited", this last sentence can be traduce it in that the sea resouces will be gone in 2050.
In my opinion this is a very dificult and alarming situation, because as Yann Arthus-Bertrand said "We don't want to believe what we know about polution", so if the agents of world warming (ourselfs) don't want to accept a change in out life and let rest the earth, we are condemn our own lifes and future humanity.

Post 2 : Writing about statistics

In the following graph, we can see how world's population have change over 200 years. In the period 1800-1850 population in the world remained steady, buy from 1850 to 2000 the number of people in the world grew significantly.

 In Chile, in the period 1907 to 2002 population's numbers have a constant rising, although the predictions shows (no in this graph) that in 2050 Chilean's population will remain steady for a while.

 Now, comparing world's and chilean's situation to Argentina, the graph it's very similar, with no decreases in the period 1860 to 2000.

Finally, seeing the graphs in three diferent study levels, we could conclude that in general in the hole world the population is growing fast, but in some point it will remain steady because of the decline of natural resources.

About myself

Hello readers, this is the first time that I'm writing in my blog, so I would like to start introducing myself to you. 
I'm Camila Poblete, I'm 21 years old, and I live in Santiago, Chile since the day of my birth. At my short age, I can tell that I'd always been interested in a lot of extra-curricular activities from social works and political stuff, to sports and arts, specifically dance; however today I'm doing a different kind of sports like yoga and trekking, and also a differente kind of social works and political stuffs like going to student protest and actions to preserve natural resources. I think that's part of growing up, right?
Ok, that's all for today. See you, dear bloggers.