Self Evaluation of my academic year (2009)

This sort of article or brief essay is going to be very difficult, but useful and positive, because we are not used to thinking in how our year resulted, what were the problems, and also what were the most important aspects of our career, our subjects and our lessons. This year was really very complicated and stressful, but also was a very interesting year. In the first term, I had to take many courses of each one of the lines of psychology, so it gave me an overview of my discipline, which contributed to improve my knowledge and interest on it. In the second half of the year I could choose the lessons and subjects that I wanted which improved the situation, because finally I could feel myself comfortable, calm and interested.
In the first term of the year, the situation becomes a little complicated. Some subjects had not proved what we expected of them. Personally, I hoped to get closer to clinical area and know a little more of it. However, this subject was quite precarious and disorderly. The contents that were taught were not the most appropriate, and we could not really know much about what really does a clinical psychologist in the different areas of this discipline. While other subjects such as occupational and organizational psychology, took care of me through many hard times, and for the first time in my university history I had to give an examination in a subject. However, I had the opportunity to meet educational and community area of psychology, which I find very interesting and attractive.
In the second term of this hard year, I finally had the opportunity to choose the subjects that I preferred to take, which completely changed things and make them better. I choose to take educational, community and child-youth areas of psychology, mainly. This was a great change, because I found a lot of things that I had always be waiting. I really found a reason to study psychology and a goal to follow. I discovered I could mix my passion, theatre, with this discipline to achieve profound social changes, and at the same time to eat (hahaha). I decided to follow the line of educational psychology, for mix it with arts education and community work, and now I feel calm and satisfied.
With no doubt, this year has been a very complicated, stresfull and hard year. But, in the other, this year has been a year where I learned a lot and I also found sense of many things I do. Now I believe that I can work in the real word, without giving up what I believe, my dreams, or my tastes. I'm confident I can change many things, and I am also committed to many projects and activities and hopefully fulfill my promises. I hope that all my dreams come true and I appreciate how hard this year was because it taught me many things.

My faculty

The situation in my faculty has always been a difficult, complicated and agitated. There are a lot of demands of students and employees that haven’t been heard. The grade of participation is very low; nobody gets involved with the demands of this group. Is common to see some students trying to convince other students, but the results are harmful. Many of us have listened their points without any interest although these are very important aspects of our career, and also about our faculty. It seems like anybody would be interest on these. Unfortunately, when people who decide the most important things in our university do what they like to do with our money, or our points of view, it’s so late. Nobody is going to do anything to make the things better, because of you have been wasting your time in other things, less what you should it. I’m not a saint. I haven’t participated on this movement, but I’ve tried. I guess the way to make all thing things better is to create other spaces to participate, different ways to take part of some movement, ways we don’t’ know yet. A first step to resolve this situation and improve this reality is to get a way to include and incorporate other ways to express and communicate. On the first term of this year I tried to concrete this idea with a group of friends. We created the collective “Miercoles” which came to changed way to express and demand. In our group we worked to express our demands in an artistic form. We use to appear the spaces in our university, and our performances took part in the middle of our faculty.
This was a way to take part of the faculty, create common spaces and feel ourselves like true participates and actors.

Friends

Friendship, in my opinion, is one of the most important thing in the life of a person. Without it, is so easy to fell yourself alone, without meaning, boring, distressed o depressed. when you're alone, the life starts to turning into a boring, sad an blue life.
I think a friend is a person who understands you without a reason, and can help you anytime, anywhere, anyway, wichever way you need it. Unfortunately, friends also can commet mistakes o do something that hurts you. But, the most important key to look after friendship is to have the capacity to listen and apologize about your mistakes.

Since I was at school, I have always counted with three friends (sebastian, Diego and Javier)whose are the most important people for me, although sometimes they are a litlee ansensitive and unwise, and they can make a lot of mistakes. Our humor is so black, so cruel that we sometimes think all of us are going to ending at hell. In spite of everything, I love them just like their (and we) are.
I met one of them at kinder garden, so I've known him during fifteen years roughly. However, Sebastian is one of my best friends, but actually he's not my best friend.

My best friend is Javier Bustos and I met him at school, when we were thirteen years old approximately. He came to my school in 2000 because his parents tought he must to change his school into a better one like mine. He's a nice guy, very intelligent and funny. Since that day we always do everything together, because we realised we have the same likes. For example, we always go to recitales of a lot of bands. We love cumbia's bands like Chico Trujillo, Sonora de Llegar, Juana fe and also we love to dance and drink together, and with our others friends. Javier is very worship, he always waste the time reading books of sociology, poems, literature.

My pet: Lennon

My pet Lennon is a dog. we got it in Persa BioBio, when my brother cried and begged to get a dog who was lookin us with his eyes. He conquered us with his blue eyes and his spot in the left eye. He was so cute and small, and appeared tired and sleepy so we could not give in and take him over our house. Overtime he was turning into a spoiled and aggressive dog, because my mother (really everybody in my house) consented him much. he could eat our food, bite our shoes, steal food of the garbage, and anybody said nothing to stop it. So, today Lennon do wathever he wants to do. A really funny anecdote to tell is that Lennon actually is a girl, female, a lady :P. We didn`t notice until a day came what had to come. Our male and macho dog turned out to have menstrual periods :S . however, still adore it, but we have had to change the way we call her, now we tell her: Lennan (because call her: Yokono, was a very extremly change :P). Lennan (or Lennon, or whatever you want to call it) is a very cute and beautifull animal. I think that's the only reason we haven't try to leave her in a empty place or at street. she has very bad temper and sometimes attacks us, but we have learned to live with her. Maybe the onlyy reason why I haven't wanted to give her to a neighbour, that is equal to Chaplin's dog in the film "Life of dog". And, as I am a mime, that could be usefull to create a scene or something like that with my dog

Transantiago, before and after

Since Transantiago begins to work a lot of problems have happened. Many people had to suffer the lack of resources, buses, routes, drivers, and a lot of troubles to arrived to their jobs. however, in this moment we can say that we have a transport system that works in good condition, because the old weaknesses have been overcome and improved over the years, often due to pressure from people. Now, we have more buses, more routes, better drivers, better wages for workers. Moreover, one of the most important problems that resolved this new transport system is to reduce pollution and also de acustic pollution. On the other hand, students also are treated much better now than under the old system (yellow buses). Formerly the bus went at full speed, and many drivers competed for passengers because of the money that they represented. Now, all this is avoided because the new payment system Bip card. Other positive thing is that between trips should not cancel a new tariff, which allows up to 3 trips without paying for more. That's a great idea for students like me, because we can realize 3 trips without wasting any coins.
Finally, I think we still can do much better transport system. For example, implementing a continuous monitoring of the buses, so they can reduce people's waiting times between buses. The gobernment should be really regulates the problem of people who not pay, because without that money is impossible to support a transportation system like this, which is broken. Without this, we will always be forced to inject more and more extra cash to the system, which is useless unless you build a real awareness in people.

A country I would like to visit

One of my favourite places in the world since I was a child is France. I remember I always watched on tv a lot of series of pictures wich showed places of France, a lot of drawings on tv like a dog or a racoon? (It doesn`t matter) with a red scarf and a black beret, wearing a black and white vest, so romantic and leading, all of this accompanied by music of accordion. I have always loved the romance, courtesy and the magic of the france people, their mysticism, their sensuousness, etc. Also I also like very much the film "Paris Je'taime" which shows some stories about love in Paris and it's very interesting and magic. I still believe Paris has all this charm. For the other way, I've always admired their artistic expressions, specially the mime arts. I'm mime and I've always admired and followed the creation and job of Marcel Marceau, the best exponent of mime arts. for this reason I would like to go to France to keep there for a long time to learn more about the incredible art of mime just right where its borned. I pretend to travel to France (or another country of Europe) to study mime and improve my artistic potential playing in the streets of Paris, creating characters, like a tramp or a mime-clown whose make the passer-by audience enraptured by his tenderness and spontaneity.

The first term

My first term was a terrible and nasty one. when I began the classes of this year, I had a lot of ilussions and hopes with the subjects, but along the term I was discovering that I was wrong. about some subjects I still believe it can be a social and educational contribution, in all the ways, as Educational and Community Psycologhy, but in the other hand know I really hate other subjects. However, the term also had a good points, like other activities I did. I began to work in Crearte, doing lessons of arts to children in social risk. In the lessons children could learn teathre, acrobatics, mime, dance, etc and all of them had a good time and learned to respect each other. I tought that was the best point of my first term in personal terms, because I want to work in something like this when I finish my carrer, for that reason I hope to continue working in this corporation. On the hole, I should say that my first term wasn't so horrible as I tought. Even tought I didn't like the subjects, there was a lot of challenges I had to face. I work with mime organization of Chile, and in the begginnig of this year we planned the thirst mime encounter in Casa Colorada Museum and I had to organizate it and also to act everyday during two weeks. it was very exciting, but also I was so exhausting.
In general, I would say that in relation to my artistic and professional interests this first term was so rewarding.