jueves, 25 de noviembre de 2010

blog 8

Chile 2010: bicentennial year

In this year, 2010, our country Chile, celebrates 200 year of independence. This celebration was commemorated the past September 18°, in honor to the first cabinet meeting. This is a good moment to reflect about these two hundred years of history.
What have we done in these two hundred years? Has had Chile a big progress as a country? Everybody feels the same about it?

I have to say that our country has progressed a lot in these last years. Chile has become in one of the most influential countries of Latin America. Our economic development has increased; we have a lot of trade agreements with important countries from other continents, which help us to expand our economic horizon. Chile has a lot of income in different areas, like mining industry (cooper), export fruits and wine, and so on. The per capita income this year is around US$14.299, which means that every Chilean person should earn about $6.892.118. But is that real? Are we at least near of this figure? It sounds almost like a bad joke, how can be possible that with this per capita income we have a minimum salary of $172.000 that is equivalent to $2.064.000 a year?

This is the point where our country hadn’t work enough or efficiently. Here are a lot of differences of social classes, I know that it would be an utopia that everybody earns the same salary, but I think is necessary to distribute the resources in an equitable way.
Chile has so bad distributed the resources that we can compare us with Africa in this point. Our county has developed a lot in the last time, but people don’t feel it in their everyday. The most of the money is concentrated in a little group of people, powerful people; while the majority of our population belongs to the middle class and has to satisfy with a salary of 300.000 as average, because in many cases it is lower.

As you can see, Chile has progressed a lot in these years, but it has to be not only for a few people. The big task of the current and future presidents is to help people that really need it, because until the moment only the powerful people have filled their pockets of money.

miércoles, 24 de noviembre de 2010

blog 7: travels

Hello everyone!

Today I’m going to tell you about travels. I have to say that I have had not a big travel in my life, but that doesn’t means that I don’t like to do it. I thing travels are a good opportunity to relax, to know new places and just enjoy what that place offers to you. I prefer places near of the beach, I love to go to the beach, to watch the see and eat seafood. Definitely, holidays are the best occasion to travel, because we haven’t to think in the university and our parents haven’t to think in their jobs, also in holidays is summer, the perfect season for me.

The biggest travel that I have done was the past holidays, I went to Villarrica. My boyfriend was there with his parents and sister; I went after them because I was working here in Santiago when they went there. I traveled all the night by bus, the travel was very very long, about 11 hours. Villarrica is lovely, there are a lot of trees and nature there, I love it!

I had a really good time, we went to a lot of lakes that are near there. The Villarrica lake was the most that I liked. I didn’t know any lake, so that was the first time that I visited one. I think a lake is better than the see because there are not waves so you can swim relaxed without problems. Also the water has not

miércoles, 17 de noviembre de 2010

blog 6: Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

Hello everybody!
In this opportunity I’m going to talk about films. First of all I’m going to tell you the kind of movies that I like to watch, I like horror, thriller and romantic movies. I am not a films fanatic, first I like to know trailer and if I think that it´s interesting, then I watch the movie. Although I prefer to go to the cinema.
I like a lot of movies that I have seen, buy today I’m going to tell you about one in especial: “Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind”. I really like this film so I want to share with you about it. It is starring kate Winslet and Jim Carrey. This a very original romantic film, because the protagonists are very common and imperfect people. I really like that because I was used to watch this kind of movies that had very perfect protagonists like the princess and the prince, where everything is love and their relationship is beautiful and their love is bigger than everything.
This movie shows an impulsive woman and an introverted man that have a relationship. In the beginning everything is fine, but then they started to discuss and they break up. The woman (Clementine) decides to erase her memory with a doctor to forget the man (Joel). When he knew what she had done he decides to do the same. But the destiny had something prepared for them. They meet again and they fall in love again.
The story is told in a particular way, it has not a chronological order, but it started by the end and reach to the beginning of their relationship, it’s very interesting.

blog 5: Learn while you are sleep

Hello everyone!
Today I’m going to talk about the myths of the human brain that we read in the paper and the class done by Doctor Maldonado about it. It is a difficult topic for me because I don’t know too much about it, but I will use the class like my bibliography.
The myth that I consider more interesting is: Learn while you are sleep. I ask to myself why can’t this be real? It would be amazing, I just listened the classes in the night and it doesn’t be necessary to study too much, just studying something in the day and then listening the records in the night it would be enough to learn well and have good marks.
But it is too beautiful to be truth, this is not real. It’s truth that while we are sleeping the brain is working, but it has not the same level of working that it has during the day. While we sleep, we rest of all our worries, if we could learn in that moment we would be very tired and also, it woudn’t be a myth, everybody would be listening something in the night and everybody would have very good marks.
Like we can’t learn while we are sleeping we just have to study more, but something interesting that Dr Maldonado said is that to learn very well something we have to study and then we have to sleep to consolidate the knowledge. It’s different that the myth says but It’s a good tip to us.

martes, 19 de octubre de 2010

blog 4: stress

Hello everyone!

Today I have to talk about stress and work, so I think that this is a very interesting topic, because nowadays it is one of the most common problems in our society. There are a lot of things that today can take you to the stress. We know that Chile is one of the countries with more hours of work in the world, so we are more tired because of that, also a lot of people are studying or doing some advanced courses so they have a double job. Women are very stressed because they have even a triple job, including work, the house, kids and so on.

So all this conditions of our society can take us to stress, but how can we know when we are stressed? There are some symptom and sings that we can recognize:
- Headache
- Stomachache, gastric ulcers
- Nauseas, vomiting
- Tachycardia
- Nervous habits
- Problems to sleep
And so on.

Stress can brings you a lot of problems with you family, friend, with your job partners and every place where you are. Stress can damages you in everything you do, in all your activities, you could have problems in you job because you are not in good conditions and if you are student it could damages your performance and your grades. As you see it is not only a problem with you body and health, but it also means a problem with the people that shares with you and in your performance in everything you do.

martes, 12 de octubre de 2010

blog 3: A healthy lifestyle

Hello everybody!

Today I’m going to tell you through the blog about a healthy lifestyle. First of all I would like to say that this is a topic very important because nowadays there are a lot of diseases related with an unhealthy lifestyle. In these days I think that is harder to have a healthy lifestyle, with all the technology that we have, now everything is easier and handier than before. Things are designed to be fast and disposable, for example, people don’t cook anymore, they buy fast food. People don’t go up the stairways, they use the elevator.

All these advances have done of us lazy people with an unhealthy lifestyle. So ¿What is a healthy lifestyle? Well, it consists in feed with a balanced diet, eating food of all the food groups but with different proportions, following the food pyramid. Also it consists in to do exercise at least 3 times at the week. It seems very easy, but we know that around 90% of the population is sedentary and almost the 50% are overweight and obese.

Like future health professional we have to educate the community in healthy lifestyles mainly people with a low social class, because in these people sedentary and obesity are increased. Furthermore healthy lifestyle means all the actions that help us to have a healthy life, for example and from the point of view of my career, to use condom is very important to prevent some sexual transmission infections. So a healthy lifestyle covers everything related with a healthy life, not only food and exercises.

jueves, 9 de septiembre de 2010

blog 2: favorite get-away

Hello everybody!

In this opportunity I have to talk about my favorite get –away, but really I don’t have one. So I’m going to explain where I like to go in general. When I am in holidays I like to go to the beach, I really don’t care what beach in specific, if it’s in the north, in the south or in the center of the country; what I like is to travel far from Santiago and all its pollution. When I’m tired because of the university, the ideal would be go to the beach for a weekend, and it would be perfect id I go with my boyfriend.

Also I like to go there in summer, I love to swim in the sea, to spend time with my family and if it’s possible with my boyfriend too. I like to eat seafood and fish in the restaurants, I think this is the season where I eat more seafood in the year.

I would like to live near of the see and can watch everyday its beautiful color, feel the marine breeze and enjoy the nice climate, not too cold not too hot. Besides the people that live out of Santiago are very kind, the environment is so peaceful, so nice.

So, if anybody wants to invite my anywhere, the best option is the beach.

jueves, 26 de agosto de 2010

blog 1: music

Hello everyone!

Today is an important day because this is my first blog in this semester and I’m glad that the topic chosen by us is music.

I really like music, I like gothic metal style, but I can listen to another kind of music too. I like some bands where the vocalists are women, I like the lyric style with choirs and violins, but I like the rock as well, with a more heavy style. I have some basic knowledges of music because I sang in a choir during 3 years approximately and I learned how I should breathe to sing and other things like train my ear. Also my boyfriend studies music and sometimes he teaches me some general things, so I learn a little more about it.

Generally I listen to music when I am using the computer or when I’m tiding up my bedroom or my house. I like to listen to the music very loud because at the same time I sing the songs very loud too.

My favorite band is “After forever” they are from Netherlands, the vocalist was Floor Jansen, I love the way she sings, she has a very powerful voice, she can sing in a lyrics and also in a rock style, I really admire her. Now the band doesn’t exist, but I could saw them when they came to Chile in 2005.

jueves, 1 de julio de 2010

blog 9

Hello classmates!

Today I’m going to tell you about my blogging experience. Well, for my the blogging experience was very funny, I really liked have to write about a topic and express my self. I liked the topics too, I think they where very interesting because they where related with our career, so I could say everything that I wanted, even I could talk about the Lacuna coil’s concert in the blog 7. Also the blogging experience was very easy for my, because If I didn’t know some words I could use “wordreference”, and it helped to me to learn more words like connectors and helped me to have a more fluent writing.

In my opinion, this is very funny and useful way to learn more English, to increase our vocabulary and it helps us to think in how we can write our ideas in English. Besides we had to comment to our classmates, so we had to read what they wrote and understand it, for that reason I think that was important to comment to our classmates. About their blogs, I really liked to read the Pía’s blog, because I think she expressed very well her ideas in English.

jueves, 24 de junio de 2010

blog 8

Hello everyone!

In this opportunity I’m going to talk about my ideal job. In blog 5, I told you about all the places where I want to work, but today I’m going to tell you about only two of them, because they are the most that I like.

I would like to work in the public system in a “consultorio”, because I think that in this place I can help to the women to know and understand what happen with their bodies; I think this is a very good place to educate to the people. Besides I like a lot the gynecological and sexuality area, and in this place I can do both.

The other place where I want to work is in my own “birth’s house”, as I told you in blog 5 this is one of my projects. Here I want to receive the healthy pregnant women and help them assisting labor and birth. My ideal would be to check all the process of pregnancy and then to assist them in my birth’s house. In this place the environment will be very peaceful, and the service will be like teachers have taught us, with support, comprehension and everything that women need and deserve.

jueves, 17 de junio de 2010

blog 7

Hello everybody!

Today I will tell you about my experience this past Tuesday in the concert of one of my favorite bands of music called “Lacuna Coil”.

I knew that they will come to Chile the past Saturday, my sister call me to tell me, we didn’t know that they will come to Chile, we never saw any publicity about it, she knew because her friend told her. In that moment I thought that I had to go. I passed all the weekend thinking about the concert and that I haven’t enough many to go, but finally I decided to go. I bought the ticket the past Monday in the mall, so the Tuesday I came to university and after English class I stayed a while studying waiting for the hour to go. I met with my sister at 7 o’clock at Santa Ana subway station, and then we walk until “teatro Teletón”. After waiting around 2 hours Lacuna Coil went up to the stage. In that moment the show started, it was amazing; the sound was very good and powerful, just the way I like. When Cristina (the vocalist) started to sing, it was wonderful, she really sings spectacular, she has a great voice. However I felt the concert was too short, although it wasn’t. The final song called “our truth” was the best; I sang it with my heart, because I like it a lot. Then they said good bye to all of us and left the stage. I didn’t want to go, but it was finished, finally I went to my house.

jueves, 10 de junio de 2010

Blog 6

Hello everyone!

In this opportunity I am going to talk about education and prevention in my career, midwifery. Like future midwives, we must to know that education will be very important in our future job, because we have to teach to the people about their health, although we are not teachers. This topic is something that has a lot of importance and belongs to a new way to understand the job of the heath’s professionals. Like teachers have told us, we have to educate to the community and give them the tools to they can manage their own health, this is reason because now we don’t call them patients but users. Patient refers to a passive person that receives instructions and then makes them, and users refers to a person that receives our services, but is able to takes decisions and participates in his health.

About prevention, this is something very important too, because we have to inform to the people the different ways to prevent some diseases and promote healthy lifestyles. They deserve to know about their bodies, their habits and their health, and is our task to teach them. We have to give this service to all our users, but we have to emphasize in low social class people, because they need more support due to their lack of opportunities and education.

jueves, 3 de junio de 2010

blog 5

Hello everyone! Today I’m going to talk about gender role in health care.
Fist of all I’m going to talk about de differences of gender in my career. Midwifery always had been done by women, but now is more common find men studying this profession. Sometimes they are discriminated by the people, because people think that this career is for women and men that study it are gay. However, now they are more accepted. This is very similar with nursery, because in that career is common to find women studying, but now more men study nursery. I don’t know if there are differences in the salary between women and men, I think that this should be the same.

Women and men can study the same professions, because they have the same abilities and capacities to do the designed tasks. Nowadays everybody know that, this is the reason because the careers are accepting students without considering the gender. The professional development consequently is the same as much women as men, both receive the same tools to give the quality service that our country deserve. Therefore both have to have the same responsibilities and salaries. The kind of patients or users should be the same too, but depending on what everyone likes. If you ask me, I would like to work with low social class people.

jueves, 27 de mayo de 2010

blog 4

Hello everyone!

In this opportunity I’m going to talk about something very interesting for me, that is my future as a midwife. I would like to work here in Chile in Santiago, in the public system, because my ideal is to improve the public health. I think that it is a very hard task but is not impossible and it can became true if we try to do it.

I would like to work first in a hospital, assisting labor and birth. I would like to use everything that we have learned in these two years in university, like the humanization of the birth and the good service that users deserve. To work in the hospital means have to work sometimes in the night, weekends and holidays. Then I would like to work in a “consultorio” because I like a lot the gynecological area and teach to the people about their health. Also I would like to work with teenagers teaching them about their body and their sexuality. Therefore I would like to do three specializations: obstetrics, gynecology and sexuality.

After to do all that I said, I would like to carry out my project that consist in a “birth’s house” where healthy pregnant women can go to have their babies. Because there is not reason to take the healthy women to a hospital where are a lot of sick people and where mothers and children can get sick because of the dangerous environment.

jueves, 20 de mayo de 2010

blog 3

Hello everybody!

Today I’m going to talk about my favorite subject in my career up to the moment. This is “fisiología obstétrica” that refers to the development of the embryo and fetus through the pregnancy and the changes in the mother.

This subject is extremely important in our career, because gives us all the knowledges that we need to do a prenatal check, to help the pregnant women to understand the process that they are living, to take care of their health and the fetus’s health too.

By one hand, this subject is difficult to me because all that the teachers are teaching, I have to learn it very well to be a good professional in the future. Although teachers try to explain us very well all the contents and give us good opportunities to learn like activities of prenatal check. By the other hand, the easiest content of this subject is the nutrition of the pregnant women. The classes are done by different teachers, I think is good to do it like this because the person that does the class is an expert in that topic.

To my mind, all the contents that teachers had taught us are very interesting, but the most that I like are the development of the embryo and fetus, the local and general changes in the mother and the social aspects of the process of pregnancy.

Finally I have to say that I have good grades in this subject.

jueves, 6 de mayo de 2010

blog 2

Hello everybody!


I am going to tell you about a website that I visit everyday twice or three times at day and that has relation with my career and my university student life, It consist in www.ucursos.cl, or more commonly known as “aula digital”. This is a help for all the students because the teachers upload some power points of the classes, information about subjects, activities, grades etc. In the web site, there is a list of all the subjects we have and the information uploaded is arranged according them. Also we can talk with classmates and teachers through the forum, where we can ask about any doubt about subjects, or give some important information as course like organization of activities to raise money.

In my opinion, this is a very useful way to receive, send and share information that we can use for our tasks, tests, exams etc. It is useful to communicate with teachers and classmates too. This is the reason why I visit it everyday, there is always new information or notes to study and that help us to become in professionals.

jueves, 22 de abril de 2010

blog 1

Hello everybody! I’m Yaritza Uribe , I’m 20 years and I study midwifery in the “Universidad de Chile”. I live in Santiago in Puente Alto. Also I work on the weekends packing things in homecenter. Besides study, I like a lot to sing, I participated in a choir during 3 years. However, I love my career, I want to be a great professional, and care the people’s health and to be understanding.

My experience with the earthquake was very calm. I was sleeping when it started, I woke up but I thought that it would finish, but then a noticed that it was stronger and stronger, so I got up and met with my family in the door of the house until the earthquake finished. I jus realized that it was a tragedy when I saw the news on TV, in that moment I thought as a future professional I could help people in a biological and social way.