Sophia's English Class

Hello Classmates. Today I’m going to tell you about the changes that I would like to make to my study programme. First of all, I think that the psychology career curriculum is very complete and think that all the subjects that we have contribute to the training as psychologist but I must admit that before starting the university I never checked the study programme. However, I have heard that the hours of practice outside of the university are very short, more specifically we only have 2 field works during the career that lasts five years as minimum and I consider that if we work with people we must  prepare earlier to know more about the psychologist practice in real situations. It is necessary to recognize that now efforts to change the study programme are being made and this is considering the opinions of students, academics and other people. On the other hand, in this one year and half of university the use of technology has been limited, we don’t use the laboratories. We on...

TATTOOS I think that currently using tattoos is still a controversial issue and there are still people who have a bad opinion about these and tattoos associated with bad people, with vices or unreliable, however, I believe that a tattoo doesn’t define the person, each person can make the decisions that they want with their body  and shouldn't be judged  because it is a form of expression and must be accepted socially. RECYCLING I think that the issue of recycling shouldn’t seem foreign to ourselves, we are watching and being accomplices every day of the damage we are doing to the planet without realizing that we are all living beings that are being harmed. I think the most important is that one day it can be reversed through of education to we become aware of the issue and that the new generations act committed to the environment. ABORTION This is one of the most controversial issues, both social and political, and I believe that the body belongs to each woma...

Hi friends, in this post I'm going to tell you about the major that I would like to take. Sincerely speaking about this topic is a bit difficult for me because I can only imagine finishing the career and I haven't even considered specializing in something but if I had to imagine it, I think that my options to specialize would be the area of educational or social psychology which are the two that I like most in the present but lately has attracted much more attention educational psychology, because I think that working with children and young people is essential if we want to make a transformation in the world because it may sound like a cliché but children are the future of our country and I think that educational psychology tries to help understand and improve the problems of our educational system and how it affects our society.   If I specialize in educational psychology I would like to do it at the University of Chile because I think it is a very complete instit...

Hello friends, in this post I’m going to tell you about the postgraduate courses that I would like to take in the future, well, I think that talking about this is one of the most difficult things because I can’t even imagine finishing the career, in this moment I only think about passing the subjects hehe, but there are many aspects that I like about psychology and the good thing is that this university has interesting offers about postgraduate courses. Throughout this year and a half of career I have had approaches to many subjects and some of those that I liked and I would like to learn more is social, educational and perhaps clinical psychology.  I would like to take educational psychology courses, because I think that psychologists can also make a transformation in the Chilean educational system and contribute to its progress by finding the aspects to improve and achieve changes from within the education system.  On the other hand, social psychology has calle...

Hello Friends, today I'm going to tell you about the pets I have had throughout my life. In my 19 years I have had 4 pets: 2 dogs and 2 chickens, yes, chickens. My first dog was given to me when I was 1 year old and my older sister called her "Kitty" maybe because she liked Hello Kitty a lot. Kitty accompanied me until I was 14 years old and one day mi  parents took her to the country because she was old and my parents decided that it would be better if she spent her last days relaxed. The story I will tell now is very cruel and it still makes me feel sad. I don't remember how old I was but I wanted to have chickens because I found them very adorable. For my birthday my mom gave me 3 chickens but then my aunt gave me 4 more because she didn't know that I already had chickens. The terrible thing is coming now ... One day I left the chickens in the garden in a little box and the neighbor's cat came in through the roof and took them one by one, th...

Hi Friends! Today I'm going to tell you about my favorite food. You don't know how difficult is to choose this because there are many delicious and yummy foods :( but if I had to choose, in winter, my favorite Chilean food is the "cazuela" because I love the mixture of flavors of the chicken, potato, rice and the broth specially in winter to warm the body.  In summer, I like to eat "pastel de choclo" because is very common or when I'm very hot I like to eat salads of different vegetables and I love to put a lot of lemon juice in these. If I had to choose foreign foods that I eat all the time I have to mention the lasaña and chicken-avocado sushi and If you want to invite me to eat one of these two you would make me very happy haha :* I would love to try new Chilean and foreign foods, I really like the way food can represent the culture of a country, If I have the opportunity to travel to other countries I would like first to know ...

Hi Friends! Today I'm going to tell you about the job that I want to have in my future.  To begin, I must tell you that when I was a little girl, around age 5 my dream was to be a hot dog seller when I grew up; now this idea sounds me very crazy.  Then I wanted to be a hairdresser to help people to feel good about themselves, in that moment I realized that what I wanted was to help others and I opted to study Psychology, I loved the idea of help people with their problems and that they could feel happier in their daily lives.  Now, I imagine have a flexible time job than the offices and spend more time in different things like my family, friends, I also want to travel, time to my hobbies, among others. I don’t want to have a nine to five job or less to be stuck behind a desk; I imagine a more practical job, and of course I’d like to be my own boss. I also imagine that my future job to be a well paid to have a good living and I hope I can help my mother w...

Hi Friends! Today I'm going to write about my best holidays.  When I think of my best holidays, only the summer of 2018 comes to my mind. This summer was amazing because I did many things, and I was never bored.  If I had to choose the best day of my vacation would be the day of my birthday. That day I went to a massive electronic event called "Electric Paradise" with my boyfriend who is dj of the event and I must say it was one of the best days of my life because It was new for me. This event was a pool party in the afternoon and in the night the djs played around 13 hours, I danced and drank a lot, ate in a foodtruck and I met very nice people. We also had to carry our tents to sleep because we couldn't get on time to the bus back home  It really was wonderful experience and it was the best bithday present I've had. Hugs and kisses.

Hello Friends! today I want to tell you about the country I would like to visit. Even though I want to visit a lot of countries of the world, if I have to choose one of them, I choose Mexico for many reasons. In short words, Mexico is a wonderful place, full of beautiful places like the idyllic beaches, the museums, the city of Guadalajara or the famous ruins of Chichén Itzá for to know about Mayan civilisation, to say some places. I would like to go to this country when I have to pay my trip and I like to visit it with someone special for me like a friend, my mother or my boyfriend. In summary, I want to visit Mexico not for a special reason and not only to know just the famous places but also I would like to get into the Mexican culture get to know non-tourist towns or landscapes. I hope you like Mexico :) Hugs.

1.    What is your opinion on the social networks and the effect they have on society? In my opinion the social networks have different effects, at time, bad effects like insecurity in adolescents and sometimes good effects like speed of the information. 2.    What is your opinion on animal testing? I think that animal testing has been important for many discoveries but I don’t agree with the animal maltreatment and the cruelty of many experiments 3.    What is your opinion on the idea that marriage is an outdated institution? I think that it depend of the belief of the person. This has a lot of connection with the religion. 4.    What do you think is the best way to solve the sea access dispute with Bolivia? In my opinion I don’t know the solve for this problem because there are many political and economic interest that have influence

Hi Friends. Today I’m going to tell you about my experience writing my blog. Well, this experience has been new for me because at school I didn’t write about particular topics or about topics of my own choosing and I can say that most of the time I liked very much to share what I think with others. Sincerely, writing the blog has been decreasing in difficulty, the first post was relatively difficult because I didn’t remember much how to write in English but with the passage of time it has become easier despite the increase in the number of words I should write. I must say that I’m constantly reading the comments of my classmates to know if they like my posts or to know if I should improve something, therefore, I really like the idea that we can support our progress in English as a whole. I think that doing this activity serves us a lot and I think that everyone has progressed compared to the first post, as a suggestion I would like the topics could be much deeper so we could ...

Hello friends! Today I’m going to tell you about one of my favorite books, “Delirium” by Lauren Oliver. It’s the first book of the trilogy of the same title and the other two books are called Pandemonium and Requiem. Delirium is a young novel about a young woman, Magdalena "Lena" Haloway, who falls in love in a dystopian society where love is seen as a disease. In short words, "Lena" is the protagonist of the Delirium Saga. When his mother died because of “deliria nervosa de amor”, she moved to live with his uncles. Now she is looking forward to his 18th birthday. Through a surgical intervention in the brain the area that controls your emotions will be eliminated, and finally she can has a peaceful, safe and painless life but the only big problem is that she falls in love with Alex. I read this book at school and I liked it a lot because it is a topic that is very interesting, I think it is very difficult to imagine a world where feelings are forbidden, th...

Hello Friends, today I’m going to tell you about my favorite subject although it’s a little difficult to decide for one in particular because there are specific things that I like about each one but if I have to choose one, I choose Basic Psychological Processes because I feel it’s a very complete subject for many reasons. This subject examines theoretical background and results of research in motivation, emotion and cognition, understood as interrelated psychological processes that contribute to explain the behavior of the human being in a given situation. The reasons why I like basic psychological processes is because the topics that are treated in classes are very interesting and it doesn’t deal with ambiguous things, instead of this, it deals with things that can be applied to daily life for example the relation between parents and children or the goals that we put in daily life. In addition to the topics that are taught, I like that the academic load is not too much beca...

Hi Friends! Today I’m going to tell you about a person who has done a very important job in psychology, his name is Ignacio Martín-Baró. Ignacio Martín-Baró was a psychologist and a Spanish Jesuit priest who devoted his life to researching the difficult social and political reality of a small Latin American country, El Salvador, where he taught at the Central American University "José Simeón Cañas" (UCA), of which he was responsible for the Department of Psychology and Education and Vice-rector, founded a prestigious institute of public opinion, the IUDOP. Besides, He fought for Human Rights, equality and social justice in El Salvador. He criticized the negative impact of US policy for his country. He was very influential in a wide range of academics and activists in the United States. He was a follower of the Theology of Liberation, father of the Social Psychology of Liberation and main reference of Latin American Social Psychology, especially in community psychol...

Hi Friends! Today I’m going to tell you about something I like in my free time. Well, I like to do many things when I have free time. First of all, I like to sharing with my friends, I love my friends and we like to do many things specially in summer holidays. I remember that last summer we were almost a week together and we went to the river, we walked for many hours talking about silly things, we watched movies and sometimes we got drunk, among others. I miss them a lot  L . Second, I like to spending time with my family, especially with my sister, we like to spend hours watching television, eating and talking about everything that happens to us when we are not together. And finally, now I really like to spend time with my boyfriend, we like to going out to eat and dance, to watch movies and to talk a lot of interesting and funny things, I really like that we spend time together. Well, as you may have noticed,  i f there's one thing I like to do, it's sharing...

Hi Friends, in this post I'll tell you about muy favorite photo. I love this picture because is one of the most beautiful places that I know. This picture is from a part of Valparaiso, Concepcion hill.  It brings me many beautiful memories because my brother lives there and every time I went to visit him I fell in love with the landscape. I love the hills, the colors of the houses and walls, the graffitis, the sea view, the port, the “troles”, and the people. There, the people look happier that in Santiago, they are kinder and more supportive. Also I like that It have a hard and difficult history, and I’m proud of the way that people can overcome adversities such as fires. This photo makes me imagine a colorful and happy world where people can breathe easy and live in peace I think that everybody should go to Valparaiso because it is a city that will impress you with its beautiful landscapes and street art.

Hi Friends! Today I’m going to tell you about the things I missed last year. I get up two days in the week at five o’clock because I live in a city that is two hours from Santiago, is so exhausting to travel four hours a day.   I would like my house to be much closer to the university to have more time for myself, to rest and sometimes to study . I miss taking 15 minutes to get home, like when I went to school, Life was much prettier when I had time to do idle things .   I miss coming out of school early and coming to my house to watch movies and eat with my friends. Now I almost always leave the university late and most of the time I have to study for some subject.   Finally I hope you have more free time for yourself.

Hello Friends! I`m going to tell you about a technology object very important for me. A digital camera. The camera is a technological device whose main purpose or function is to take images of situations, people, landscapes or events to keep visual memories of them. I remember that my camera was given to me by my sister because I wanted to take photos of every place I went. Since that day when I go to some place I carry my camera to then remember those places by means of those photos. I use my camera every time I go to meet some new place and sometimes not only places but also people even things. I love my camera because is like my friend on every situation such as walks, concerts, meetings, parties, among others. My life without my camera would be very sad because I could not have a tangible material that reminds me of what I lived. Finally, I hope you like taking photos. 

Hello Friends! When I was a child I was a very curious girl and it may sound a little funny but I wanted to be a hot dog seller. I remember that in my childhood I had many friends and I liked to hearing their problems or stories and I always tried to help them and began to hear “hey, you should be a psychologist when you grow up” but at that moment I never thought it could be one of my possibilities of life. When I was 17 years old I only liked Psychology and Law but I was not very clear what I wanted to be in my future but I thought I had more psychology skills and finally I decided for psychology at University of Chile. My experience at the University has been good but stressful. With respect to the kind of job that I would like to have, I am still not clear because there are many fields of work that I would like to know but if I had to choose I would like to work as a social psychologist.

Hi! My name is Sophia Catalina González Pavez. I was born on January 6 th in Melipilla city at the hospital called San José. I have two brothers and three sisters, three of them are older than me and two are younger and now I am living with my mother in the same city. I studied in San Sebastián School in Melipilla and I graduated in 2016. I like doing different things such as going out with my friends and family, watching movies, going to the stadium and the hill, going to parties, watching "memes", among others. Practically I love to leaving my home and going out to any place with any person. Now, I am studying Psychology at the University of Chile .