MY BEST CAREER TRAINING

Hi bloggers, today I’m gonna talk to you about my best career training.

I have had many practices throughout my career. Every year or so, with my classmates we have to go somewhere. Thanks to that I know many places, very beautiful all of them. But the one that I liked the most it was Frutillar, we went there in January 2017.

It was very special to me because of the places that I saw, places that I never saw before.  It was beautiful natural woods, with long-lived trees and a great variety of native plants, really wonderful.

Well, we normally went to the training after to learn a lot of things in all subjects throughout the year. So the idea of went to the training is put on practice the things we learned.  But when you are there, you realize that you really learned nothing.

The things teachers taught to us it was about how to measure some forest variables, such as forest density, flora richness and climatic variables. I remember I learned a lot about the plant scientific names, and as I have a terrible, it was very difficult for me to learn so many names.

Although I like the places we go, the experiences are not very good, because we sleep little, we don’t eat very well and after spending so much time with the same people, you end up hating them.

Sooo that was the blog for today!, bye bye.

POST GRADUATE STUDIES

Hi bloggers, today’s topic is about a postgraduate course that I would like to do after finishing university.

Well, to be honest, I don’t know if I want to continue studying after leaving university, but I probably do, because I think today it’s not enough to have a university degree, you must continue studying and specialize in some area.

I’m not sure what I really like about my career, but if I have to decide, I would go along the conservation line.

I don’t know, could be a course about how to conserve areas in the sense of learning management strategies and methods, the tools that I should have and stuff.

It would be great to have the chance to study abroad. I wish it was and English-speaking country like Canada or Australia, so I could learn English better. There are many countries that have a lot of experience in the field of Forestry and I think it would be good to take that experience to bring in it to Chile.

It could be a full time course because I feel it’s the best way to learn. But I would also like to have time to know the place, so a part-time course would be fine.

Spending part of the day studying and the other part knowing places in a distant country would be a good plan for my near future.

MY FUTURE JOB

Hi people today I’m gonna talk about the job I would like to have in the future.

Well, I think I don’t think a lot about that because first, I have to graduated and then I will see how things happen and I don’t even know if I want to work on something related to my career. But I think that’s what will happen.

So, if I have to decide something related to my career, I would choose a job that involves the Ecosystems Conservation area. Working to the protection of important places for the planet or something like that.

I would like can to travel a lot to meet different new places and to gain more experience. It would be really nice. And it would be incredible to have a good salary, of course, but I don’t pretend make me rich.

Well, following the same line, now I’m taking elective courses about this area. One of them is ‘Gestión de Espacios Protegidos’; there they give you the basic tools to protect an area, something like a guide to steps to follow.

However, considering that we work with natural ecosystems, no places will be the same as the other. So you always have to take new decisions. It’s something difficult but certainly very necessary to the planet and life on it.

My favourite game.

Hi people, today I’m gonna talk about my favourite game.

Well, I think I don’t play many games because I prefer to do other things (like read), but there is one I play since I was a child and recently I download on my smartphone. It’s Sudoku (yeah it’s a little nerdy) and I like very much.

The objective of this game is to fill a 9x9 grid divided into 3x3 sub-grids with the numbers from 1 to 9 starting from some numbers already arranged in some of the cells. No number should be repeated in the same row, column or sub-grid.

There are several levels of difficulties; it could be easy, medium and expert, among others. The more numbers there are within the grid, the easier it will be to complete the Sudoku.

My favourite part of Sudoku is all about it, because you need to be really concentrated all the time to can do it, especially for the most difficult levels.

I think I like it because you don't need anyone but yourself to play it, unless you are not able to complete it and need help.

Before, I played from time to time, when I found it in some newspaper. But now that I have it on my cell phone I play a lot more.

People say that it help to excercise the brain, for mamory and all of that. 

Unsolved sudoku/Sudoku solved

A TEACHER THAT INSPIRED ME

Hi people, today I’m gonna talk about a wonderful teacher that inspired me.

He is Richard, my Math teacher in high school. I met him when I started first grade. We both arrived at the school the same year, so we were both new.

When I met him, he was very young (well, he still is) and you can think that a young teacher should be relax and funny but he wasn’t. Quite the contrary, he was very serious and strict.

I admit that at the first he didn’t like me very much because his subject it was a little difficult to me, but over time it started to get better. And that was thanks to him, because he worried a lot about his student learning.

What inspired me about him was that when he explained the subject to you, when he solved some exercise, he wasn’t trying to make you learn things by heart; he was trying to make you understand things, understand where they came from. That was very good for me, because I realized that that way I learn better, understanding things.

And well, thanks to him I decided study engineering, thank to him I could enter the university I wanted and thanks to him I have passed all my subjects. And obviously thanks to me.

My best concert

Hi bloggers. How are you? I’m really fine, I hope you too.

Today I’m gonna talk about the best concert I have ever been to. It was in 2016 in Estadio Nacional. I saw the band Guns N’ Roses. GNR is an American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The most connoted members, at least for me, were Axl (vocalist), Slash (guitarist) and Duff (bassist), but over the years the band gradually dissolved and only Axl remained. The concert was very important to me because it was the moment when GNR returned to Chile with Axl, Slash and Duff together.

I was feeling so excited, sing the songs with the original members of the band was the best. I remember I went with my older sister who likes the band the same or more than me and we both screamed and even cried with emotion.

At some point I thought I could never see the Guns N’ Roses live with its original members, so having the opportunity to do so was a godsend.

Duff at the left, Axl at the center & Slash at the right (Estadio Nacional, 2016).

The warm and the beach

I am come from a small place on the coast of the Valparaíso region, Las Cruces. I’ve always been near from the waves, the sand and the breeze. I really like to bath on the sea, and feel the sand under my feet. The only thing that I’d change about Las Cruces is the weather. In summer, the beach is very nice, the weather is warm and you probably can go outside with a shirt, but in the night you must keep warm because the temperatures go down. But there, normally, most of the year it’s cloudy and you will probably don’t want even to touch the water of the sea.

So, the place that I’d like to go it’s what I’d like Las Cruces to be. It's Hawaii, I don’t know too much about that place, but the only what I need to know is it's an island with big beaches, white sands and warm waters all year. And that is all what I want in my life.

If I go there, I’d visit many beaches and I’d bath in all of them. I don’t know if I’d like to live all my life there, but I’d like can to go as many times as I’d like.

Last blog

To be honest, I'm pretty impressed about my blog experience, I thought it would be very boring, but it turned out to be quite entertaining. So my experience was really good, I enjoyed each of the blogs because mainly what we did was to talk about our tastes. Although there were more difficult subjects than others because of the vocabulary that I had to use.

Blogs helped me improve my English because I put grammar tenses into practice, which was something that cost me the most, but still, I still have a lot to learn.

I think one of the advantages of blogs is that they make the class much more fun, which is a motivation to learn. But one of the disadvantages is that writing is more practiced than speech.

I think that to get more out of blogs, they could be combined with oral sessions, it could be that the topic of the blog, in addition to writing it, make a speech to classmates, which would be much more interactive and would put into practice writing, speaking and listening at the same time.

A place I would like to visit

Hawaii

A place I would like to visit is Hawaii because I come from the coast and I love the heat and the beach. From what I've seen in photos, commercials and movies, it seems to be a very beautiful place. I imagine lying on those white sands and bathing in those turquoise waters, forgetting everything.

I think that since I was very young I have in my mind to visit Hawaii and probably because in the movies it shows it as a tropical paradise.

Although at some point in my life I intend to travel alone, now I would like to travel with my boyfriend. He is also my friend and my partner, so a trip with him to my dream destination would be wonderful.

I would like to live in Hawaii and work as a forestry engineer, I would definitely stay for a long time in that place but not forever, because I would like to visit many other places and also go back to my roots at some point.

My favourite tree or plant

Palma Chilena or Jubaea chilensis

My favourite plant is the Palma Chilena, and I say "plant" and not "tree" because according to botanists Palma is not a tree but a giant gress. The reason for that is that Palma does not have a real trunk, that is you can't get wood from it.

Palma is my favourite plant because it seems beautiful to me, It reminds me a warm summer day on the beach, the sea, the sand and the sea breeze, that is, a moment of peace and tranquility for me.

Palma has a cylindrical trunk, it can grow up to 30 m in height and with diameters between 0.8 and 1.1 cm. It has large leaves grouped at the end of the trunk next to its fruits. Palma is an endemic species of the Mediterranean area in central Chile. It is distributed inside the sclerophyllous forest and coexists with species such as Quillay, Peumo, Espino and Boldo. At present the distribution of the species is located between the regions of Coquimbo and Maule.

Palma Chilena is in a state of vulnerable conservation according to the Libro Rojo de la flora terrestre de Chile.

My favourite piece of technology

Smartphone & loved music

My favourite piece of technology is my smartphone. The one that I have now, I got it for more than a year, but throughout my life I got had many more. I like it because I can use it for many things, and anywhere; to make calls, take photos, see the weather, set alarms, see the time, even to study. But for what I like the most, is because I can listen to music. That makes my life less terrible and my trips less boring, because as I live away from the university, it took me more than a hour and that is exhausting. Also, as my family lives on the coast, every weekend I travel to visit them. And I go the whole trip listening to music. So with all the trips I have to do, it would be a tragedy for me to lose my smartphone now.

Now that I think of it, my second favourite piece of technology is headphones.

Why did you choose this career?

Why I choose Forestry

When I was a child I used to do that I was a dancer, a gymnast, or a circus artist. I used to go from one place to another dancing and making pirouettes with my body. Then, I grew up and I began to think that maybe I could not live from it. So during high school I never really knew what I would like to study.
I even thought studying nothing at all, what makes me applied to PDI but I woke up right away. On the way, I realized about my love for nature and I looked for some career about it, and I found Forestry.
Since then, 3 years have passed and it was a good experience. I learned and I'm still learning a lot. I have made very good friends.

Some friends and me.

When I finish this career I would like to travel around the world for some years and maybe find a good job related to my career in a tropical country and be very happy.

"Forestines" marching.

About Valeria

Hello everyone, I'll start talking about me... so, here we go!

Valeria was born in San Antonio, Chile. She studied at Escuela Básica Las Cruces at elementary school until 8th grade. She attended Colegio Fernandez León for her high school studies.
In 2016 she moved to Santiago when she started to studing Forest Engineering at Universidad de Chile. Since then she lives from Monday to Friday in San Bernardo, and the weekend she travels to Las Cruces to see her family, but sometimes she stays in Santiago to have a time with her friends.

Vale's family lives in Las Cruces, a small town on the coast. There are her parents, Mary and Joel, her two sister, Jenniffer and Evelyn, her three nephews, Guillermo, Emiliano and Vicente, and her niece, Emilia.

Valeria and her parents

Las Cruces beach

Vale is a really loose person, so she prefers to do things that don't make her move, like read. But when she feels motivated she can do many things, like playing football. Lately, she has decided to reivent her life, and stop having a sendetary life so she took football classes, a mathematic assistantship and other things that she prefer not to tell.