Writing a brief essay>> Self Evaluation of my Academic Year

I think this year was so hard, because I had many courses and didn’t have free time. Moreover, it is my last year in classes, and in the next year I will do my teacher practice in a school. Although the classes were interesting and allowed me to grow as a professional, I feel very tired at the end of this semester and I just think that every time there is less to arrive holidays. But despite my desire that the semester will end soon, I still have much work to do and do well in my final exams, not having to pay back any subject.

This semester was very intense, all the classes were very demanding and I had so much academic load. There were some teachers who took pity on us and schedule a time (and in conjunction with the course) all tests and papers. However, other teachers were a bit messy and left all the tests and work for last.

I acknowledge that I let a lot of work to the end and should have been more consistent in my work, but that seems to work best under pressure, and often better conclusions bag the day before a paper due.

On the other hand, I had to do with my fellow seminary degree, with which I will achieve the degree of Bachelor of Education. This is very important for me, because with it, I'll be a year of graduating out of the carreer and finally I’ll begin to make classes, which made me very excited. I have had some practical experience making classes to children between 6 and 8 years, but only one or two activities, and always under the guidance of my professors from university, but when making my professional practice ... everything will be different, and I will have to solve on my own or those unforeseen problems that may arise. It's like starting a professor of truth.

Finally, I think this semester would have been better had I not had as many subjects. It might have had time to do extracurricular activities, implement projects and devote more closer to my loved ones, but anyway I believe it was a very good year that has made me grow in every respect and value the things that are achieved with effort and perseverance. I think things are those that cost us that we stay in the memory and keep us with your feet on the ground.

IMPROVING YOUR FACULTY FACILITIES

Hi, today I will discuss about the situation of my faculty, one that has been almost my second home for 4 years.

In aesthetic terms, I like my faculty because it has bright murals, cozy corners and good lighting. However, it also presents major flaws such as lack of space for many students, which is reflected at the time to perform work because they do not have a study room used exclusively for students and suitable for our needs. Also, many times in the library books are not required to do research (especially in Education), being necessary to look for in other faculties or even other universities.

That's why I think it is necessary to build a study room suitable for students, and not expect to adapt a portion of the casino is not enough, because you may have to wait to finish the lunch hour to join with partners to perform work.
Moreover, I believe that my career (Education) more infrastructure is lacking, perhaps a room in order to implement our practical work or a room where we keep our work materials.

From all the above, I think the first would find an appropriate place on campus to build a study room, which has internet connection and is open until classes are completed, and is used exclusively.

On the other hand, I believe it is important that library books will be renewed and to invest in new copies, which benefit all carreers and not just some. In this way, Social Sciences’s students can study in a more comfortable and at least the minimum.

Music!!

I like a lot listening to music. I think I wouldn’t live without music! Why? Because the music makes me feel good, and I wake me up every morning full of energy. I couldn’t bear to commute from home to university without music.

I think I inherited my mother's taste in music, because since I was very young, she hears every weekend different types of music lively.

I like various types of music. I think I could hear an entire opera, and then listen to reggaeton without problems.

Now, normally I don’t hear these kinds of music. I like listening romantic music, rock, some pop songs and music makes me think. In general, the music I hear it depends on my mood, of the occasion, etc.

I like bands and singers as varied as: Los Bunkers, Jarabe de Palo, Los Rodríguez, Bacilos, Los Angeles Negros, Aretha Franklin, Amy Winehouse, Joss Stone, Lauryn Hill, The Fugees, The Clash, The Beatles, Pearl Jam, etc. And some musical styles like “cueca”, “salsa”, “mexican music”, etc.

More to like a band or a particular song, I prefer to listen to all types of music and realize the feelings I experience when I listened to. I love so much hearing the different instruments that sound in harmony, to distinguish some of them and through these I tell if a song is sad, happy, fear, etc.

Besides, I like listening the soundtracks of films, because I'm always thinking that at some point I can serve this type of music making activity with children in my class, and this music relax me.

Moreover, I think I have some musical talent, because I love singing and I'm good, I play some percussion instruments and guitar, but not very well.

Finally, I think that music is very important in the lives of people, enabling them to develop their creativity, express themselves differently and in some ways to be happier.

SUMMARY FROM A CAREER-RELATED ARTICLE FROM THE GUARDIAN>> Creativity in schools: Every story needs a picture

Hello! Today I’m going to talk about a news I chose of the site: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/jun/30/creativity-schools-childrens-laureate
In this news, Anthony Browne, the new children's laureate, says we should teach children, and adults, to read pictures.

He says it is very important, because to teach children to read images, it stimulates their creativity.

In contrast to the above, we see increasingly less stimulated creativity among children. Thus, when they reach adulthood they say: "I can't draw!" Children, too, as they get older, say the same thing. Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it. A stifling form of self-consciousness invades us, whether it be in drawing, writing, singing or (in the case of Anthony Browne) dancing.

According to the interviewee, If children are encouraged to think that pictures are for babies and that to become educated is to leave images behind and concentrate purely on words, we risk creating a country of visually illiterate adults. Research has shown that we spend, on average, 30 seconds looking at paintings in a museum and considerably longer reading the captions.

Thus, the challenge for educators is to design meaningful educational experiences for children and that they do not hamper their creativity.

THE CINEMA

Hi! Today I would like to write about my favourite film. This is hard for me because I like many films and I can’t chose one!

Anyway, I think my favourite movie is “Life is Beautiful”. Despite it is a film that exhibicionist long ago, is one of my favourites, because every time I see it generates in me a special empathy for the characters and although know how it ends but keeps my attention all the time. I think I saw it about ten times!
Life is beautiful speech of Guido, an Italian man of Jewish descent. The film is set in Italy in World War II. Guido falls in love and later marries Dora, a former girlfriend of a Fascist official. As she has a son named Josué.

This family's happiness is short because Guido, his uncle and Josué are deported to a Nazi concentration camp. Dora, who wasn’t called to board the train that leads to the field, it is entered voluntarily with the whole family will end up in the field. There Guido pretends to his son Josué that everything is a game that will only win if not be seen by the "grumpy" German guards. Every day new games invented for his son and is using all his imagination to save the life of Joshua and was not see what is happening. The child, tempted by the tank, his father said, will be the winner, lives the Holocaust as a game, which suggests that even in the worst cases there may be hope.

I recomend it, because it is a movie that shows a part of history interspersed with personal stories of ordinary people.

In my opinion is a very good film that, as I said, would be many times more.

WHAT TO DO/ WHERE TO GO IN SANTIAGO

Hi! Today I’m going to talk about the best of Santiago.

First, although Santiago is a polluted city, has very beautiful outdoor locations that can be covered, and interesting panoramas to be developed.

Santiago is a city that, despite popular belief, it has many green areas: the Quinta Normal, Metropolitan Park and O'Higgins Park to name a few.

At the Quinta Normal can picnic, you can go to the Museum of Natural History and spend an entertaining afternoon.

On the other hand, San Cristobal Hill offers several panoramas, including: the zoo, climb to the Virgin, the Japanese fleet and various places to eat. In addition, up the hill using the cable car offers a privileged view of the city. And in summer the swimming pools Tupahue and Antilen inviting to have a good time.

Near San Cristobal hill is a place that brings together many traditional crafts of our country, in addition to some cafes. Also, there is another place that brings together many of our country crafts: Craft Fair St. Lucia.

Furthermore, there is a lot of museums, among which I think a tourist should visit. These include the Centro Cultural Palacio de la Moneda, which is in the basement of the palace of La Moneda. It has a modern facility offering various exhibitions and native country.

Another museum that I recommend is the Pre-Columbian Art Museum, which is centrally ocated and shows a varied exhibition of aboriginal peoples across Latin America.

Finally, I recommend the museum of the Church of San Francisco, because offering an exhibition of art and elements used during the era of conquest and colonization of Chile, is in an area accessible and as in the past was a Franciscan monastery, is a quiet and full of nature that invites peace and seclusion.

PRISON BREAK

Hello! Today I would like to write about my favourite TV serial. This is Prison Break, a serie inspired by the U.S. prison system where the dark political interests are the predominant.

The serie begins when Michael Scofield is imprisoned for committing an armed robbery at a branch of a major bank. The reason that leads him to commit this robbery is that his brother, Lincoln Burrows has been sentenced to death for a murder that Michael is convinced he didn’t commit. That's why no other options and time running against them, Michael decides to commit such a robbery, for to be imprisoned in the same prison as his brother, the “Fox River State Penitentiary”. Once inside, Michael, a structural engineer by profession and has tattooed the plans of the prison and other important data, begins to execute an elaborate plan to escape from prison with his brother and prove his innocence in the crime of which he is charged.

In the course of the serie, this becomes more complex and takes on new shades, always with new strategies that have surprised me in every chapter from the first season so far, which is broadcasting the fourth season.

I like a lot this serie, because I consider it an entertaining serie that in each chapter gives clues and makes the viewer complicit in what happens. Personally, this serie took me several weeks yet what was happening and created in me a special empathy for certain characters, especially by Michael Scofield.

Now I don’t see much because the series are very late Sunday (on free TV) and on Mondays I get up early. Anyway, I sometimes have time to see it and I still love it as at first. Therefore recommend to all those who like to stay on the edge of the seat.