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Hi bloggers! This is my first english course and I have founded it very interesting. It helps me a lot with some new words and pronunciation. The blogs system also was very fun and useful because today we are used to use the web platforms and pages like Facebook and others so it was like writing on our Facebook page but in English and I had a great time writing what I think about things like books or vacations. Also, it was very interesting to read what our classmates write about the topics so in a way we learn some things about them.

The aspects that I need to improve more are the speaking and writing, it’s hard for me to speak with confidence, I always overthink what to say because I’m afraid to say something wrong. In that way, this course helps me a lot and I’m planning to keep improving this aspect by watching movies and series in English, listening their pronunciation and learning new words. Also, I’m planning to do another English course outside the university.

Outside of the English class I use English to read the latest chapters of my favorite mangas jajaja. Also, this year we needed to do a lot of works in the career and most of the information that we should check is available in English, most of the investigation are in that language so we need to read a lot of papers and reviews. Next year that will be multiplicated x 1000 because we will do the monography so we will need to read a lot of papers and stuff like that.

English will be important to we as agronomists, to make contacts in other markets, to use new technology and a lot of things.

 I’m satisfied with this course, see you guys in the university!

career program

Hi bloggers ¡ today we have to talk about our career program. Well, I think that is quite well made it, but I also think that has a few problems on it. For example the subjects that are related to the economy department are (in my opinion) not as good as they could. Also I think that in the regular program are too many of this subjects and I think that they are unnecessary, maybe I would remove 2 of them and add a programation subject that it’s a tool that the faculty doesn’t give us and I think it’s very necessary for us because is part of being an engineer and learn how to manage some new technologies that we will need to use in our work. Also I think that the Practices are given in a wrong way, most of the student don’t learn anything in this classes, and this subjects doesn’t have any of practice, they are just theoretical classes and the program is very poor in the practice way.  

Another problem that I see is that during the career we barely go outside to see farms or places related to our career, most of the time we spend in the classroom even when our career demand us to take what we are learning and relate it to the crops.

I love the fourth semester of our career even when is the hardest one. Physiology, fertilization, genetics and irrigation are so interesting. The best classes I think that are in the biochemistry class, physiology and enology process, the teachers are passionate to the subject and they really have knowledge of the topic they are teaching us.

I love our career, I hope you do it too. Thanks for read it !

This Holidays

Hi bloggers ¡ Todays topic is about what we are going to do this summer holidays. First, this semester ends January 16^th, so is half month less of vacations. I will work after the semester ends because it’s important that we as agronomist earn some experience during summers. That way when we finish our career we already know some things and it’s less difficult to us to find a job. I have applied for a job and I hope they call me, it will be for 3 weeks in Los Andes pollinating soybeans. After that I’ll go to my family house in puyangue, and maybe stay there for a week, after that me and my girlfriend will go to some places I already know like: Huerquehue National Park, Alerce Adino National park, Chiloe, Chaiten and/or Futaleufú. I love those places and I have no problem to go there as many times as I can, always with different people to show them those places. Another place I will like to go is Torres del Paine National Park, I know this place is amazing and I want to know it, but I think maybe I need more time to prepare de trip, planning it with more friends and also, I think the tickets to go there are expensive if you don’t buy them with anticipation.

I really hope to have time to know new places, I would like to visit the Queulat or Caleta Tortel.

Also I hope that this summer I could play so much basketball jajaj.

Well that’s all guys, thanks for read it.   

Medicinal plants

Hi guys! Today’s topic is medicinal plants, I don’t know much about them, but what I know is that conventional medicine comes from them. I don’t like to use drugs, when I feel sick I just drink a lot of water and I wait until I feel better. I think that illness ( the common ones, not the cronic diseases), it’s just a response of our body to an stress, so it’s natural the Temperature, the headaches, stomach ache, are very common and our body is prepare to deal with them, I think the use of drugs it’s just a way to make the body get use to be less resilient. When I had a headache (and I have it very often) if it’s a strong one I drink a tea with ginger, I’ve heard that ginger is a natural anti-inflammatory and also have a lot of benefits to the body.

Most of the principal components of the drugs are present in nature, like  salicylic acid that is present in a lot of drugs like the aspirina for example, comes from the willow.  

Another thing to have in mind is that we can take advantage of most of the benefits that  nature gives us  by eating them and having a balanced diet, wine, red fruits and vegetables, the green ones, every vegetable has its own benefits and compounds that we can take.

Well I think that’s all I have to tell you about medicinal plants, to finish I just had to say that to have a better life we should drink wine every day jajaja.    

Postgraduate studies

Hello guys ¡¡ We are all students of the undergraduate program of this faculty, that is enough to become an agronomists but also we can do some extra studies like a MS or a PhD, there are different opinions about curse them, some people says that if you want to do it you’ll definitely had to do it outside, and I think that could be a great opportunity because of the knowledge of a different culture and country, but it’s quite expensive. The University give us the opportunity to make the continuous education, a program were we can obtain a Master’s degree in one extra year and the half of the money that a regular program cost. There are 3 Master’s programs that we can do at the faculty: Master in aquiculture science, agriculture sciences or water and soil management. I’m doing the water and soil management Master, it’s a new Master and it’s very relevant to the problems that we as agronomists will face. I’m interested in the water problem’s , the management, the distribution and the conservation, I hope the master could gave me the tools and the knowledge to do it. If I could do a master or a PhD in another country I’ll prefer Davis university or a New Zeeland University to do it.

Thanks for read it! 

Me as an agronomist

On the future I’ll be an agronomist I think the most of the student that are in this major didn’t like to work indoors I think almost all of them like the outdoor working. In this career we had so many areas of what we can do, some of them like working with plagues or plant diseases, work in the SAG, work as a fruit farmer, work with animals and meet or milk production, work in plant nutrition, work in soils, water managing and a lot of other things that we can do. In fact I don’t really know what I’ll be working in the future; the only certain thing that I know is that I’ll be living in Puyangue or another rural place on the South. If I could choose my work I’ll choose to work with little farmers, trying to improve the rural areas so that way people will stop migrating to the big cities, making that the people take the food sovereignty into their own hands and stop selling the terrains to the big industry that degraded them. Another thing that I would like to do is work in the managing of water. Today the water scarcity is a problem in the world, and the agriculture is the discipline that uses the most quantity of water to produce, in that context today the farmers irrigate in a bad way their crops wasting a lot of water, so I would like to help to improve that situation. Another problem with the water is the distribution of it, some farmers or industry’s take big amount of water and let very little to another farmers.
About traveling, I don’t really think about it because as I said I want to live in the South in a very peaceful house and traveling around Chile.

Thanks for read it. !         

23

Why 23?, well tomorrow I’ll be celebrating my birthday and that’s the age I’ll be celebrating but isn’t because of that, but because this number was on the back of the one & only Michael Jordan. Mike is one of the best sport players in the history and surely the best basketball player of all the time. He completely dominated the game and surpasses other great players of that moment like Barkley, Malone, Stockton, Miller, Ewing between others. He won a national championship with his high school North Carolina, after that he was the third pick in the 1984 draft (this means that 2 guys were selected before him), selected by the Chicago Bulls. Immediately he start showing his skills, he had an amazing jump and he could do all the things, shoot from 3, slams, assists, block, defend and steal balls, this let him won 3 championships (91,92 and 93) after this he decided to retire from his basketball career because he was dominated it and began a baseball career were he didn’t play very well (yes, he suck at it), and then in the 95 he return to the NBA and won another 3 champions!!. I can stay for hours watching plays of MJ or the dunk contest were he beat Dominic with an amazing slam (he seems to fly). Also he had a movie with the Looney Toons (nobody can say that). As I said he is the best basketball player of all time and neither Lebron, Kobe or anyone could beat him.

I was thinking in write about MJ or Friends (tv show) that was a good topic too.

Thanks for reading it!