A Beautiful Campus

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When I go to the University for the first time I was very nervous and scared because it was the first time that I was far away of my parents, but at the same time I was happy to know new people.

When I came to Santiago to study Psychology I had a lot of expectation about the discipline and about the University. The first time that I visited the Campus I fell in love immediately, I liked all, the building, the gardens, the paintings in the walls, the people, everything. I remember that I was walking and next to me it was a group of students singing a song that al like to much, so… I took that like a good signal.

I don’t remember what the first class I had was, but I do remember very clearly the first class that I liked. It was a Social History class, all the class was together and one of the teachers in charge started to about the Chilean economic history (so boring I thought) but I laughed and learnt a lot.

I spoke with a lot of people in my first day, but I can remember what exactly I did. What I most remember that the first two month I knew so many people and I made friends that actually love so much. <3

September in the country!

Hello everyone, in this post I am going to tell you about my lovely holydays in the country with my family the last week. Well, is tradition in my family reunite with all the cousins (we are seven), aunts, uncles, and my grandmother and grandfather to celebrate and share in the holidays. During this week of relax me and my cousins prepared some activities and games to spend a good time together. We played a few volleyballs matches, dance cueca wearing the typical costume, played ping pong (I was the best of the woman’s haha) and we organized a travel in bike since our country house to the lake, I think that would be like a 30 kilometers. But the good of this holiday was not just the activities, also the foooooooood!!!! Is tradition too that my grandmother make a delicious empanadas (I help her), my father is in charge of the barbecue, etc. And my mission was to make the Chilean disserts: alfajores, mote con huesillos and empolvados. 

I really enjoyed this time out of Santiago, and out of the stress of the University, but especially I enjoyed spend time with my little cousin. His name is Nicolás, he has six years old and we are very close, he even call me “Nanita” because I am always with him and we play with the dogs, and play football or something like that ahaha. Well… I hope to can reunite with my family in the country house very very soon. =)  

The best friend in the world

Is difficult to me pick just one friend to talk about, because actually I have a lot good friends, but I going to tell you about a very special friend that I love so much and missed every day. In the 2008 I went to the medical school and studied medicine for two years.  I had 19 years old and I was really scared to live alone in a new city and stay without my parents. I felt very lonely some times.

One day, I and my class mattes had to study for a very difficult test and I had no idea for a particular topic of the evaluation, so I asked to a boy about the metabolisms of the glucose and he teach me (now I don't remember anything ahaha). There I met to my best friend, Andrés. He is (still now) the person who makes me laugh more in the world. I really do not know if we have so many things in common like the most of the friends, but Andrés is the person who knows me better, and I enjoy spending time with him:listening music and singing (He play guitar very bad!). I even enjoy watching his horrible and boring movie's and eating the all refrigerator when I go to his home. Ahaha!

Actually I don’t see him so much that I wish. He continues to studding medicine in Valparaíso and I am here in Santiago, very happy in psychology. In the weekend we talk hours at the phone, but I don’t see him since March of this year. I will travel to visit him in the September Vacations, so I very very happy!! =)

Run Fran, run!

Hello everyone, in this post I will tell all you about my first semester this year!

It was very crazed to start the year with evaluations and classmates, but was at the same time very fun go for an ice cream after the class ha-ha.

In this semester I started to read about a specifically area of psychology called psychoanalysis thanks a friend (Manuel, hi is the best) who introduce me in the theme and show me text and blogs that It was very funny.

One month ago I started to train for the marathon, when I will run 10 kilometers in the beautiful city of Valparaíso. I really hope no to die in the half of the race, so I have to keep train. I actually run three and four kilometers in the week and five o six in the Sunday. In the beginning I finished very very tired, but now I can say that I do it a lot better.

Another thing that I learn is make cakes and desserts, I have to say that I was a really good learner, and all my family enjoy my little hobby

Actually I have proposed read more. Not just text and books about psychology, I mean read about other themes and especially literature. I enjoyed so much read novels in the school and comments with my friends… I think that is an excellent way to spend free time instead of spends hours and hours watching very baaaad series of television.

Well…. I hope this year ended happy and with a lot of present Christmas

Santiago's best place!

What I like most of Santiago is the activities and different people that I can know. For example always is a recital or concert to, there is so many musical and cultural events to assist, there is for all the prices and tastes. At the same time I very disliked the noise and smell of the subway in the pick hours, morning frequently. And the people are always running again the clock and forget to be kind and smile for little’s things. I think that the brown sky when there are so many contaminations is the ugliest things in the world. 

I change many things of Santiago, first I will make more green areas to invited to the children’s and parents to share and make a family place. I also think that the Universities (there is so many) should to open to the community and their students can make activities for them.

If you visit Santiago you can go to the “Bellavista” neighborhood with all the bars and restaurant. There you can meet people from other cities and countries to. Also you can go to the “Bustamante Park” if do you like green areas.

Personally my favorite place is a little chocolate store next to the a old library, I am living in the city for almost two years and the Saturday I go there and buy a box of mint chocolate and spend two or three hours checking the old books, I think that the smell of the books remind me my grandfather and that is why I like. The guy in the store is very nice and kind to. Near of there you can find a store with the best ice cream of the world and so many flavors.  

Assange Case

Assange Case

I think that is a very complicated case, because there have all the eyes of the world in to a single man and his work. Actually Julian Assanges is in the embassy Ecuadorean like a political prissioner.
I think tath Assange is inocent because nothing can be accused and be gulty for say or show the truth, especially when it comes about the big commands in the politic world. At the same time I belive that the Ecuatorians are right to offer political assignmen because each country have the right to protect who has the same ideas or ideology.
The scandal wikileaks has been so big for all the countrys involve and the consequences at politic level. Probably the case will end in many years and as result of the presion at the people.
Personally I will ask him if he would do it all again, and if all the scandal and world impact of his case is worth.

My favorite photograph !!!!!!!!!!!

Of all my memories and photograph one is my favorite, it was took it in an amusement park in June of 2009.

 This photograph was taken for an estranger so we all appear in the picture.

In this picture I am with my friends in the medical school, and we are celebrating the end of the semester and we seem very happy because recently we have approved all ours classes and the winter vacations was beginning. This had been a very tiring and difficult six months because we had a lot of studying and very little time free.

 I remember we came very early in the morning and we got all games. In the first I was scare because I have fear of heights and almost the games are very high and fast, but my best friend convince to go anyway.

In this moment of the day we all were so tired and hungrier, so we went to the house of a classmate to eat pizza.

Now I do see these friends never, because there are in different cities and I chance of collage. For many other reasons we all separate. Fortunately I speak with my three best friends (Matías, Andrés y Matías) all weekend and we hope to repeat this walk.