My Academic Year

This year has been the most intensive and exciting of my life. Definitely this experience has two faces: the first one is that you begin a new stage in your academic and future professional life, but the second face is that you must make a big effort to do it. This process involves many aspects, like time, friends, family, books, new classmates, etc, and also the way that you can mix them and make your life. Now I´m going to talk about how has been this process for me, all the obstacles that I had to pass and these final time on mi first year at university.

First of all, I left school on 2007, and the next year, 2008, I prepared the " PSU", so only this year I begin the university. The first day I was so exciting! I knew my classmates and also the whole university, and I loved it!. But, unfortunalety, the next days I began to feel very bad. I was so scared with the university! I used to have other pace of study, not so demanding like this new one. My first three weeks were awfull! I didn´t want to go to the university, I only want to stay in my house. It was a very long abd hard process, but definitely I could get over this with many help. I recieve this help from many people, specially from my lovely family and friends, and I´m very grateful for that. After this period, I began to feel very well!, My fears dissapeared and I started to study with effort and perseverance. I finish the first semester with excelent grades, and I´m completely convinced that when anyone wants to be a better and stronger and also get over all the obstacles, he or she can do it!

The second semester has been the most difficult in my life until now. When I started, I thought that I will be more prepared to bear this semester, but I was absolutely wrong. At first, I was so scared for begin this process again, but also I knew that I had all the support from my family and my friends, so I decided to move forward and study with all my heart and soul. Actually I´m finishing this second semester, and I´m so nervous because I have and really big exam, but I know that If I study, I will pass this year!

Finally, I think that this year has been very adrenalinic and with many nuances. Really this year has had many thing! But definately the most important thing is that I found beautiful people. Also, I´ve learned so much! and that is very important for me. I think that any human been in his life wants to be someone alse, and I really thing I´m getting that! I hope that everyone of you read this blog, specially those that want to get into the University, because they will know that this is not a easy way, the recipe is be a neat person, with everything clear and have a lot of confidence in yourself!
Kisses and Hugs for everyone!

Obstetrics Challenges!

Well, today I think that is an amazing theme to talk about..... my career! specially all the important challenges that I must identify like a future health professional, and obviosly resolve when I finally start working like an obstetrician.
We are now in 2009, and everyone think and say that we are living the age of technology and development in all fields, but definaetly we have big problems. For example in africa the hunger index are very high!, so ..How can we explain that if we are living in the age of technology and development? In my country Chile, there is many kind of problems, specially in health area. If we go into the health problems, and also related with obstetrics, we have a big flaw in themes like technology, social matters, social opportunities and specially in education.
In Chile, the beginning of everything is the bad public education. I think that if the goverment were really interest in the students, we would have not so high rates of teenage pregnancy. These is very dramatic because, how I said before, the are " Teenagers". They are assuming a big responsability that is not adressed to them at that age. If they had had information about all the anticonceptive methods that exsist actually, they wouldn´t have to pass for these before the right time. The education is so important, everyone has the right to recieve good education, so I think that, like a future obstetrician, I will do many programs targeted to schools about sexual education. Now, these programs exsist, but I think that they are inefficient, so for that my programs will be very complete, including in this procces the whole family.

Chile has grown in health technology. I thing that everyday we have more possibilities to get a good health in our country, and not get it in other countries. But, unfortunately, not everyone has the opportunity to get it. These is so terrible because everyone has the right to get and excelent healt attention, and in our reality only the people who has money can get it. Like future obstetrician, my main mission is that the public healt have the same privileges as the private health. It´s not fair that for something economic someone has to die!


Well, I hope that you will be agree with me in this themes, an also, that you can be a valuable tool for you country and make something for you and your people!

Money!

Well, today is a very interesting theme to talk about...the money! I really have a special relation with it, because I believe that money is something abstract because is incredible that you can get something with a peace of paper! I don´t know, it´s a bit strange for me. But, for other way any human been can´t live without money! For instance..me. I really need money everyday, for example to get lunch at university, travel in "Transantiago" to everywhere that I need to go, so these kind of activities reflex that you really can´t live witout money.
In my case, I must be honest and say that I´m not so consciencious with money. In general I love to buy clothes, so when I have money, I can`t control myself and I buy it. This is a problem, because when I really need money for something importan, I don`t have! For this situation, I have learned this year and I´m sure that I´m a bit more consciencious about money. :)
When I see that my friends have money troubles, I don´t have any disadvantage to borrow them some money, because I know my friends and I know that when they have money, they will pay me back. That confidence makes that, only when is necessary, I have to borrow money from them, but I pay back soon! :)
I´m a very tidy person, so when I have to manage money, I`m responsable and I really like to do it. When I was in school, three consecutive years I was the money manager, so I don´t have any trouble to administering money.
Any human been has basic needs, like food, water, electricity. If this human been want to get this basic need, he must pay for them! so for that we have bills to pay. In my case, I live with my parents and I don´t work, so I don´t pay basic needs bills, they do that. But... BUT! I have to pay my personal bills like clothes, thinks like chocolates, or something that I eat at university, friend`s gifts, etc.
In general, I think that public and private schools MUST teach children how to use money!, independently if this responsibility relapses into the family. If we want to grow like a nation, we must make conscience about money and teach to everyone that money is something ephemeral! One day you can have everything, but later, you can´t have anything.

A beautiful trip!

Well, today is a free theme, so I´m going to talk about the best trip in my life!
In January, 2007, Me and my school friends traveled to Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. We really spended a good time, an also It was my first trip out of my country, and specially for that reason I remember it so much. We traveled on a bus to Brazil first around 36 hours!, so it was a long an uncomfortable trip. When we arrived to Brazil, we stayed in an hotel called " Carima", and this hotel it´s very big and amazing because It is located in the middle of a forest, and also in the swimming pool somethimes you could find many"royal turkeys".
We stayed in Brazil almost 6 days, and in these 6 days we went to Itaipu Dam ( Located in the border of Brazil and Paraguay), Santa Teresihna beach and the most importat place that we went was the National Park Iguazú Falls. They are waterfalls of the Iguazu River located on the border of the Brazilian state of Paraná and the Argentine province of Misiones. The falls divide the river into the upper and lower Iguazu. They are extremelybeautiful, and you can feel in that place that you are connected with the nature. At the final of ouw trip, we went to Paraguay, specially to " Ciudad del Este", a real comercial city, just like "Persa Bio-Bío" in Chile.
The last place that we went was Argentina. We went to Mendoza specially, but I don´t like so much because the weather is very hot! I prefer my country defineatly :D
I hope that if you read my experience travel, you can chear you up and make a travel like this because it`s a experience that you will never forget!
See you Folks!

Tips to visit Santiago de Chile

Well, in general Santiago is a very beautiful city, with many different places to know and visit. Personally, I don´t know my city as I want, but I`ve visited some important chilean places and I think that they are very important If someone of other country would like to visit here and know about my country. First of all, the first important place that I really like is the house of government called " Palacio de la Moneda". It is a very big white building, and it has a lot of history, principally because in 1973 it happened a very important coup d'état, where this building was destroyed. The reconstruction and restoration projects of these builiding were completed on March 11, 1981.
Other important place to visit is the Fine Art Museum. It is located on Forestal park, a very speciall and sometimes bohemian neighborhood. In the Fine Art Museum you can find many artistic expressions like sculptures, paintings, etc.
One of my favorite places to visit is San Cristobal hill. It`s located on Providencia, a big and famouse commune. This hill is very speciall because you can do many kind of thing, for example you can walk, ride bicycle, see a bautifull view, but only on summer because on winter you can see the big pollution of the city.
Here in Chile we have the beautiful Los Andes Mountain range, so for that we have many modern ski resorts like Valle Nevado, El Colorado and Farellones. There you can practice ski, snowboard, etc.
And as I`m a woman, obviously the comercial centers are very important!, but definaetly the cheapest and exclusive place is Patronato! yoy can find many kind of clothes and very cheap! jajajajaja
Well, I hope that all the people that want to visit Santiago de Chile read my blog and follow these tips! =)
See you folks!

MY FAVORITE MUSIC

Hi folks! Well, today I´m going to talk about something that I really love, and that´s music! In my whole life I´ve been listened to many kind of music, like pop, electronic, etc. However, since four years ago I´ve been listened to a very spectacular kind of music, and that´s rock. In general, I like very much chilean and argentinian rock, specially Los Tres and Soda Stereo respectively. Also. I like USA rock, like Crossfade, and now I´m going to talk about them.
When I was in school, one of my friend show me this band, and I like it immediately! I started searching a lot of information about this group, and I realized that there is not many information about them in internet. My friend told me that they are not much known, but in Ares (a search music web site) I could find more music and some pictures of them too. Then, I was looking for the two CD`s of the band, so I went to Feria del Disco (a chilean music store) but they weren´t there. I was really upset, but in that time my uncle traveled to United States, so he brought me the two CD`s. I was very happy for that! Folks, I really recommend you this group. You can search in http://www.myspace.com/crossfade and there is many information about them. Specially I recommend you the song " Cold". It is very strong and funny, so enjoy it!
See you later!

A COUNTRY I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT

Well, there is a very beautiful country that I would like to visit, and this is Spain. I have an aunt who lives there and she has shown me a lot of pictures of this country and definately it is amazing. Spain has a metropolitan culture that influenced many other parts of the world like Southamerica. For example, Chile was colonized by Spain, so we conserve many customs and traditions of this country, like the language.
Actually Spain is a developed country, so there are many oportunities, especially in the academic area. If I traveled to Spain, I would like to do a postdegree in health because they have the neccesary technology and resources in this area, so I could learn and come back to Chile and show my knowledge. However, it is a very touristic place too, so I would like to spend my vacations there. Also, Spain is located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula, so I could travel to other countries that surround Spain like Italy, France, England, etc.
In this moment I`m only a student, but when I start working, I swear that I will join money and became this idea into something real and exciting experience.

GOOD AND BAD POINTS

Well, now I`m starting a new term, and I`m really happy fort that. The first term of 2009 was very exciting and sometimes very stressful, but in general was amazing. I learned many things like celular biology, genetics and chemistry. At first it was very difficult because I didn`t know the pace of study that this career requieres, so I was a bit scared. As time passed, I felt more confident about my skills, so I lost the fear and I started to fell very happy with my career.
This first term was very awsome too because I knew many wonderful people. This is very important because all my friends at university are a support for me in all the ways. We do many things together like study, go to parties, get lunch, and these activities make that we became more united.
My family is the most important thing in my whole life. They are a big support , so they help me a lot in the first term. Infortunally I don`t have so much time now, so it`s a bit difficult to stay with my familly all the time. I have to study a lot, so this is a very bad point in general when everyone start to study at university. The same thing happend with my friends and it`s very sad.

In general, I`m very happy to study here, with all the good and bad things because I`m doing something for my future, and that is very amazing.

A talk review

Sir Ken Robinson in his conference discusses the problems with traditional education, and how it must change to meet the needs of present and future. In his talk raises the idea that at the present time the schools are killing creativity in their students. He founded this idea by saying that education given in schools tend to develop only certain areas in the students, like language, history, science and mathematics, and that other areas like arts, dance or music are neglected.
I´m totally agree with Sir Ken Robinson. In my case, when I was in school the art area was completly neglected. In fact, in high school I never had a music class because I should choose between arts or music, and I decided for arts. This hapenned because the teacher said that we must put more attention in maths, science, history and language.I think that if we want to be an integral human been, we must develop all areas that make the human been complete.
Also people tends to stigmatises these more humanistic areas, and do not let the students develop this skills, prohibited form doing what they want.
Other factor is that schools do not give room for mistakes, and show them like the worst thing in the world; this is why children are afraid of making mistakes. Robinson says that if you aren´t prepared to fail, you wouldn´t be an original person, with identity.
I think that we have a mission. We must be aware of all these aspect of education and make something better, we have to promote human imagination and not let education kill them

My Blogging Experience

I´m finishing the semester, and also my English class. This expierence to write a blog have been so amazing because I can practice my English writting about things that are related to technology, personal interests, life experiences and the most importan: things related with my career. I think that this way of learning and practice English is very interactive because in the same time that we learn and practice English we learn about our career. In my case, I really loved to writte about pregnancy, delivery and post delivery because I learned about terminology in English that I know in Spanish, so this will help me in te future if I have to attend to a patient that speaks English for example, or if I travel to another country to specialize me where the people speak English.
Sometimes, It made me a bit difficult writte in the blog because I think that we didn´t have enough time in class to finishing it, so the most of the time I must do it very fast, even sometimes I had to finish the blogg in my house. I think that in the future we could prepare the blog with more time, and in that way qe could deppen more in the topic that we are talking.
I think that learn English is something very important. Right now, we are living in a world where the English is te universal speaking language, so personally I love to learn English, and also I´m grateful to the university for be worried about our integral education doing this subjet of English.
I hope that in the future, the pre-intermediate level classes keep doing this kind of tool so funny like make a blog, and also spread the blogs in all the university community. I really like doing my blog! and I hope keep doing it in the future :D

My Ideal Job :)

Right now I`m just a student of obstetrics, so when I finish my career I want to work like a professional midwife, especially attending new born children. All my life I have to related with babies, so I really like them and I think that they are adorable!. I think that the midwife labor is not only related with worries and cares about woman in her pregnancy time and delivery. Midwifes must worry a lot of new born children because they are new lifes, so they must have all the knowledge about how they must keep and support those new lifes. Everyone that want to work in this area of obstetrics must have many knowledge about neonatology, gynaecology, first aids, nursery knowledge, etc. In our professional training we get these knowledge, so if we want to especially in these area, we must improve and deepen especially in neonatology.

Personaly, I like so much these area, so I will study so hard to be the best in my career. Also, I think that in this area there are many professionals, and for that sometimes it´s a bit difficult to get a job inmediately, so the most important thing is be a very good student, get good grades at university, and if we do that, we will have more opportunities to get great jobs in a shorter time.

Mi favourite Subject

My favourite subject at university is biology, especially the unit of embriology. This semester I have to learn it and I think that is something amazing because I really like to know about all the events related with the embryonic human development. In this development are related and complemented genetics and molecular processes which determs, for example, the development of arms, stomach, head, heart, liver, kidney, bones. etc. This is very important for my career because we attend newborn children, so we can evaluate if they present a normal development or they have any congenital malformation.
In this unit, my teachers are Dr. Miguel Concha and Dra. Mariana Rojas. They are an experts on this topic and they have many disposition to teach us everithing. Dra. Mariana Rojas also is a veterinary doctor, so she explains us the embryonic development in animals too.
I think that is very important to know this, not only for health professional but any persons too because we are humans and we must know everithing about us.

Me in five years :)

Well, I really think in that everyday. The most important thing that I want to do in five years is finish mi career, start working and be a really good profesional. For this goal I study a lot everyday because I want to be the best in my area. Also, I would like to travel to another country to follow my studies and know other realities related with my career.
In other plane, I would like to travel with my family to Torres del Paine. I think that is a very beautiful place, full of nature and the most important is that is in Chile :) I really want to travel there, so I will work very very hard jajajaja.
I think that the future is something very important an very uncertain too. We plane many things but anybody knows what could happen in the way, so for that I always enjoy every second, with my family, my friends and all the important people that makes me happy :D

The best profesional in my area

I think that the best professional in my area is Ms.Hilda Bonilla, who is the director of Obstetrics School at Universidad de Chile. She was rewarded with the "Olga Julio" award in recognition of her vast trade-union and academic path. She finished her program studies in 1969 and then she started working as a clinical midwife in hospitals and doctor`s office until 1972. Since that year until now she has been working like a teacher in Obstetrics School at Universidad de Chile, taking part in th education of the new midwifes generation. Also she has taken part of chilean and foreing programs of familiar planning, working as an active assesor in research investigations in Universidad de Concepción and she is a member of the scientific committee of the Midwifes' School in Chile.
I like her because she is an excellent teacher, very intelligent and knows everything about my career. She stimulates us to study more if we want to be a great professionals, and she is a especialist in Health Mother Infantile, and that is the area that I want to follow when I finished my career.

My career

In first time I wanted to study nursery, and obstetrics was into my options too because I definitly love babys and help them to be born is something amazing!. Finally I choose study obstetrics and Im very happy for that :D. Be a midwife it´s very special because they have and important role in society like assist delivery, favor the health and quality of life of the woman in the different periods of her vital cicle and realize activities of prevention, promotion, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. Also they worry about the newborn child and integrate all the family in this beautiful process. Midwifes needs to be very delicate, nice and worry with them pacients, and also they need to be prepare if the newborn child or the mother are in problems in the moment of delivery. For all this things I really love my career, and in the future when I finally will be a midwife, I will be very profesional and do all the things that I say before very well :D.
Now, in my career I really love biology, because we can know everything about our cells, and they are they construct our body. Im really happy for that and all the things that we must know for be a midwife in the future. :D

A funny and great photograph!

This is one of my favorites photographs. It´s so funny! It was taken in 2007 when I was finishing school by a classmate. The day when this photograph was taken, me and my school friends were hidden in the backyard of our school because we didn´t want to go to class. In this part of the school any authority goes to supervise if any classmate is out of classes, so we decide to go right there. While we were there, we get lunch, talk and make many funny things like take this photograph. I like it so much because our faces are very very crazy and whe are in a infantile game so it´s more funny yet !. Everytime that I see this photograph, I remember my days in school with my friends, so it´s very important for me. I hope that if anyone have the oportunity to spend a great time, take photographs! In the future, you can remember that beautiful moments.

Very interesting page about my career

I like to visit a web page, this is www.padresok.com/paginas/Embarazo.cfm/, and I founded last satuday when I was making a work for the university. This web page it`s about everything that you need to know about pregnancy from the conception to delivery. It has a lot of topic, like information about pregnancy, before delivery, delivery and post delivery. In each topic there is many tips, for example, in post delivery it says how you can have a delivery without stress, and in pregnancy how you can make excersice for you health and your baby health. Also, I can browse in the web page and found more information about other topics like education, health, free time, be fathers, be a woman and fertility. It´s so complete! This page it´s not only for obstetrics student like me, everyone can get a lot of information if they need it, so, if everyone want to know about this kind of information, this is the right page! I recommend it.

My favorite peace of technology

My favorite peace of technology is my laptop. I can do many things with it like browse in internet, play games, do works for the university and chat with my friends. It´s so complete! I couldn´t live without it! Since that I´m studing in the university, I don´t have time to see my lovely friends, and because of the computer I can talk with them any time of the day :D and know about them lives and experience at the university. I can browse in internet too, so I can do many works for the university because in internet there is many information, and I can use my lapton in the university because it has free internet!. I can listen to music too and that is very funny. I can take my lapton everywhere I want, so it`s very comfortable :D
Definitly my laptop is a very successful tool to my whole life :D

This is me

Hello, my name is María Paz Veloso Hevia. Im an obstetriciant student in Universidad de Chile and this is my first year here. Im nineteen years old and Im brunette, tall and skin. When I have free time I dedicate to go out with my friends, listen to music, dance and be with my familly. My friends are very important to me because everyday they are supporting and helping me with all the things that I need. I love and miss them a lot right now.
My family is the most important thing in my whole life. I couldn´t live whithout them! They are very proud of me because Im studying in this college. :D
The world in the university is very different and strange. We must study a lot and generally I don´t have time, but I have known many people and they are so funny! They are my new friends now and with them I have great times in this new place. :D

One of my favorite subjects at school was english, and in the university I have the oportunity to be in an english class. It started last wednesday and it was very interesting because the teacher was so clear and very funny. Now Im in my second class and Im working right now in the construction of a blogger. This is very technological way of telling people what are you doing or what are you thinking about a lot of things, and right now Im doing that... I love it!