English language challenges

Hi everyone!

This semester I finish my english classes and now I’m going to talk about the challenges I that I have now on to speak and know the language really well.

I think that I need to improve my pronunciation, because is the thing that bothers me the most of my English. Anyway, I believe that the best way to do that is to talk a lot with someone that understands, so I spect that when I travel to a country where English is spoken mostly or spend some time with English –or American, Australian, etc- people, I will improve my English speaking.

Also I think that a way to learn constantly and get some vocabulary is to surf the internet in English web sites and watch series in English, sometimes even without subtitles.

Listening to songs in English also is a good way to practice and remember new words, and the melody is a better way to keep it in your head all day, so sometimes I’m thinking in English all day long.

With the things and the grammar that I learn in the English class added to the daily practice I constanly do I believe that I will continue learning and speaking a better English and when I have the possibility to travel to a English speaking country I won’t have any trouble understanding and talking to people fluently.

Anyway I’m very glad that my university gives me the possibility to improve my English and graduate from college with an important tool as it is English in these days.

2014

The year 2014 has been different from other years. It started very well, in January I did a lot of things here in Santiago and in February I went to Viña, Algarrobo and then spent a few days in Tunquén. Overall it was a fun time.

In March, when I returned to classes in college, I was stressed from the beginning. Fourth year of journalism has certainly been the most tiring year and with more responsibilities, the exigency for each class is much higher than other years, but still, despite of all of that, I enjoy most of my classes and it motivates me to know that I’m getting closer to the end of my college years.

Also has been a year where I become much closer to my friends and family, I spend a lot of time to sharing with them.

Now I only think that there's still a month of college and winter makes everything more challenging and difficult and doing things requires a lot of effort, but it motivates me to think that tomorrow starts the World Cup, that I probably watch the matches with my friends and after that comes the winter break where I can relax and do whatever I want, forgetting about  college and responsibilities for a while.

I hope the second half of the year isn’t so tiring as this, because I also have to do the practice and hopefully I can go out a few weeks on vacation to start well the year 2015.

Personal fears

Many people have fears or phobias that without a reason terrorize them and keep them from doing things. Fear of some animals, things or situations.

Personally there are certain things that scare me or make me uncomfortable sensations sometimes, like spiders or some patterns in certain things (it's called tripophobia), but I think one of the things that has scared me the most in my life is my imagination. For example, many times when I was younger when I watched some movies I was weeks after dreaming or imagining that things happened in the movie could occur in real life.

The Ring, The Others or The Mummy are some of the movies that scared me days after seeing them. With The Ring, for example, I was afraid because I belived that the main character, Samara, could appear to me somewhere or hide under my bed. I remember that in the morning when I wake up I jumped because I was afraid that there was water (because when Samara appeared there was always water because he had died in a well), and obviously I was counting the days to over the seven days after seeing the movie, because I was supposed to die (what a loser).

I have now overcome my situation and I don't imagine weird things when I watch movies that scare me, but sometimes my imagination is stronger and have dreams, that although no longer disturb me, wakes me up and forces me to turn on the TV to get back to sleep in peace.