English language challenges

Hello, readers! I hope you're all well. In fact, it's the end of my English course journey. I started this course last semester, and it was good. This semester was strange because the context was and the online mode is being complicated for some people.

In my experience, in all English courses I have had problems with the ability to listen in a comprehensive way, and I need to improve that and other things. I usually understand English very well from people whose native language is Spanish, but when I try to understand people who really speak English it confuses me and I don't understand it, I think the problem is that their accent and their speed makes it difficult for me. I can't process all the information in such a short time because I still can't "think in English". I also need to improve my ability to conjugate verbs because the rules are confusing me.

I used to use English a lot outside of class because all my music was in English, I watched movies and series in this language and I had to read books in my English class in high school, but nowadays I don't use it much, I could say that I use it only when it is necessary and I am forced to use it; reading articles, the subtitles of some movie or documentary, or when a video does not have translation or subtitles.

To close this blog, the course was a good experience, the activities make the course not boring, it made me think about things I never thought or planned, thanks for that!

Academic programme

Regarding the subjects, I feel that all the subjects that I have are very important to have a good education in this career, but I also feel that in the first cycle (all the first grade) I had very general subjects far from the profession, such as anthropology and sociology. I must confess that I really loved these subjects, but I don't think they are fundamental to our training. Now, I know that in the new curriculum, the new generations do not have these subjects and have transversal courses. I really agree with that. I feel that our discipline is very flexible and we have many ways to assess our knowledge, but sometimes it is a difficult workload if you do not develop skills such as reading quickly and comprehensively, having a good writing or even speaking and I always have informed opinions. It takes a long time and is a problem for take courses and do co-curricular activities. And about the infrastructure I don't really have any complaints, I feel like it's fine.

I do not know the technology of our faculty, once I went to computers and no more, I´d like have more technology  in laboratory to do many types of experiments and not only about associative learning, it could be really interesting because this type of learning is better than just theory , and this is the type of learning that I would like to have, it gives us more interaction with our knowledge, the idea is not only to have the information in the book, we need it in practice because it could prepare us to work in the future

The Virus

Hi all! I hope that everyone is well in this time of apocalypse because, in efect, I´ll talk about it. My family and I´ve been lucky at the moment, we live in a small town in the middle of a field where we don't have any cases of coronavirus and we aren´t in quarantine but anyway we take the preventive measures, and we go out only if is really necessary because I live with my grandparents and they are at-risk group, but also we have family in the city and it concerned us

Seeing the good part, I believe that this pandemic has been an opportunity to change our hygiene habits and become aware the importance of cleaning our hands carefully. I've also see more social conscience and empathy in the lower class to face the economic problems of this pandemic.

I´ve don't rediscovered any activity haha ​​but now I could say that I´m always watching series or films, oh! I was forgetting that I learned to knit, but I'm not really good, It bored me because I never progress.

My studies have had a lot of problems, my internet is not good because where I live we have bad signal, when I have synchronuss classes it makes me often leave the videoconference, and it is really exhausting and stressful,

I'm always trying to be most optimistic about the context but I can't. The TV is always on in my house and the news are always saying bad things, the government does nothing good. And in the future I think that we all be afraid about new viruses for a few years, maybe, My prognosis for this virus is not optimistic, I think it will take a long time for it to finish and to be able to leave home.