My course programme

Study architecture could be a very stressful experience, especially if the course programme is not the accurate. This career is know by the fact that you need to be able to create something from nothing, only using your imagination, creativity and the little knowledge we have about architecture.

The principal course we have in the career is workshop, this course requires the most of our time and dedication, leaving us a few hours en the week to focus in the other subjects we have. The workload that this generates is huge, because all the stress that we have at workshop it is added together with the homework and activities from the others courses.

Is obvious that workshop is like the most important course in the career but that does not mean that is the only course we have, and sometimes it feels like it because of the teachers opinions (it obviously depends in the teacher), they could be very subjective at the moment of evaluating and that makes us focus more in workshop (to be improve) and less in the other courses. Despite that the faculty of architecture has a great environment to work and that is a relief at the moment of stress.

Other fact that relief the workload of workshop and the other courses in the career is that we can use the technology for many things that makes our life easier at the moment of work; I think that if this was not present our experience at the career will be more difficult that it is.

In any case the workload of the career is something that we have to learn to manage, and that is something that nobody teaches you. You have to discover it by yourself.

English Course at University

This semester I’ve decided to take the English course at the university. At first I wasn’t very sure about it, because I did not think I was able to managed my times with one extra course. After many time thinking about it I trust in my instincts and I take the course.

At the beginning of the course the class wasn’t so interesting, because we didn’t know each other and the conversations activities were kind of forced. With the pass of the time this change. We were able to speak in class without been nervous. The Blogs was the principal responsible of that because it was a way for use to interact with our classmates and know a little more about their lives and experience at different situations, that sometimes were very similar to ours.

I think that during the course I have improve myself at the use of English and self-confidence at the time of speaking with others. But I still can be better at it, for that I could practice more at my free time, so I could went used to speak without troubles.

Using English outside the class is not my reality, we are used to speak in Spanish and the situations outside this class aren’t the better ones for the use of English. Sometimes I see movies or series sin English but that’s it, that is kind of my relation with English. But I want to change that, I want to have more time were I could talk in English so I can improve at it.  

SUMMER

I think that is the first time in my life that I want so desperately it is summer. This has been a tough year so a little of summer vacations could be the best thing to hope for.

Usually in summer I travel with my family and spend some time with my friends. But this year I want it to be different, for the first time I want to work. I want to travel for my own, maybe with some of my nearest friends. we have always talked about going in a trip together but we could never accomplish it.

But I’m only dreaming about it, for now the only thing I know is that I’m going back home in Antofagasta for the last time, because my family is moving to Santiago next year. So this will be my last summer in Antofagasta. There are not so many things to do there but all my friends are there and we always find a way to have a good time either going to the beach or the cinema.

Usually in February my family travels to some resort in a beach to spend the last weeks of summer relaxing and enjoying the beautiful days that the summer brings with it.

No matter what kind of plans I do in summer, I only want to recover the sleep hours I have lost during this year, so I could start a fresh new year.