Midnight cowboy

The other day I saw "midnight cowboy", I had this movie pending to watch since 4 years ago!!! but I didn't had the opportunity to download it, because I could't find it. Luckily I found it at this website called Kickass torrets ;) I think that this film is very interesting because touches many topics. First of all I'll make a rewiev of the film: The film tells a story about a Young texan called Joe Buck, that decides to move from Texas, where he Works as a dishwasher in a restaurant to New York, to find a better future, but the problem is that he tries to find success as a male prostitute for old women in this city. He doesn’t knows the business so he’s constantly failing at this (even more, in a case, he ends up paying to the woman who starts to cry because he was claiming his money for the service). Anyway, as innocent as a boy can be, this Young man keeps trying and meets a crippled man who says to know a guy that is in the business, of course, this crippled (Ratso) was a street man and he was only looking for money, so he steals it from Joe Buck.

A few days later, Joe Buck starts to stay out of money, and he founds Ratso, after a Little fight they finally become Friends, and Joe moves with Ratso to the place he was occupying, at an abandoned building. Their friendship becomes stronger as they found Company and support in each other, but Ratso’s health was getting weaker, and his last wish was to move to Florida, so Joe makes everything to make his dream come true, and when I say everything, I mean things that you could never imagine that this innocent guy could do.

Anyway, the course of the movie is constantly making flashbacks to Joe’s complicated life history. Wich includes a romance with an insane woman that ends tragically and the life with his grandmother after his mother abandoned him.

I can’t tell you how it ends but, trust me, you must see it. This is a classic movie winner of many awards. And I simply loved it, even its a bit raw. 

Here I left you the trailer link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2yBydiEJrI

Thailand

Well, first of all, hi everyone! :)
A place I'd like to visit someday is Thailand, this is because when I was younger  I saw a movie called "The Beach", there I saw the most beautiful place ever, and then I knew this movie was filmed there. So this is the main reason, the beautiful places, beaches and of course the weather, wich is mostly warm and the days are clear, also I'd like to visit Bangkok, one of the biggest cities in the country. Another reason is the culture, I think that this country has a way different culture from ours, but isn't extremelly different, so I'd like to know the people there, their traditions and the buddhist heritage that they have. The architecture is another reason to visit this country and meet places like the Bangkok great palace, I like this kind of architecture because is so rich in details. Finally, the food, Thai food is really delicious, tasty and has a lot of veggies, but I'd like to try it there, I don't know, maybe is a bit different from the chilean version of it.
So here I left you some pictures of this amazing place, I'm sure you'll like it too.

Feel like a blogger OMG

Normally I do not use blog, I used to have one to publish short stories that I wrote, but that was in 2010 and now I don't have time to do it, so I was out of practice. And of course I used to write in spanish. I think that this working methodology is a very good alternative in our times, considering that people is always using computers or cellphones, and even more when we are in an era where the social networks are part of our lives. I found pretty interactive to work with this type of websites, because you publish your entry in english, so you have to think in english (it is difficult at first but then it becomes easy) and then you have to read your classmates entries, in english too, to comment on their blogs. I like to read other people's opinion or experiences about a topic and comment about them :) I think that my writing skills have improved widely, because normally we don't write in english, we are more used to lisen it or read it. In the traditional way, I mean like in school with completing sentences, and all that stuff you don't develop this skill. Maybe this kind of methodology should be introduced in schools, to make the classes more entertaining for children, and avoid a bad experience with this language. The most of the people that I know who hates english it is because they found boring the subject at school. 

I don't know, I think that the topics were quite diverse but I think that we shouldn't talk about career related topics hahah I know that maybe is part of the course program, but I found it boring, because we are the entire week studying and learning things about our careers and sometimes is exhausting. 

Today's activity :D

Well I found pretty interesting this activity because there are a many things that I didn't know about this topic, and it's really helpful to learn some other tips and information.
What I know abut the 3Rs is anything else but the name: recycle, reduce, reuse. I try to do my best at this. I'm lucky to have a municipal recycling park near my house so I can go walking to it (we don't have a car anyway). When we do this, about two times in the month, I realize how much waste we produce, and believe me, it is A LOT. When I go with someone else (any volunteer? haha) we both carry 5 bags in each hand full of recycling material, so 20 full bags. And it take us half an hour to deposit all in the correct container, plus the hour at home organizing the material in the different bags. So normally I spend the entire sunday morning doing this. But I don't care, I'm happy to do it, and when I go there and I see a lot of other people doing it makes me happy and keeps me motivated. And of course I'm always trying to reuse things, give them to other person/organization or sell them, I don't know. In fact I buy a lot of used clothes in the market instead of buying it in the mall. I use my flask to bring tea to uni instead of buying disposable cups. And many other things, you just have to be attentive to the things you do or use. For example, when I take a shower I try to cut the water while I'm washing my hair, sometimes it gets cold, but I rather prefer save water.
So I think this is a very important topic, and I believe that everybody should care and be informed about it, but sometimes I think that the government is not prepared to deal with it, there are not enough recycling parks, available information and I don't even want to mention the environmental public policies in Chile, that practically don't exist or are poorly developed :(

When I finished school I really didn't know what to do because I liked so many things, specially the health area, but I was not sure, I was thinking in biology, biotechnology and marine biology too, so I was really confused. I took a year to prepare psu but didn't helped me, in fact I was more confused. So I when I got the psu results I went with the vocational advisor to help me decide because I only had three days to make the postulation. She told me that maybe the bachelor program was appropiate for my case hahah. So I entered to "bachi", finally there I realized that my area was the social sciences, I always thought that this area was related to history and maybe because of that I dismissed this option. So then I choosed psychology because of the relation with the health area and because I liked it. 

Well, psychology is a very versatile career, there are a lot of contributions from psychology in the educational area, child development, clinical tratments, laboral area, and there are also contributions to the community health, a very small brach but very interesting and with a lot of potential

In the future, maybe psychologists will have to change the way they treat their patients, this is refered to clinical psychology. It is a very personal view but I think the traditional way we are doing it at the moment is not as effective as it can be, I mean sitting in a room talking an hour per week with a patient maybe is not the most efficient way to help people. I believe that practice is really important, because life is not only in our minds, is in the relation with others and the society. Plus the constant renewal of the knowledge in our area, knowing the fact that things around us are always changing, and faster than ever, new phenomenoms and new diseases will develop considering the lifestyle we are having, so we must adapt to those changes and find new ways to manage those problems.
My favourite subject at this moment is judicial psychology, I don't know why really, maybe because there is a lot of praxis in that area and a lot of investigation and contributions yet to do.

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Plaza Jalisco

Hi everyone! Today I'll tell you about a restaurant that I love, it's called Plaza Jalisco and is located in La Florida, in the Enrique Olivares street, near the Bicentenario Stadium. I've been watching breaking bad lately with my boyfriend so we started to crave on mexican food (if you watch this series you'll understand why) and found this place on internet, because the only place where we eaten mexican food before was on Taco Bell and you know that place can throw down your expectatives :(
So we went to this marvelous place, Plaza Jalisco, very famous in the county and I definitely loved it. The food was simply great, I ate burritos and tacos and they were delicious and spicy. The atmosphere was very nice and homelike, they put mexican music all the time and the waiters gave us a perfect atention. When I told to a friend about this, she told me that she knew the place and she went with her family long time ago, she had the same impression as me, the place is simply great.
In brief, I recomend you this place if you wanna try REAL mexican food and have a good time.
See you soon.

18 Km :)

Well, hi everyone! When I first saw the task in the class blog, I didn't know what to tell you about, so I started thinking of what happened to me this week, and then I remembered my last week goal, this made me sooo extremelly happy so I will tell you about it. I really love riding my bike, my parents gave it to me in my ninth birthday and it was a complete surprise, it is a very resistant machine, believe me ;)  Anyway, the last weeks I was seriously thinking in riding my bike to uni, it was a very hard decision because I live in Puente Alto and there are almost 18 to 20 km. to the campus, in Ñuñoa. So every night I gave myself the encourage to do it but every morning I got scared, and during the breakfast started to think "what if...". The main problem was that I didn't have helmet and a strong chain to tie it, and that made me feel unsafe, so I decided not going on bycicle and do it when I could buy those implements, wich would be next month (in May), a very sad decision. But one day I woke up with enough time and I found no excuses, I could go slowly by the sidewalk and be very carefully. I put my sneakers and took the bike. If you ride your bicycle often maybe you'll understand what I mean, it was a completely exciting trip, and I could feel the chilling wind in my face...  I just couldn't stop smiling. When I entered in the campus I felt completely victorious, I was competing with my own fears and I won. Then I did it the next day, and I felt just the same :D So now I'm planning to go to uni on bicycle everyday but first I will buy a helmet and a kryptonite u lock, because they're more resistant. The most important part of all this is that I will become one more of the people who doesn't take the public transportation, wich I personally hate, and that will reduce my carbon footprint :D
My family and I are always trying to be "earth friendly", you know, we recycle (there's a recycling park near my house) and we're very concious about the water use and the energy saving, so this is very important to me and a big step forward.
Hope you're enyoying this long weekend, see you soon.