2013

For me two thousand and thirteen was a complicated year, it was not a bad year but it was a year with a lot of thinking about the future.

The moment of finish my career is close and I must to think seriously about the future, and I don’t know exactly what i want to do in my future professionally. I have to decide soon what I am going to do as a psychologist, I know that I’m going to work in something related to the community or educational labor of a psychologist but I feel that there is a lot of things about the profession that I don’t know and I am afraid of take the wrong direction in my professional live.

In the past year I have thought a lot in my militancy and political activities and how much I give to this labor, sometimes in this year I thought that I give too much to the political labor and I leave behind a lot of other things in the professional and familiar areas and maybe that was a mistake. In the future I want to balance all the things that I do and will not only dedicate myself to one of them.

Two thousand and thirteen was a year for know myself in a better way, a year to think about what I have done in my life at my twenty years and what I want for my future, a year to know better about my own feelings and emotions, a year to know how I deal with different situations and how I can be better in the different aspects of my life. I am really happy to say that. 

food

I must to say that i really enjoy eat; I love the moment of preparing food. I really like to cook, it is a relaxing moment for me, when I am stressed or sad I put good music and i start to cook something delicious.

I was a vegetarian two years when I started college; the vegetarian life permitted me to know some food and ways to make food that I didn't know before. I left the vegetarian way of life because I felt that I didn't anything for the animal causes and didn't feel comfortable with that. Now I eat meat just in special occasion and just a little.

I like a lot the Chilean food, for me the Chilean food is related to family, to be in home and prepare food to eat together with my parents and brothers, and I enjoy a lot that moment. I always cook with my mom, it is a special mother and son moment for us, she teach me how to cook and now I feel that I am a really great cook.

When I was eighteen years old my great grandmother died. When I was a child I lived with her for three years, one of the memories that I have of that period is the delicious food she prepared, and specially a pea soup with the most special taste in earth, I never have eaten something similar in my life.

As you see food and cooking can be a special part of our lives.

Dreams

Dreams are a beautiful part of life; dreams can express all the things that we don’t dare to express in diary live. A lot of times dreams tell us about ourselves, about or thinking, about or fears, about our eroticism. It’s very important to me, and I think it should be importance for everybody, to give importance to our dreams and try to discover what they want to tell us.

In my dreams I usually see myself running in country or in a forest in a sunny day. I have always thought that this dream is a metaphor for my desire of total freedom. 

I must to say that I usually have nightmares too, always in the moment that I am falling sleep I start to dream with ugly and scary things that don’t leave me sleep good.  I believe that the problems that I have in my daily moments are responsible for this nightmares. 

I am a totally daydreamer, every day I dream about a different life, not only for my, for everybody in this world. I dream with a different society, a society where our humanity is more important that our money, a society without exploitation for the men by the men, a society where our decisions are taken according to our dreams, a society where all the people who lives in this world are conscious about the other who is in their side. I dream with the society of freedom.

I am sure that my dreams are possible; they just depend of us, and depend of our diary work and practice. The political power is in our own hand and we have to work together for change our lives.

The island beneath the sea

When I think about my reading habits, I must to say that I read for placer more when I was a kid than now, now I read more for obligation and that is sad.

My favorite book is called “the portrait of Dorian Gray”; it was written by Oscar Wilde a polemic and controversial artist on his time. The story on the portrait of Dorian Gray is very exciting, I read this book many times and every time I read it I discover something new and unexpected, the story on this book make me think about all the pleasures and risks that we have on life.

During the last summer, and is not the last book that I read, I read a book written by Isabel Allende called “the island beneath the sea”. The story is about the slavery in saint domingue or now Haiti, the principal character is Zarité, a black slave for a white family; the story moves forward on the fight for liberation of slavery by rebel slaves. There are a lot of moments in the book, moments of love, of sadness, of violence and others. Is interesting how the book shows the differences between the black and the white people. Shows the differences between the exploited and the exploitive, and how the white and black cultures involve themselves one in other in the actual culture. 

I really enjoyed reading this book, it´s take me about a week and I would recommend the book for everyone who wants to have an interesting and fun moment, besides Isabel Allende is always a good experience.

beyond the myths and stigma of mental illness

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/25/rd-laing-aaron-esterson-mental-illness

This article is about how the mental disease or mental disorders, in this case schizophrenia, has been diagnostics for decades without the contemplation of the family and social context.

The text try to go beyond the myths and stigma of mental illness, and talk about how the mental patients has been confined in mental institutions and has been obligated to take strong drugs as a unique treatment, even the article mention how the mental patients in some moments of history were seen as possessed persons.

The author tells us about how in some cases the mental disease is not only in the patient but as well in its family. It shows the case of patients that were diagnostics of schizophrenia without the consideration of their family context and finally there was the trouble, not only in the patient's but well in their parents.

It is a big problem in the diagnostics of mental health, is impossible to diagnostic a patient with a mental disorder just for its own problems, the professional has to consider how the familiar and social world in which one the patients live and is very important to consider how a psychiatric diagnostic can affect the lives of a patients and it family.

Finally we can not talk about mental disease just talking about biology; the mental diseases are associated to pathological families or sick societies. 

Anime

I must to say that i know just a little about anime.

I don’t really saw too much anime when I was a kid. Actually in my memory I can only remember two anime that I saw in my childhood and they were important to me. The first one and my favorite is Ranma ½, the story of this anime is too much interesting, the characters change their normal form if they have contact with water, in the specific case of ranma, he was a black hair boy who transform in a red hair girl when he touch hot water.

Another anime that I remember I saw in my childhood was Hunter X, I can remember that I saw this anime and I really liked it, I remember that every afternoon I was waiting in front of television for a new chapter of hunter X.  But when I think about the storyline of the anime I cant really remember it.

There are another anime stories that I remember as Mikami the ghost hunter, Sailor moon, Saint seiya or

doraemon. I saw all this anime and I love them, However when I became an adult person I never developed a passion for it, and I never saw anime again. 

The magic of Chili.

There are many places that i would like to visit in future; some of them are France, Greece, and Egypt. However I have always thought that before I will go anywhere out there I have to visit all the beautiful places in my own country. We always think about the fantastic places that exist in other countries and we forgot how many unimaginable places exist right here in chili.

Chili is full of enigmatic and diverse landscapes, places of extraordinary beauty and culture; we can find magic stories about the different attractive tourist. Just closing our eyes and imagining different regions of our country is an extraordinary experience. 

I would love to go to the north of Chili and being on San Pedro of Atacama and know its beautiful constructions; enjoy the magic of desert in flower. Travel across all the enigmatic landscapes in the center of the country; know the valley of Elqui, the historic Valparaiso city, the vineyards. Go to the south and walk on the green woods, visit all the beautiful lakes, know all the magic stories in Chiloe and being in the amazing ice of south.

I am very sure that I will go everywhere in chili and I will end my days living in one of the beautiful places of our country.

My ideal job.

When I think about what I would like to do when I finish university, I always think about social labor. That is the kind of job that I would love to do, something that would give me the chance to know what are the problem with peoples´ lives every day, and how we could work together, in community, to a solution.  

Considering what I wrote before, I think that communitarian psychology or educational psychology, are areas of the discipline that I would be good to develop in future. I have always considered that I have social skills and emotional skills will allow me to work in that kind of areas.

Actually it is not easy to find the kind of job I mention before, because the system that produces the public politics today, do not permit to explore the problems of people, and let alone, allow the people to find their own solutions.  

However I have the hope that the work that I and others will make in future can change the reality that we live today.

the last one

I think that is always good learned in a different way, for example this blog.
I have to say that sometimes the topics were just boring and uninteresting; in such cases I didn’t have any desire to write; but in the most of the cases the topics of the blogs were entertained and emotionally interesting.
I don’t know how good the blogs experience is, maybe is more important for express or opinions and ideas, to know how your classmates thinks and know them better but I’m not sure that the blogs make our English grammatically better, I agree whit the idea that the practice make us better, but in that case I prefer write a letter whit a lot of my ideas and show it to my classmates or something like that.
The blog about the book was the best one; I remembered the book in an alive way, was like reading the book and living the emotions again. Another blog that I love to wrote about was the travel places, I wrote about travel for Chile and I love to imagine me in all that beautiful places.
The blog that I really really hate was the one about technology, I didn’t know what write, I just did the blog for the points and it wasn’t honest.
This semester has been extremely short, I must to say that in general the English class has been a good time, a very interesting experience, thank for that teacher and for all your help to us; the class gives us the opportunity to know our classmates better and share opinions and ideas.

Maybe the last blog had to be about what we want for the world, a message for humanity, a recommendation to be better persons, a free topic or something like that.

The picture of Dorian Gray

My favorite book is called “the picture of Dorian Gray”, translated to Spanish as “el retrato de Dorian Gray”, its author is the polemic Irish Oscar Wilde.

The story is about a young and rich men, Dorian, who is admired for his inhuman beauty. One day his friend Basil Hallward, obsessing with his beauty, painted him in a portrait. Dorian met Lord Henry by Basil, and this new friend present to him a new world, based in give placer to the senses and live the life, Dorian start to make this world his own, and think that the old age can destroy his life, something happens in those moments, the portrait consume Dorian’s soul, the years pass and Dorian never get old, but the image of Dorian in the portrait, start to get older and older, Dorian is consumed by the vicious and placers of the dark side of the life, he live in perversion and hedonism, leaving his humanity back.

I’m not going to talk about the end; the idea is that you have to read the book to know how this dark story ends.

This book is the representation of humans fears, about how we are afraid to get older, how we are afraid to lose the beauty and vitality, the book presents a very crude reality, this reality full of vicious and placers which can consume your life, but they attract you, you want to do those thing, but you know that's is bad, however you consider. The book presents an idea about how humans think and act, about how we need to show to the world that we are very great persons and make them believe that we have no problems, we are scared to reflect in life what we are passing.

The book inspired a couple of movies, theatrical representations and some songs (as “el tiempo es dinero”, soda stereo) but none of them can reflect the real essence of the book.

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First i think that the topics of the blogs are everytime more boring, in my opinion the topic has to be open to give ours opinions about something relevant or just leave the topics free, in those way everyone can write about something that consider important .

I dont have any important pictures, then i dont know about what write, im just are going to look for an image that i like.

I just see this picture today, i think is a very beautiful and strong image, full of human emotions, this picture express a lot of things, as the union of the bodies and the soul between persons, also the proteccion between them, however somebody can interpret this image as represion or violence of the man to the woman.

This image express the beauty of the human body, show us the posibility of use the body as an artistic material in a beatiful way, teach to people to feel proud of their bodies and show it like a great creation of the world.

the angle of the picture and the color on it, give to the image the force necesary to express human emotion in an alive way, is like who is looking the picture can feel the emotions on it. The positions of the bodies is so beautiful, they are fused in an embrace, a lovely and violent embrace, that express a stormy love.

I dont know where this picture come from or who take it but i just can give congratulations to the photographer and the models for the beautiful and well done work , they make the perfect union between the human body and the art movement.

i dont know

The best day of mi life was when I had my first sexual experience…. No is just a joke xD

One special day, i can’t remember one day in special, i don’t know why but i just think in special moments on different days, maybe I can talk about those special moments.

The first moment that I remember was when I was four years old, I went with my parent to the Ñielol hill, I remember we made a picnic, we walked for the forests, we saw the flowers and listened the birds singing, those was a very happy moment, is so easy when you are a child, don’t have any worried or trouble, just living the moments and smiling to the life, maybe that is why this is one of the most special moments in my life, because reflects all the happiness in my childhood.

Thinking well the most special day in my life were two, when mi little sister born and when mi little brother born, when I think on those days today I can say that , but in the moment I remember i felt a lot of emotions, when my sister born I was six years old, and in some moments I thought she comes to steal my place in the family, I felt so jealous, and angry, then when my brother born I was ten years old, the emotions were completely different, just happiness and anxiety, when I saw my little brothers in my mom arms was the most special moments in all my life, was like the time stopped and nothing more matter. They complete my life, I a

lways been like a second father, they forced me to grow up, but they are what I love more in the entire universe.

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The ugly true is that im not a good friend of technology,  i use device that I really need, as my celphone and my notebook, i dont have any other  technological device.

In this moment my cellphone is the most importan techological device in my live, because i use this to comunicate wiht my family in temuco, and to organizated any work whit my classmate.

The true is that i dont remember when i get my celphone, i had so many in my life, i always lose it, and get a new one.

Celphone isnt real important in my live, i can live perfectly without it, but is true that sometimes celphone make the live more easy.

Other technologycal device that i use a lot is my pc, is the biggest distractor in my student life, but i used the notebook for other things too, im study, no that is a lie, but sometimes i make investigation about things that ineteresting me and i read on it, i see movies and series.

I got my notebbok when i went  out of the secondary, i think this is the only technological device that is really useful and has some important in life.

I HATE any other kind of technology.

Everywhere in my own countr

I love nature and culture, those enigmatic places make me happy, them transported me to a parallel world.

I always said that before you meet anywhere outside your country, you must to know the beauty of where you live.

That is why before to know anywhere I want to visit the high summits of the Andes mountains, the exotic beauty of Pascua Island, the legendary constructions of San Pedro, the ice in the south of my country, the mysterious stories in Chiloe island, the magical culture of mapuche people, the beautiful lakes of south and the sun of the Atacama Desert.

I don’t know why people have to look outside to see the beauty of the world, if we get the beauty, the richness culture, the eccentrics places, we just have to see our round and discover that our own land has all the necessary things to make us travelling for all our lives.  

About the money, I think that the money isn’t essential; I’m not worried about that. When I think about the people who will would to travel with me, them have to be people there i love, familiars, friends, and they have to appreciate the beauty of Chile just like I do.

I will never live in any of these places, I think that when you stay in one places for too much time, that place lose its magic.

 

When I am sad

The most of the time I am never been  sad, but when i feel down, i try to leave the sadness back,  make happy things, laugh with my friends, going out, to the square, to a party or somewhere where  the people have fun, that is why  when I am sad, i hear happy music, music that make you feel going to heaven, and make you smile, think about the beautiful of the life, music make me connect with the inception of the world.

But sometimes the sadness is more than just sadness, and it transform in a melancholy that can make the life so hard, and in that moments, you cant hear happy music, and your brain forced you to hear sad music, and the music make you to question everything, make you think about the meaning of the life, but that moments are just bad times, and always pass quickly.

The music that i hear when im sad, is so varied, i really like the classic and new chilean and latin american folk, but sometimes i hear soft rock, and even electronic or pop music.

Finished this post Imust to confess that I have a guilty pleasure, i really love to hear shakira¨s music when im sad, i dont know why, but is something in her voice that make me feel great.

 maldigo del alto cielo,

Claudia Zuñiga

She is a very importan teacher of university of chile, she teach social research methodology and a lot of others things.

She start her studies on psychologist at the frontera university, in Temuco city, she make a magister in Concepcion university, and then she make a PhD in Madrid.

She was the director of psychologist career in university of Chile, and now she is the manager in PhD about social psychologist.

She is a very sweet and nice person, her class is very interesting and practice, she make the space for students questions and opinions, she is very organized and exigent, but always make jokes about the class, and we laugh all together.

In my personal opinions she is one of the best teachers in the career, however the opinions about her, are so opposite in the different groups, some people say that she never give a chance, don’t listened any reason, and finally always reprove the subject.

Something there I love about her, is her work about the identity of the people all over the country and how much them are affected by the troubles in the capital.

I expect some day have her studies level.

I am Scared D:

I am a person as many others, with  a lot of dreams and ilusions.

My name is ismael, I am a student of  psychology at University of Chile. I am from Temuco.

I have eighteen years old, but sometimes i feel as my soul have fifty years old, any way the most of the time I am a very happy and smiling person.

I will love to meet you on the next class.