The bicentennial year

“The bicentennial year”: Good or bad?

The bicentennial year was a year very wait for all Chilean, because in this year many people are excited because they believed that Chile be 200 years of independency but they are wrong because are 200 years since the first governing board. But it doesn’t matter, if we think about all that happened this year, good and bad things but I prefer to believe that it was not all that bad.

On February 27th all Chilean we were awakened with a big earthquake I believe that day is difficult to erase of the mind, because all that happened that dawn are very strong for all we, in special due the seaquake that affect many beach of the sixth and seventh region but with the help of many countries and businessman the country can to overcome to this event.

After on March 11th the new president came to the “Moneda” and this day was the change of command in Valparaiso, I believe that this day was well despite of the aftershock that this day are very strong.

The August 5th on the night all Chilean listen in the news that in Copiapó in a mine 33 miners are trapped. Since this moment all are Chilean watched the television to know about them, I remember the happiness when I known that they are well and how the optimism and thought of Chilean change and the only that we want are that the miners come out to the exterior. But the happiness was complete the rescue’s day on October 13th when all miners come out and the principal that they are well and in general they have a good health.

In conclusion I believe that year in something aspects was bad but I’m more hopeful and I want to say that this year was good in many aspects and principally like the Chilean we could overcome to all happened. I think that this year can be better and in general was good obviously no always but if we put all things that happened in a balance I believe that good things are above the bad things, is only believe that all can be better. Why not believe that?

Travels =)

Hello, today I’m going to talk about travels.

First I like travel anywhere, the only sensation of travel it’s good to me, this sensation of know something new and another place is sensational. Surely that I like stay at home too, but like everything else in life, one must balance things and for this reason I love to travel and stay at home in my beautiful city.

Generally I’m anxious and excited before of travel because I believe that is a wonderful experience to know another country and his culture and obviously to prove his typical food. I prefer to go to places that I don’t know because I think that is better go a place that you don’t know that to go always to same place.

I don’t have favorite places to go like cities, beach, resorts, etc. I like to know different places. If there is some to like me is know other countries. I almost always do the suitcase to last hour because I like feel the adrenaline hahaha.

I remember when I was to Brazil in January 2007 specifically to “Foz de Iguazú” because it was a beautiful travel that I done with my mother, in this travel I met people very nice because we gone in a tour and stay all the day with them was an opportunity to we could meet better. In Foz I knew the waterfalls I remember that I was surprised and too knew “the bird park” in this park there are many birds from parrots to flamingos.

If I had to recommend a place to go would be “Foz de Iguazú” because is a beautiful city and there are many sites to visit.

Movies :D

Hello people!! Today I’m going to talk about a topic that I like, this topic is movies.

I don’t have a favorite kind of films to watch, but I prefer horror, love, and comedy films, but if a movie is good I don’t have problem in watch this film independent of the kind of film.

I like watch the movies in my home with my family, friends or alone, of course that I like go to the cinema to watch a movie but it is only for the movies that I love, for example Harry Potter and Twilight saga. I think that watch movies in your home it’s very funny, because you can stop or back the movie if you don’t understand some or prepare pop corn or other things to eat like potato chips, sodas, cookies, etc.

I enjoyed watching movies like Harry Potter, Twilight saga and other films like “UP” even Cinderella, I remember that I loved this movie when I was a child and after I believed that I was Cinderella hahaha.

There are two films that left a trace upon to me those films are: “Romeo and Juliet” and “Taken” (in Spanish: “Búsqueda implacable”). The first movie do that I can believe in the love and how for those younger fight for them love despite of the opposition of them parents. And the other film is because is surprising like the father of the protagonist does all for save her daughter of the danger in that she was.

Learn while you sleep?

Hello everyone, today I’m going to talk about a myth of the brain: “Learn while you sleep”.

Well I think that if I could learn while I sleep would awesome, because during the day sometimes I don’t reach to do all that I have to do and in the night while I sleep I could listen the classes and learn more things of the university and so I wouldn’t feel guilty for sleep because I would be learning though this is something difficult because I don’t think that while I sleep I can learn because in this moment the brain is resting.

Before read this paper I listened something to respect but I had not paid attention because I didn’t care, but when I read about this myth in the paper I found very interesting because sometimes I fall asleep listen music but I believe that I don’t learn the songs while I’m sleeping. I think that in the paper this myth is explained in full and as through the experiments, researchers could prove in different people that this affirmation is a myth because people don’t learn or remember what they had read while they slept.

I agree with the Dr. Maldonado to respect this myth because is stranger that your brain can learn while you’re sleeping, is right that the brain has some of activities because during the night everyone has dreams and in these moments the brain has activities but is rare that this myth is true. I agree with him respect to sleep modifies the memorization of things learned just before falling asleep but it doesn’t allow learn while one sleep.

Stress :/

Hello everyone today I’m going to talk about stress and the symptoms that you can help to identify it.

First I understand the stress is a clinical condition because is a feeling that's happened when we react to particular events. It's like the body is prepare to meet a tough situation with energy, strength, stamina, and heightened alertness.

The common symptoms that might help people identify may be irritability, head ache, feeling lonely, depressed, stomach disorders, rapid heartbeat, irregular sleep and eat too much or not enough. The stress doesn’t have treatment but we can do things to decrease the stress for example: read a book, do exercise, in general learn to relax and principally relax our mind.

I believe that the stress affect more people to work in jobs with high demand of time for example doctors (especially E.R staff), polices, school teacher, etc.

The stress can affect the productivity at work in many things, for example lack of perseverance, delays in the arrival at work, decreased effort, etc.

In my opinion the common causes of stress are overworking, lack of time and in general
the society who lives too rushed. People don’t have time to do other activities like, exercises, go to the theatre, read a book or simply sit and relax for a good time and listen music, because this society don’t allow to people relax for a time.

The most typical ways of dealing with it is realize activities that allow relaxing and taking time, ideally that people at work can do other things apart from thinking about work.

Healthy lifestyle :)

Hello everybody, today I’m going to talk about the healthy lifestyle in people.

The healthy lifestyle in these days is something complicated because this society had many “temptations” for examples the fast food, the alcohol and the sedentary, these habits do that are difficult to people have healthy lifestyles, but I have a goods news, in these days is possible to have a healthy lifestyle and the more important to you are know How is it possible?

First the habits of a person with a healthy lifestyle are principally eats healthy foods, for example fruits, vegetables and food light in fat, cholesterol and sodium and drinks many water. Obviously another healthy lifestyle would be to practice sports or exercise thirty minutes ideally three times to week. Other healthy lifestyle is don’t drink alcohol and don’t smoke. Principally these are the habits of a person with a healthy lifestyle.

A person with healthy lifestyle could tell to other her habits and to do that other follows her healthy lifestyle so it could reduce the obesity and other diseases how high blood pressure or diabetes.

I think they go on holiday to the beach or to the mountain because in these places they can be relax or do some sports.

I believe that I have some healthy lifestyles how eat healthy and I don’t drink alcohol and I don’t smoke and I drink water but I must to say that I don’t practice sports only sports that I do is walk everyday to go to the University so I do some of exercise.

My favourite get-away :)

Hello people, today I talk about my favourite get-away.

Well, my favourite get-away is Iloca I believe that everyone heard about this beach because of the earthquake :(. Iloca it is in seventh region near of Curicó and it is a beauty beach and it’s very relax.

This place is special to me because since I was child I've been to this beach and for this reason it’s very special to me also it’s a place where you can relax and you can rest as in that place there isn’t much noise and the more important that is a pretty place yet.

You can find in this place tranquility and you can do many things, there are different places to visit for example: near of Iloca is Duao in this place you can go to buy fresh fish and prepare it in your house :), the other place you can visit is Lipimávida there you can buy canned papaya (very delicious).

I go to Iloca in car with my family and generally we go all the summers, the last time that we gone was in january 2010.

We stayed there in a house that we rented, this house was very comfortable and big, was a beauty house. The house was on the seafront and I remember that all the day I saw the sea and its beautiful immensity, really Iloca was a beauty place where you can go.

2 term: " My favourite music =) "

Hello everyone today I tell you about my favourite kind of music.

The kind of music do I like to listen is principally pop, but this last time I also started to listen other style of music like R&B, I believe that this style it’s very interesting of listen because it’s a style very different to others and sometimes is funny.

I get my music from the internet most of the time and sometimes I bought cd’s when I have gone to Argentina because in this country the cd’s are cheaper that in Chile. The page where I get my music is Ares and Dilandau, though I prefer Ares because is more simple to use. Though long ago time that I don’t buy a cd.

I’m not of follow any group or singer because in my opinion if one follows a group or singer, you lose your identity therefore I don’t like follow to singer or groups. The group do I like is One Republic and the singers that I like are many, for example: John Mayer, Michael Bublé (I love him),B.o.B, Chris Brown, Charice Pempengco, Kelly Clarkson among other.

When I study I don’t listen music because I can’t concentrate in the study. When I’m happy and when I’m sad I listen all my kind of music because I think that music I listen is cheerful.

I can say that the music is part of my life because it’s an accompaniment during the day and because it fill my life.

My experience with the blogs =)

Hello people this is my last blog and I tell you about my experience with the blogs.

When I look at my previous blogs I can see the advance that I have had and what were my most typical mistakes, for example my typical mistakes were how I wrote words in the context of a sentence or even many times how I wrote wrong words.

The vocabulary that I learnt through this activity was very good, because I learnt many words that I didn’t know and by means of this activity I can use more words and I can extend my vocabulary.

With respect to the topics of the blog I think that they were very interesting and entertaining, since I can announce my opinions with respect to these topics.

My blog experience has been sometimes easy and sometimes difficult but I like doing the blogs and for this reason I didn’t worry if the blog was difficult or easy because I wanted to do the blogs and I was waiting anxious the Thursday for I can realize this activity.

The blogs of my classmates have been very interesting because everyone could improve the blogs and for this reason was very interesting read and comment the blogs of my classmates.

I believe this activity has been very useful to me because I feel that I can explain in a better way my opinions in English and I learnt new words that helped me to extend my vocabulary and for this reason I hope to continue doing this activity in the next semester.

My ideal job.. :)

Hello people, today I tell you about my ideal job…

My ideal job it is something complicated because I want many things, for example I'll like work in many places, for example in Santiago and in a town, specifically in a rural zone, because in a small town it’s more difficult to the people receive an attention in health and the more important is that this attention is of quality.

With respect to the public or private system I don’t know, I think that I could start in the public system and work there by years, and after I could work in the private system or even I could work in both system, because to me is very important help to the people that need my help and I believe that both systems can be the complement to improve the health in Chile.

About the position I prefer don’t talk about this, because is something delicate this topic and for me is more important improve the health in Chile and that all could work for this instead of worrying about the position that everyone want to have.

The responsibilities in my ideal job must to be many for can help to all women that need me, I think that the responsibilities are very important in this job due to that I work with women and with her babies and for this reason I believe that is very important be responsible in the midwifery.

The schedule isn’t very important to me, though I prefer work during all the day, for example to eight o’clock to eight o’clock, but the schedule is something that I don’t worry me, though if I have to work during the night, I don’t have problem.

Respect to the environment and the kind of people I believe that is important that the people are nice and the environment is nice too, for that the job can be most pleasant to me and for the women that I’ll attend.

The story...

Hello people today I tell you a story, I hope that you enjoy it.

Once upon a time a girl, she is 16 years old and she moves to another city because her parents change of work, this city was very different to the other city where she was living, because this new city is most cold than the other city, but she believe that something interesting could happen… The first day of the high school she know two girls Jessica and Anna they are very nice and their present to Emma the other guys of the grade and they are very nice too, their names are Paul, Alex and Rob. Rob says to Emma: Have you seen the movie Twilight? And she says: Yes, I saw, but don’t worry you because I haven’t seen New moon, if you want we can go to see new moon tomorrow after the class and Rob says very excited of course that I want and they agreed to be in the cinema to the five o' clock. After of the movie they were to the café shop and she says to Rob: look there is a cake!, I’ll buy because I didn’t buy nothing to my mother that is of birthday today, though she thought this gift isn’t enough and she decide to buy a perfume too delicious and after they left to Emma’s house for celebrate to Emma’s mom.

Education and prevention in health :)

Hello people in this opportunity I tell you about the education and prevention in health.

First in relation to the health topics in education we must know that are things that one teach to the people, for example prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STD), prevention of the teen pregnancy and in prevention of the breast and cervical cancer among other things.

The ways of prevention it depends of that we want to prevent, in this case, to prevent the pregnancy of teenager are important the use of condom or rubber like too to prevent the STD, and the mammography to detect the breast cancer and the Papanicolau test to detect the cervical cancer.

The kind of people that I must educate can be the teenager, women or even her family, everyone decides the kind of people to educate, though I prefer educating the teenagers and the women to prevent the diseases to which they are exposed and how they can prevent these diseases.

In relation to how educate there is many options principally is through of chats with different topics and this chats must be interactive to help the people to understand the information that one teaches them.

With respect to needs of the Chilean people is relative because in Chile there is different needs for example, there is to reduce the teen pregnancy, the breast and cervical cancer, the sexually transmitted diseases among other things, is for this reason that the midwife is very important to prevent and reduce all the needs and problems that there is in the Chilean people.

Gender Role in Health care.

Hello people today I’m tell you about the Gender Role in Health Care, and about the responsibilities, salaries kind of patients, professional development between other things.

I think that the responsibilities are similar between women and men, I don’t believe that one have more responsibilities that the other, because both work in the health care and both help to the people and for this reason in my opinion both have the same responsibilities, because the responsibilities are more related with the experience that with the gender role.

Related with the salaries I don’t know much about this topic, but I don’t believe that exist much difference between the salaries of the women and men, in addition I think that is not well that the men salaries are more than that of the women, because both realize the same work.

About the kind of patients that have to attend everyone it depends about the specialization of everyone, for example in the midwifery the patients are the same, because both have to work in the same areas, for example neonatology, obstetrics and gynaecology, so I don’t believe that the patients that have to attend everyone are different at least in the midwifery is this way, but in the other areas maybe the kind of patients that have to attend are different for women and men.
And with the professional development it depends of everyone, if oneself want to develop professionally can do it regardless of the gender, so that in my opinion all the people that work in the health system can be better professionals because the professional development is regardless of the gender therefore all can and must develop professionally.

My future as a midwife :)

Hello people! In this blog I tell you about my future as a midwife and the place where I’ll work between other things.

The place where I'll like me work is a town or Santiago, though I prefer a small town, because there is most difficult for the people receive attention in health and for me is very important help to all the people that need my help.

The schedule that I prefer to work is from the morning until the evening, for example from 8:00 A.M until 8:00 P.M, though if I have to work during the night of course that I do it.

I don’t know where work if in the public system or private system, though the public system is very beautiful because you can feel major nearness with the people and I believe that you can help more in the public system that in the private system because the needs of the people are different between the two systems.

The specialization for me is complicated because I don’t know well which one I’m choosing, because I like all the specialization that has the career, although I’m choosing when I go in third or fourth of my career, although I think my possibilities are in the gynaecology or neonatology.

About the position that I’ll reach, I don’t know, only know that up to the moment I'll like me work hardly to improve the public system for that all the people can have to access to the attention in health.

My favorite subject in my career :)

Hello people, today I’m going to talk about my favorite subject.

My favourite subject is Physiology Obstetrics I, because is a subject very important to my career, because there the teachers teach us all the related with the woman and her pregnancy and all the development of the fetus. In the future this subject will serve me in many aspects, for example in the prenatal control and when I have to realize Leopold's manoeuvres for know if the fetus is in cephalic position or in podalic position between other things.

The most interesting contents of this subject are the changes in the woman during the pregnancy in the three trimesters and the development of the fetus during the same time and how these changes between the woman and the fetus are related in all the aspects, and how the changes in the woman are for the better development of the fetus.

The easiest contents in this subject to me are the development in the fetus and all the changes that happens in him, and the most difficult contents was when we had to do a conceptual map about the changes in the first trimester of pregnancy in the woman.
This subject is taught by the midwives of the obstetrics school, so the contents are easier and more practical.

My marks in this subject up to now are good, because I study and I like this subject because is so beautiful and interesting for my career.

My favorite website related with my career

Hello people, this is my second blog and now I’m going to talk about the website: http://www.colegiodematronas.cl, this site it’s very interesting for me, because in this I can find all the information related with my career, the new advances and all the news that I don’t find in the television.

The website has many sections, for example: the national directory, the regional advices, the college: his origin and evolution, the professional exercise, the statistical indicators and publications of the college, between other topics that you can find.

The frequency I visit the site depends on many factors, between them the time that I have when I enter to the Internet and the things that I have to do. Though if I could visit the site every day it would do it, but as the time it is scanty for me and of course I can’t visit it with the frequency that to my I would like.

Really I like the site because is updated with all the information that I need to know about my career and other topics interesting to me. So I invite you to visit this site that is related to this beautiful career.

About me and my career

Hello my name is María Ignacia Villegas, I’m midwifery student, in the University of Chile, I’m from San Fernando and I have been living here in Santiago for two years, it was a difficult experience but now I’m happy here because I have been studying what I like.

The principal objective for me is to be a great midwife and I can help all the women that need me and of course provide care to all babies that come to this world and help them all the possible and this way to avoid the possible damage for them.

My experience with the earthquake was horrible; I was in my house in San Fernando on the second floor and I had to go down the stairs quickly, because I couldn’t be there. My reaction as a future midwife was to think in all babies who were in the hospital and in all women that were there too.