My experiences during the first semester of 2009

I learned many things about prision in Chile and how live people in this places. Also studied about the communities in Latinoamerica and about cancer.

I read about the education in Chile, humanism, the salmon estraction in Chiloé.

I visit education’s museum, a centre of rehabilitation for drugs and a centre of justice.

I could learn in all there places because I think that lern better when the people participe in everything.

On the other hand, in my free time I visited my friends, went a partys, watched TV, watched live soccer games, walked with my dog, talked with my mom, watched movies, danced, listened to music, etc.

My challenge was met Organizational Psychology and English because bouth was very complicated for me.

In the first semestre of 2009 I lives many things, goods and no much, but now I can say that I learn very much and that I very happy person every day.

My family is wonderfull, my friends too and I love my career.

My blogging experience

It was my first experience using blog and it was absolutly positive because it help me to improve my written english and to learn more about the subjects of my interest.

The fact that I should update my blog weekly, force me to write my thoughts in english helping me to learn new vocabulary and grammar.

I hope in the near future to have the chance to improve my spoken english wich is in a very early stage.

On the other hand I think this class need to spend more time in spoken english wich is more difficult to learn but is absolutly necessary for our carrer development.

Finally I woul like to say that blogging for me was an interesting and funny experience and it it was and very important step in my learning process.

My ideal job would be on site, working with people directly…, trying to solve their needs working together, because people knows what their necessities really are. I would like to work in prisons or in poor neighborhoods. I would like to work focus on inequity which most of the time public authorities do not take to solve it leaving responsibility on people itself.

For this kind of job I need to be a perseverant, hard worker, positive, propositional, with initiative, creative an empathic person.

I would be good for this kind of job because I fully met the requirement, I am not motivated by money and is the kind of job I love to do.

Is difficult to find right persons to do this job because they are very demanding in terms of time and dedication and most of the time the remuneration is under the market.

SCHOOLS KILL CREATIVITY

Ken Robinson talks in the video about the importance of creativity in human acts. He criticizes the educational system because it cuts the capacity for creativity.

In the most of countries in the world the educational systems have the same distribution and priority of subjects. The most important are mathematic and languages, they are in the top. Then we find the humanities, and in the bottom are the arts. He says that the objective of school system is educating people to be successful like a university professors. But he criticizes that because people focus only in his or her heads, and forget about their bodies and lose their creative capacity.

He says that we must rethink the educational system, and the way we use the human ecology to confront the world ecology changes that we are living.

My favorite subject is Legal Psychology.

I like Legal Psychology because I am interested on prevention. My thought is that being in prison has multiple causes, specially related to structural factor in society that I am willing to transform.

My teacher is Carolina Villagra.

I have learnt in this semester that is important to avoid that people being in jail situation. And when people are in jail society has the obligation to provide human condition to people jailed.

Every day ten persons died in prisons, every day persons are raped in jail, because nobody is responsible for protect the prisoner’s human rights. We need a real change in our justice understanding that market economy does not works in prisons system.

Finally I have learnt that alternative measures to prisons are more effective than prisons itself.

In five years I would like to be independent. Professionally I would like to be study and work with Moffatt in Argentina and personally I would like to be happy like i am now. I will be living alone, in Chile or not. In an old building with a cat, because my dog Alun will living with my mom. I hope to be doing a good job in my area, that is the social area (Communitary Psychology and Legal Psychology). I hope to be the best. So, my ideal future is job and study, but most important for me is to be happy with people that I love and they love me.

In psychology I believe that Alfredo Moffatt is the best. He is social phycologist, he works with homeless people mainly. He is disciple of Henry Pigeon River.

For more than 15 years Alfredo did cutting-edge acts in the area of psychotherapy practice in Argentina. Since "The Carlos Gardel's Peña" until Bancadero, for examples.

Moffatt integrates aspects existentialists, anti-psychiatric, psychoanalysis, psychodrama, gestalt, experiences of emergency assistance in times of crisis, etc...

I like him, because he works with forgotten people. I admire his consistent and coherent.

What he do the best is his commitment and professionalism. From his history and work, little by little, he make a contribution to build a better world, speking from people who work with, people treated by him.