Postgraduate studies

Hello, I am going to talk about my postgraduate studies. Well, I think that is a little difficult to imagine the future to me, because I´m still studying, but I think, like I said in my last post, that when I get my degree I would like to do a postgraduate about sustainable architecture, because that’s the area where I want to work in the future.

I would like to do this postgraduate course in another country, because I’m studying my undergraduate in Chile, so I would like to know other positions about architecture, not just the one that teach here. And if I have to choose one country, I would like Germany or Italy.

Maybe, I would prefer the part-time course because I would like to pay the postgraduate by myself so, for do that, I would need to work (and I wish I could work on something related to architecture).

In this postgraduate course I would like to learn innovative things in the field of sustainable architecture, and I think because of this too I would like to study in another country (because Chile usually is not the one in the forefront), but I would like to apply the things I learn in Chile, because I think that this country needs to improve in the current construction systems.

My future job

My objective is that my future job is connected with the career I´m studying right now, which is architecture. I think it would be a job outdoor and indoor, because you have to go to the place to see the different terrains and how is the place where you are going to build, and indoor because after (or before) doing the terrain thing you need to think about the project and do different stuff in the computer or draw something, like plans or some croquis.

I would like to specialize in sustainable architecture, like design a house that can ventilate and heat up by itself just because the construction was design with that purpose, but at the same time, all of this is make with ecological materials and with a lot of nature inside and outside. I am interested in this area because the planet is being overexploited in terms of its resources, so we have to do something about this and I think that the architects could do a very important change about this.

 I really would like to travel because of this job, and I think it is very possible because it is an area that haven’t be very development and in some places is not even know. And I really haven’t thought about the salary I will get in this job, but I don’t know, I think that I will think of it when the time comes.

What am I really into?

I think what I am really into now is animals, especially my cats and lately I have been very curious about orcas.

I have two cats, Kiara and Orion. Kiara has twelve years old and Orion has six. With Kiara I have like an older sister relationship, because I annoy her a lot, I touch her all the time and she meows me to leave her alone, but the more she does that the more I want to annoy she, so at the end she just resist until I leave her in peace (or she just bites me). And my other cat, Orion, thinks I am his mother, he sleeps with me, when he wants love he search me and if he does not find me he start to meow until I call him or until I go where he is and give him a lot of love (I love that he does all of this things).

In the lasts weeks I have been very curious about orcas, I do not know why, I think is my scientist spirit, I search in internet things like: What does the orcas eat? Where does the orcas live? What I have to do in case I find an orca? And a lot of question like that. I do not know why I have this curiosity about some animals, because sometimes it is like “oh I want to learn about tiger” or “how many vertebrae has the giraffe?”

And another thing I do a lot lately is eat Tuareg cookies, the ones that taste like coco, but I think that I have been eating this cookies because they sell it in the university in the vending machines. But the truth is that I am obsess with the cookies in general.

The most embarrasing moment

During my life I had have a lot of embarrassing moments, but the most embarrassing moment that I remember it was like one year ago. I was with my best friend in the commercial center, looking clothes and talking about our life when we had the good idea of buy a McDonald’s ice cream.

It was all ok, we went to the place where they sold it and my friend told me to buy the ice creams, then I went to the cash register and told the guy that I wanted two ice cream and he said me “Sure, which flavor do you want? Chocolate o vanilla?” In that moment I think my brain went out because all I do was look at him like:  “what do you want from me, I asked you for ice creams” we had a very long eye contact until my friend save us from that embarrassing moment saying that we wanted one of chocolate and one of vanilla, then I paid and we get the ice creams

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When we went out of the place, my friend started to laugh very hard and I said to her: “What are you laughing at?” and then she started to explain me that the poor employee tried to asked me of what flavor did I want the ice cream and I just keep looking at him without answering making him uncomfortable and nervous. When I realized that I made that I feel very embarrassing and now all the times I buy ice cream I remember that time and hope never happens to me again.

My favorite vacation

My favorite and best vacation was the last year when I camped in the beach with my parents and my brothers. I think that this were the best vacation until now because it was a long time since we went on vacation all together and I really get along with my brothers.

We usually go to camped, but this time was special because we went all together, and despite of the bathroom (sometimes we had problems with it because it was one for six persons) we had a lot of fun.

In the mornings the first that raised up prepared the breakfast for everyone (usually my parents), but the others one had to wash the dishes, then we went going to the beach, had lunch, went going to the beach again (during a long time, from three to seven o’clock approximately), had dinner (bread with avocado and tomato) and at the end of the day we played some game, like cards or some board game.

We enjoyed that much that this year we are going to the beach all together again.

A country I would like to visit

Well, I would like to visit many countries, but the most I would like to go is Italy, especially Venice. I think I would like to go because my great-great-grandparents were from Sicily but I would like to go there too because I like the language and the architecture and I would like to taste the food from there.

I really do not know too much about this country, all that I know is that is a country in Europa, they eat pasta and things like that and it looks like a boot in the maps, but I would like to learn more about this country, for example, the language, the history or how the people is.

  If someday I go there I would like to travel through the canals of Venice, visit the constructions from there, like the Roman Coliseum or the Tower of Pisa, learn the things that I don’t know about the country and try to visit as many cities as I can.

 

And if I go there I would like to live and study in Venice because one of my goals is to do that, and if I live there eventually I will improve in the language and in the knowledge of the culture, the history and many other things about the country.

Why I like English?

  Hello, today I´m going to talk about my experience with English and why I like it.

I think I´m good at English and I like it because since I was a child I have been learning English. When I entered to the school, the school had bilingual education and it was very complicated for me because I did not know anything about English at that time, but when the time passed I started to understand the classes and I realized that I really like the sound of the English, so I started to study by my own and it was easy for me to learned it.

    

   And now I still practice because I think it is very useful and a beautiful language.