My experience learning English.

English is a language widely used today worldwide. While Chile is very little that this language is taught in schools, it has become necessary to increase such instruction, as in careers, jobs and technology that exists and will appear every day, must have at least basic English. That's why from basic education is teaching children to learn English, and have also created courses and institutions that also teach this language, so that in a few years this language is implemented in Chile.

Since I was a child I have taught English in the schools where I studied. When I was in basic education only saw the basic words of English, then at higher levels were teaching us a lot more vocabulary, how to create sentences and speaking this language which has a pronunciation very difficult in my opinion.
To me it was very difficult to learn English, because from a very young age I have a lot of attention this language, because my favorite band, The Backstreet Boys sing their songs in English, and to understand what said the lyrics of their songs I was familiar with the language when translating, which has greatly facilitated me to understand also what is a film or other material that is written with this language.

For me it was very important to learn English, because in today's society increasingly requires more handling this.
Since I entered university to study midwifery, I have learned more than I had seen before in both basic education and in secondary education, in fact, now handling a lot more vocabulary that is related to the area of health, and have useful for understanding many papers that we send our teachers to study the various subjects that we have, as well as many books to understand the health area which are only in this language and are very useful to develop in my professional future.

English is essential with each passing day in our society, since little has been increasing in all the language we use or do, and this is reflected in the new technology out there, in studies in the world work, and all television programs transmitted, so it is essential to teach very young children the language, to become familiar and be able to master English very well for the near future.

Pelusa, my beautiful dog.

In this occasion I will talk about my pet, Pelusa.

She is a dog of Labrador with pointer and came to our house when she was 1 month old. Our next door neighbor gave us on December 24, 2009.

My dog was then very small, she was measuring 20 cm and was happening eating and sleeping all the time. She did not like being alone, always she was finding the way of entering to our house and stood near us so that we took and I did love, and while we did it again was put to sleep.

After 2 weeks she became ill, she spent crying and would not eat anything, and when he did after a while she vomited everything. We all were very concerned and decided to take her to the veterinarian, who told us he was immunosuppressed because they had separated very early from her mother. The vet put my dog some vaccines and also gave her vitamins to recover soon.

After a week my dog was already recovered, she was eating with normality and was sleeping without problems.

When she came to our house we all thought it would be a very quiet dog and would have no problem with her, but around the time that has passed we realized that we were very wrong, and we must be very aware of it and be careful not to leave anything to her scope, because everything what she plunders bites it and leaves it in thousand pieces, and in any carelessness, she there is the way of entering to the house and to be raised to all the beds, and then there is no way to get it out.

Despite all the headaches that has caused us, we love her every day more.

Blog 6: DOCTOR PEDRO MALDONADO´S TALK

In the last class we had the visit of the Dr. Pedro Maldonado, who realized a presentation about the human brain and the myths of this.

The brain is an organ of the nervous system rich in neurons with specialized functions. It contains about 100 billion neurons, each one can connect with thousands of others made synapses that allows brain function. Thanks to the circuits formed by nervous cells or neurons, is capable of processing sensory information from the exterior world and from the own body, and recovers sensory functions, motor functions and less defined integration features associated with various mental activities.

It is not rare to hear comments and statements about the brain that are far from certain

Among the myths that exist in relation to the human brain is that we only use 10% of this, which has been shown that this is erroneous because the man occupies 100% of this, it yes, not simultaneously. (In fact, only in big epileptic fits it is when it is possible to come to use 100 % of the brain to the unison). We used brain regions depending on the activity we are doing.

In addition, brain scans have shown that when we do work almost all brain areas, including much of this is working while we sleep.

Another myth we have is that the human brain is the biggest, which is false, since there are other animals have major brains than humans. What has demonstrated important in studies of intelligence is not the total brain size, but the relationship between brain and body weight.

In my view the presentation made by Dr. Maldonado was very good and very interesting because it clarified many doubts we had about this issue and we also clarified the myths about our brains.

This topic is very important for my career, because with the information provided we can guide our patients about the importance of the stimulation to infants according to their age and learning that everything is going according to specific period.

Blog 5: Abortion.

In the last class of English we were visited by Professor Lorena Binfa, who works as a midwife. She told us in his talk the history of abortion in our country, the visions we have of this and the various forms that exist today in our country and in others for birth control.

The abortion in our country is a taboo subject, and also very controversial, since it is considered to be a murder to a defenseless being, and for some years it is considered to be an illegal practice, and by this it was decided to penalize the one who realizes it. Also this topic is rejected by the Catholic Church.

The abortion not only brings with it the murder of the defenseless one, but also, it puts in risk the life of the woman in the moment in which it is realized. Today there is the abortion pill that is not accepted by our legislation, but in other countries such as Sweden, it is legal to give women who want this pill, provided it is before the age of 3 months of pregnancy.

In my opinion in Chile sexism still exists, as no considering the views of women about what they believe and want, and not given the opportunity of their choice whether or not a child. Y this is demonstrated as Chilean law, which are decision makers on these topics is composed mostly of men.

Despite this, I do not agree with the topic of the abortion, since though the woman has right to decide what wants, nowadays diverse forms exist to control the birthrate and there is a very good accessibility to obtaining contraceptives, since these the women are given them in the doctor's offices, or, they can accede to them in the pharmaceutical trade.

Blog 4: DEALING WITH STRESS

Every day we meet people who spend most of his time working within these people are health workers who live overwhelmed and anxious to seek perfection in perform the work space neglecting important aspects of the life as the family and the friends. These are situations which often lead to individuals become addicted to their jobs and the same are which usually cause stress.

In Chile 40% of work absence is caused by stress and 30% of medical leave due to cause of this disease.

The stress can be caused by multiple factors that are affecting the person and that are producing a negative reaction in the emotional field of this one, inside the factors we find: the physiological (diseases and injuries of the body), psychological (emotional vulnerability, interpersonal troubled or insufficient relations, frustrating conditions of work or study, etc.), social (social changes in which every epoch brings new challenges to confronting, technological intensive changes that the person cannot integrate, etc.) and environmental (supply denaturalized with industrial toxins, places of work with little safety, catastrophes, etc.)

Some of the symptoms that the stress presents are emotions of anxiety, irritability, fear, fluctuation of the spirit, confusion; thoughts of excessive self-criticism, difficulty to concentrate and to think decisions, worry for the future, excessive fear of the failure; crying, impulsive reactions, sudden treatment to the others, to creak the teeth or to press the jaws; increase of the consumption of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs; major predisposition to accidents; increase or decrease of the appetite; cold or sweaty hands, headache, problems of back or neck, disturbances of the dream, stomach discomfort, rough breathing or throbs, between others.

The strategies to confront the stress seek to anticipate or to control the excesses in the demands proceeding from the environment or of us themselves. Some strategies that have tried to be effective, and that they can help you to face situations of many tension are: to relax realizing activities that allow him to renew physics and psychologically, to realize exercises, to support a healthy diet, to organize his time, to try to support realistic expectations and to share his emotions.

Blog 3: EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION PILL

Today I will talk about contraceptive methods, which are those that prevent or reduce significantly the possibilities of a fertilization or a pregnancy in the sexual relations. The contraceptive methods were instrumental in making decisions about birth control (number of children they want to or not have), pregnancy prevention and in reducing the number of not wished pregnancies and teenage pregnancies. The methods given after sexual relations are called emergency contraception.

These methods are very important to our society because today there are many teenagers who start at an early age, his sex life, and often do not take the necessary measures to prevent a not wished pregnancy, as well as to prevent transmitted infections sexual.

The emergency contraception pill, which is a method that is administered after intercourse, has been a very controversial topic and discussed in the last times in our country, as it has tried to reach an agreement on whether or not abortion . There have been many studies on this subject, and one of them is that performed by Dr. Carlos Valenzuela of the human genetics program at the University of Chile, who in his article mentions the effectiveness of emergency contraceptive pill, "Levonorgestrel" , which would be more effective within the first 24 hours after intercourse, with 56.1% efficiency, whereas if taken thereafter at 25-48 hours after their efficiency decreases to 38.2%.

With regard to the emergency contraception pill, I think that you should not promote people because we must educate the population which are contraceptive methods that exist today, and this is a very important topic for me future as a professional midwife, because our duty is to inform teenagers and anyone who has begun their sex lives about contraceptive methods that are appropriate for them, as well as ensure the development of sexual life as conscious, responsible and healthy as possible.

BLOG 2: Supernatural.

This time I will talk about an American television series that I love "Supernatural", the series is televised on The CW Network. In are now six seasons and will be released soon the seventh season.

This series narrates the exploits of two brothers, Dean and Sam Winchester, who travel throughout the United States in your car Chevrolet Impala black, 1967 model and work investigating and combating paranormal events and unexplained, many of them based on the urban legends American culture, as well as classic supernatural creatures such as vampires, werewolves, ghosts and demons. This work comes from family, since his father John Winchester began with the demons' hunt since his wife died to hands of the demon of the yellow eyes when his children were very young.

When Dean and Sam grew they continued with the search of the demon that killed his mother, since his father also died in his search. Since then, the Winchester brothers in the company of other hunters, some of them friends of the family, have faced all kinds of demons that are protecting the leader of the demons that prevent this meeting, which later knows that it are not anything less than Lucifer.

Lucifer to see that these brothers are killing many demons decides prepare Sam to take his place, as it is in their veins the blood of Lucifer, because it gave her to drink when he was just a baby and then killed her mother.

Later God to see what is happening on Earth, decides to send an angel, Castiel who will have to help and guide the brothers in the search of Lucifer and to prevent Sam from turning into demon, and this way to finish of a good time with so much evil and prevent the deaths of innocent people who are possessed by demons.

Since then there has been an endless fight between the good and evil, where both demons, and hunters have died, coming untied this way such a been afraid Apocalypse.