My experiencie learning english..

Today the english is language most used on the world. Is very important because all instructions, new information and other from european countries in that the language is english, so necessarily we need learn it. Also we’ll be a health professionals and everyday be new research, information of medicines, diseases, treatments and all this information is in other language, or we can to trip to other places in that maybe the English is not the official language, but always exist a person who talk it, and is the only form for to communicated.

When I entered to university, we was the first generation with new curriculum and it had english course. English course have fourth “stages”: started, beginner, pre-intermediate and intermediate, but not all people must to do all the course. In the first semester, teacher make us a test. This consisted in a questions , grammar excersices, etc and also in a listening quiz. Unfortunately for me, times pass very fast and I didn’t test with “consciousness” because I was so nervous , I thinked “I don’t can all!!”.. and was true. When I was the results I was very surprised because I stayed in “started” and honesty I felt that I would be in a more advanced level. Still I think that thar test not measured the real english’s level. However, in my fourths english’s courses I didn’t learn new grammar, but I refreshed and improved it. Also I learn new vocabulary, this is very important because the vocabuly is relationated with my career, of this way is more easy form me understand english paper or information that I need form my studies. This is very beneficial to the development of students, but I think that the times is very little for all activities, works that we must to do, and very times we went to enflish class very tired and sleppy, overcoat when tha class start at 16.30 pm!! I loved Thursday because english class started at 14.30 and also loved the post session, because is very close to us, more “newfangled”.

For this reason is very important that we learn english and improved it. In the future english will be more crowded and is necessary that we have the ability for to speak it, read it, write it, that is to say: dominated it. One important aspect is that new medicine material is in english, so like health work and students, we need to learn and be informated. Is good, that we have enflish course because Is never over, for to improved our english language and of this way open more opportunities.


And.. for me is very important lear english because my dream is travel to England

Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind

Hi everyone, today I’m going to talk about one of my favorites movies: “Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind”

This movie, is starring for Jim Carrey (is one of a few movies in that he don't act in a comedy) and Kate Winslet ( she worked in Titanic). The history is about Joel (Jim carrey) who is a solitary men and one day he meet on the train station to Clementine (Kate Winslet) who is a impulsive woman, the joel opposite. But this is not the really actual in the story , because they met before and had a relationship, but they broke up, and Clementine decided forget to Joel and went to “Lacuna Inc”, place in where erases memories of people. When Joel knew about this, he decided to take revenge and do it the same!

This movie is complicated, because events are not in chronological order.. is so confused, but very interesting.

I love it! Because sometimes I think.. I want to erase my memories!! When I have a problem or something, for example for to overcome the pain of a death, loss of a loved one or something that causes us great pain, "Lacuna Inc" appears to be an easy way out of trouble. ..But, the movie shows.. you “can” erase your memories, but you dont can change your destiny. In adittion, clearly this is not the best way for to solve problems. Well, I saw it many times.. because I like romantic films, specially this because is so crazy!

Many questions come to me .. if there Lacuna Inc, would you go to erase any memories?

Think it! D:

Our.. special? brain

Hi everyone, today I’m going to talk about “Dr. Pedro Maldonado’s talk”

Before of Dr. Maldonado’s presentation, I believed a lot of myths about the brain, for example I thought that the brain is similar to computer or that brain assimilates reality, but now I think that I was so wrong!

Honesty, I always thought that humans have a more developed brain. But I never stopped for to think that in reality, the composition of our brain in comparation of other species is the same, but are different sizes. Now I think that each species has a brain and uses it according to its needs, after all what matters is to survive, right? Hahaha

I was surprised to realize that the brain does not perceive reality as it is, it can be fooled (for example, not realizing that a gorilla is walking in front of you ..) this is very interesting because for little details we can perceive other reality and make mistakes or something wrong for to be concentrated in other things. Other topic very curious is the percentage of our brain that we use, destroy the myth that say "we use only 10% of our brain" left me very.. sad? shocked?, I thought that geniuses were those who used more than 10% of their brain, but now I have really clear that everyone use our whole brain. Whether this is good or bad .. I don’t know ..

However, I think that is very important to know what of all that the people say about the brain is truth, especially we, because we’ll be health workers, and is the brain whose coordinates the entire body. Also as future midwives, we must know how to educate mothers on how to stimulate, develop baby's brain, responding with the truth.

What do you think about it?

See you!

Social & Health Problem: Drug addicts' children

Hi everyone, today I’m going to talk about interesting article from “The Guardian” magazine, called: Drug addicts' children need protecting.
This article is written by a judge, who usually work with drug-addicted mothers. These mothers commonly have many children, for example seven or eigth, even fourteen. This is not good situation, because the baby taken away. In a report of one mother says that when she goes out, she gets pregnant again for to combat the pain of having her son far away.
The Judge thinks that offering money for them is the best way forward, he thinks that we need to work with this drug-addicted parents, work with the family drugs and alcohol curt. All this for to stabilise parents and keep families together. But if they don’t want to participe in that, and they prefer to accept money for to sterilisation or contraception, and he prefer to sterilisation.
There is a controversial point: babies born to drug-addicted mother are often premature and need special and intensive care, they fight for life. Their first moment of them life consist in being weaned off the drugs that mothers took in the pregnancy. This is not a good way for to start a life, and judges must to do what they can to help parents off drugs and alcohol, but the jugdes also must to protect the right of these children.
The family drug and alcohol court has been shown great succes in helping more parents to come off drugs and alcohol, and keep their families together. But when is very hard, the court speeds up the care process and finds permanent, stable homes for the babies.
The judge think that they must help who can and will be helped, but not everyone is capable, perhaps the societa need to consider something different.
I think that is very important because the children-mothers care is work of our career. The midwifes recive everytime cases of drug-addicted mothers, so we need to help and improve this situation, because this situation affects the process of pregnancy on the fetus, it can have consequences for him. Therefore we are responsible to advise that mothers with drug problems to improve the health of the mother and the fetus and newborn future.

This is the link:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/oct/21/drug-addicts-sterilised-children-protect

Today is very common that people are stress. This is consecuence of very factors like: the speed of life, work, studies and other dificult situation. Nowasays We have less time for to share with our families, friends, for to laught and do thing that make us feel better.

The stress is a fisiologycal reaction of our organism is face with a defiant problem. But when this situation ocurr many times, or response is very strong the stress turn harmful. This strong response can affect our life, relations, so is very important that we can prevent it.

The Symptoms of stress are emocional: anxiety, fear, confusion; thoughts: dificult fot to concentrate and take decisions, concern for future; conduct: crying, impulsive reaction, increase of tobacco and alcohol consume, change of appetite, physical changes: contract muscle, cold or swaty hands, disturbance of sleep, stomach problemas, agitated breath, trembling, dry mouth. Also the orgasm have less capacity for to protect our body, because the immune system are down. So, is more probably that we suffer infections.

Obviusly we can’t eliminate stress easily, but we can prevent or attenuate the symptoms, for example we must not drink alcohol, caffeine (coca cola, coffee), eat balance food, not consume tobacco or others drugs, do exercise and take rest at work (not all day obvius hahaha).

Personally, I think that this illness is a consecuense of the modern style life, because in our free time we don’t make thing that help us (exercise) and isn’t because we “don’t have time” (sometimes is true), is because we don’t organize our time.

Well.. if you don’t want be stressed please breath and think in your best memory !!

And you, What do you think about..?

Hi everyone! The last week I saw presentation of D. Carlos Valenzuela about his investigation. The investigation is very interesting because is about something very polemical and related to our career: The post day’s pill. I had read the papper but I understood better when I saw the presentation, because Carlos Valenzuela talked about some terms and concepts whose weren’t in the research paper.

Levonorgestrel is a synthetic hormone that in low concentrations acts how oral contraceptive, and in high concentrations acts lhow emergency contraception. It is known that emergency contraception has preovulatory effects (only acts if coitus and / or fecundaation was before ovulation). But D. Valenzuela says that Levonorgestrel has postovulatory effects too. Also he said that the use of levonorgestrel increases the risk of have an ectopic pregnancy. The ectopic pregnancy is when the blastocyst develops outside the uterus: in the Fallopian tube, in the ovary, cervical canal or abdominal cavity.

In my opinion, the life begins at fecundation, when the genetic material (pronuclei) of ovule and sperm are mixed. the abortion for my is interupt the pregnancy, kill the life of embryo.. who is an human and has right to live., so I’m not in favor the use of levonorgestrel as emergency contraception, because I’m not in favor of abortion and D.Valenzuela shows that levonorgestrel has postovulatory effect , so acts after fecundation, acts on the blastocyst.

Anyway, we must respect the opinion of others..

See you!

Oasis ♪

Today I’m going talk about other of my favorite bands: OASIS

This band is from Manchester, England. It created in 1991, and after was called “The Rain”. It is formed for: Paul Arthurs (guitarist), Paul McGuigan (bassist), Tony McCarroll (drummer), Noel gallagher (composer and guitarist) and Liam Gallagher (singer). Noel and Liam are brothers and often fight and the band split… then, the band back together, but at this moment they are separated.
They have many CDs, personally I think that the best Cd is “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?”, because has song like: “Wonderwall”, “Don’t Look Back in Anger”, “Champagne Supernova”. The great song of Oasis is “Wonderwall”, they became known and famours for it.
I know this band because my brother listened it (when he was young.. hahaha) and I liked. So until know, I listen and I like this kind of music: Britpop. In 2006 Oasis came to Chile, they played at “Estadio Nacional” and I really wanted to go, but my parents didn't let me because I was so teenager.
Fortunately, the last year (In 2009) they came back! And in May they played at “Arenas Santiago” and I went to see them!! I was so anxious and excited, the concert was great!

I’m very happy because I could see them, because as I said before: now they’re separated and I don’t know when they come back together =/.
So.. by while listening their music!
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Sweet Love History: The Notebook ♥

Hi everyone! This is first blog with my new group and I'm going to talk about e...The Notebook

This is a book of Nicholas Sparks, it relates the story of two youngs who falled in love. But not all is easy, they are from different social classes: Allie is from high social class and her family don't accept the relationship because Noah is from law social. After a lot time and different events, they manage stay together and marry, they are so happy. But.. when they get older, Allie has Alzheimer and forgets all about her life and memories, so Noah writes a book where he relate their love story and he reads to Allie this book. Sometimes Allie remember and recognizes to Noah, but is only for a little moment, soon she forget all again. Yet, Noah never left Allie alone, until the end. For the persons who don’t enjoy reading, they can to wath the movie “The Notebook” based in the book, is so cute, I love it!!! And I must confess something.. I still have not finished reading it! I know the end because I saw the movie.. but when I have time (maybe in holidays) I’ll read the end of the book.

In my opinion, this book shows the real love, the values of love, like patience, compromise, perseverance and others. And personally, I really wish have a similar story, and sometimes think (because my grandmother has Alzheimer) that I can have Alzheimer when I'm old, How I could remember all mi life? and is a great idea read or listen my story of life. So, I recommended you to read this book, because is so amusing, sweet and it make you think in how much are you willing to do for love? How long would you wait for your love? etc.

Well.. I awaiting you enjoy my blog and the story of the book..
Red it or watch it! you not regret ;)
See you!

The last post :(

I'm so sad, becauso this is my last post for this semester =/
I always expected the tuesdays for to write in my blog, because, personally, I think this is the best way to help improve the grammar. Thanks to blog, coming to Quinta Normal wasn't so tedious.

I enjoyed it so much, because I could express my opinions about diferrent topic that i like (for example about music) and other topics very important for our carrer. In addition to sharing views with our partners and friends.

Another advantage of the blog, is that it's a very dynamic way and close to us. It's more enjoyable to learn and improve our English.
But also have disadvantages, for example personally I didn't like to correct the blog in class because we lost a long time and was a bit boring. I would prefer that blogs were corrected on Thursday.
Furthermore, as we did not have much time to write our post, we had to do in our homes, we haven't protected time for English and many things that we have to do (especially because we have controls of microbiología every Wednesday), so often I did my blog in a hurry and without desire.

Well, I awaiting the next semester for to write again in my Blog, because I really miss it.

See you!

The legend of rock: Soda Stereo, the mitical band.

Today I'm going talk about other musical group : Soda Stereo

Soda Stereo is from Buenos Aires, Argentina and is formed by Gustavo Cerati (singer and guitarrist), Zeta Bosio (bassist) and Charly Alberti (drummer). It's one of the most important bands of latin rock.
They have many cds like: "Nada personal", "Sueño stereo", "Zona de promesas" and my favorite: "Me verás volver", it's last album with their best hits.

Personally I like Soda Stereo because I consider that is a prestigious and important band in the Latin American musical history and their songs are of many kinds: happy, slow, harmonious, all kinds!! Also the lyrics of their songs have great meaning for me, I love them!! My favorite is "Trátame suavemente", also other like: "Signos", "El rito", "No existes", and others.

Unfortunately in 1997 the Soda Stereo memberss separated =(.
After ten years, in 2007 .. They gathered again!!! I was surprise! much more after knowing that they would do a tour and come to Chile!!

Luckily my brother (he likes Soda Stereo) invited me to see Soda Stereo . So on October 24, 2007, we went to the National Stadium at 3:30 pm. We wait until the stadium opened gates at 4.3o! We entered running and we stayed beside media. It was 9pm and concert did not start until at 9.30pm, some instruments sounded, the lights came on and Gustavo Cerati came on stage and said:
"Hola Chile lindo, bienvenidos al juego". and they began playing "Juego de Seducción".

Unfortunately, more than a month ago, the leader of Soda Stereo: Gustavo Cerati suffered a cardio vascular accident or transient brain ischemia, so he is hospitalized. I really hope he recover!
Well, I awaiting your posts!
And, as would say Gustavo:

Gracias totales!

Coldplay!! ♥

Today I’m going talk about my favorite musical group: COLDPLAY

Coldplay is a band from England, composed by Will Champion, Jon Buckland, Guy Berryman and Chris Martin (who I love!).

When I was about 13 years I listened a song on the radio and it very liked me! But I didn’t know who sing it. After my cousin went to my house and in his mobile had that song!! and he told me the name : "Clock of Coldplay", also he had other coldplay's song "Yellow". I was so happy so i told to my brother if he could download me that songs and he gave me a CD with this music.

From this moment i started to listen coldplay always!!! I have all their CD's:

"Parachutes", "A rush of blood to the head", "X&Y" and "Viva la vida", and also some b-sides like "Brother & sister", "One I love" and others. I listened coldplay in my house, in the car and for this razon to my family also likes coldplay. Even my nephew when was two years was singing all song of coldplay, and his favorite song was: "Talk" because he liked so much the video of robot.

Well I became a fan of coldplay, i saw their concert on TV and always my dreams was go to a concert of coldplay.

One day, in november or december on 2006 i saw in Internet that coldplay would come to chile, and i looked ticktetmaster and.. was real!!!!! I was so happy , i wanted to go and see them!!!

Luckily my parents in the Christmas gave me my best gift of the world: my ticket for to see Coldplay. I did a calendar for to count the days and I was very anxious..until the big day came!!

It was a Friday and it was raining, I entered to my first concert and was playing Saiko. After the lights went out and left Coldplay, I was in shock! They played a few songs but the concert was great, I cried and sang too and I have to say, the February 16, 2007 was one of the best days of my life!

See you =)

Education: the base of prevention

I think that the prevention is so important for everyone, but specially for us, because we'll be an agents of health and the prevention is a fundamental tool in our job. Because always is better prevent than cure, is more easy and cheap. The base for prevent is EDUCATION and exist different ways for prevent in diferent levels like:

- Promote the good habits by the use of advertising on television, radio, poster in the streets and other, for to persuade to community.

- Realized personal attention with the people that are in risk, for to do individual prevention.

- Promote family participation in education’s session about healthy life

- Create projects and governmental laws to prevent diseasesfor example raising the cigarette tax to prevent respiratory diseases such as lung cancer

- Realized studies and epidemiological research to know which are the main risk factors of the community that are we working for to do an integral and preventive attention

The midwives can do prevention of many ways, for example with education, explain what are the risk behaviors and how avoid them in at each prenatal control. Also we can do talks about prevention and epidemiology studies.

In my opinion the most important benefit is that we work with the center of the family: the mother, who is in charge of the customs of his family, including food, sport, habits, etc .So if we educate to mother and she is able to have a healthy life am, will be reflected in all his family, being a useful tool for prevention.

Gender differences in my career

I think that my career is where most problems occur by gender, because there is a strong prejudice about men who study Obstetrics about their sexual orientation. It is for this reason I think for our partners wasn't easy to adapt or accept to study this career at first.

But a man who study obstetrics has benefits such as greater sensitivity and understanding to women for to try not hurt her. There are many women who feel more safe and secure when they are treated by a man.

Problems of gender discrimination also exists in other careers (not just the area of health: for example in ballet, ) such as nutritionists and nurses, however, is in obstetrics where it is most recurrent.

To improve this situation I think that they should make known (the men midwives), for example through studies, research and others., For to prove to society that they can do their job just as women midwives. Maybe this way we can become as developed countries with more open-minded and modern, removing prejudice and gender inequality.

=)

See you!

My favourite piece of technology...

Today, I’m going to talk about an interesting and different topic: my favourite piece of technology…The computer and the internet, specifically the messenger.

I thing that for everyone, this object is the most important, because it’s used to work, study, connect with other people and many other things.

In my life, I started to use the computer when I was about eight or nine years old. At that time, I used it for to playing “solitaire” and other videogames, like “Barbie”, “Mario bross”, etc. After then, when I was 12 years old, I started to use the internet and the messenger… at first, twice a week… then three times a week... and now every day!! Even, I can say: I’m a addicted to messenger..! But... Nowadays, I use it only for doing jobs, homework or studying, because I don’t have much time to spend in other things.

This communication medium is very important in my life, because that’s the way I met important persons like my boyfriend and other friends. Also, I can talk with my family from other cities and with my parents and brother, because they also use the computer, messenger and mail at their jobs.

Now, in my second year of Obstetrics, this medium is very necessary, because all the documents, works, presentations and information about the university are at the internet. But not all is good… this communication doesn’t allow you to have direct contact, to be face to face with the other people. Whatever, it’s a very easy, fast and accessible medium in the present, with less time for sharing, so we can’t leave it. I can’t imagine myself without it, it’s impossible!

Well, this blog is the best example of all that I said to you! hahaha

See you!

Why obstetrics?

In my case, at first really i didn’t know what to study.. only i knew that i wanted to study some career related with health. For this razon in my school i was in Elective biologist. Before postulate for to study (after PSU) i didn’t know what put in first option: nursery or obstetrics because i really like the related with babies, pregnancy.. and also help old people with different problems … so i asked to my parents to give me advices .. but they said me that i should choose that i really liked.. so i put in first option nursery and then obstetrics.
When i saw that i stayed in Obstetrics i didn’t feel bad, i felt so satisfied. But now , after to really know what do midwives, i feel so sure about my decision. I think that this career is for me because the focus of it is the pair: mother-son, the relation in my opinion, more important in the life of everyone, so I feel so happy working with them, and obviously with all family (father, sons, grandfathers,etc).
Also in the past year we went to hospital and other health centers for practice, so i knew what will we do in the future, and i liked so much. And now, in this year we have more subject ver related with the Obstetrics like: Obstetric Physiology , so i have feel more close for my study and personally i feel so happy for to study Obstetrics, i talk about topic and thing that i learn, with my friends about my career.. Even now I have them boring! Jajajaja… however, i ‘m so anxious for to be a real Midwife :D
Only missing three and half years .. (I hope! D:) hahaha

See you!

A close website: PadresOk.com

This website is very accessible for the people, because it's about a magazine that everyone can buy and read it. Read, specially the future parent's that are waiting for their babies. In this web you can find information about the babies, pregnancy and others. There are diferent section like: free time, health, education, be parents, be woman, fertility, pregnancy, children betwen 0 -1,1-5, and 6-12 years. Also there are forum, advices and diferent thing that are very necesary for the people that don't know how be good parent's or improve their raising.


Every time I visit this site is because I think that it's very important that we know the information the common people have, and we do our job provide the correct information and answer every questions that could be rise. Also, I think this magazine is very close to people, that's why they believe in "PadresOk"; and follow it, this is a very interesting, dinamic and easy to understand website.

Personally, I recommend www.PadresOk.com because it has clear, necesary and good information that is very useful for everyone, especially persons that visit it and need a midwife like womans, mothers, couples, and family.

So, visit it!!!
You won't regrets ;)

Coldplay - Live Chile 16 de Febrero (Yellow)

My experience with the earthquake: S

The day of the earthquake, just on Saturday morning, I was watching " Festival de Viña del Mar and chatting with my friends. Suddenly the light started to get weak, and then the shaking started. Fortunately, I was dressed, so I picked up my cell phone and my clothes and ran down to the room of my parents. In the desesperation, my mom went upstairs to get my grandmother and couldn't go downstairs again, so my dad went to get her and fell in the stairs. Meanwhile, I was supported on the walls of my parents' room, it was very horrible to feel all the sound of things falling and crashing.... Only at the end of the earthquake, we were able to leave the house. Later, we were all exhausted and stayed at the garden all night..

Welcome!

Hi! I'm Paulina Álvarez, I have 19 years & live in Santiago, Chile. Im studyng obtetrics at Universidad de Chile, and I chose this career because I feel the needing of help people, especially babies and their mothers. I think babies are too important... why? because they are the future of the world!!!.. and also they need their mothers to grow up =)

Well.. now in my new blog I will show different things like pictures, themes, views and many interesting things, so.... Welcome to my blog!! ;)

Pauly