viernes, 27 de noviembre de 2009

Money makes the world go around!


Hi! Today's theme is MONEY. When you hear that someone says "money is not all, there are more important things", yeah, of course there are more important things like love, health, personal relationships,etc. But money plays an important role in our daily life. If you have money you can have access to many things that can give you a good life quality. Also, money is important if you are planning to have a family, i mean, if you have kids and you want to buy and live in your own house, you must save some money to pay school, bills, medicine for your kids in case they got sick, etc. We all need money!
I live with my parents, so i don't have to pay bills, and i don't have to manage big amounts of money because i only ask for it when i need to buy books or clothes.
If you want to leave your parent's house, you must earn some money, i think it's the first step to become independent. About two years ago i started to work as a promoter in supermarkets; it felt good because with the money i earnt i bought my own things and i didn't have to borrow money from other people.
I think i'm very good at saving money, i'm very organized and i know when or where to spend it.
But money has bad aspects. In this country if you don't have money, you are nobody. If you want to have a good education you must pay for a good school, and many people don't have enough resources so they can't have access to study or have a professional occupation.. the cost of living is increasing every year. Money makes a country to divide in groups, rich people and poor people, wich i think it's bad because some have all the power and some others must live under the orders from those who have it all. So i think my parents are investing their money in a good thing, they are paying my education so i can be a good professional and contribute to improve my country and help the needy.


viernes, 6 de noviembre de 2009

My Faculty

Hi! Today's theme is my Faculty. I'm studying Obstetrics and Midwifery at Medicine School in University of Chile. This is a very old building, so i think that important changes need to be done. About infrastructure, like i said before, it's a very old building and maybe it could be more modern, but laboratories and auditoriums are very good and they don't interfere with learning, wich at the end is the most important aspect to evaluate. My faculty has beautiful green areas, wich i think is very important because you can relax and forget for a while books, study, big tests, etc. It also has a special place where you can party with your friends and have a nice time.
I will like to change security. I think is a week point that my faculty and university in general needs to work out. 3 o 4 months ago, strange people started to enter into the faculty, any one can come here because no one asks for ID or special credential, so many thiefs used to come and steal our things. Another aspect that i will improve in my faculty is COMPUTERS!!!!. For example, at this moment i'm writing, and i have to wait 5 or 10 minutes to open another page. Computers in library are very slow, this is very difficult because i think is a big obstacle to study. Many students don't have the money to buy a computer, so they need to study and do their homeworks with faculty's computers. The solution is to buy more computers.
I guess i will solve this situation talking with the person who is in charge of computers, because we pay a big amount of money, and it should be invest in things for students and not only for the university.
And last but no least,my faculty is full of street dogs, so i will give them a long bath because they smell bad, reaaaally bad.