My best career training

In the second year of forestry, we have a few training, most of them were for Biotic Component of the Ecosystem. And unfortunately I can´t go to Practice one in December of the past year.

But my best career training was the first of all. Was on march of the last year, in Pantanillos of Maule. This is the introductory practice of the career. And lasted a week.

This was about the principal topic of the career. Like Biotic component of the ecosystem, Abiotic component of the ecosystem and Rif (in Spanish, El ingeniero forestal y su rol en la sociedad). The things we must do; was like the other training we have. In a whole week we learn about stuff that a forester does in a work day.

This practice it has been the best so far because in that training I met amazing people, who are my friends now. Was really fun and nice work with new people and met the teacher who do the lessons the rest of the year. And some tips received in Pantanillos help me nowadays for other trainings.

I learn how to measure a tree, work in groups, do a trial pit and analyses them, analyses the problem of the urban woodland in the city and how the pine monoculture change the environment and the lifestyle of the people who live in or near of this.   

Post Graduate Studies

Hi everyone, I will talk about a post graduate studies. For a little part of the population, take a post graduate course in not necessary, but most of people think the opposite, that is very important have a lot of knowledge or had a specialization in some area in which you have more places to work.

The principal reason to do a course after graduate is for get other abilities that don’t learn in the under graduate education, because is specialised in what you want to do in the near future. In other words, it is what I said before: “Get more knowledge for the future”.

Some subjects I would to like to study on a post graduate course maybe can be related with   Silviculture area or woodland, the second one towards to the urban woodland.

I would like study abroad. I really think that out of Chile are better opportunities to study, because is other reality and other environment, so have different points of view for a same problem.

In this case, I would like to study in part-time course or in a blended system. I think this forms can help me with organizes my free time.

After all what I said, here goes my personal appreciation. I am not sure if I will take a post graduate course or not. I mean, I have like four years to think about it.

My future job

Hey everyone, today I will write about a thing that I am really afraid to think, the future, to be more specific, to my FUTURE JOB.

To be honest, I am not very sure about my future job. I cannot imagine that, because I am really afraid of thinking in the future. But I can imagine myself working in investigation with the professionals from the silviculture area or in the urban woodland.

This kind of job requires working outdoor, on the forest, brushwood or meadow. There is a lot of measuring that has to do with the field, like forest inventory or doing existence table. Regarding the urban woodland, it requires a little less outdoor measuring. Anyway, in both cases you have to visit the field.

I will like to travel a lot in the job, because the most of the investigations are in the south of Chile. Or maybe travel to other mainland to study about the urban woodland in others cities and countries.

About the salary, I just hope to have enough to live without economic problems.

I am not sure if I want to take a major in silviculture or in urban woodland. Because I have had the opportunity to talk and work with professionals of both areas, and I really love the work that they realize and how they help the society.

Videogames

Spyro, the dragon

For my, the videogames are very present in my life. Thanks to my dad and my brother. They pass a lot of time playing games, my brother more than my dad. All start with Prince of Persia and Final Fantasy saga.

One of my favourite is Spyro, the dragon.  It has a special place in my heart because was the first game I ever play. The original series was from 1998 to Play station one.

Spyro tell the story of a little purple dragon. Spyro has the mission of bring freedom to the other dragon, who are prisoner of crystal. The best part of the game was the competition between me and my brother. My favourite character was Spyro because it is really cute.

Corridor Z

Another favourite game is Corridor Z. It’s about a school, which is put on quarantine because the zombies. The zombies are in the school and our protagonists (Megan, Logan and Sgt Williams) need to escape from them.

My favourite part of the game is found the pages of Jill’s diary. Jill tell us why the zombies attack the school and describe our protagonists.

My favourite character is Logan. In the diary, Logan is not the typical popular guy. He is really sweet and nice.

This is not the others runner games, because the distribution of obstacles are a little diferent.

A TEACHER THAT INSPIRED ME

The little things make great things

Hey everyone, I will talk about a teacher that inspired me. She was the teacher of language Laura Andrae. I met her in 2013 when I was on my 7th grade of elementary school, I have a teacher (Helia Rojas) and she worked with a student in practice, Laura. She only taught my class for one reason. She is tall, very tall, her hair is a light brunette and her eyes are so dreamy. Her skin can be compared with the paper or even the snow. In that year, I learn about poetry, I am not the biggest fan of poems but I enjoyed to learn about it with her. The class also enjoyed learning with her.

But, that was the only year that we had the honor of having a class with her. In the year 2017, she became a teacher and she taught in high school and elementary school too.

In that year I was in my last year of high school and I have the same teacher of language that I have in 2013, Helia. She was (or maybe is) close to Laura, and she told us that she has a lot of ideas for the class. We have to read the book “Cien años de Soledad” and after we must create a game with that. Also, we created a life diary about the principal character of the book “Demian”.

A lot of ideas, and I have the luck to have a brother that has a class with her, so I can see with my own eyes how excited are they with the project that they must realize.

I wanted has a class with her again, I am pretty sure I would learn a lot whit the energy and with the ideas that she has to inspire students to love the subject and love the books to.

Maybe she doesn’t do the biggest things, but in that school was very important, because the language was undervalued.

THE concert

The first time I heard about to this band, I was too child to put attention to this type of music. In fact, for that moment I only listen music with the cell phone of my dad or I listen the songs that stuck on the radio. Thanks to my mom, I listen Green Day now.

The Green Day’s concert was on November of 2017 on the Bicentenario de la Florida stadium, in Santiago.

For everyone who don’t know Green Day, it’s an American rock band formed for Billie Joe Armstrong (vocalist and guitarist), Mike Dirnt (bassist) and Tré Cool (drummer). For the tours the include to Jason White (guitarist).

During the concert, the atmosphere was always vibrating and electrifying. The people was so excited all the time, and when they appear on the stage, the crowd was crazy about they. Everyone screaming a lot.

I was rubs off with all around, the people, the music and the lights. The songs were the best part of this event. They play songs of Revolution Radio, the last album about them. They play Still Breathing and I really love that song.

A country I'd like to visit

Maybe this country is still less popular for the world because all the history that happened in this place, but I really hope visit Germany someday.

Actually, the principal reason of why I would like to travel there is the architecture of this country or maybe is the wish to know of the people live now. I don’t know with certainty. Especially I want to see the view of Germany on winter, with all the snow around there.

In fact, I do not know much about this country except maybe for the class of history on high school but visit Germany is the better way to know a lot of this beautiful place.

I would like visit a lot of monuments, like Neuschwanstein (a fairy tale castle of XIX century), Brandeburgo door, in Berlin (a classical door at the enter of the city), the Fernsehturm of Berlin or the Berliner Dom.

I would like to stay a long time there, maybe six months. In parenthesis, I have family and friend there, they maybe can do the visit better. And maybe study the language there.

Anyway, I hope this “dream” come true. Yours too.

The future is so unclear

Hi, everyone. This is the last post I will ever write (I guess). 

Today I am going to talk about my future. Right now I don’t see my future very clear I mean with luck I know what I will do when arrives at my home. But I try to do my best to think about it. 

To my personal life I expect to do a great contribution to society. But this thing doesn’t be a small change or contribution. This has to be well known.  

To my professional life I want to do something great in my job. I do not know yet if like forester or something else. I only know whatever I do in the future this has to make me happy. But I hope I will finish this beautiful career.  

My goals visit the seven wonder of the world plus the Torres del Paine National Park; go to Germany and write a book (even when I know no one will read it).  

But how I say at the beginning of the post, the future is so unclear so I don’t know what I will do at the next chapters of my life and all is so confusing right now.

My blogging experience

Hi, everyone, like the end of this term is near, I will write about my experience with Blogger. At the beginning of this term, we must create this blog, to practice writing in English. We must write about ourselves, our interest and our career.

The blogging experience helps me to practice my writing in this language, to know more about my classmates and how they live in this experience. I like the experience in part, especially for the reason before mentioned and always it is good to do new things even this thing does not like sometimes.

Some advantages of blogging in the English class are that we can ask the teacher about grammar and some phrases. We use the time of the class to do the post, so we do not need to use the free time to do this post.

Some disadvantage about blogging is the topic about we wrote because sometimes those topics were simple, and I cannot explain in too many words, so if we need to use one hundred words, in sixty I was ready with the post.

The experience with the the blog was nice but I think I will not write a post in my life again.

I hope you have a good end of term!

Favorite Subjet

Hey everyone, today I am going to talk about my favorite subjects of the first term of 2019.
In this term, I have six subjects plus one elective.
My favorite of them is the Structure and functioning of ecosystems. It has both theoretical and practical activities.  It is about how ecosystems are organized and how they function in relation to living things.
It was a little hard, but bloody demanding, especially for the final projects because it is very large and depends on the time of other persons.
The main contents are Ecology, Quantify the nature, Role of organisms, Energy transfer and balance, Heat and temperature, Diversity, Water balance and flows, Leaf area, Nitrogen cycle, Carbone area and Water area, Biome, Forest types, and Phytogeography. These are for now because the term does not finish yet.
This subject is my favorite because teach me how the organisms are rationed with the ecosystem.
I guess this signature is my favorite thanks to the contents.

A career related website

Hey everyone, today I am going to talk about the website Mongabay Latam.
This website is independent environmental journalism. The website has several papers and news about the status of nature around the world, in this case, are papers in Spanish and easy to read. It is a non-profit society and works with many professionals and experts in the area.
The papers are classified on  “Special Series” like oceans, world forests, and Amazonas. This helps the users find the articles associated with their likes and what they want.
I usually visit this site once or twice to week, but the last year I visited more times because I needed the information to make several presentations.
I like this page because I can learn about the climatical change, some effects on the ecosystems, new advances in studies of the forest. The page search for educating and inspiring to make a positive change to the ecosystem. In this site, I have a lot of information can I use in projects.

(https://es.mongabay.com/)

Travelling

Hi everyone, today I am going to talk about traveling. I am scout, thanks to that fact I have a lot of travel; most of the time inside of the country.
For example, last year I travel to Cusco in Peru. That was for a world scout event, call Moot. In that travel, before the event, I was on a tour for Cusco. In this tour, I go to Ollantaytambo, Chinchero, Pisac, Aguas Calientes, Machu Picchu, and Moray.
In every place, I was for the all day and in one I stay for two or three days. Each view has a special place in my memory, for all the experience that brings me and for the people what stayed with me sharing those moments. In the moot I meet so many people; all of them have a special place too. For the next trip, I might do is travel to Dublin for the next moot or maybe go to the Torres del Paine.

My favourite photograph

I have several favorites photo, but in particular, there is one that reminds me of one of the best experiences of all that I live. In fact, there are many photographs about that, but this is different;  is like the beginning of a friendship with a very important girl to me.

That photo was taken by her, Tamara Polanco, in a place named Aguas Calientes, Peru the last year. She became a very important person in my life since that day. With her, I can be myself and feeling secure.  This picture shows one of the first big experiences in my life, take part in the Moot 2018. 

She was with me when I miss my family and when I was sick.

I don’t have many photos with her, but this is special to be the first, and to show how friendship starts, but not show all thing we live together since that day.

Hobbies

Actually, I have many hobbies; some of them demand moving and others are static.

In my life, I use to practice many activities, like Karate, Folklore, athletics, and Hockey, but not anymore.

So I could say my main hobbies, nowadays, are: read - I read a lot every day, especially I love to read fictions and fantasy- I’m dancing Flamenco, I do this every week, I watch movies and series when I have free time, I view a lot of videos on YouTube, like musicals (Hamilton is one of my favorite), music videos or tutorials.

And also play guitar, I don’t play it very well or every time, but I love the sound of the guitar.

I love walking a long distance if it is without gradient, visit tourist places, like museum and building with an attractive architecture.

And finally, spend time with my friends and family is my favorite hobby.

My favourite piece of technology

The piece of technology I definitely can't imagine me is the cellphone. Must sound typical in nowadays, but with my cellphone I can do some many thing.

With this, I can search information about the actuality, like the news of the day.  Also I can read about entertainment and search paper associate with my career.

I can listen to music; read books and fanfiction, there a lot of apps for that. I can view videos, series and movies, with Netflix for example; as well I may take photos about my friends, family and lovely sight. With my cellphone, I can see photos of my friends on Instagram or Facebook, and pictures than inspire me on Pinterest.  With my phone, I can play many games too.  

For the most important, I can communicate with my mates for do homework, with my friend to know about their days, and with my family.

About me

Hey, everyone

My name is Amanda Carrasco, I am 19 years old and I was born in Santiago of Chile.

My mom, Carolina, is a secretary, my dad, Claudio, work in a car lot, and my young brother, Felix, he is still a study. They all born in Santiago.

I studied in a school in Recoleta. And now I study at Universidad de Chile.

I like listening to music (like everyone I guess), read books of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and terror. I love to watch movies and series with my family, in special The Umbrella Academy, Naruto, Avatar and Game of Thrones. I enjoy astronomy.

I dance Flamenco since  2012, I don´t imagine myself without dancing. 

I love to travel, in special with the scout group, Willquimvoe, they are like my second family.

My dream is to travel around the world and visit the seven wonders of the world. But my biggest dream is to see my family happy.