How this year has been...

Hi...how are you? Today I'll tell you about this year. This year has been so complicated from the beginning to nowadays...there have been so many changes in many differents areas of my life!. Last year I had an important illness and still affects me till today. It's not easy to deal with it, but I'm doing my best. Also, this year I took important choices, like let people go out of my life (very important people in the past), receive some new people, became assistant student in two subjects and at least, this semester, has been characterized by hard-work and decisions for the proximal future. 

So...Have I had a good year so far?, can't tell. It has been good in some aspects, but not in others. But, if I can tell you something, is that this year haven't been soft at all. Many strong emotions have been around from all kind. The good things that I had so far, is to realize the importance of my grandmother in my life. She has been a wonderful person and very important since my childhood. This year she went very sick, but still alive and I'm very glad that she is, so I can tell her how much I love her everytime I can. Meeting new people has been very good too, it provides me a really quality time out of university life.

The things that haven't worked so well... loosing people. At the moment, it hurted so much, but as you know... "time to time". Sometimes the best you had it has a limited time, and is always very sad to loose it... but after a while you can realize that it was what it had to be and lasted what it had to last. I still miss some people from the recent past, but what can I do about it, right? "don't cry over poured milk". Dealing with my illness haven't been easy too, but this is a struggle from every day and I'm working to get out of my condition.

My achievements... to become assistant student in my favourite subjects!. I'm so glad that I made it, because I love to teach and help to other students to get through the difficulties. About my own academic year, the subjects that I enjoyed the most was clinical psychology from the systemic view, mental illness and crime and psychology from the ageing and old age. This three subjects were meaningful because that's part of my interest of what I wanna do after getting graduated.

I guess that I've already told you a lot of this year. I hope you had a really good year, with great achievements and great expectations for the next one. I wish you the very best!

summer plans

Hi everyone!...today I'm talking you about my summer plans. Thinking about my summer time this next year is very hard, because I will be doing not what I want to do, but what I have to do. Many things have been changing over the past few months, inside my family and other conditions that lead me to do things that are not necesary pleassant. For example, we are passing through a very hard time in our economy, so I need a full-time job for the summer days... so I won't be visiting any Area or regions or...you know, I just won't travel. I would like to see some people, though. I'm thinking about my friends and family that lives here in Santiago. I can visit them on my free time and still enjoy a good time with a lovely company.

As I already told you, I won't have enough space to all the things that I would like to do... but dancing sometime would be greate for me. I've taking salsa lessons for over 4 years and I just love it, and I pretend to keep on dancing this summer. About studying...well...it's summer... In my personal opinion, I guess that it isn't a number one priority to my mates and I, but I would like to read some little stuff about investigation methods (cualitative investigation).

I guess that I'll try to do my best with the little time that I'll have and share with my loved-ones.

I hope you have a great summer!. :D

<3

dreams job...can you really make them a dream come true?

Today I'm going to talk about what problems I may find in my ideal job. This is hard, because when you think about your ideal job, you just want to everything goes well... but anyway, here we go. I think that what I want as an ideal job, as a juridic pshychologist, its that I may need too much experience, and it's not a spread area in universities. Perhaps studying in another country may be helpfull...but that may be a problem (money!! :c). 

I wouldn't like to make my life here in Chile, but as we have so low expierence in juridic area,  I'm afraid that it could be a problem in other countries. I used to dream to live in Australia, but then I figured out that the pension system is very bad. Many people in Australia gets poor when they are elder people... so that a big problem for me, because I have family living in Australia who could give me support, but not the economic one...so that's a big problem for me if I wanna make my life there. Here in Santiago I could take my chances in this area, but the social system is not good. 

About the skills that I may need, I'll have to be a very strong and pshychological balanced person so I can work with criminals or even victims, and I think that is not so easy for me to be that strong sometimes. Always you can be afraid about passing job interviews, because you are in competition with so many professionals and it's easy to be pessimistic if you don't count with a large experience in the field. And if you pass this instance, pshychological test are always hard. Many people fail in this step in the process to get a job. It's not that easy... don't you think?

I guess that all my fears are summarized here, but even having this fears, their will be not a major problem to achieve my dream job!

I wish to you the best in your way to achieve your dream job...get to work since today to get it! :) <3

dream job: hope to be my future job!

Hi!, today's topic is about dream jobs, or what I would like to do as a future job. The job that I would like to do... it's very difficult to say, because I love my career (psychology), and every kind of stuff that you can make with it!. I love every single area (as an exception... labour psychology), but I have to choose... I would like to tell you that I'd love to combine justice and clinical areas. You can make such a good things with both of them!. I'm not so sure which line should I follow in justice psychology, because I could work with criminals or victims... But in both cases, I'd love to help those people with some restorative therapy. 

Working with criminals may involve helping them to find the best way to reintegrate into the society. I think that being in jail it must be a very upsetting situation, specially if you spend many years of your life in there. On the other hand, working with victims can offer them help to get trhough a terrible experience and try to recover the way they were before (as a healthy mental condition). 

Sometimes I would like to work outside, in another country. That's because so many reasons. Working here has not a great value if it isn't medical areas, or advocay area. And I always think about pension system, which is very bad here. 

I've always loved to travel, so I hope I make enough money to travel and meet some brand new beautiful places. That's why I'm thiking about taking majors after finishing my universitary studies... I think something related to justice psychology, and clinical too...of course. I think that I would like to have a "good enough" salary and, I hope so, a job satisfaction.

Anyway, I would like to work in voluntary activities for people that can't afford therapy. I had in mind focus groups on weekends, make preventional work with communities and that kind of things.

Hope you enjoy! Make your dream job come true c:
My best regards to all of  you.

University life

Not everyone lives their university experience as unique and fun and all that stuff we imagine when we are finishing our scholar education. I'm actually 26 years old, and I can tell you about my twoo expierences as an universitary sutdent. So, let's see.. after my last year in scholar education, I began studying kinesiology. It wasn't a pleasurable experience, because at that time I didn't wanted to study a career yet. Why did I began then?...that's another story, not a funny one. But don't worry, I won't tell you :3

After a few years, my parents understood that I didn't like anything about kinesiology. They asked to me to finish my career and after I could choose a new one, something that I really wanted... but then, in fourth year, I had a really serious accident. I had to left kinesiology, and it was kind of a hard time. That fisrt experience as a student wasn't good, didn't enjoyed in every way.

After a few years, when I was fully recovered from my surgerys, I choose psychology as a career. At first I wasn't so motivated and opened to this new experience...I was already "old" for this new and fresh generation, and I was scared to start all over again, but then I met my classmates..and what can I tell you, they're the best!...totally love them. No-one was closed to me, and they turned out to be amazing people. My subjects are very interesting and I fell in love with my career...I really really love this experience. Now that I'm older, I feel the pressure of being a student yet and see my friends from school already doing interesting stuff at their work places, or travelling to some amazing places... but what can I tell you, I wouldn't change this experience in a lifetime c:!

I really hope for you to be enjoying your university life, 'cause it won't be the same again in another time, in another place or in another age.

See you soon!

My favourite piece of technology

Uuugh...let's see. I'm not a very technologic person. That's because I don't have enough money to buy some cool stuff... but I own at least three things that I consider important as student. I have a little notebook, my cell phone and a mp3!. It's really hard to say wich one of them is more usefull for me, so I'll tell you why they're so helpfull in my life. My notebook: I usually use it for my career tasks from the different class. I can download some material and read it at home or any place, or if I have to stay all night studying is very helpfull to have this tech. My cell phone it's also very important, 'cause I can see the notifications of e-mails from the teachers in case of any emergency (like: we don't have class today 'cause...). Also it's very important for me 'cause I can comunicate with my family and friends to know about them, in case of emergency, or if anyone needs something... it's important to receive information that fast nowadays. And finally...my mp3. I just can't live without music! music offers me a possibility to get some rest from the worries, the stress or even the long long travels to get home after class.

It's hard to say how long I have these three things...they've been with me a long long time (like years...many of them). I like them 'cause they're very helpfull with the things that I need. Life without them... I think it's very possible, but not as much as comfortable they are now that many people live with advanced tech.

the best concert I've ever been

The best concert I've ever been was like 2 years ago in Santiago, at Chimkowe "stadium" (it's a small place, not like a stadium, really). I was in my freshman year at psychology, meeting some brand new people and also met this band. The concert was close to the last months of the year, so I already met partners who enjoyed to listen to this band too. Tame Impala is a band that started not quite long ago, in fact they born as a musical group in 2007. Their style is kind of psychodelic rock or something... but the quallity of their musical work is just amazing. That night we were like 8 of us on our way to see this band, all of us from psychology but from different levels. I think that the fact that made this the best concert of my life, was the good quallity from the sound, their voices and the great performance.

Everyone that night was just enjoying the music as they felt they had to, and that was the coolest thing that I had as experience... we were all just one, all united listening some very good music. Later that night we went back to the apartment of one of the guys that went with us, and we enjoyed a great night drinking beer and talking about many things.

If you know Tame Impala, you surely share with me that they're very pro at musical terms... but if you don't know them, let me show you c:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wycjnCCgUes

PD: thanks Mister Rolandos for introduce them to me :D!

hi!

Hi classmates... My name is Paula Araya, and I study psychology. I really enjoy my career, I'm actually on my third year. I was born in 1989 and I'm 26 years old. Besides of studying, I have a job for universitary students. I'm a waitress in "cafe havanna" on the weekends, working 10 hours a day, 20 hours per week. Life as a student and a worker can be really hard, but if you love what you do, "then you won't work not a single day of your life" (I can't remember where I read this :c, sorry)