Caro's blog

Hello everyone! It's time to say goodbye, this is my last post, today my vacation starts. At first, I thought writing a blog would be boring, but it was more entertaining than I expected. I think that writing in English every week was very useful, now I can remember a lot of new words that I learned this semester. Also, it helped me to remember tenses and to order sentences. In addition, it helped me to begin to think the sentences in english and not to think them in Spanish first and then, translate it.  I would like to include more subjects to be chosen for us and less obligatory topics. If we can choose entertaining themes for us, we are more motivated to write about them. I would have liked to write, for example, on topical issues in Chile and in the world, so in addition to learning English, we can know what is happening now. Many times, excessive study doesn't allow us to spend time to know what happens in our country or in the world. Also, talking a...

Choosing a favorite subject of this semester was very difficult, because all the subjects had things that I liked and things that I didn't like.  I decided that my favorite subject was Simulation. This subject consists in theory class and practical sessions in which we had to do activities in false teeth as if it were in a real patient. I liked this subject because is like the real work we will do when we finish the career. I liked too much learn to work with turbine. The main contents of the subject are about what you should do in different situations and clinical cases and the best way to do the procedures and do a good work. Although I liked it very much, the organization of the subject was very bad and the evaluation was very subjective sometimes, it depends on the teacher who evaluates you, so it turned in a very stressful subject. I think this semester I learned many new things, practical and theoretical, that will be useful when I work in the clinic. Nevertheless, ...