English Language Challenges

I really enjoyed to learn english in the university, I am in my last year in the university and I had a lot of time to learn english again.
I think this course was very useful because I could speak english in public and I never did that thing before. I am happy because I could understand all that I heard in english class. I could write too and that thing makes me believe that I can improve my english.
In the first day I was very shame and anxious to speak in public, here in english class I feel confortable, and I could speak and understand ideas in another language that few years ago it was unknown for me.

I enjoyed the use of blogs too. It was very exciting to write, and to be reading. I think that the use of tecnology is important in education now. I really enjoyed to make videos too, it was a way to makes me speak and hear myself speaking in english, of that way I could to realize that I need to improve.

I think that I need to improve my vocabulary, my grammar and overall my pronunciation. I think that I will see movies with original sound and subtitles in english too. Maybe I will start to speak in english one day a week with english speakers friends. I have to say that my girlfriend suppots a lot to me to learn english, she speaks it very well, and she always helps to me to improve my pronunciation.

Now I am using english in my career. I have to read books and articles in english for Civil Law, and Comercial Law too. There are a lot of doctrine and sentences (jurisprudence) in english that is useful to learn Law.

In this post I want to say thanks for the opportunity, and for the space for speak and learn english. I hope to have good marks (hahaha).

It is my last post, thanks for read me. Bye!

Changes to my study programme

The curriculum must change in Law School, here in Universidad de Chile. We have some asignatures in first year which duration are very large, like History of Law and Introduction of Law (2 semesters each one). We need to reduce the duration of that courses, and give more importance to another courses that today don’t have enough time to be understood like Administrative Law, Procesal Law and Tax Law. (one semester each one).
The career’s lengths are supposed to be 5 years long, but the students take 9 years to finish it. The principal problem is the existence of the “Memoria”. A kind of thesis that is a requirement for the licenciature. We have to remove that requirement, because another Law Schools in Chile don’t have it. And we want to have lawyers from our university, we have to facilitate that job.
The faculty has to put a limit to the students entry, because we don’t have the infrastructure to receive more than 400 people for year. It is necessary to build another library because it doesn’t have the required space for us all.
The career has to stimulate the use of technology and the practical learning. We spend a lot of time memorizing theory, but we don’t have practical courses. In my 5 years here I only had two litigation courses, and they were optional courses, not obligatory.
I think that we have to have an English obligatory course, because it is very necessary for the Lawyer today. All the good companies are looking for bilingual lawyers, and in that matter, English is essential.
Another thing that the faculty needs to change is the teaching methods. The majority of our teachers are lawyers without any pedagogical capacitation. They needs to take pedagogic courses and capacitation.

My favourite music

Music is very important in my life, I listen music since I was a child, I love classical music when I was six years. I that time my favourite musicians were Beethoven, Vivaldi, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, but my favourite of all was Frederic Chopin, I still listening Chopin, I have a colection all his piano works in my pc and in disc. I think that the most beautiful instrument is piano, and Chopin is one of the better pianist in the history. I love romantic classical music.

Until I was 7 I listened only classical music. One day a thief came into my house and stealed all my classical music colection. I was very sad because I lost all my music. In that moment, my father gived to me a Greatest Hits by Queen. And I was fell in love with rock n' roll music. Until today Queen is my favourite band becausw they play so well, all his integrants were good musicians, and his music was so theatrical and full of emotion.

When I grew up I continued listen music, like rock, punk, metal. When I was 13 I started my own rock band, I was the guitar player, but I had to stop it because I started to study in the university.

Today I still playing guitar... alone in my room. But I still listening music and going to concerts. I have attended to Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Queen, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Kreator, Slayer, Pearl Jam concerts. (That was just a few concerts that I had attended)

The last show that I saw was Guns N roses. And this saturday I will see Black Sabbath.

My Postgraduate studies

I don´t know what I’m going to do when I finish the university but I have some options. The first one is to take a L.L.M in Civil or Commercial Law in Europe or U.S.A because here in Chile there are too many lawyers. There is too much competition and I need a specialization (and a second language) to have a good job. 
The second option is to study for a PhD because it's necessary to be a teacher in the University. That is an idea that I don't refuse, to be a teacher, maybe a History teacher.
I want to study in another country because I want to live in another country. I didn't know what type of course I wanted to take, but I found some information and now I think that I want to take a blended system course, because I want to have time to travel around the country where I study. That's why I will keep on studying english.

I want to study the history of the institutions, the different law systems in the world, like common law and continental law. I want to learn how contractual law works in different countries. But if I have to choose one specific area I would choose to study Mining Law because it´s a very important area for Chilean economy and I enjoyed that course very much.

My Future Job

Now that I'm in my last semester in Law School I don't know how my future first job, will be but I could imagine it. 

I want to work in Civil, Criminal and Constitutional litigation. I see myself speaking in court. 

In my future job I will work indoor in my office just half time, because I will have to work visiting and speaking in court. I want to travel but not for work, I want to travel to spend the money that I will earn working. 

Maybe I will travel when I finish studying in Law School, because I want to study for a L.L.M. (a master of law) maybe in USA or Europe. For that reason I am studying english right now.

First, I want to have a good salary, because I want to travel and help my family.I don't want to work in Law all my life, I just want to earn money so that I can buy a house where I can live and have a business that gives me money.

Later, I want to use my Law knowledge to help people.

Maybe, someday I will study electronical engineering or construction because I'm good at maths and those were my second and third options when I came to the university. 

I want to travel when I am old too. I have to save money for that.

Summer Plans

In the summer I want to go to the north of Chile because I have never travelled to that place in my life. I would like to go to Peru too. I want to visit the beaches in Arica and Iquique and I want to visit San Pedro de Atacama and see all the natural landscapes like geyser of El Tatio and Valley of the Moon.

I want to travel with my girlfriend who knows all that places but she wants to go again, because she loves the north of Chile. I want to spend some time in the beach because I want to learn to surf and my girlfriend wants to ride a bike in the dessert.

I want to go to the north because I have travelled to the south of Chile too many times and I have only gone as far as Antofagasta. I want to go to new places for me.

As you know this is my last semester in the university before final grade exam, and I want to rest, for that reason I will not work this summer, and I will not study either. I want to go back ready to study for that big test, I will spend eight months studying for it.

Maybe I will go to Valparaiso a few days to visit my cousins.

My favorite movie

My favorite movie is Cinema Paradiso. A film by Giuseppe Tornatore.
That movie tells the story about a boy that loves cinema. All the story is located in Postwar Italy, in Sicily between 1945 and 1990. It is a very emotional movie because it has a love story, and the most important thing to me, a friendship between an old man with a young boy. The old man teaches to the boy how to work in a cinema, finally that boy becomes a movie director. It is a melancoholical movie because you can see all the changes that the city, the life, the cinema, even the movies have had. All this with music by Ennio Morricone.
I saw that movie when I was 16. And I loved that movie since the first time that I saw it.

That is my favorite movie. But I do not like romantic movies, I prefer Psycological Thriller movies like "Schutter Island" ,"Memento", "Inception". I like to watch that kind of movies.
The last movie that I saw was Sincity 2. It is not my kind of movie, but I enjoyed because Eva Green perform in that movie (hahaha). 
I'm going to see "Inferno" (the last movie in the trilogy by Dan Brown) when I finish to write this post.

Regards!

My favorite book.

My favorite book is called "The 25th Hour". Virgil Ghourgiou is the author. It is a history about a Rumanian farmer that is captured by the nazi army. It is like an historical novel. I like that genre, but I have to say that my favorite author is Franz Kafka, he wrote a lot of works, novels, and tales. I prefer Kafka's short stories, he wrote one of my favorite tale that is called "A Hunger artist". That story is about a faster, a man that works in a kind of circus. It's like an artist, a man who doesn't eat in weeks. It is a sad story. But I like that kind of stories, because when you read that you can see all the human feelings even the bad feelings.
Another one of my favorite authors is Guy the Maupassant, a french man that wrote a lot of stories with an "ilogical" end and strange situations. One of his works is called "Fou" (Mad Men) it is about a Judge that after he had sentenced a lot of criminals. He wants to feel how it's like to kill people. That is the last book that I'm reading (in English) "The works of Guy the Maupassant". I recommend that story for law students.

The best concert ever

Three years ago on October 5th 2013 I went to Black Sabbath's concert at Estadio Monumental here in Santiago. It was amazing, I went because I wanted to see Megadeth's Show. In that time I didn't know much of Black Sabbath and their music. But I have to say, that night Black Sabbath was better than Megadeth and I didn't expect that.

Black Sabbath is one of the bands who founded Heavy Metal music style. They started in 1968 in England. They are one of the greatest Metal Bands in the world, and they have influenced all the bands that played metal after like Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, etc. (Some music bands that I listen).

Two bands played in the same night. First Megadeth played, they were one on my favourite bands, but that night I was disappointed with Megadeth. That night was Black Sabbath who made a better presentation. I was surprised because Black Sabbath members showed too much power and resistance, this guys are 60 or 70 years old and they played two and half hours without pause or rest. The sound was so good, and the lights were amazing. All the people enjoyed the show  because they played old classics songs like "War Pigs", "Iron Man", "N.I.B".

That week before the concert I was very sick, I rested in bed all days before the concert. That night I felt good. I arrived to my home at 5:00 am.

This year Black Sabbath will come again. I will see them again in November 19.

A country that I'd like to visit

I'd like to visit Italy because it's a very interesting country because of its historical influence. I know that Italy is located in Europe. It was the place where the Roman Empire was founded. For that reason there are many historical places, like Rome, Pompey, Florence, Naples and Milan. I want to go there for that reason. I know that Italy has a lot of traditional food, like pasta, pizza and ice cream. I would like to meet some Italians because they are extroverted, like me. I also want to go because there are too many romantic places like Venice. In that place I want to take a ride in a gondola. In Italy, I want to learn Italian language, and travel and see the ancient Roman monuments like the forum, the colosseum, and the Via Apia. I want to eat a lot of pasta and pizza too. I'd like to live there for a year, I don't want to work or study there because I want to have time to visit all the historical places.