My achievements and difficulties

This semester I faced lots of difficulties but at the same time I managed lots of them. First of all and of course, I improved my English, I can write and speak better than before; I thought it was going to be more difficult because this time was going to be different from school. As I said before, it’s really hard for me speaking in front of people and when I was at school I used to avoid the oral reports but now I cannot do that. In this point, teachers have been very important, because at school my classmates used to laugh at everyone who stood in front of the class so as to talk about something and the teachers didn’t say anything to defend us and that was so uncomfortable. Maybe, they weren’t mature enough and maybe my teachers couldn’t care less, but now I know it’s different because my teachers don’t allow that kind of behavior. If someone thinks that it’s something wrong with me, that’s not my problem. Also, I’ve met different people like Monxi, I’ve never had a classmate like him and I really like him. I say this because I’m a little homophobic and when I realized that he was a little different from the other boys I thought that it was going to be difficult for me to bear this but it wasn’t. I mean, I thought that I didn’t want to have problem with anyone and he has enough problems at home, so it’s okay. I want to be honest I always say what I think and I had to say it, because before, it wasn’t easy for me sharing with that kind of people. I also had to put up with the rest of the class, some are likeable but I think it depends on me. I know that everybody is different and it’s impossible to get on well with everyone, but it’s really hard for me to put up with people and all that is because I’m not tolerant. Taking about other things, this semester I faced several fears, and one of them the oral reports. As I mentioned before it was and I think still it is difficult for me to do it, but at least I’ve tried. I was really afraid of many things and I faced it, I had to be brave because it’s my future. In those hard moments, I thought that maybe I had chosen the wrong major, but I started thinking about everything I had managed so far and I didn’t have another thing in my head that it wasn’t English. Despite all difficulties, I’m fond of English. After all that, I obviously have to improve more things due to many challenges are coming. My expectations are improving my way of speaking, in terms of fluency. I have a personal commitment, to speak more in English and Spanish. I need to overcome once and for all this stupid shyness. When I was at schools I used to say,” I’ll try it the next time.” The next time came but I said again,” The next time.”I won’t do that again, actually I mustn’t. I mustn’t because the university provides me all I need and teachers are always there to help me. In conclusion, my feelings toward the language learning would be that I really love this major, even if I fail sometimes I like this, good and bad things are part of this process. So, I will give my best the next semester so as to be the best or at least one of the best. I want to be the first one who raise the hand when a teacher asks a question; I want to overcome all the obstacles.

How my life has changed since I'm studying Translating and Interpreting

My life has changed a lot since I’m studying this major. To start, I thought that it was going to be difficult and I was really afraid of this new time in my life; anyone who went to college knows what it feels like working hard and spending all your time focused on the chosen major. So, as I said before I was really afraid of everything, because everything was going to be new and obviously different. Also, when I talked to my friends those who started college first than me told me that it is really difficult for example to get a seven, and they told me that professors are really annoying, that they don’t have patient enough if you get wrong or you miss classes they really don’t care, in conclusion they couldn't care less about students. Of course I said: that’s awful! I mean, my ex-teachers were so charming with the exception of one or two but they were really kind to students. After all that, I said to myself you’re gonna make it no matter what. Here I am, I changed my mind about teachers cause I was afraid of them indeed, I couldn’t imagine a smile upon their faces and now that I know my teachers I totally changed my mind. All of them are the nicest professors I’ve ever known, they’ve been there every time I’ve needed them, and they inspire confidence as well. I love the way they speak, teach and I love to see a seven in my tests. Perhaps, I managed to get these grades because of my effort and talking about effort I’ll tell you one of my achievements: as I said last time, I`m very shy and it was rather difficult for me to talk in front of people in Spanish, but now I can do it, at least in Spanish but in English it’s more difficult. I really don’t know why I’m so shy and sometimes it’s too much and I feel like I can’t put up with this anymore. Another thing is that obviously I’ve improved my level of English, the way I speak and write cause at the beginning I was a mess, and now I fancy and enjoy writing. Furthermore, I realized that I have preferences in terms of subjects, for example I fancy Grammar : ) it’s the easiest subject and Miss Paty is so charming and cheerful, she makes me feel comfortable and of course Miss Paula :D, Miss Patient, no-one like her, she 's always there to help and make everyone laugh. I think one of the best things she has is her way to see the life, if you fall it’s ok you can get up and go on, and I thought that I couldn’t find something like that in a teacher. Of course I dislike one of my workshops, English for Specific Purpose; the teacher is nice but that tons of vocabulary drives me crazy. Despite all the obstacles I can have, I love my major, even though I feel tired or if I fail in oral reports I must go on. I realized that this is what I want the most, I improve my English everyday and I like it cause now I’m able to understand more words than before, I had lots of doubts before and I cleared them up. I’m able to understand the songs I listen, the movies a watch, people I hear, etc. Nevertheless, what I like the most is to be able to write, I enjoy writing, finding words and putting them all in order and make sentences and paragraphs, and studying this major has changed the way I write, that’s fantastic. Nowadays, I don’t have the time that I had when I was at school, I cannot watch TV for hours without thinking of my assignments or tests, I cannot even go the bed without studying cause I start dreaming of my teachers, and I cannot study one day before a test. Actually, I did it once and I had a five and I dreamt all night long with my five in Phonetics : ( my first and the last one, no more five in that subject.
And of course my classmates, I`ve met incredible people these months like Catherine, Nicole, Monxi, all my English Language Workshop IA classmates and some of the other one. I hope to see them for the rest of these four years.
I strongly believe that my life has changed a lot, now I have a huge responsibility with myself, if I fail I fail to myself, it’s about my future and I think that every one must build their own future. College it’s the time that leads you to what you want to do for the rest of you life. If you’re not pretty sure, you better concern about it. I remember some of the words that people who went to college usually say “in college you’ll probably know the real friends and you’ll maybe keep them for the rest of your life”. College it’s the most important part of your life cause it makes you mature, teachers are very important too, they teach you more than English, they teach and form you in order to be good women and men and dare this life. They are like another family, I’m sure they don’t forget all their students, at least those who were good students.

About me

Hello everybody my name is Camila Chapa I was born on August 17th, 1988 Santiago I`m twenty years old and I`m in my first year of Translation and Interpreting Bilingual at Universidad UNIACC. What do I look like? I`ve got long straight brown hair, round pale face and a few freckles, medium-height, oval brown eyes, white skin, I wear casual black clothes and I`m thin. About my personality I`m sensitive cause anything can move me to tears and I’m loyal cause I don`t betray or lie the ones I love, but I have negative things about my personality too, for example I`m very shy, cause it`s too difficult for me to talk in front of people and I`m resentful cause if somebody hurts my feelings I can forget it but I think that I can overcome both. I like a lot of things like music, movies, animals, etc. First of all, I`ll talk about music. I usually listen to gothic music (gothic rock, gothic metal, darkwave) since I was seventeen years old and my favorites bands are Faith and The Muse and I’âme immortelle (French: The immortal soul) they`re from Austria. I listen to other kind of music of course but only in English because I fancy English language. The others are: Radiohead (I love it), Coldplay, Lily Allen, Madonna, U2, The Verve. I like animals in general but specially cats I have three pets two cats named Pandita and Osita they`re my babies my everything my life I do all with my babies, I eat, sleep, watch TV with them, and the other one is my dog its name is Loba, it’s a Siberian dog. I hate when I Watch on TV news about people mistreating animals, when they use them for making money that`s so disgusting and unfortunately the law in this country doesn`t punish them cause the government haven`t passed a law that protects to animals. About movies, I don`t have a favorite actor but I do have a favorite director, producer and writer his name is Tim Burton and I like all his movies, one of them and the most well-known is The Nightmare before Christmas. I like others: The Phantom of the Opera, Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton’s too), Schindler’s list, Twilight and horror movies like The Grudge. I also watch a medical drama series named ER and of course La Ley de la Selva. I enjoy going to countryside I spend all my holidays at Concepción city, in fact, I wanted to study there but I couldn`t because I failed in the P.S.U. Test. Sometimes this city Santiago, it becomes stressful, all because of Transantiago, noise pollution, smog. In this city it`s not beautiful watching the sunset it`s better doing at the beach, sitting on a rock beach, or lying down on the sand, to hear seagulls singing, walking barefoot, all that sounds good for me. There are good things of course in the city, for example, you can find a cinema, a mall or something like that very close to home that`s good too, but I don`t want to live all my life in Santiago because I want to travel around Europe, to know England, to talk with British people I dream that day I wish I could go there someday, and if it’s possible to go to Austria too. I`ll talk about now what I`m afraid of, and I`m afraid of spiders, insects in general I hate them they don´t do anything good, they just exist to freak people like me out cause when I see a spider or something like that I freak out I loose control it makes me shiver. I`m afraid of height, elevators cause I think they`re gonna fall and clowns, they make me shiver too, Oh God! how I hate them and porcelain dolls, it`s stupid but that kind of dolls scare me but I like Barbies I have a lot of them. My hobbies, I don`t have many hobbies but I enjoy spending my time in my bedroom listening to music all the music I mentioned before, writing because I fancy writing my thoughts when I`m confused, sad, or when I just need to vent myself I use the pen and my copybook and I write down everything I feel. It`s a good way to vent when you`re a shy and quiet girl like me. Maybe I`m like that because many people let me down all the people I used to call my friends they one day betray me and that can break anyone’s heart, I know I`m not the only one and in this world not everything is bad, I have met lovely people, in high school I met three very important friends we still talk each other, I forgot saying it. Their names are Francia, Carolina and Fernando, he makes me laugh all the time I`m good at laughing. I have another friend her name’s Daniela she is as a sister for me because we grew together she was seven months when I was born. I also lost a friend his name was Ignacio he was leukemia and died when he was eleven years old. I overcame that stage I know he`s better than before so it`s okay now. I don`t go out I mean I don`t go to parties because I hate seeing how people get drunk, the music at the discotheque and a place full of people I don`t like, but it`s what I am and I don`t care if people don`t like me all I care about is to try to overcome my shyness, to enjoy my family and these four years studying language.