English language challenges

My experience learning English at university is limited to the Preintermediate and the Intermediate. I can say that it was a good experience, because I didn’t had English lessons since school, so I forgot a lot of stuffs about this language. All this years I practice very little, only speaking with another peoples in other countries, but it was a very few little moments. They told me that my English was good, but I knew that I had to learn more. So, this two subjects of English teach me more about this language, with two good teachers.

About the use of blogs, it’s a practical task that help to the students to be more creative about writing in English. Also, the internet help us to find the words we think in Spanish and is difficult to traduce them. I hope that these thing be part of our knowledge, and not forgot them.

I think that I need to improve my speaking of this language. Writing is easier, and I can take my time doing this. But in the speaking I need to think more quick, and improve more. First, I have to think the words in English, and then I can speak. I hope that in the future I would improve those things speaking with other peoples, especially in my vacations, because there’s when I can know foreign people more frequently.

Outside the English class, I use my English only when I’m reading papers for the different subjects of the university. I can say that I understand those papers, but when is too scientific is more difficult, because they use concepts too specific. Also, I listen the series of the television in English. It’s the same situation of the papers: I can understand them, but some things don’t. I need to learn more about English. 

2015

This year I had good and bad stuffs. The bad are especially in my personal life, but at this time of the year I could solute them. So, that solution is a great part of the year. The other good stuffs happened in things related to the university. For example, I went to a congress of archaeology in Concepcion where I met a lot of people of the discipline, and some of them offered me some subjects for my practice and thesis.

Also, in this year I had three great fieldworks: one in Chug-Chug, other in Chada, and the last in Huatacondo. The first of them is a site near of Calama, where a lot of geoglyph, like 500, and the place are too beautiful. The second are ruins near of Picarquin, and there I had a lot of hard work, but it was useful to my career. And the last of them was a fieldwork where we stayed with a quechua community, Huatacondo, but the fieldwork was really in a near place, called Quebrada Manin. This was a great fieldwork, especially because we participate in a religious celebration of the community and we met a lot of nice people.

The subject that I most enjoyed this year was Zooarchaeology. This was a good course because we could learn about the anatomy of actual and prehistoric fauna. The final test was to work with a set of bones, the most of them of guanaco. We had to recognize them, make a database and try to understand the implications of that set of bones. I enjoyed it a lot.

Finally, this was a good year. I had my lasts subjects of the university, so the next year I have to do my practice and thesis, and I hope to get my title soon.