viernes, 29 de agosto de 2014

Sociology. Why did I choose my career?

I am currently coursing my first year of university. I am studying Sociology at the University of Chile. 
When a year ago I was preparing the PSU I was not very sure of what career I wanted to study but I did know about my interests in social affairs. 
My first option was Political Science. Considering that I was not very convinced, I talked with some friends that were currently studying Social Sciences, Humanities, and Political Science to get to know more about the possible careers that I may be interested in, and finnally I decided to try Sociology because I liked the utility and usage that you can get to do with social investigation, and that you can generate some necessary and useful knowledge for social and political issues. I also wanted to enter the University of Chile because it has a large prestige and trajectory in Social Sciences and, how best than in JGM!  because I live just a few blocks away.
I don't have a plan for my future but I would defenitely like to work for an ONG, specially if it's about Latin American or National concerns.

viernes, 22 de agosto de 2014

A country that I would like to visit.


Two years ago I met a good friend of mine from Germany. Since then, I would like to go there and visit her. 
Germany seems to be such a nice place for a living. It is not a large country and their population is not a lot. 
My friend is from Hamburg, that's the second largest city in the country and also known as the "capital of sports".  They have a beautiful scenery (specially at night) of a lake in the middle of the city wich is all surrounded with very typical architecture. I would like to go there and have a bike ride.
Berlin is another city that I would like to visit. As a urban cyclist I am very interested in this city because it is one of the three best cities in the world to use the bicyle as a main of transport. On the touristic side, I think that the Berlin Wall is one of the most important icons of the human history and it is a must to go there if I get to visit the city.
I don't know if I would like to live there, but if I have the opportunity I would spend a whole summer there, having fun with my friend, and trying to learn some german.