POST 8: ANIMALS

POST 8: ANIMALS

I don´t consider me an animal lover because I don´t want to have an animal in my house, but I like animals and I consider to love animals is a great characteristic of a person.

When I was young I had a dog and I love it, I used to play with it, but one day it disappeared and I got very sad. I think this experience affected me until today.

I think we need to care animals, for that reason I hate the use of animals to superficial goals like produce fur coats, I think we have many other ways to create cloth.      

In the same way I think dogs doesn´t must been banned, its must been cared, but the people responsible for it must to care people to.

If you ask to me if I could be an animal which would I be, I would chosen an eagle because I love feel the wind in my face and I could knew many different places.    

Bye, see you soon.

POST 7: FRIENDS

POST 7: FRIENDS

Hi my loved readers, today i´m gonna talk about one of the main relations of the human being: friendship

I think friendship is one of the most important personal achievements, if you could have a friend, you will became a better person. Why?? This is an untold secret, but i will tell you what I think about (the truth about friendship).

The magic of friendship is that you can´t chose your friends, even though you think you chose they, in reality, they neither chose you. Friendship only happens, but you need to work to maintain it.

The secret is that you can only have a friend if you are open to feel the another experience and if the other person is open to feel you too.

For this reasons i feel friendship is a difficult experience for many people, specially for people who find specific things in other or are open only for his own expectations. This people suffer in friendship, they feeling disappointed, and returned to his loneliness.

I hope you´ll tell me what are you think about that.

Bye, my friends  

      

POST 6: F O O D

POST 6: F O O D

Hi again. I´m in the last stage of the year, I have too many things to do: work on my tesis, correct evaluations of my students, finish some works, but today I want to talk about FOOD. Yes, I´m a big procrastinator and because of that I like to talk about something different than I must to do.

I really like to eat, but I don´t like to cook. Anyway, I think is important have a good diet specially because the food you eat impact in your physical and mental performance.

I don´t have an special behavior about food, I eat anything, meal, vegetables, fruits, fish, carbohydrates, legumes and neither have any repulse about food, I like food and i love to taste new flavours. However, basically I still have the preferences when I was a child: I love roast chicken with fries, pizza, hamburguer, and all of that kind of thinks.
 
I´ve never been on a diet because my problem ussually was the opposite: I was very skinny, my mother gived to me vitamins to made me gain weight, and several times I tried to eat more than I think I need. Anyway, this situation was turn arround when I began to work in my profession since 6 years ago, I gained 15 kilograms and stayed ther. Thanks to that today I don´t have problems with my weight.

This is all for today, thanks you and have a good time

POST 5: MY FUTURE JOB / MY DREAM JOB

POST 5: MY FUTURE JOB / MY DREAM JOB

Hello again my virtual friends, I hope you were enjoy my previous posts. Today I´m dreamy, I think about my future life, which means think about my job in the future, a mix between the real current posibilities and the magic of fantasies.

At present I try to begin an independent proyect of psychology in parallel to my clinical practice, focused in the use of participation to develop proyects. This initiative is very interesting to me because I do it with one friend (psichologist too) and we can do this work in different places, with different people, and with different objectives (not only in my own box with one patience as it is in my diary practice).

You can think I don´t like my present job, but you´re wrong, I love so much my job, but sometimes I would like to knew more people, more places and (specially) hold a common and simple conversation with someone and don´t think about what is the desire and the unconscious manifestation of his words.

Really, I like to do different things and I feel it´s necesary to my mental health to do different thinks in a day. But I like to work in psychology and this participation proyect is very similar to my actual work, because is a different way to do group psicoterapy (one of the kinds of therapy I do), but in other place and towards the objetive to help groups to confront their conflicts and achieve their goals.      

       

   

- What kind of job would you like to have? How do you imagine it?

- Outdoors /indoors?

- Would you like to travel a lot in your job?

- In an office?

- What major are you studying / are you thinking of taking?    Explain why

- Add any other related ideas.

- Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts

- Word Count: 210 words

POST 4: MY BEST PLACE

POST 4: MY BEST PLACE

Hello my virtual-friends (if someone read my post), today i was thinking about my favorite place in this city (Santiago de Chile) and I realized my favorite place is San Cristobal hill.

I don´t go very much to San Cristobal hill, but wen I go I like it. Why?? Because I like to climb it in my bike.

San Cristobal Hill is located between providencia, recoleta and huechuraba (In Chile we told "comuna" to this little administrative goverment, the city of Santiago has dividd in some "comunas" like providencia, recoleta and huechuraba), It´s a relatively center place of the city. You can get this hill by different places because it have different entry points

I love San Cristobal hill because I like to go in my bike and climb it, but many people go there to do different thigs like make a barbecue, running, visit the "virgen" in the top of the hill, go to the swimming pool, walk arround, play sports, and all you can imagine that you can do in a hill. But the historical atractions of the hill are "funicular", "teleferico", the zoo and visit the "virgen".

The "funicular" is kind of elevator-train to transport people to the top of the hill, it´s nice to be in there and enjoy the view. The "teleferico" it doesn´t work since many years, i don´t know why, but I think it´s a great experience traveling into them, It´s a capsule like an egg with seats inside guided by a wire, into them you can see a spectacular view of the city of Santiago because you travel hundred of meters over the floor to the top of the hill.

This is all for today, I hope you visit San Cristobal Hill, bye

    

-Describe it: Say what it is like, what there is in it, the kind of people that go there, what makes it special, etc.

-Say when you can visit and what you can do there.
-Say why you like it.
-Encourage people to visit it.

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One of my favourite places in Santiago is Barrio Italia. Barrio Italia is a traditional neighbourhood in Santiago located in the streets sorrrounding Avenida Italia, just  where Ñuñoa and Providencia meet.
If you're good at walking go to Salvador underground station and then walk South for about 10 blocks and there it is.
This neighbourhood is in an old part of the town where houses have been converted into workshops, restaurants, cafes, hotels, antiques shops... The list is long. It´s like a San Telmo, the famous street fair in Buenos Aires, but much more smaller and probably safer, and If you go in spring or summer you will see people of all ages walking around the streets. What I like about it is that there you can find a nice mixture between old and modern things.
Barrio Italia is the perfect outing for a Saturday morning when most shops are open. You can go on your own and sit outside a cafe or restaurant to see the people go by, or you can go with some friends and have a nice lunch or talk over a coffee or beer. You can also go with your family and spend time window shopping, then  have a nice cup of tea and pastries or some delicious icecream.
So if you are tired of going to crowded and noisy malls, make a change and visit this old (but refurbished) charming place.

POST 3: THE BEST CONCERT i'VE BEEN TO.

POST 3: THE BEST CONCERT i'VE BEEN TO.

The best concert i´ve been is one concert of Roger Waters since two or thre years ago. This concert was made at nacional stadium and it was great because the music, the staging and the entire experience.

But today I would talk about another concert i´ve been, the concert of Peter Gabriel also made like 2 year ago. Why i would talk about that concert??? Because in this concert i was feel diferent than other, why???

This concert was made at "Arena santiago", he played his songs but in a different form, too slow, more acustic, and gathered in a common way, all that accompanied by an spactacular images projection. His concert had an special atmosphere of reflection and deep think.    

Peter Gabriel was one of the founded members of Genesis, he played voices. This band was one of the most influent bands in rock at the 70´s and 80´s. Because differente problems, he decided to begin a single carreer in music and began to play and compose alone.

In this concert he sang arround the topic of poverty in africa and tecnology, he think tecnology can help to beat extreme poverty and open opportunities to development.

Although, my good experience in this concert is not due to the topics neither the songs in particular, my goog experience is due to the atmosphere, the conjugation of all elements. In that environment i could think, dream and enjoy a litle time with myself.

POST 1: A COUNTRY I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT

POST 1: A COUNTRY I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT

Travel around the World is one of the most common dreams of the people and I don´t lag behind in this hope to travel and I also want to ravel just like anybody else.

One of the countries that I would like to visit the most is Jordan, specially for this city Petra. I don´t know very much about Petra but i think it is a mixture between ancient Egypt and Cappadocia (Turkey). Once I read Petra was established in a key place for commerce in ancient times and this situation made that made Petra became an important city.
  

I would love to walk through the narrow road , surrounded by huge walls, to enter Petra. This road is like a river that eroded the mountain. I imagine myself walking around this city, watching the sculptures, the temples carved directly on the stone of the mountains. I would be excited to enter into these walls and stay at the heart of the mountains. 

I hope you can help me to visit Petra, I need to collect the money to make that travel next year. If you want, you can make me a deposit into my bank account.

Thanks, see you in Petra

POST 2: READING BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.

POST 2: READING BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.

Despite the tecnology and the advances of the era of information, the books have continued being a central element of life. In my case, I read every day many times, I read books to study and for entertainment. I don´t know how many books i have read in my life but I hope to read a lot more during the rest of my life.

When I was a child I liked to read but i wasn´t a big fan, I preferred to listen to other people read to me. I remember specially one time when my mother read to me the tale "De los Apeninos a los Andes" by Edmundo de Amicis (Into de "Corazón" book) and I tried not to  cry but y couldn´t help it.

Today I specially read books about psychoanalisys and novels, I enjoy both, but sometimes I´d like to read more novels because I feel I focus too much in my studies.

About novels I prefer fiction, one of the books I love the most is "El gran cuaderno" by Agota Kristof, I think it´s great. This story is about two childrens in the context of de second world war, but the beauty of this story is the way the autor deals characters, really I recomend you read this book, it´s amazing.

This is all for today, I hope you read this book, Bye.

POST 6: ART

POST 6: ART

Art has been a part of humanity since inmemorial times, art has accompanied the people in the way to know ourselves and to know the reality, in the road to get a place in the world.

Art has been a part of my life since i was born, specially because my father was a painter, and today my brother is an artist too.
My brother´s love to art started when he was a child, he drawing all the time and did it very well.
In my case, I was never good at drawing but I always liked art. In some times of my life I was tried to do something related to art, for a time I was carving wood, another time i was work with clay, but I was never be consistent in this work.

Personally I deeply admire artist and his capacity to create, his capacity to express and specially his conviction to dedicated his life to it.

Today I would love to learn to draw and paint even though I´m not good for it.

POST 5: A PHOTOGRAPH THAT YOU LIKE

POST 5: A PHOTOGRAPH THAT YOU LIKE

Hello my friends, today I want to talk about this amazing picture. It´s not a common picture because you can´t see the landing nor the people but you can imagine they are having a wonderful time.

This picture was taken by a friend of mine at "Ciudad abierta" (open city) in Ritoque two years ago.
It shows a wood wall strangely built like all the buildings of this little city.
"Open city" has been designed by a group of poet-architects of the Catholic University of Valparaiso.
The time we took the picture, we stayed at one of the houses of the city and we could explore the different places, buildings, artistic works and one cemetery made of bricks.
I remember open city fondly because the landscape was really beautiful and we had a really good weather.
We enjoyed the weekend we stayed there even though a couple of dogs stole our meet and we couldn´t make a barbecue like we planned.   

POST 7: AN EXPERT ON MY FIELD.

POST 7: AN EXPERT ON MY FIELD.

Freud: A person on my field that I admire

Probably when you read the title of this post and saw "Freud" in this sentence, you´ll say "his theory is outdated", but, please, don´t say that, Freud is modern as yesterday.

Freud was born in Vienna at XIX century, and create the psychoanalytic method. He made some contributions to understand the human mind, but specially he created an investigation method, method that is, at the same time, therapeutic.

I really admire him because his studies permit reveal the importance of the unconscious for the human and the possibility to treat the conflicts through speech, treat conflicts throw know ourselves. 

Actually, some psychoanalysts are returned to read Freud and took his concepts and ideas to think about the contemporary problems. This is because Freud was open a wide champ of investigation and didn´t close the problems, he create useful concept to explore the human soul.

I like the work of Freud because i´m psychologist and i work from psychoanalysis. I think the method of Freud is a base from where the actual therapist hold his concepts. For this reason I think that understand the Freud theory is understand the base of psychoanalysis.   

POST 4: FILMS

POST 4: FILMS

Hi everybody, I´m gonna talk about films, i´m not a great cinephile, but i like to watch movies from time to time. In this post i´d like to talk about this topic.

I´m go to cinema sometimes, like four or five times a year, but i watch movies in my home like one time a week, specially because it is a relax and recreation moment to scape from the life preoccupations.
The films i´d love are comedies and sometimes drama films, I don´t have a favorite director or favorite actor or actress.        

In the same way i don´t have all-time favourite film, but in different moments of my life i like different movies. I remember when i was a child i´d like "stand by me" (1986), this movie tell the history of a group of childs who travel to find a cadaver. Other movie i´d like when i was a child is "The goonies", this movie is too a history of group of child but this is more fantastic because they are find a treasure.

Well, this is my topic of today, good by

POST 3: MY FAVOURITE PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY

POST 3: MY FAVOURITE PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY

Hello my friends, welcome back to my blog. In this opportunity i´m gonna tell you about my favourite piece of technology.
When i thought about this subject i was no sure if i would talk about my computer or my telephone, but now i know, i have to talk about my telephone.
Really it isn´t a simple telephone, it is an iphone.
I got it around one year ago and it has made my life easier. Certainly i surprised myself with this sentence because i refused to use the last technology for many years of my life. An example of this is that just wen i was 25 years i buy my first cellphone and just because it was strictly necessary.
But today i love my iphone, specially because i can check my e-mail, access to internet, talk with my friends, and many other things. But the aplication i love the most is WhatsApp, only because of this aplication i feel my iphone is indispensable.    

POST 2: EXPECTATIONS FOR A NEW SEMESTER

POST 2: EXPECTATIONS FOR A NEW SEMESTER

Hello my friends, today I´m gona tell you about my expectations fos this new semester. This semester is the third one. As you know, I´m studying a master in adults clinical psichology. This semester I´m studing 2 subjects, one is about psichoanalisys and culture an the other one is about trauma. They are very interesting subjets, but they are not related to my thesis. In my thesis I m researching group dinamics in psychosys.
Besides these subjects, I signed up in English class, because I have some problems with my english, and today english is an essential tool, not only for academic development but also for every day life.
This new period I hope to finish well all my subjects and make considerable progress in my thesis.

My auto biography:

Hi, my name is Ernesto, i was born in santiago on december the second of 1982. I Studied at San Ignacio School and I graduated in 2000. After that I started leters at Universidad Católica, but i didn´t finish these studies, I studied for two years until 2002. In 2003 I started psychology at universidad diego Portales and I graduated en 2008.   
I´m a psichologist and currently i´m  doing a master´s course in clinical psichology at Universidad de Chile. I love my profession and i love to work on it. 
About my family, I got married three years ago and we are very happy, but we have no kids. I have two sibilings, one sister and one brother, we are very close. 
I like to go to cinema, ride my bicicle, read books and play football. 

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