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Hello, I think this is the final blog or at least I'm really hoping that it is. I am not feeling good today, I hate this kind of weather, I am having a headache, I am in a bad mood and I do not want to do this assignment so if you do not find this blog very interesting I would understand.

The topic for today's blog is: "My experience learning English". This is almost the same topic my English teacher I had last semester gave us to write the final blog. And like I said then, now I have not learnt a lot of new things either.

If I think really hard to say the things I learnt during this semester it would be some things like these:

With the blogs, I learnt vocabulary, how to write and how to spell some words but it was not too much because most of the time I used the words I already know.

In classes, we had different ways to learn. The teacher made us hear conversations, occasionally he taught us grammar, he showed us new words that have to do with medicine ambit but most of the time we had to do exercises where we had to complete the sentence or something like that. With these methods I personally did not learnt a lot of new things, maybe the most things I learnt in this course (this semester and the past) were vocabulary.

I do not remember another method our teacher used to teach us. Another aspect that could influence in my learning experience were my English classmates. I was lucky enough to trust in my English knowledge so I was not intimidated by them and besides they were really nice too and I already knew them.

I have to say that I did not enjoy the way the things with this course were. I think that writting the blogs in the house would be a good idea if you had not put classes in the time we used to do the blog.

Another thing I did not like was that we had a lot of days were we didn't do a lot of productive things in classes and at the end of the course we had in every class an evaluated activity.

I hope you consider these points and make a better and improve English course next year. With nothing more to say.. Goodbye!

Hello! Today I have to do another blog and I had to choose the topic.. At first I did not know about what to write and after thinking a lot I decided to write about my favorite Tv series. Since I started to watch cable television I have seen a lot Tv series. I liked to watch all the series I could, because then I could decide which one I liked the most and the ones I wanted to keep watching. I remember that at first I had two favorites’ series, and these were: "Everwood" and "Gilmore girls".

The first one was about a doctor that had moved to the country with his two children. His son had a lot of trouble to adapt but finally he made a friend and he was happy again. But unfortunately his friend dies in a car accident and he became more introverted than before and he always wanted to come back to his old house in the city. so his father (the doctor) have to deal with that situation all the time. I really liked the series even when it was really sad but I always missed because I was in school. The other series was about a single mom and his daughter. The mother came from a rich family and she had become pregnant when she was sixteen. The father of the baby came from a rich family too so they did not have money problems but their parents were concerned about what people would think about. So they figure a plan: both would have to get married. The father of the baby wanted but not the mom, so she refuses to do it and she left her house, start working and raise her daughter by herself.

Now I have a new favorite series, it is called “Grey’s anatomy” and is about residents working and learning in a hospital, her life there and out of medicine, their personal problems and professional too.

I would tell you more but I already reach the number of words I had to write, so maybe in the future I will continue :) Goodbye! :D

Hi everyone! I was thinking on skipping this assignment but then I found a really great topic I want to talk of =) That “topic” is.. My boyfriend!

We met back in 2007, now I remember how but I will not tell you, I want to keep it in private. At the beginning we did not talk too much, then we became friends, we talk every day, he always made me laugh and I still love that of him. Then we felt an attraction for each other but we never give the step to be something more than friends, I guess we were to afraid to lose our friendship. But one day (February the seven of 2008) we realized that it was mutual so he asks me if I wanted to be her girlfriend and I said yes without a doubt. I was really happy because I was waiting for that to happen for a long time.

From that day we had to wait two months and days to see each other. You may found that weird.. Well I should have started saying this: My boyfriend lives in Concepción and I am from Santiago so it is really complicated for us to see each other.

We have had ups and downs, but in the end one way or another we have been together. Today we celebrate that we have been together for 2 years and seven months. If you count we should have more time together but last year we broke up (one of the downs). It was really sad but I think our relationship became stronger.

My boyfriend has been in my life for a long time now. He has been with me in very important moments, happy and sad. I love the way he makes me feel, the way he treats me and the way he loves me.

This weekend we have been together and it was great, like always! Well maybe it was even better!

My boyfriend's name is Danilo and I absolutely LOVE him!

Today I am going to talk about the paper “Understanding the brain: The birth of a learning science”, particularly about the chapter six: “Dispelling ‘Neuromyths’”. The chapter talks about myths in Neuroscience, and I found very interesting the topics the chapter talks about but specially one caught my attention. Is a myth that I always believe it was true and that I heard a lot of people talking about it. The author gives the myth in the text the following name “But I read somewhere that we only use 10% of our brains”.

The text talk how the myth came, and the hypothesis they give is that it came from Einstein, I am sure you are wondering how could that be and the answer is that he was the first person to say he use only the ten percent of his brain and that research supported this.

The experiment they did to prove the myth was this: They used electric shocks to see which areas react and how they could not see the react they said that those areas were not functional.

Another origin of the myth could have emerged for the composition of the brain. The glial cells are the ones “feed” neurons but they can not transmit the nerve impulse. And besides there in 10 glial cells for 1 neuron so some people thought that this would explain how the “ten percent myth” has come from.

Now in our days there are new techniques to watch this, scientists know more about the composition of the brain so they did a new experiment in patients with local anaesthetic and they saw how all the areas of the brain were active. And they also said that for physiological reasons evolution would not let us waste 90% of our brain.

And that was the end of the myth. When I was reading I really thought the second origin of the myths I told you could be true, but when I read the last experiment I ended up believing that it was false! but it was interesting to know that not everything the people say is true.

I think the answer for the question “Is it possible to have a healthy lifestyle” is definitely YES! The difficult part is start doing it and keep that kind of lifestyle. When I heard the title for this blog I instantly thought in diet and exercise. Lately I started doing both, and when I used to start diets I always drop them and with exercise was the same thing but this time it has been different. I am very happy with that so I will tell you my history.

Everything started after the “Fiestas Patrias” when I decided that I was going to start doing a diet. At first it was hard but now I get used to the diet and I like it. Every morning I drink a cup of tee and eat a piece of bread, then at the middle of the day I eat a yoghurt and at lunchtime I eat a plate with a lot and different types of salads. Then when I get home I drink another cup of tee and at dinner time I eat my grandmother’s food and that is it for the rest of the day. I know if a nutritionist saw that it would say that is wrong but it is working for me so I am going to continue with that.

I also knew that I need it to do exercise but I never like doing that, I think is so boring and each time I started doing it I always quit but like two weeks ago I remember that I have seen a sport that I really love and always wanted to do it so I start looking where I could practice it, and last weekend I finally start to practice wrestling and I fell in love with it again so I can not wait to be weekend again.

I hope all this sacrifice help me to achieve my goal. That’s my history and I really happy with it.