Environmental Practices

Hello everyone, today I’m going to talk about environmentally practices. I learned some things about recycling in my school because there we had different types of collectors one for paper, another for bottles and things like that. Also in my town there is a “Punto Limpio” where you can throw away any type of thing.

But even with all this campaigns available I have never done anything to recycle or thinking in friendly environmental practices. 

 I love to ride a bike and walk so that will be always my first option instead a car, I use it just when is necessary and also I throw the garbage in the collectors and things like that. So these little things are my contribution to the environment.

I have never joined to any eco-organization because I’m not interested in any of this kind of things. But I don’t want to say that I didn’t care about environment, I don’t thing is necessary join to any organization to be worried for the environment. I can do little things on my own.

Maybe in a few years later I will do more things like recycle and throw all the paper that I read in five years of studying Psychology.

I don’t know what the carbon footprint is, but I think that is something that we can reduce if we have the necessary information. 

I think that in some places where we see garbage in the street is for two reasons. One is because there are some collectors missing around, and the second reason is the people who walks there and didn’t have the education to keep their papers or garbage until they found a collector. 

And that’s all for today, see you next class!

Elections

Hello everyone! Today I’m going to talk about a very important civil action, the opportunity to vote.

 I’m registered since the last presidential elections on 2010. That election has two rounds and I remember that the first time I couldn’t vote because I was just in “Paso los libertadores” returning for a long trip in Brasil. So the second round was the first time in my life that I actually have this privilege.

 I think that sometimes most of the campaigns are very annoying because candidates put a lot of big posters around the city and also give a lot of pamphlets. So they contaminate the city more than give some useful information. Maybe they should give more information using the social network instead to pollute the environment.

 I think that the necessary qualities of a person who wants to run for a public position are to be polite, closer to the people and the reality of his city, or the place that he or she wants to represent. Also this person need a lot of ideas and plans to improve the life quality of their neighbors.

 I’m absolutely not interested in any political thing. Because I thing that any political career brings a lot of work, and it’s something that you may dedicate a lot of your time, even your “free” time. And also I think that there are a lot of corrupt things that I don’t care to be involved.

In my district has been always the same mayor, so I don’t think that this time it will be the same story. I don’t see much competition like in other districts like Santiago.

 And that’s all for today! See you next class!

Child safety: what's the best way to warn about the risks??

 Today I’m going to talk about a piece of news that I’ve found in the “Guardian”. This news talks about how parents may explain to their children how to be safely.

I think this is a serious theme today, because of the entire social network that we have available.

Experts say different things about this like, children must always tell to their parents where and with who they are. So the communication with family is very important to keep safe the children.

 The best way to talk to young children or the best way to show the danger that they could be exposed is put them in different scenarios that thing that can happened. So they could be prepared, and most important they will know what it’s the right thing to do in different cases. Because the job of a parent is show their kids the right answers in this “scenarios”.

 But also is important that children don’t lose the desire to explore the environment, because they must learn how to sensibly assess risk. So is important that children have the opportunities to explore, but always knowing the dangers that could exist in that “explore”.

Why this piece of news is related to psychology? Because this theme is also related with the development of children and this is a very interesting area of my career. The way of how the parents communicate different things to their kids is very important for his development and evolution trough the life.

 That all for today, see you next class!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/shortcuts/2012/oct/03/child-safety-warn-about-risks?INTCMP=SRCH

Best Friends!!!

Hello everyone! Today I’m going to talk about my best friends.

I have two best friends, one is named Perla and the other Paulina. The story of how we met is funny, because first we just had one friend in common and we didn’t know each other very much. Until one day about five years ago we went to an after PSU party. So that episode was the start of the friendship. After that we shared holidays and things like that. I consider them my best friends because I know them for a long time, we pass a lot of things in this years and I think that them are the people how knows me better. 

This year it’s been difficult to see each other because one of them its studying Medicine, I have to read very much and also I have a boyfriend, so we don’t have the same time that we had a few years ago to get together. 

The best memory that I have with my friends its one night about two years ago when we were in the beach and we made a bonfire with sausages, marshmellows and mistral ice (the alcoholic drink that we always drink together) and we spend the whole night singing bonfire songs!. 

That is my story :) I hope that you enjoy it!