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English language challenges

Going to university made me missed my old english lessons and talking to exchange students at school as I usually used to. I started learning english at 7 years old and I never stopped the practice until I went to university, where my first semester was in a lack on english and others languages to learn. Having the opportunity to take the english course this semester made me feel complete while practising english in all areas: writing, reading and talking. Although I always read some news, magazines and posts in internet that are written in this language, it was good to have again this kind of tasks of reading comprehension. The main aspect of my english that has to be improved is speaking, I think I have some problems with the pronunciation and I also that I get a little bit nervous when I talk in this language to unknown people. I also want to learn some english related to my career, like economics or something related with plants. Outside the english class I’m using englis
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Changes to my study program

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First of all, the career of Agriculture takes care about different areas, like fruit and vegetable production, economics, edaphology, irrigation improvement and phyto virology, to name some. This career offers lots of approaches, but I think that in my faculty the area of economics should be improved. A teacher once told me that some students of my university sometimes produce without thinking who will buy the fruit, yogurts, drinks and others things. He also said that the other apartments dislike the idea of having economy in this faculty because it is so capitalist, and I have heard from some students the same comments. Well, focusing in what I think and not what my economics teacher said, I still believe that this area have to be improved, not only because I like it, but to have a better idea of what working in an enterprise and also for the government  will be. Talking about english classes, I think that my faculty should offer us more levels of english and that they may also be
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Personal Opinion

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Well, talking about immigration, I would like to write about the Immigration Pact of ONU, the one that Chile didn’t accept. I think Chile did a good job by rejecting this agreement, because our country has to take care about its people. I agree with immigration, but not when thousands of people come without home and jobs. Chile has a percentage of poverty that the country has to worry about, so, why do Chile have to receive too much people who will live in worse conditions? I mean, some immigrants come and rent apartments meant for a family of 4, but then they invite the whole family and then the owner is surprised by having almost 15 persons living in the apartment. A few months ago, the congress agree with the idea of giving the “march bonus” of money to immigrants who haven’t at least 2 years of residence. I think this kind of decisions make chileans angry, not the idea that foreign people come here to “steal the jobs” or that most people who come are black people. Chile was
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Environmental Conflicts

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As a student of agronomy I'll have to take care about environmental conflicts, such as problems which affect the production of harmless vegetables and fruit. The water and air contamination affect food production because they harm the  ground when acid rain finds its place. Then, the plant species are not able to produce high quality and innocuous fruits, including that they may absorb the ground’s contamination. In some parts of Chile there are some mining companies who extract different minerals like copper, gold and silver, to name some. The extraction most of the time generates toxic gases that stay in the air, like SO 2. The people who live in Quintero suffered the consequences of contamination caused by a dysregulation between some mining companies that extract minerals and the government. In Chile are some laws that protect the extraction of minerals instead of the production of food and the protection of the environment and the most injured are the animals and the peo
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Post graduate studies

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The career of agronomy has too many different specializations, such as economics, fruiticulture, edaphology, natural resources, animal production and others. What I would really like to study after receiving my university degree is economics because I really like the idea of working in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). I have an uncle who studied it at the Catholic University of Chile and he worked in FAO till he went on pension. I have to add that he studied agronomy before too so, why not? Nobody said that an agronomist just have to produce different kind of foods, he or she can also work in the sale and distribution of them. I would like to do a master in this subject abroad, maybe in England, the USA, Germany or Australia. I haven’t decided where to study it yet because is too early to start thinking about it right now, isn’t it? I would take a part time course if it’s possible so I will work and study abroad at the same time although it could be ex
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My future job

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When I was 13, I dreamed about studying medicine, but that changed when I was 15 because I wanted to study chemistry at the University of Chile or abroad. Then I changed my decision again because I wanted to study everything, for example: economy, engineering, chemistry, odontology and also education. I didn’t know what to study because I liked too many careers. Then, after receiving my PSU results, my mother asked me why I didn’t decide to study agronomy, like most of my relatives. Then I thought, ‘why not?’ because I really like the study and production of food and its commercialization. After studying agronomy, I would like to do a master in economy and work in an exportation company. I would like to work in an international enterprise or maybe in The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), jobs that require using other languages and also travelling. If I were in a job interview, I would say that I’m a responsible, hard-working person who speaks 3 languages a
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Videogames

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Introducing a little bit of myself, I think I was born playing video games. When I was 4 years old, I started playing some computer games at home. I used to buy some CD’s which contained  plays, where you use to match words with objects and that kind of things. I really liked playing them, although they were simple. Then, when I was 7 years old my brother received a PlayStation 1 and we used to play the games of Crash Bandicoot, specially the racing ones. Two years later, I received my first Nintendo DS lite with lots of games. I used to play Tetris , Mario Kart , Nintendogs and others. So you may know that I really like playing this video games. I like them because they are something enjoyable at home while taking a breath of studying and you can play them with other people too, so you can share some time with friends. I also like Sims 3 , that’s not so old and you can play it with the computer. In this game you can create a family and control their behavior, buy some houses and o
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