POST 8 > ESSAY

As an introduction, I think that every year comes with experiences, and every experience is useful for our growing as persons in constant development.
If those experiences are bad doesn’t matter, because bad experiences could be helpful to grow from the adversity. If the experiences are good could be useful for obvious reasons.
Because of what I said before, I think that in New Year’s Eve is important to make a self evaluation of the good and the bad experiences. We can’t erase the bad things, or just remember the good things, because both are an indivisible part of us.

As a starter point, I think that every usual self evaluation comes with the typical subjects to evaluate: love, money, work, social part. Now the subject is about a thing that is a 50 % part of my life, even more: the academic side.
Why I said that is a big part of my life? Because my life goes around the University (sounds sad, but is totally true, at least for this year): I live in Santiago only because the University is here; I organize my life schedule according to my study schedule; etc.
When I was in second year, every third grader said to me that third grade is the most difficult year in the University.
I thought in second year that first year and second actually were difficult, so I couldn’t imagine how difficult was being in third.
The sit in was an important subject, because for that we lost a month of classes and preset assessments. When we came back to classes, some teachers had no mercy of us, and they started to evaluate and doing classes very fast.
This was exhausting, not to mention that we only had one week of vacations. Is not a correct response say that we had a month of free days, because: 1) nobody knew exactly the date of end of the sit in, so we couldn’t did plans for that month. 2) Is more exhausting 6 followed months instead 3 months separated by vacations.

In conclusion, this year was very difficult, with a lot of obstacles that I hope to pass satisfactorily (because the year doesn’t end yet).
I had lot of obligatory subjects, and they weren’t so fun, so is complicated and difficult work so hard for something that is not so fun to do (in this time I thought in quit). But in my mind was the idea of being strong and keep fighting for the idea that inspires me to study in this university: grow and become in the best that I can be.

Blog 7 Christmas

I do think about the real meaning of Christmas, It supposed to be a time for celebrate a catholic festivity, the birth of Jesus. But today is a time for consumerism and pre-built expectations of a false happiness. All based on what the media thinks that we have to think.
I think that the Christmas tree is optional; it depends of your taste and beliefs.
I usually enjoy Christmas time, because after all is a time for be together with your family, eat together and celebrate together. I think it’s cool because for once my family tries to be more peaceful (barely reaches that goal).
There’s some things that I don’t like, for example, the over-importance that we give to the gifts and the food, when in the beginning of this celebration, everything was humble. We usually fall in the consumerism (influenced by the media).
I think that some people doesn’t like Christmas because maybe they have bad memories of the celebration, or maybe they are more radicals about the unimportance of Christmas as we know today.
I don’t think that my attitude in Christmas time is different, because I’m always trying to be a good person (when I can).
As I said before, I think that Christmas it’s just too much commercialized, principally because of the media influence.
I think that is not an obligation give gifts, but you can give not necessarily a material gift: usually the love and care are things that everybody needs but not everybody receives.
I don’t plan to make expensive gifts because I’m poor (of money).
I don’t donate things to charity. I don’t give things to homeless people: I think this is what I have to change.