my blogging experience

hello
I will talk about my blogging experience. I thought that the blog was a very good way to use my knowledge of the english language, even if I've made mistakes and in despite of my lack of a proper english skill.
It was very funny also, and maybe in the future I will continue using this blog as a tool to put in practice whatever new knowledege I can acquire in the english language.
As a matter of fact, I forgot to say it before, this is the fisrt time that I've used the blog to deal about topics of my personal life, my interests and my career and I feel that it is good, well I hope to write again in this blog the next course.

the best in my area

William James was a northamerican phisician and philosopher who lived between the middle of the 19^th century and the beginning of the last century. His work was very important for our disipline and, even today, some of his theories are matter of discussion and references for the psychologists.

In psychology he started a way of thought about psychological phenomena called functionalism and in the field of philosophy he was a pragmatic philosopher who wrote several works about this subject.

He wrote a theory about emotions, called today James-Lange theory of emotion which basically suggests that before the experience of any emotion arises the phisiological pattern of activation in the nervous system.

I think that maybe the theories of James are not right, but the importance of this man is that he has set several importants topics for psychology. In this sense, we can say that James is a classic thinker in our science.

This is Pont du Gard in the south of france, it is a bridge built by romans. In fact, it is an aqueduct with 49 mt of height that was built on the first century of the christian age. It is an amazing construction over the Gard river and it was created by romans to bring water from the water sources of the river in Uzes to the city of Nimes (former, Nemausus) that is around 50 km from the sources. In 1985, Unesco declared it as human cultural heritage and on its history has been damaged and repaired several times. It is a very touristic place and most of time is plenty of people. There is also a museum and a lot of rstaurants. I went there exactly one year ago with two friends and now I felt the need to remember this beautyful experience.

my ideal job

My ideal job would be to work in a psychology of learning laboratory in any part of the world, even if it was on Siberia, I wouldn't care. The thing that really matters to me is research on learning processess in human beings and specially on the cultural determinants and conditions that influence learning among people.
I don't know if I have the best qualities required to be a proper researcher but I think that I have a powerful motivation so, even if I am not a genius, at least I have an important capacity to hardwork. The skills can be learned, so I hope to acquire the necessary abilities to perform a good work and the rest will depend on my own capacities for learning.
I believe that every person who works on a job that he or she loves, will be good at it and will succeed in life. I'm not thinking about success in the sense of getting a lot of money and material things but I'm thinking on success as a personal developement. In this way I think that I will be good in my job.
In Chile, research is not such a developed subject as it is in other countries, so I think it will be a little bit difficult to find the job that I wish, but if I can't find the job here maybe I will find it in another place.

my career

I love psychology and I hope to finish my studies quickly because I want to start working on psychology of learning and cognitive sciences. I wish to work on research, but also I think it will be nice to work on applicated psychology, specially if it is useful for other persons.
If anyone ask what psychology is or deals about, I think it will be a little bit difficult to give him a proper or definitive answer, because it deals with several aspects that we call mind or mental processes and from different theories and points of view. I think that it will be right to say that psychology is the scientific inquiry of the mind and the behavior, but this could be just a part of the truth, because minds are embodied in a bodies and are related to an environments and different contexts.
Even if it is not easy to describe and define psychology, I think that is a very interesting discipline and it will be better in the near future. At least this is what I hope.

my favorite subject

My favorite subject is neuroscience, because I think it is very interesting to know how our brain works. Nevertheless, I have too admit that it is quite difficult to understand and learn all the things related to brain functioning, because it has to deal with the biochemistry, anatomy, chemical and electric signaling between millions of cells called neurons.
I haven't take the subject yet, because I'm still in the first year in the university and neuroscience is a lecture of second year.
The teacher is Ronald Betancourt.
As I have said before, I like too much learn and know how the brain works and produces thoughts. The most important contribution of this science (besides medicine, biology and other scientific fields) is to bring philosophical and psychological problems into an scientific inquiry. Specifically, I mean that neuroscience is a real chance to know what is happening inside the brain whenever a person thinks, feels, have subjective experiences of the reality and others things and this is very important for us as psychologists.
I didn't learnt yet too much about neuroscience because I didn't take the subject yet, but I hope to learn as most as I can in the next year if God wills.

my future
I hope that in 5 years I will be about to finish my studies, maybe working on some research project of psychology of learning.
My professional expectation for that time is to get a good job in a psychological lab. Also I would like to be working on an institution, but without leaving investigation, and I don't want to work on applied psychology at all.
My personal expectations for the future are not so interesting, I think that I will be married, to have children and living a quite normal life. I will do my best to avoid the boring life that many people get after marriage. On the opposite, I hope to continue doing sports, travelling and enjoying life without being a bored, fat housband and careless father.
I don't know where I will be living on that time, but I hope to live in Chile, maybe in an small city of the south, investigating something related to the learning processes, I think that this kind of life will be quite enough for me.
The ideal future will be to get an scholarship to make a PhD in a good university that allow me to work exclusively on research and to spend the rest of my life investigating the things that motivates my intersest and, on this way, to benefit my society.

The most precious possession that I have is an spiritual one, it is my faith. I believe in God, and this is the most valuable thing for me. Why? Because I have the certainty that even if I'm comletely alone and the problems and difficulties comes from every side, God will help me and will protect me and nothing wrong will happen. Whenever I feel the things are going bad, the hope of God's help makes me feel calm.
I know there are a lot of things in my life that I love and are very valuable for me, like my parents, friends and a few material ones (books and others), but nothing can compare with the certainty that God exists and loves the mankind He created.

My last vacation was on the summer of 2007 and I spent one month in North Chile. I visited several places, because the nothern part of our country has very different landscapes and environments, all of them are very interesting and beautyful. I went specifically to the Antofagasta Region, which is the second one in the political division of our country. I went to Chiuchiu, Lasana and Caspana which are small towns in the middle part of the Loa and Salado rivers in the Atacama desert, also I went to the towns of Ascotan and Ollague in the highlands, near to Bolivia. Finally, I spent the rest of the time in the coastal city of Antofagasta and in the city of Taltal which is also located in the coast side .
Most of the time I travelled alone, specially in the desert, but in the cities of Antofagasta and Taltal I met several friends.
I met a lot of people, some of them very interesting persons. I remember specially an old man. He is a goat shepherd and he lives with his sister in the middle of the desert, in a very very small town called Conchi, near to the Loa river. He was very nice and kind with me, and we talked a lot about the way he lives in the loneliness of the desert.
The weather was warm most of the time but in the highlands, when the night falls, the temperature descends below the 0º C degree. In the seaside, the nights are fresh and cold and the mornings are cloudy. So, despite it were summer time I brought a sweater and a jacket in my bag.

My best friend is Lucia, I met her in a seaside small town, when I went there for holidays with a cousin of mine. When I met her, she was still in the highschool and I was in the fisrt year in the universiy. She is 4 years younger than me, but she was so smart that this small difference of age was not an obstacle for building the nice frienship we have.

When she entered the university, she moved to the city of Valdivia and then, for several years, we did not see or talk each other. But, despite of the distance and the lack of contact, we kept the friendship feeling alive. So, after a lot of years, she got married and gave birth a child and I did not know it. The adresses and telephone numbers were lost, so I guessed that this beautiful realtionship will be just a nice memory for me.

A couple of years after her marriage, she decided to look for me, because I was her beloved friend. Finally, she found me, and called me, and I was so happy because I realized that my old friend was always thinking to meet me again. This is my dearest memory of her.

I like the way she thinks about the life, I think she is an optimistic and a happy person despite of the problems and difficulties that all the people have. She is also very kind and cleaver.

I don't like much some political ideas she have and I prefer to avoid this kind of subjects when we talk. But it is just an small detail. In fact, I don't care so much about her political preferences and I love her exactly as she is.

I think the greatest adventure we have had, was when we were swiming and suddenly the sea got mad and big waves started to push us into the sea. I don`t swim very well, so I felt that this will be my last time in this world. A lot of people were in the same situation at this moment but, thanks God, we could manage and the sea throw us back to the beach. Lucia was ok, and I feel better at saw her smiling and kiding again.

I don't feel envy of her in anyway, but there is a big difference between her and me, she can get anything that she wants and I don't have this skill.

Finally, if I should give her a gift it would be a travel to Venice in Italy, because I know she loves history, arts, architecture and travels and I'm sure that this travel will make her really, really happy.

Hello everybody, wherever you can be now (specially you, my dear reader, because I know you well) :
My name is No one and I come from de kingdom of Nowhere. In my land, always rains and the fog covers the sky most of the time. My people uses to spend the time writting the history of our acestors and we always make new histories of them so, in this way, we are everytime creating a new world for ourselves. I hope that you, my dear reader, will come to my country, to have the oportunity of share our experiences of the life.
I will introduce myself saying that I am a sailor, and I love the ocean more than my own country. I have lived so long time in this world that you would never believe how old I am, because I can not get old (at least in my external appereance). I know so much about the world that I have reached to the great conclussion that I do not know nothing about it.
I guess, my dear reader, that you are in fact far, far away from the place that I am now. But I hope that you will come here someday, when the fog finally vanishes from my land. This day, I think, we will enjoy a very interesting conversation about our lifes, maybe you will stay by me forever, and together we will go out searching for new adventures in the seven seas and to the end of the world.
So, I will stay here as ever, waiting for you...
The Captain No one from the land of Nowhere