My favorite festivity

MEAT OUT DAY, it's the name for the festivity that pretend make that people don't eat meat and don't use products tested on animals. This happend every march 20, in a lot of countries. It isn't an old tradition, this exist just since 1985.
This festivita es suportad foro a Lot of instituciones chat pretend a vegetarianism diet in people, and animalism way to make conscience in people about unfair animal's live by the heartless man's selfishness.
In this festivity vegan and vegetarian people cook all the food that you can imagine and give it free on the streets, and they don't use anyone product testing on animals, because they want to show to everyone that you can live well, eat tasty and not only the food that you normally eat, actually very new and interesting tastes.
This is absolutelly importan for the world because it isn't just an animalism festivity, in fact, is an ecologist and medical festivity, you are listening arguments from a lot of disciplines and all those for give a hand to animals, because no one else help them from the man's cruelty.
I like it because this festivity is for a good reason, a noble reason, and behind there is a movement that is shaking hard on the teenager's head! and is showing to us, the truth behind our beakfast, lunch, dinner or whatever that we eat and use, is showing to us how many tears there are in our food.
Also, we can see in our country, a new wave of veg(an)etarian movements, that use this new traditions, and make them part of our culture, and that’s is too important, because they make us part of this festivity and tell us about new ways to see the world.  

A very special Book

Irvin David Yalom is an author of novels and nonfiction books, also he's a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, and he's very famous by his existential psychotherapy, that's a point that he wrote usually on his novels.
He was born on June 13 of 1931 and he's still alive. He wrote usually about feelings like death, freedom, isolation, meaninglessness, all the things that make the existential realities, he believe in science and his skepticism about non-material or spiritual understandings of life, I don't agree with that, but I respect his thinking, and I really like how he wrote novels about that. That is mainly the reason that I admire him, because his way to write about feelings owns of existentialism, help me in a hard moment, and I read "when nietzsche wept" a really famous novel of him, and every word, every thought was representing everything that I was living, and the solutions and of nietzsche's problems, make me RE-CONSIDERING the decisions I had made at that moment, and everything was right!, I could do the things in the right way. My reason of "why" I admire him is a little selfish, but honestly to me it was really important, because that book give a lot of important things to me… honestly this is not my favorite author, or my favorite book, but with the book in my mind I made the decision of study psychology (in the book the author tells the story of Freud, the father of the psychoanalysis) so, after reading I started to search information about psychology, specially psychoanalysis… It helps me a lot with my life, so I have a very special affection to the book.

My Ice Cream Picture

This picture is very important to me, reminds me a good day in the last summer with a good friend of mine.

I remember that I was very sad those days because I had problems in my home, so by a coincidence my friend, felipe, calls me to ask me how I was, so when I told him that I was passing for bad days he decided to take me out of my home. We meet together in plaza italia and we walked a long time, talking about the summer things and a lot of funny stories too, so we pass in front of a “bravisimo” and he decided that we MUST eat ice cream, because with ice cream life is happier. When we enter in the local my friend went to the guy who attends and said him: “give me the bigger ice cream that you have!” It was a very funny situation, because when the ice cream arrived to our table everybody looked at us like crazy people because it was a LOT of ice cream.

My friend was right, with ice cream life is more beautiful and you could be happier, I forgot all my problems and laughed a lot, we made a competition of who could eat more ice cream in a minute, and it was veeery funny.

In that moment he took me a picture, and every time that I look it I remember that problems can be solved with ice cream and with a good friend. I like it a lot because is the truth, when I saw that picture I remembered all the good moments of that day and how the problems just go away when you have good company.

I love my MP3

 

Today I´m going to talk about techonolgy things, the truth is that I don´t like a lot this stuff, but I have to admit that I love with all my heart my MP3, without it my life would be so boring …

My dad give me one three years ago and since then I use it almost every day, when I travel in the bus, when I go to the supermarket, when I can´t sleep etc.

I like it very much for two reasons; the first one is because when I have to wait a long time in the bus, or in the servipag, my MP3 helps me and entertain me with the music that I like so the time passes so fast, and the second one is because when you live your life listening your favorite music in different places is like you are living in a movie, and suddenly everything is more beautiful and magic (that entertain me too).

My life without my MP3 would be a disaster, because I would be boring all day, and I would look like a zombie in the bus, without encouragement in the mornings… a life so sad.

So, for all that reasons my MP3 is my favorite techonolgy stuff, it´s nearly as important as my keys and my wallet :)

My Favorite Superhero!

Hi! Today I´m going to talk about my favorite superhero, but it´s a little complicated to me because when I was a kid I didn´t read the typical superhero comics like Superman, Batman and Spiderman.  So, I´m going to write about three little girls who are also three little superheroes:  The Powerpuff Girls!! 

My favorite powepuff girl is Buttercup; she is a brave girl who always fights with a lot of enthusiasm against the evil monkey Mojo Jojo. She is the strongest of the three, and is the only one who can make fire with her hands and use x-ray vision.

I like it very much because she is always confident of herself, not like bubble who cries a lot, and also she is very funny and a good sister too.

I think that the program “The Powerpuff Girls” represents a lot of values like courage, strength, love, intelligence etc. So, it´s a good way to teaches important things to the children who see and identify with the program.

Who is a person/expert on your field that you admire?

The person that I admire in my career is Carlos Perez Soto, he is a Chilean physicist and he works with a lot of academic areas like philosophy, law and psychology. Now he is making classes at various universities as Arcis, Diego Portales, and in the Law School of the University of Chile.

This year I have to read one of his books: “La condición social de la Psicología” and I like it very much, because is not the typical book that shows you how great is the psychology area, by contrast, Carlos Perez is a very critical academic in the area, and when people can tell you the problems that your field have, you could think about things that were obvious to you before, and now you have the ability to change all that bad things and turn it in a better way.

I wish that all the universities that teach the psychology career could shows to the students the bad things of the field that nobody says to them, because is a very important point of view,  that makes me more interested in the career.

A little about me

Hi, welcome to my blog!

My name is Francisca and I study psychology in University of Chile, this is my second year and I really love it!

If I didn´t choose the psychologic career, I probably would study veterinary because I love everything about animals (I have three at home).

My objectives for this blog are to be able to express my personal opinion in English for different topics.