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I’m not from here, I live in Curicó and so speak about my experience before to the Transantiago is impossible. In Curicó the system works, there’re a lot of buses and the waiting time is very short not like in Santiago. That’s why I think one of the worse things about it, is the time that takes to get somewhere. I think that one of the reasons that makes it slower than in Curicó isn’t just the traffic and the big number of cars, it’s also because the buses are too big and there’s many people in every bus and they go to different places.

I came to Santiago when the system was starting. In that time the change was very hard to me, even till now when I come back from vacations I forget the time it takes to get to the university or I believe that the bus will pass in a few minutes. In that time, I used to take the bus like more that an hour and wait for even more that thirty minutes, now it’s that much but still isn’t like in my city, where you almost don’t need to wait.

I think that the system is better than in the beginning, but not good yet because there’s people that waste more time that they used to before this system. So, I would regulate the frequency of the buses making it more reliable and I would try to decrease the waiting time.

The last term I studied about the areas of specialties of the psychology, like organizational psychology, communitary, forensic, clinical and educational. That term was very interesting and useful for making decisions about what my partners and I want to work in the future.
In those classes I had to make a lot of works, one for every class during all the term and although they took a long time was great the feeling that I was learning about theories, people and psychology in all its areas.

When I had free time I went to my house in Curicó to meet my family and friends and when I was in Santiago I went out with my boyfriend or my friends. We went to see a movie to the cinema or to their houses and in other times we went out for dancing and having a good time. The last term I didn’t work out, but now I feel that sports are missing in my life…so I took aerobics in the university.

The last term was easy for me, I missed my family very much specially my little niece. I missed her birthday and the birthdays of my mom and my dad because weren’t in the weekend. Also, I missed to be with my mother, go out with her in the evening and see movies while we were knitting at nights.

In this video of a conference, Ken Robinson speaks about creativity and education. He says that humans are creative for nature, that even all children are talented and that this talents are wasted for the society.
Something I find very interesting about what Ken says in the video is the importance of children aren't affraid to be wrong and that taking risks allows to be original. This capacity is lost as you grow up until you become an adult.
The education system doesn't give the same importance to mathematics and arts or dance. This is a huge problem because persons aren't just a brain, their have bodies too. But in some how people forget that and live just for their mind.
Robinson speaks of the purpose of education and that this makes -professionals for the market, how this system leaves the many ways of intelligence that people have and how we need a human ecology for a better future for our children.

I'm in third year of psychology in the University of Chile in this term and my favourite subject is Forensic Psychology. I like this subject because I think it’s interesting how explains criminology and victimology, I also like it because there’s differents theorical currents that explains all kinds of phenomenons related with this psychology’s area. For example, I like how they see the system’s responsibility in the generation of crime and how the offender is a victimizer but, at the same time, a victimized of the society’s systems.

This subject is given for Carolina Villagra, a psychologist specialized in this area. Actually, she did a master in Britain of forensic psychology a few years ago. Also, there’s others psychologists specialized in other areas of the forensic psychology.

I’ve learn a lot o things this term, not just of this subject. I’ve learn things that I believe will make me a better psychologist. I’ve had contact with more practical views that make me realize how much a psychologist can contribute to the comunnity and the society.