English Language Challenges

The English laboratories here at university I think that was useful at least for me. It helped me to improve my orthography and get used to write a lot in English. 

Making all these blogs was sometimes fun, sometimes bored actually, because the topic wasn't always something interesting for me. 

Despite that, I liked to share a bit of my life, my family, the things I like to do and the things I've done. Though, I don't think I will keep making more posts, because I'm not that kind of person who likes to write his/her day everyday. And I'm not so creative so probably I won't write more than three lines of my day :(

I definitely have to expand my English vocabulary, and improve the fluency because sometimes I get lost in my ideas and stop talking, I don't want this to happen in a future, talking with foreign people.

So if I want to really leave these problems behind, I will have to probably watch TV series in English, read English texts frequently, hear people talking in English in different accents to develop my hearing, etc.

In my house I speak a lot in English with my brother, probably every single day ! He went to New Zealand few years ago, and I wanted to take advantage from that. So when we want to say something, ask something or anything, we usually do it in English. It maybe sounds weird but we got used to it and it helps us a lot. I can say that thanks to him, my English has improved considerably and I can speak a decently English.

Changes to my study programme

It's just my first year, so it's difficult to me to think of changes already. Anyways, Pharmacy is definitely a complex career. Sometimes I feel like I have no time to do other stuff but study, probably because of my schedule.

Maybe a change that can be made is to be more specific, from the teachers, which days we have evaluations. Sometimes they just say like "we're probably going to have an evaluation this week" and we can't be sure when until the day before or a few days before. This is not frequent, but it has happened.

Something that I found really useful is the U-cursos platform. Teachers send information through it and maintain us informed, we can send homework and contact every teacher.
I think that the length of most of the classes it is appropriate. Sometimes teachers end their classes earlier so we can have more time to study or even relax.

The use of technology is something important in this career, and I think that we are going to take advantage of it the next years. So far we are working with excel. A very efficient tool, but I feel like we have to learn how to use it by our own. The laboratories where we use excel, demand a lot if you consider yourself bad at computer stuff (like me) and sadly every laboratory class has an evaluation so it detrimental me sometimes...

Another change is the A1 and A2 schedule. People who live far away from the faculty can be affected. Also can be dangerous because in winter it is dark already at 6:30p.m. So it would be great if teachers can consider making the A1 and A2 earlier.