BIODATA

Catalina Vidal is a professor of Psychology at the Universidad de Barcelona, and she is graduated of Sociology at the Universidad de Chile. She has lived in Europe for a long time and currently she lives in Toulouse, France. In her early sociology career, she focus on society issues such as inequality and discrimination, but the last time her works have focused on mental health, especially in the effects that mental processes have in the feelings and the behaviors of people.

At present she is President os the "Help your MIND organization", this organization is composed of several psychologists, psychiatrists and sociologists, all of them helps people eith different therapies and they teach some classes related with different mental disorders. With this organization Catalina has published many articles in science journals wich show the importance of mental health, one of the was entitled "Mental Health: Disorders in your mind ¿How many do you know yourself?". 

On the other hand, Catalina is a talented Violin player. Together with her husband share the passion for the music. Sometimes they have shown their talent in front of more people. 

Post 10: English Language Challenges

Hello there!

The end of the semester is nearby and I never thought I would say that I am really sad :( because I have learnt so much things during the last time and it makes me so happy because I love learn others languages, so that´s why when I was in the school one of my favorites subjects was English, but the last year was not the same even it was very bored since the class was not of my liking, but this year even the blogs have been greats and very useful because now I think it is a good exercise to practice the language and to know new words, besides the first part of the class was so fantastic since it was the moment to be mistaken and the miss helped us, also I like this class specially when all of us participated in this because it was very interactive and we laughed so much, for that reason I think the english classes could be a llitle more interactive with more activities in groups, just that. I really hope to have classes with the same teacher the next semester because she is so nice, I understood very well the subject with her and I know to learn English and other languages is very important for my future in spite of now I don't use so much english except in special cases. 

Finally, thank you so much Miss for your happiness, because you always received us with a smile and nowadays it is very difficult to know someone like this and also, thank you for your aptitude every time we had questions.

See you!

Post 9: Changes to my Study Programme

Hello there, the ending of semester is close, so today I am going to write about my career and its disadvantages or things I think could improve. Firstly, I must to say I think the curriculum of my career, sociology, is very interesting but many times it is very exhausting, especially in first year because you come from other routine and the change is very sudden, mostly because in all subjects you must to read so much texts and them are really difficult so many sometimes you must read and read time after time the same page, for that reason I think the number of texts must reduce in some subjects like in history :( On the other hand, I think the transversal course must be renewed because it is really not very useful, its focus must be to help and  to guide to the students. Besides, I think the number of tests could be increase because them only are three or even two!!! and I think that it is not much considering that you must read approximately three hundred pages for one test!! are you kidding me?? it is too much. Also, the majority authors are European and men and it is very unfair for Latin Americans and women because of that I think it is important to add more authors because this way we would learn so much and varied. Despite the previous I hope learn enough to get a good work. 

Post 8: Your Opinion

Hello there, today I am going to write about different issues, specifically I will give you my opinion, first with respect to "Mechoneo", in second place about exotic pets and finally about the cloning.

I will begin saying Mechoneo is a Chilean tradition, it is make in universities and it is the welcome to the students of first year who start classes, in this celebration the old students throw different objects and even food, with the objective of get dirty to other new classmates and after them must ask for money to people in the street . At present this activity isn't make so many times, because it have generated many problems like the bullying or accidents. I think this activity was very dangerous and even very violent because many "games" was too abrupt and it is involve hits so I am so much thankful and happy because where I study don´t make the "traditional" Mechoneo.

In second place I think to have a pet is very difficult and you must have many time and patience because is like to have a child so its necessary many attention. This way I think to have an exotic pet is even more difficult, because those animals are very delicate, also them have a special diet and specific cares. On the other hand I think to have this type of pet is very expensive so I couldn't to have some. 

Finally I think the cloning is the worst, I never have been victim of this crime but I have many fear every time when I am in front of a cash machine or when I am buying something. I think that someday the security of credit and debit cards will be good but this is only a dream :(

Post 7: My Best Friend

Hello there!

Today I will write about friendship. Really I don´t have many friends and I  have never had, because I think it is very difficult to me to consider anyone as my friend, that way at present I can say that I have two good friends, I knew them at school but in different years. I have done many things with them so we have a lot of histories but now I see them each four months or four times a year, and it is very sad for me because in the past I saw them five days a week and we talked so much about our lives and I trusted them so they was my best friends, but currently I can´t say the same, because things have changed so much. However I can say my boyfriend is my true friend now, because I spend many a long time with him. I knew him in the university and coincidentally we live very nearby so now we are together, and it is very nice because sometimes it is necessary count on someone, especially in sad or stressful moments and that occur many times in my life, also I think is very important to be friend of the person you love, because like this relation is better and more strong.

In this way I am very happy with friends that I have, I have created ties very beautiful and I really hope it stay for all my life but I know it is so difficult and it is a effort of both persons. 

Post 6: Postgraduate Studies

Hello there!

Today I'm going to write about postgraduate studies. Currently I am in my second year at university, so i have enough time to think about it, however, I have some ideas base on what I have learned until now. In my first year I have a subject named "social psychology" and I really loved it, I think this subject was the most interesting at first year, because the teacher was very interactive with us and during his classes he taught us about different social experiments and curious conclusions about behavior of society. So I think I would like to study a postgraduate course about psychology, besides it´s a good complement for a sociologist and  I really have interest in mental process, perceptions and the behavior of people, because all of this would be useful even for myself, so I would like to learn things like mental tests, experiments or knowledge related to therapy of depression and mental disorders.

I would like a postgraduate course like this abroad, specifically in Spain or France, but the second option is more difficult to me since i don´t know french and I haven´t many opportunities to learned it, in spite of this, I prefer to study in other country because I have the felling about in other places teaching could be better. In addition I would like to study in-person class but in part time course because I think in that moment I should work for to obtain money to pay the course or for my maintenance. Otherwise I would VERY HAPPY if I studied a patisserie course, but that is part of other history. 

Post 5: My First Job

Hi! Really I have never had a permanent work, I have only worked with my dad firstly, because he work independently so sometimes he need some help, especially when he have work to do in home such as paint something, even once we had to plant many flowers in a playground from the school when he works, and it was actually very beautiful! However, two years ago I worked in a store from shopping mall during Christmas season, specifically for two weeks. The store called "Opaline" and there sell kid and baby clothes, and they are so cute!! All in there is very small and you fell babies smell as soon as you come into.In that work I had to wrap the purchases of customers. Especially in afternoon and evening the store and all the mall filled up of hopeless people mostly mothers and persons who searched many gifts. Once a mother bought about 5 giant bags fill up of clothes and shoes to his son. I worked nine hours each day and pay was very good, also I had four workmates and they was very nice with me. My last day of work was the day of Xmas, so the day was short and in fact it was a little sad, because my work had finished. I really hope return work in shopping mall, it is a great experience, TOTALLY RECOMMENDED.