Bicentennial in Chile

The bicentennial in Chile was on September 18, 2010.
This year, our country celebrated its 200 years of independence as a republic. This celebration was what most Chileans were looking for, but not all was pure joy, because this year Chile had two catastrophic events; first the big earthquake on February 27, 2010, and second on 5 august, 2010 when 33 miners were trapped in the depths of our earth. But, nothing prevented the Chileans enjoy such an important date in history.

The celebration lasted four days, from 17 to 20 September. The events included, on September 16, the opening Official Fonda in O'Higgins Park and the first presentation the light show in front of the Moneda Palace, call: “Pura Energia. Puro Chile”, (Pure energy, Pure Chile). This event attracted more than 60.000 people in the citizenship square.
On September, 17, the most important event was the raising of the largest Chilean flag ever, (that measured 27 meters long and 18 meters wide), call: “Gran Bandera Nacional” (big national flag), this ceremony began with the traditional interpretation of the theme: Mi Banderita Chilena (my flag Chile)

On September 18, there was the Ecumenical Te deum at the cathedral of Santiago.
The bicentennial offers a unique opportunity to be proud of the country and dream of the country to build for future generations. at 12:00 hours, choirs and orchestras of Chile sang the National Anthem in unison in parks in the country, an initiative in all Chileans were invited to participate with their Families and friends, to sing the anthem. Also, at 14:00 hours, from the sky dropped "messages from the air" contained in bookmarks with quotes from famous Chilean, stanzas of traditional songs and selections from works of prominent writers

Sunday 19 September, was performed of the grand military parade on the ellipse O`Higgins park.
Finally, on September 20 was developed Bicentennial Naval Review, with the parade of 250 ships and planes around the bay of Valparaiso.

The bicentennial offers a unique opportunity to be proud of the country and dream of the country to build for future generations

Chile now enters its third century of life with hope and optimism about their future, making this date a milestone in its history and a just cause for celebration throughout the country.

Myths and truth about the human brain

Hello everybody, in this blog I talk you about the “human brain”
Last week, Dr. Maldonado gave us a talk on the brain, myths and truths about the brain.
This talk was very interesting and entertaining, as we explained in great way different topics, different myths that revolve around the human brain

The human brain is the motor nervous system, is the organ that is responsible for the sense of thought, memory and body control. The human brain is a relatively small, weighing about 1.5 pounds and takes about 2 percent of body weight and can consume 20% of the energy consumed by an adult male.

One of the myths that talk was “The human brain is very different from other brain of other animals” on this issue, dr. sowed us photos of brains of different animals, including human brain, and saw that they were very similar in terms of shape, but that one of the big differences was the size, and No other species has come to have a brain as complex as the human being.

Other myths was: “We use 10% of our brain capacity”, and this is a big mistake, because the neuroscience findings now show that the brain is 100% active, what we do know is that every part of the brain has a specific function.

Well, these were two of the myths that most caught my attention during the talk, I hope you enjoyed it as I did with Dr. Maldonado.
See you soon!

The Stress

hello.... in this blog, I will talk about stress, a problem that maybe in our university life has been our trusted friend

The stress is the body's reaction to a change that requires a physical, mental or emotional adjustment or response.
Currently an emerging disease in the workplace, with special emphasis on the service sector, with the highest risk tasks in senior positions that require more demanding and dedication.

The most common signs of stress are:
Emotions: anxiety, irritability, fear, fluctuation mood.
Thoughts: excessive self-criticism, difficulty concentrating and making decisions, forgetfulness, worry for the future.
Behaviors: stuttering or other speech difficulties,crying, impulsiveness, giggling, increased drug use, increased or decreased appetite.
Physical changes: tight muscles, or cold hands sweating, headache, flu and infections, fatigue, shortness of breath or palpitations, tremors, dry mouth.

Here are situations that trigger stress and can be any stimulus, external or internal, either directly or indirectly, predisposes to destabilize the dynamic equilibrium of the body, these situations are called stressors, stimuli can be physical, chemical, auditory or somatic and sociocultural.

One of our most representative cases of stress, is what occurs during the college years are various circumstances that contirbuyen to develop stress such as: leaving home, having to travel many miles daily, take charge of your economy , share a flat or live alone while meeting academic responsibilities, classes and
personal relationships.

This is added the academic load, and the desire to want to comply with all lines going good way, which in many cases causes us fear failure, anxiety, fear of the future, among other feelings that can often be seen in our university life.

Well .. I hope they have concerned the information about stress, and this is of much help to go presentn detecting situations in our lives and if they are controlled will be very beneficial to our health ...
see you!

Coffee may protect against head and neck cancers

Hello classmates, in this post, I am going to talk you about the article about the coffee, and potential health benefits it can have: Coffee may protect against head and neck cancers (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jun/22/coffee-head-neck-cancers)

The study realized by Mia Hashibe de la Universidad de Utah, Salt Lake City, show that the people who consumed more than four cups of coffee a day, had a 39% lower risk of cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx combined, when compared with those who do not consume coffee.

These studies complement with news evidences of the benefits the caffeinated drinks. London scientists also found that the people that drink more of five cups of coffee or tea a day had a lower risk of a type of brain tumor.

Other studies also support you get benefits from drinking coffee, such as studies conducted by Harvard University in he last year, in which it was shown that men who drink coffee are 60% lower risk of developing aggressive prostate cancer, that the men who don’t drink coffee.

These results generate new perspectives for further investigations and thus understand the role of coffee in the prevention of head and neck cancer, since being studied by oral and pharyngeal cancer, provides some clues about a possible specific effect.
The studies realized by Hashibe, all display an association of caffeine with risk of cancer, which does not show the mechanisms of action or dose for that coffee is healthy.

The good thing about these studies is that based on large groups of initially healthy people in whom you see if the amount of coffee you drink affects their risk of cancer over time, and not as it was above where they made studies of people who drank coffee many years ago, in which only benefits were seen.

I hope this article has been interesting for you.
see you!

the difference in the health system in the world

Hello everybody

In the last class, we watched the film that Guillermo organized as an activity for us to see.

The film showed the reality of the health system of United States, the witch has 50 million citizens that do not have health coverage, and 250 million if they have this service, but will not know whether or not served, as showed the film, cases that were not addressed, even paying for their health.

The film contrasts the health system that has Canada, France, United Kingdom, in which the purpose was to have attention at all health, and that this was free, where all they could access.

The activity of Guillermo was very interesting because allowed us to know other realities, other health systems of other countries, so we can compare our health system to extract the most positive and compare it with our reality.

I hope that everyone liked the movie

Regards

LADDER 49

Hello everybody, in the post of today, I am going to talk about my favourite film.

My favourite movie is "ladder 49" Directed by Jay Russell, it shows the firemen in action, in special to Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix, principal actor) who is trapped inside a warehouse fire and his recollection of the events that got him to that point. Jack struggles to survive, while outside his friend and Fire Chief Mike Kennedy (John Travolta), struggles to live out his best friend.

The film received two nominations for Teen Choice Awards, and won the BMI Film Music Award.

This film is very important and special for me, because in many scenes I see reflected my labour as firewomen. And the actors reflect many qualities that firemen are such as the fellowship, sacrifice, loyalty, commitment with the people, and the most important the desire to help those most in need.

Also, this movie shows other aspect that is very important for a fireman, the firehouse life. The firemen show as your fire company and your mates become your second family.

I have seen this movie since that I am firewomen, because with my mates this film is the perfect panorama for a day in the company fire.

I recommend this film, because is a clear example of as is the life as a firemen, in which shows that the firemen may be just one step away from losing his life, but the fellowship and the inner strength are essential to overcome the danger.

My blogging experience.

Hello everybody, in this blog, I talk you about my blogging experience in the English class.

My blogging experience is very good, because with this exercises I increase my vocabulary, improve my writing, and learned as give my opinion about different topics, but all in English. And was an opportunity to know more to my classmates.

My first blog was very difficult, because I don´t have a good vocabulary and the English grammar is very complicate for my, but with the time, and with the practice of write a blog every week, the last blog was easier.

My favorite post was "topic free", because I could speak about my hobby, but the second "free topic" was the worst because I did not know that choice, was very difficult the election.

Also, with the blogging experience I could know more about my classmates and know their life, their hobbies, their expectative and the blog was a good space for change opinion with my classmates.

Before this exercises I had many problem to write in English, but now this has change, because is more easy for my write in English.

The benefits of this activity are many, such as develop good manner the writing, and increase the vocabulary, to correct errors and to share opinion or discuss topics with the classmates. But, the problem is that the time class to be too short to be able to revise and create new blogs.

I hope that all my blog have been interesting and funny. And I would like continue writing different blogs to improve my English writing.

See you!!!!!

The Winter

In this blog I talk you about the winter, because is the seasons of years that more I like!

The winter is my favorite season of the year, I do not like the sun, the hot; I prefer the cold. In this time, it rains a lot, feel cold; we must shelter us and take care of respiratory diseases

The winter begins June 21 in the south hemisphere and in the north hemisphere it begins September 21, with the winter solstice, and finish in the spring equinox, September 21 in the south hemisphere and in the north culminate March 21.

Winter is one of the four seasons of temperate zones. The word winter, comes from the Latin word HIBERNUM. This station is characterized by shorter days, longer nights and cooler temperatures.

I love enjoy a rain’s day in my home, in my bed, watch a good film with a coffee, and in a good company.

Other characteristic are that in this time can be realize special sport (winter sport) such as: Snowboarding, Ice biking, Skiing, Snowball fight, Ice climbing, Snowman building, Ice hockey, Ice sculpture, and many much.

But in the winter, some person do not have house, and the rain the cold are very difficult for they. For this reason the winter, is a season in which people suffers for meteorology condition. And this period has become in a time associated to multiples social problem. This part of the topic doesn’t like me, because not every people have to house where live.

I hope that you enjoy winter, and that does not become in a disagreeable season, and must be think that the winter has many options for that the cold, the rain don’t became in a boring time.

See you in class!

My life as Firewoman

Hello!!!
In this post I talk you about my life, I going to talk about my labour as FIREWOMAN.

From small, I’ve been in the firemen, when I was 11 years I entered to the juvenile brigade of firemen, and in this time only I learned to: how be firemen?
When I was 17 years, I swore as firewomen, on 07 January 2008, since this moment I started to go to fires, and participated more with my mates.

In the present I belong to the fourth fire company of San Antonio, I have two years and some months as firewoman, and my specialty is forest fires (but let to all fire that are called) and for this, that in the summer is when we have more call.

In this last time, I have been to many fires, home fires, accident, forestall fires, etc. In the last summer with my mates we went to many forestall fires, every day went to one. On one occasion, a fire lasted 10 days, was very tiring because we were all the day in the fire, and was 2500 hectares approximately.

Well, as a firewomen, not only assist to the fire, in the earthquake we worked since the first moment, helping to the community all the time, attending gas problem in the home, collapses, evacuating homes, informing people, and distributing water by one week all the day. Other activity that we make, is help in the floods, go out in support of other firefighters at a different city and many more.

In the firemen company we are many activities, such as: share everydays, but now I go only the weekend. In the Christmas we make a party for community children and they are happy climbing on the fire trucks with Santa Claus, and we visited children who are in the hospital for that date. Also, in my company we celebrated us anniversary with our family and celebrated the “mother day” for all woman that are important in our life.

I am very happy by this labour. I am happy, just when people tell me thanks you. I hope to continue to belong to this organization all my life and help in all that are necessary for save lives and property.

Education and Prevention is the First

The prevention is an important action for us as midwife, because the contact that we have with the person is very close. This prevention and education can be a level individual, family and community.

To level individual is important to educate for prevent future illness, for that the person have a living healthy and this can be achieve through counseling, instructional, promoting the self-care.

In the family, is important create healthy behaviors that are used for all members of the family.

And is important educate to the parents for that from small their children have the habits of prevention for their life. This prevention can be realize educate the main actor in the family, that in many cases is the mother, so that she who will promote, actions preventive in your home.

In the community the prevention can be through forming multidisciplinary teams that work sectorally, for can give the necessary resources, for create healthier environments and improving the environments where they live.
In this level of prevention can be through educational talks, doing projects that include all people as belonging to this community.

Can be detected the risk factors that present the community, and work in this, through campaigns that promote behavior favorable, influencing the different age groups, so all people may empower self-care on the group level, as a community.

The prevention us allow act before problems arise or become in lifestyles wrong. And us as future midwife have a work fundamental in the prevention in the woman, in the family through of women, and in the community, in the primary care, in the public health care clinic.

benefit or problem?? gender differences in my profession

Since always our career has been considered only for women, but there are men that have broken this ruler, and have dared to study this profession, even if they are judged.

Problem o benefit?, that a man study obstetrics can be a problem and/or benefit, because in the most of cases this men are questioned for their sexual orientation, and this topic must be very difficult for they.

Other problem is that some women are feel uncomfortable when is a man that attended, and this is only because the society is not accustom that in the actuality, profession that in old time were only for women, now also are for men.

The benefits are that the man can discovery his part more maternal, and he have other perspective with this topic, and in many cases the men are more delicate with the woman and this is a cause because the women prefer to attend for a man.

There other profession that is judged for the presence of the men this is nursing, and nutrition. But, obstetrics is more questioned that the other career, because this work with the women, and for this always are has thought that must are attended for women.

In the future must not exist the different of gender, because men and women midwife have the same qualities for develop this profession.

My future as a midwife

In my future as midwife, I want have specialty in public health, because I love share with the people in all its integrity, not only the part biologic; also its psychology and its social environment.

I would like to work in a public health care clinic, because I would like work with the people, and help in all their life. I want have projects with them, and educate them, all this for that they have a best quality of life.

And in this area, I will have a direct contact with the woman in all her life, and I be able to share with she, her process more important as woman, in the adolescence, during pregnancy, after and before the pregnancy, in the menopause, and in all her life.

I would like to continue with my studies, I want have some magister, but in the same topic, because the public health is an area very important in the actuality, and is necessary that I have the improvement for be able to give the attention of quality.

I hope comply all my dreams, and in the future I could say that this career was the best decision I could take in my life.

My future profession is wonderful!

hello!!!!

In this moment, I am going to talk about my decision to study obstetrics and why I think it is the right career for me.

Obstetrics and puericulture was my first option when I finish my studies at school, and when was in the school I decided to study this career, I attended two exhibitions about the "health professions", in this moment I said "this is my future" i want be midwife all my life, when I received the news that I had been selected for study obstetrics in the University of Chile, I was very happy, for I could study what I wanted and in the university that I wanted.

I chose study this career because is a profession that have much contact with the people, with the women, with the babies, and this is important to my, to grow as person in my life, because give me the possibility to help, and share with the woman the process more important of her life, the pregnancy and birth their children. I am happy of study obstetrics.

The subject that had an impact for my in the first year was "integration with professional performance I" in this subject I went to two hospital, and in one of this, I had share with a women postpartum and her baby, and this experiences was wonderful, and in that moment I though .... Chose the best profession!...

I love obstetrics, I love my future as midwife, and I hope that all my project as midwife can be comply.....

this is my future!

see you!

My favorite website

In the present, internet has become in the principal element development of comunication, and this allows us to have information of everything that happens in the world.

The website that I enjoying visiting about my career, is

www.colegiodematronasdechile.cl, this website is very important for my, because this have necessary information about my future profession.

The site of Chilean Midwives College is very interesting, this have many documents about with my carrer, such as AUGE and midwive, legal texts, midwive college history, professional development and training, topics about genre, and news related whit this profession such as investigation, news about the chilean health system, and news about work midwive.

Also, this website have a forum, in wich we can share our ideas whit other midwive, know their opinions about different topics, and know other experiences of this beautiful work.

I recommend this site because is very important know that happens whit our profession, news in time real , and advances in health research. and this is a good sites for to get involved everyday in our career.

don´t wait, visit it!

A life experience: the earthquake

The day of the earthquake, I was at home with my parents, when they were 3:34 am, I was sleeping, I woke up immediately and try to leave my room, but was complicated because the door was locked. heard like everything in my house fell while trying to leave and continued to tremble.
At this time, just hugged my mom, after the earthquake ended, my mother entered the house to see what conditions were and all were in the floor, the TV, the plates, the glass, all in the floor, then my father would gather with neighbors for to verify that conditions were .

I get a warning on that radio in my fire company, then I'm ready to come out in support of the people of my city, that night we went to help people trapped, to see potential collapses, and we come to some principles of fire gas leak, and the following days delivering water, because the weater returned five days after the earthquake about, and all the people needed this recourse, distributed from early until 1 or 3 am, this experience was very important to my life, because I felt the needs of the people, and was very rewarding to help and see a smile or only listen a thank you!

Welcome to my blog!

hello everyone!!!!....

My name is yasna cepeda, I'm from San Antonio, I'm 19.

In this moment I study obstetrics in university of chile, this carrer is very beautiful, and very interesting.

This blog is create to my class of english, and whit this blog I want to learn more of this languaje and share whit my classmate ideas of different subjects, and know their opinons.

I hope that all enjoy whit this space....
Welcome to my blog