Thursday, April 29, 2021

POST 2 - Why did you choose this career/study programme?

Hello again class!

This is our second post. This time, you will have to write about your dreamed work related to your career or studies. Please include the following topics:

- your dream job(s) when you were a child.

- other career options that you had at the moment of applying to university.

- what made you decide for your current career in the end.

- your experience at university until now.

- the kind of job you would like to have in the future.


Some recommendations for the post:

Number of words: 120 to 150. Font: Arial, Calibri. Size 12 – 14.
Make comments on three of your classmates’ posts plus a comment on your teacher's post as well (you have 36 hours to do so).


As an English pedagogy undergraduate student, I wanted to work on something related to my field. I dreamed all year long to get a position at a travel agency guiding tourists throughout Valparaiso hills’. In the same way, I also wished to get a job at the Pacific Terminal dock, where cruiser ships stopped by with hundreds of travellers. I tried year after year, but I couldn’t make it. On my final year at university, I end up translating some emails for a small company. However, I always had the chance to teach people around me.  I chose pedagogy because I enjoy seeing learners learning. I didn’t try any other career as I didn’t aim to do anything else in my life.


 

My experience at university was good. I learned a lot of new things and met many interesting professors and classmates. Time to time a have contact with some of my former friends and have a meeting all together!
In the future I would love teaching some Chilean Spanish to foreigners and preparing some learning materials for people interested in the way we use the language hereabouts. 
 

17 comments:

  1. I´m happy that your experience at university was good. But I have a question: Was that before the pandemic?

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  2. I like that the image of a Chilean is someone with a "chuica"

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  3. I felt a little sad reading that you couldn't work in your dream job, but i am happy that you are a professor, regards.

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  4. Maybe it's not too late to work at the travel agency!

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  5. I´m glad that you became a teacher, despites all the odds you´ve been through.

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  6. I think you would be a great teacher of Chilean Spanish. If that is your future job, you’ll help many people from different countries to feel more comfortable speaking Spanish in Chile.

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  7. I'm glad that you ended up being a teacher, Do you like your current job?

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  8. I'm glad that you became a teacher after all. Teaching is important and the feeling of seeing how people are learnig is great. You would be a excellent teacher of Chilean Spanish.

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  9. Nice history! Have you at least been able to meet travelers? Or have you traveled and been one?

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  10. I really enjoy your blog! What´s the thing you like the most about Valparaiso?

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  11. I think is amazing that you choosed pedagogy. My both parent are teachers so i know it is a work that implies a lot of dedication, but also implies a lot of passion. And i can see you are really passionate about it, thats very cool!

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  12. Hi! I think teach chilean spanish to foreigners is very interesting because chileans use many "chilenismos"

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  13. Hi your blog was really interesting! I'm glad that you choosed pedagogy, It was so important to read about your vocation as a teacher. I hope that one day you will achieve your goal of teaching Chilean Spanish to foreigners!

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  14. I've heard that Chilean Spanish is difficult for native English speakers to understand, so trying to teach it seems like a good challenge.

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  15. So you tried to work on your future field of work at the same time you were learning? Respect for that.

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  16. I think you would be a good teacher of chilean spanish, it has to be funny to explain our language

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  17. Hi professor, I wonder, are you still translating for the small company?

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