My experience learning English.

Certainly, learning a different language in these days is very important. Not only provides knowledge about other cultures, different ways of living and cosmovision, but also it makes you stand out among others, it gives you necessary tools to develop yourself in the modern world and enrich our own language.

The world is changing and, as students, we must adapt to it to be recognized as good professionals. One way to adapt to all the changes is English, because it allows us to introduce to the globalization of these days, and to make a good job it is necessary to be able to link the different parts of the globe.

For all of these reasons I wanted to talk about my own experience in the course.

When I started the semester I really doubted about how productive it was going to be learning English at university. Retake a new language forgotten for so many years is not easy, and every day I wondered how much I had really forgotten.

When the classes began, I realized that it was not as I imagined. The learning was more flexible, not so structured and it was very easy to have a great time.

Speaking in English in class is really helpful, specially if it’s about everyday topics and situations that makes you have an opinion about it. Definitely, expressing opinions is something that might help many times in life and we are not able to do it in most of the other subjects. Forming an opinion and also doing it in other language extends the way you see things and enrich the vocabulary, and it’s a good way for having all students spirited of participate.

About the impact of learning English in Veterinary Medicine, it happens to be a little different of the way we do things in the pilot. There is a special vocabulary for Veterinarians, which differs from the normal vocabulary and it is not easy. Diseases, body parts and instruments have to be learned apart. Fortunately, most of the papers that teachers send us to read are in English, and that is a very good way to enrich the vocabulary and getting used to speak in another level. That is ok, I think it’s a very good way to encourage English learning, understanding, reading and general culture.

In conclusion, having a subject related to open our minds to a changing world and that helps us to develop different opinions and critical mind it’s always useful. Definitely, we are not used to give our opinion about something, we just listen what teachers say. I really appreciate the chance that has been given to us and feeling that we really improved in writing and speaking is something motivator. The fact that constantly teachers gives us material in English allows us to be constantly training and practicing the language, which is something that, in the future, will make us better professionals.

Challenges in veterinary medicine

Our career is full of challenges related with things that are happening right now so is very important to identify them and see what we can do about it.
About technology, is very important this topic because most of the processes involved in veterinary medicine are related with technology. In most studies of new pathogen agents it is very necessary to have a good microscope, machines to grow bacterias and viruses and a lot more. This means that the career needs a lot of technology and depends on this. That's why in our area we have to spend a lot of money to do a better job.

In social matters I think a very important issue is how much the people cares about animals. It's very controversial because not everybody are willing to help animals and they really don't see how important this is. We are working with lives, but those are not human so maybe this is not so important for people. I can't believe that people wants to kill an animal but when someone is stealing, killing and raping that person remains free and alive. People's mind needs to change, and that is the only solution that I see. Unfortunately this is very hard to do.

About education, I think veterinarians need to have more practices. Theory is very necessary, but there is no time for practice. Sometimes I can feel that I'm not learning and that is a problem. Something is happening  with education and we need to fix this right now. Teachers know a lot of things but sometimes they don't know how to transmit all of their knowledge to students. A solution...maybe less investigation and more education. Teachers have to investigate but everytime is less the time for their students.

For this changes we need at least a lot of years..years of economic and social development that is not only related to our career but also to every other careers and people. Challenges are infinite but also necessary to learn and make things a little more interesting, so we have to trascend this challenges in search of new ones.