Learning English

 Learning english in pandemic wasn't that bad as it could seems. In my expirience the tools that internet offers to you are really useful to learn at your own rythm. The use of this blog for example, it's a good exercise to practice the writing in a freer way, and having a timeframe to do it it's really comfortable to me, because I can arrange my schedule to do it when I can, and also I'm not a really fast person so I need time to do some kind of things. 

 Probably the bad side of learning english in pandemic are the zoom classes, I belive that the classroom it's an fundamental part of the learning process, because of the direct contact with the teacher and other students, so the expirience of the class it's more significant, an important part of the university it's the contact with other people, I think it's there where the knowledge it's shared and learned. 

 In line with that, I think that the most difficult part for me it's speaking in english, mostly because it's hard to do it in an online space with people you don't know at all, maybe because i'm kind of shy and trying to speak to new people gives me a little anxiety. Probably in a face to face situation it could be easier, for me at least, speak and establish a conversation in english with other people. 

Now in my daily life I try to watch series or movies in english without subtitles, and I watch a lot of english speaker youtubers of the topics that i'm intrested, like music or movies. Also I read some blogs and subreddits in english without major problem.   

Changes in my study programme

 In general I think that the programme of Art history and theory that I'm studying it's really well designed. The courses are related to each other so the diferent contents are approached from diferent perspectives and areas of knowledge. The study programme is designed in a chronological way so the first years you see from ancient art to the rennaisance and baroque art, and then modern and contemporary art. I think this is a great way to learn how the occidental art got to where we are right now. 

Maybe a change that could be made to that it´s incorporate oriental art history, because the programme it´s onl focussed in occidental and latinamerican art, but there's a lot that we are not learning at all about, the japanese or chinese art tradition, the art of the middle east cultures, for example, and I think it could be intresting to compare the occidental tradition with what happened in other geographic contexts. 

In therms of the teachers I think we have really good ones, people who knows a lot about what they are teaching, but not every one have a pedagogical study, so I think it should be mandatory that every teacher should have some instruction in education techinques and methodoligies. This should be an stadart for all the university, so we have not just erudites making classes, but teachers who know how to teach. 

About the faculty facilities there's a lot of things that should be improve, in my carreer we don't need a lot of infrastruchture, because we are a mostly theorical carreer, but we need more study spaces, and computers. Also the classrooms need more modern projectors and computers so the teachers can show better images in their classes. I think that's in general what I would change in my study programme. 

 

80 years to the future

It's a weird time to be alive, there's a pandemic that it's far to be controlled, the digitalization of the culture, an economy that permeates every aspect of human life, and a climate crisis that threat the way we live in this world. That kind of things that are happening right now makes me curious about the future, are we (as humans) able to overcome this situation? or we are just slowing down something inevitable? 

Those are the kind of questions I try to avoid when I go to sleep, but I also think it's intresting to think about the future, and time travel it's one of mine favorite themes in science fiction. So if I had to think in traveling to the future i'd probably travel 80 years into the future. 

I think 80 years it's enough time to see how the world had change, and in which way, so I want to see if we get to mars, if that was a good idea, if there's still enough water to everyone or no, how we face the climate change and the techonological advances.   

I wouldn't stay too much, enough to see like how everything is going, maybe look for some sports results for betting when I came back to the present, but I also want to keep some surprise in the future. Maybe the most important thing is to watch if we could do something now to change that future, in a good way, I think that our actual lifestyle is focused in the present and take a look in the future that we are building could be a good way to become aware of what we are doing wrong.