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In this section, you will share your texts about "My life, the world and the future", where you will have to express your wishes, regrets, expectations and resolutions using the criteria given.
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In this section, you will share your texts about "My life, the world and the future", where you will have to express your wishes, regrets, expectations and resolutions using the criteria given.
Remember I'll be reading your texts. I'll also share the link with your friends from other classes so they can read your excellent texts about these 3 important aspects of ourselves.
Enjoy and leave your texts in the comments with your name. 👍👍
Still waiting to read your masterpieces!!
ReplyDeleteMs. Patty
It is difficult to talk about life, the world and the future in this context (global and national). First, in the month of October last year we observed a historical social revolt, where high school students called on the rest of Chileans to demonstrate about the injustices that have existed for decades.
ReplyDeleteCurrently (with the revolt slowed), we are suffering an unexpected pandemic worldwide with a highly contagious and in some cases even deadly virus. It's difficult for me to think about the future, considering what term the future is now. Is it tomorrow, a month, a year?I wish this was a dream, so that I could see all the people I miss and receive a big hug from them.
I regret not having enjoyed more that last recess with my friends or that last time I saw my grandparents, since now I don't know when I will be able to see them again.
If I think about what I want to be when I grow up or what career I will apply for, that is more than clear to me. But I can't focus on myself under these conditions. I wish I could, honestly.
For now, the only future I can think of is one in which the quarantine has ended, where I can see all my loved ones, I can ride a bike a lot and walk quietly down the street without risking someone else's life.
Guadalupe Sepúlveda
Very good work, Lupe. However, I miss your resolutions.
DeleteThe world hasn’t been passing through easy moments. Nowadays, an unexpected pandemic has come to question every single aspect of our lives that we thought we had dominated as a society. Probably a great part of our plans for this year were drastically replaced by the overwhelming reality we are facing today. Many aspects of our daily life may be changed forever. The way we consume, our hygiene habits and even our way to interact with people may not be the same ever again. Tomorrow we may be facing a totally different world, so it might be difficult to make expectations of what our life is going to be in such a drastic time of changes.
ReplyDeleteI don’t have very clear resolutions of what I would like to be, and I think that saying that I’m determined about my priorities would be a gigantic lie. I hope humanity overcomes this crisis as it has done it many times in history, and then, when things get more settled, I could think about a profession that would make me learn constantly and help people. But I certainly do have some desires about how I would like the world to be.
I wish that in the future society would become more tolerant, with people respecting each other no matter the differences between them. I would also like people to be more conscious about the others, and not to be just thinking about themselves permanently.
A world dominated by technology, where human interaction is close to zero, is not a place where I’d like to live. Concerning to the regrets, fortunately, I have no major regrets yet, and I think every single decisión I have taken has contributed to me in a certain way.
As i mentioned, I think is very hard to talk about resolutions in a time where changes are being drastic. This pandemic has come to show us how fragile we are as humanity, and how our lives can be permanently modified by some totally unexpected event.
Benjamín Solís 4ºM
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DeleteExcellent essay, Benjamín. Very well-developed and deep points!
DeleteGreat Oreo structure!!
decision (be careful with stress given automatically) / IT is hard
Given the current situation that we're going through as a society, I have been thinking and having doubts about what will happen in the future and how is going to affect my own life in the next few years. But even though it can be hard to think about these kind of things these days, I still have some wishes, resolutions, expectations and even regrets.
ReplyDeleteWhat I wish for the most right now is for the people I love to be healthy. It's been hard to stop seeing both of my grandmothers due to the quarantine and social isolation. But I know they will be fine and after all of this ends, I will be able to spend a lot of time with them. So right now I regret not visiting them more often the days before the virus started. Even thought this year didn't started the best way, I wish to make the best out of it, to start a lot of fun projects and to balance my school life with what I actually like to do. My future seems a little confusing because no one actually knows what will happen now and how the current situation will change a lot of things, but besides that, I wish I could study medicine and become a really good Doctor so I can help people in hard situations like the one we're living right now. I don't really like to talk about myself when there are people dying outside due to a virus that we can't control yet, but I think it is important to not stop caring about ourselves as long as we care for the rest. So I wish I'll always remember that, and never stop taking care of myself, especially in stressful situations like this one.
Caterina Silva
Very good writing, Cate. But you had to use the Oreo structure!
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how IT is going to... / thIS kind / even though
didn´t start / not to stop / I wish I would always...
I think my life, the world and the future are things that have changed a lot in the last year. We have seen the world change a lot in the last few years. We have seen how the effort to “control” the climate change has changed our daily life. This will affect also our near and long term future because we will be obligated to make changes in our life.
ReplyDeleteLately the world population has been suffering a pandemic called coronavirus this is affecting us on a enormous level because we have to stay at home so it wont spread as quickly as it could and to try to stop it. This pandemic will change the way we interact with people in the future, but also and hopefully ours and the world’s health system.
All the things I have mentioned will change my life forever because a lot of plans I had changed and ideas I had for my future have also been affected. For the near future I really hope everyone is safe and healthy. For my long-term future I really hope I can work in the health system. I wish I get to study medicine so I can help people in situations like this and in “normal” situations
Amanda Grau 4MA
Great opinion essay, Amanda.
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I think that I’m living a fairly simple life (ignoring all that Coronavirus thing). Although, as everyone, I have problems and things to be worried about, none of them have got me to the point of being terribly worried all the time or having no sleep. The only thing that is making me nervous is that in the near future I will leave school and start my professional and adult life. I still don’t really know what I want to be when I grow up, but the deadline is getting near, so I’m starting to feel the pressure to have a more defined objective for my life.
ReplyDeleteAnd to these worries I can add that we actually don’t know what the future will be like, and I’m not talking about how the world will be in 50 years, I’m thinking about the year 2025. To think about what our world will be like in the near and distant future is not frightening, but just a little scary, and at the same time exiting, because there are endless possibilities: what will happen, what people will do (good and bad things), where will humanity get to. And thinking about that is also an exercise of humility, because it’s a reminder of how small we are in comparison the gigantic and complex reality of humanity as a whole.
Thinking about my life and what I think of the future is complicated, because it’s hard for me to imagine things in such a big scale, and while going through this essay to find any grammar mistakes I realized that I contradicted myself, that many things I said didn’t have an actual meaning in the essay as a whole, but after panicking a little I started to realize that it happened because the present is also complicated and full of contradictions: a few people eat whatever they want while many people are starving, we spend more money trying to solve men’s hair lose than some important medical issues, and even if we don’t want it the future will be like that. The future will not be a paradise, and we will not have every technology we have been promised, and there will be many things we don’t like.
I am overall optimistic about what the future will be like, and even though I am nervous about it, I believe that whatever come will be awesome, even beyond our imagination, and so I kind of know that it doesn’t matter what I choose, it will be just a preparation for the wonders yet undreamed of that the future holds for us.
Martín Guzmán 4ºMA
Great essay!!!
DeleteI understand your worries, Martín. This environment leads to even more worries about the future.
exCiting / IT is also .... / compared TO / whatever comeS
There are many hypothesis about how this started. We have the theory about the trade
ReplyDeletewar between China and The United States, we have the bat theory, the biological
weapon testing theory but we really don’t know the beginning. Italy is submerged in a
complete catastrophe, Spain is falling apart and now the Corona virus is infecting Latin
America. In Chile we are fighting (in my opinion) with two main enemies. First, the
world pandemic that is Covid-19. But no less important, our inoperative government
and especially our ministry of health. We have public hospitals without the necessary
medical supplies to help victims with this illness. We aren’t in a total quarantine and all
the jobs that can’t be done on a virtual way are exposing workers to danger of getting
sick. A lot of people need the money to feed their family, pay their bills and
fundamentally subsist. These people are exposed because of the selfish managing
choices that our government is making. The authorities are not easing the bills or their
due dates, so people can’t stay inside their homes keeping themselves safe. This is
terribly unfair, and all that we can do to help is stay inside our houses. I feel very
powerless. I see mothers in prison pleading for their children not be taken to the
Sename. I see immigrants in the street and I think, what will happen to them if they
catch the Corona virus? Their situations are precarious and there is not much ordinary
citizens can do about it. I give supplies to hospitals, I constantly keep myself updated
on the news, I keep myself informed, but I feel powerless. Absolutley powerless. It’s
devastating seeing how a group of people tonly think about their wallets, even if there
are people dying on the street. We can clearly see how selfish and unfair our
government is.- Javiera Ruiz 4to MEDIO B
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ReplyDeleteExcellent piece of writing, but it doesn´t follow the essay structure.
DeleteLately my life has been really something that I never thought it would be. The lasts months, almost a year, I have been discovering things about myself that I never would have dream I had in me of and now the world is in a state that I had never thought of. That has made me question a lot of things regarding my future and where I want to be in the next 10, 20, 30 years of my life. As of right now I’m trying to stay in the present and focus on the things that I have in front of me, I know that someday I will have to face hard decisions, for example the big question that everybody is asking me, what career I am going to study but I’m trying not to force me to answer the important things now that I know is not what I need right now, first I need to solve things that I’ve been avoiding for several years before I can move on to the next step. And I don´t get sad or upset about it because I know the time will come, even if it takes me 5 more years than my classmates, I am sure that doing things at my own rhythm will bring me more benefits and eventually is going to lead me to where I can be happy doing what I love.
ReplyDeleteI am scared of the future and that’s a fact but I know that I’ll be fine, that I’ll still be surrounded by people that love me no matter what and that makes me calm and even a bit excited. I can't wait to figure out what I want to do next, I want to do great things, help people, live a memorable life but as I said, everything has its moment.
Tania Aguilera
4°MA
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ReplyDeleteVery good writing, but you didn´t follow the essay structure.
Deletelast / would have dreamt / as of right? / my own PACE
Its uncertain to look into the future when you are finishing school. Personally speaking, I regret not doing a lot of stuff because of fear, but im getting better at it. I want to keep learning and dis- learning things everyday. Im young, so of course I have ideas, doubts,fear, etc. At the same time, I know Im privileged, because I had been given all the tools and support to decide what to do with my life. But even knowing that , there is a lot of preassure and I need to take it slow.
ReplyDeleteAlso being Chilean (we are living and making historical change) makes me think and expect things beyond my own self. I cant wait to see what will happen to me, to my country, and especially where and how to put myself in all of these. To have hopes for my individual an collective future. I think that to make community its the key to have a full life and I aspire to that.
And last but not least: global pandemic situation. So mixing all of these aspects just reassures me how little to nothing we know about tomorrow. Thats scary but exciting when I remember the people that surround me, existing with me. My close circle that secures me. So I try to live day by day.
Emilia C
4to B
Excellent!
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Don´t forget the use of apostrophes when you abbreviate I´m
My life has been through a lot in the past few months. Starting with the social mobilizations in October until today, with the coronovirus. It all started on Friday 18th October. When the society, furious, reveals itself at the system and all the injustices that were happening to it. Since that day everything was focused on that situation. The classes were suspended for while and I went to a differents movilizations to express myself. But one day everything changed to me. After being out of home I was returning to it. I was on bike and I was hurry because of the curfew. Everything were fine when suddenly a car hit me and I flew away. I stood up to get the bike when I felt that the fall had broken my arm. I wish I had seen that car. Luckily the guy who hit me helped me and carried me to the closest clinic. At that time I just wanted to pass out to don’t feel the pain. A few days later I was anesthetized in a bed, ready for the opperation of my arm. Thankfully everything went great and nowadays it’s like nothing had happened.
ReplyDeleteReturning back, meanwhile I was in recovery, the society was fighting everyday against the repression of the police. During that time my head was crazy and with a lot of thoughts that I couldn’t control.
The time went by and nowadays everything and everyone is crazy because of the Coronavirus. There are online classes and a call to stay at home in quarantine. The virus is shaking the world very hard. It’s like in any moment everything is could explode. I wish this wasn’t happening. The future, my future is uncertain. Anything can happen. It’s scary. I hope this will pass and I can continue my life living with my loved ones with no difficulties.
Ignacio Navia 4to A
My life has been very calm comparing what it is happening to the world. For me it feels like the everything just exploded in humanity's noses in the past few months (year). On one side we have had the Amazon and Australian fires were a lot of people lost their houses and even their lives, nature was destroyed putting in danger a lot of species and one of the most important green areas that gave clean air to the earth was destroyed. Now the Corana virus arrived and people are dying. It feel like nature gave us sings but we didn´t hear so now its trying to get rid of us.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, Chile had a historical social revolt the last October , thanks that the government it´s promising a lot of social changes for the future, maybe even a new constitution. I am glad that i´m able to vote on October of this year, i´m just hopping the best for my country and that we can finally have social justice.
I feel like the world it´s a very uncertain place right now, I just don´t know what it is going to happen next, I don´t know what to expect for the future. Things are changing, and I think they are changing fast, specially if we are talking about global warming, studies are showing the worst end soon if we as humanity continue like this.
I dream about the future, I dream nice things about the future, it is what I was taught to do right? I go to school to ensure my future, I study to ensure my future, I have been my whole life preparing for a future that suddenly now feels so uncertain. I am just waiting here, to see what it´s happening next.
Magdalena Ochoa
Great essay!
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it feels
In the last few months my life has changed a lot, it's difficult to think about my futur when things around me are changing so fast and I don´t know what will happend next. I'm not sure if I will do the PSU test this year or not, or if even I will finish the school this year. I've always thought that we will be the generation that will live through the end of the world, I think the climate crisis is unstoppable and we will see more an more serious consequences, but this new health crisis was very unexpected.
ReplyDeleteWhen all this finish, if it finish I would like to study history in the university, I've always like that topic and in the futur I would like to teach about it. I would like to have children, but the insecurity of our future make me doubt it. How can I bring children to a world that I don't know if will exist for so much? That's why if I become a father it would be by adoption, in that way I can help someone, without contributing to our end.
Maybe this situation is making me more pessimistic and hopeless, but it´s hard to think that our future will be what we always dream of. This days I can only think in present, day by day. All the things I've once dreamt sounds stupid, while there are people dying and fighting for the survival of our species.
Romano Kottow
Hope you have a great future, Romano! Don´t give up!
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ReplyDeleteAlthough I haven’t done anything out of the ordinary this last time, I think I´ve gained a little bit more perspective on the times that we as a generation are living in. I guess it may be related to the fact that none of us had lived through a worldwide pandemic before, and also with the raw history that we took part in last year, with the social uprising of october.
ReplyDeleteAt times, it doesn’t feel that way, but I think that big things will happen in the world during our lifetime, and it may be related with us, hell, of course it will be related with us. We’re the future after all, right? I always looked back at history thinking that all the “cool” and important stuff had already happened before our time, but it´s easy to forget that behind every thing that has ever happened there were people, just like us, making those things happen. On that note, I think that it´s always important to be aware of the past, but at the same time, it may be a good thing that we’re a little far from it. It gives us a fresh perspective on the latest topics that affect us and others, and allows us to build on top of the rotten structures that have been the foundations of the world we live in.
Even if someone isn’t into politics that much, that person should know that every little thing he does is a political statement, and nobody can escape that. The way that we overcome this global sanitary crisis will be completely political, and the way we work through our internal problems will also be a political statement, to every individual’s level. My point is, now more tan ever, we should be aware of what is happening, and to take responsability of our future and the world’s. I somewhat regret not getting into this kind of things earlier in my life, but better late than never.
Diego Salazar.
We're in quarantine. This implies we have to stay at home until the government allows us to. The future may seem uncertain with this pandemic, but it may be fun to make expectations about the future.
ReplyDeleteIn the short term, I expect for the pandemic to calm down in around two months, and then I may go outside again. I wish I would've exercised more before quarantine. And I wish I don´t have to wait as much. I have been eating a little bit too much for not exercising all day. This government has been really inefficient at solving any problem. I think we may know it from the news since October. In the long term, I hope I get to do the test for entering to college, and get a score good enough for what I need. Again, this is unlikely because the government is inefficient.
Writing about the future was more worrying than entertaining.
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ReplyDeleteHi miss, I have been trying to upload my essay for a while now, but I think it hasn't worked, hope it does now.
ReplyDeleteI have never been a person who thinks that much about the future. Of course, I have resolutions, things that I know I want to do, but in general, I just plan my life within a year, not more. Fortunately, the environmental crisis worldwide, the social revolts in Chile and the actual pandemic haven't changed my future vision, and I have to thank that to my positive and hopeful mind. My career options are still Law and Spanish, I still want to have kids (through adoption) when I grow older and I still imagine myself living here in Santiago, in Chile. I know many people have been questioning themselves, their choices and their position in the world a lot, but I have hope that we are growing to create a better and more armonious place for everyone, not only for us human beings. I believe that through building and collaborating, we can achieve much more than what we think.
Personally I have never known what was going to happen next in my life and I still don t really know. Most part of the time it didn t bother me at all because I m used to it, but there were times it made me feel very insecure and where I wanted to have a plan. Currently, thoughts about the future do cross my mind but they don t stay long, the near future is what I care the most. But with everything that s happening now, we can t even be sure of what s going to happen tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI think we first started feeling this uncertainty last year in october when the revolution began, and of course we ve always had the doubt about when the dangerous effects of climate change would start to affect us in a more visible way. But today we are in a place we weren t prepared for.
I remember thinking, when I was little, about climate change or "extreme situations" as very distant events. And now we have reached a dangerous point in global warming and pollution and we are living an enormous pandemic... How did we get here? I wish that instead of thinking that terrible things happen only in the future, we would do something about them so they don t necessarily have to happen.
This pandemic has shown us the importance of caring about the present, actually doing things for the future to be better and it has also reminded us that we are not alone on this planet. Lack of empathy and patience are two things we cannot allow ourselves anymore. I hope we learn from this one. We can t worry about the future if there is no present.
I guess it’s kind of hard thinking about the future as of now, considering everything that’s happening. Plans and lives of people have encountered an abrupt stop with the pandemic that no one really saw coming and there’s nothing much we can do besides wait in our houses. But being uncertain of what’s coming is something that as a country we’ve being experiencing since last October, which makes this whole experience a little bit more familiar.
ReplyDeleteMy life has been so plain in the last year compared with previous ones. I’ve come to terms with many things and finally admitted stuff that I had not wanted to see, and in a way, I rather see life without rose colored glasses. I can’t say much about my own future because I don’t think about it that much, I prefer kicking myself for the things I wish I hadn’t done in the past and the person I could be if I had done none of them. I know I should be thinking about things such as what I want to study, what do I want to do with my life, but as I recently started doing, I’m working and leaving those worries to the future me. I don’t like setting goals or having expectations, because when I don’t reach them I feel disappointed about myself, so what I do is just work on whatever might lead me to that goal that I rather not name. I set my mind on working and not thinking about a final outcome, if that makes any sense.
Hopefully my message won’t come across as something pessimistic, and more as—I said earlier—uncertain. We’re going through weird times, an so I am, and it seems like some of the things we do seem useless, but I guess there’s some beauty in futility.