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Mi city
Antofagasta is a city which is located in the North of the Chile. This city is not a big city, its population is around 400.000 people, however is the most important city in the country. This is due to has most of the chilean's copper. For that reason, several multinational companies are working there. For example: BHP Billiton, Antofagasta Minerals, Barrick Gold.
Something very interesting about Antofagasta is the GNP (Gross National Product) is as higher as England and the highest in Chile. For that reason, Antofagasta is known as the "New Dubai". But this "New Dubay" has a big problem, whereas people who work in the minning's industry live quite good, people who don´t work in that industry have problems, because the city is really expensive and their salarias are not as higher as minning's salaries. Therefore there is a big gap between those classes of people.
Another problem that Antofagasta has, it is how spend free time. How it is a city in the middle of nothing, it's quite difficult travel to other cities. So people have to spend their money inside of the city. However the city doesn't have many things to do; it just has one mall, two cinemas, and one theater which bararly has a play. So when someone walks it's quite easy see very expensive cars, or huge houses or aparment which has their own lake.
The last problem that is getting worse is ilegal imigration. How it is a city that has many job offers, people from Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia have been comming to Antofagasta, even more, around 15% of the population are not chilean and about that percentage no everyone came to chile in a legal way, so those ilegal people can´t work and most of them start working as a drug dealer or prostitute.
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Teacher' salary
Some people think teacher should be paid according to how much their students learn, and I disagree with that suggestion because students and teaching conditions
are different between schools and nobody would want to work in schools which have “bad” students.
It ‘s well known that the students are different, some students learn faster than others, and also teaching conditions have a big influence in how much the students learn. For example: It’s more complicated do a good job when some teachers have 40 students in their classroom than when they have 20 students per classroom. In the first case, that teacher can be working very hard, but maybe just the half of his class is doing well, so 20 students are improving, but in average they don’t have a good score, so he would receive a bad salary. On the other hand, another teacher who has 20 students, and again half or his class is doing well, that means 10 students, but in average could be better than the first teacher. In conclusion, the second one would receive a better salary; despite the first teacher did a better job
In second place, nobody would want to work in some schools, because those schools do not have good students, so that kinds of school will not have enough teachers and they would have to mix classes and now they will have more students per room, and that situation is worse for those teachers. For example: in Chile exists a huge gap between private and public school, the statistics show private schools have better results than public school, so if we have that system for teacher’ salaries, every teacher would choose work in the private system.
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Education in Chile
While we were eating our Thankgiving's dinner, my canadian "family" asked me how is the education in Chile, specially before going to university.
In Chile, people start to go at school when they are five years old and they have to study for 12 years. After that, they have to take a national standar test and depending of their score, they can choose their career and university.
Chilean' system education are divided in two: public school, private school. Public school are generally very bad, teacher who work there, they aren't so good and also they cannot do much because there are at least 45 students per classroom. The atmosphere which surround that kinds of schools are not good either because most of the students have a difficult life and they don´t want to study, they attend at school because they must do it not because they want to learn or improve their life.
On the other hand, private school are really good, of course people have to pay and actually some private school are as expensive as universities. Those schools have good teacher because they offer better conditions in salary and for teaching. Private schools usually have no more than 30 students who want to go to schools because they want to apply to universities.
Chile has a huge gap between both kinds of school and for that reason, parents have to think carefully what school is better for their children and most of them will try to afford a private school.
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Shock Cultural
I have been living in Chile since I was born and this is my first experience living abroad. Actually, I had been to United States once, but It was just for vacation, so I didn´t have enought time to realize what the differecen were between USA and Chile.
In these 3 months in Toronto I can notice some differences between both countries, especifically in people's behaviour. For example in Chile, people always try to avoid paying fees on the bus or subway. People try to get in on the bus for the back door or hidding between people. In Toronto, is totally different. They always pay, it doesn´t matter if something happen, for example: one day when I was going to my language school, one booth wich we use to pay the fee, it wans´t work, so if we use it, we could get in without pay. For my surprise, people were using it! but they were leaving money on the booth. In Chile we would need a guard who look the place beacuse everyone would use but without leaving it.
Another big difference is recycling. In my country we don´t care about it. We use the same basket for all kinds of garbages, but here they use three different basket. In my first month, everytime that I needed to throw something, I had to think about what baskets were for my garbages, and sometimes it was difficult... but now, I have been living here since July, so I am almost expert.
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Studying English
Since 2013, I was putting money away because I wanted to have a big travel for Europe. At that time I hadn´t made much money because I was just a university student. But This summer (January and February in Chile) eveything changed. While I was doing my internship in a Canadian company, one of its manager told me if I wanted to work there I should improve my English. For that reason I changed my mind and I decided to study English in foreing country. Now I'm in Toronto , Canada, since 3 months ago and I still have 2 more months here before I go back to Chile
My experience has been great! I have realized how my english is getting better, specially speaking and listening. For example, I can watch a movie or read a book without problems and that make my happy. However, my writing skills hasn´t improve as fast as the other skills and for that reason I decided write in this website.
Beside to studying, I have met people from around the world, people who I never though I would meet. At first was a little complicated because their culture is totally different as my culture but now it's great.
If I have time tomorrow, I will write about the differences that I have found here.
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Difference in Chile
One important difference it can find in Chile is the childhood. Until the late 90s, children always play on the street or in a square or just practice sport. For every birthday or Chirtmas, they asked bycicle, balls or anything that they could play with friends. Those children had a strong connection with the nature and they enjoyed it. A good resource used for parents when they did something bad, their parents punished them and they could not go to play and they had to be at home and that was the worst thing that those children could live.
On the other hand, "modern" children do not like to play outside, they enjoy being at home and playing video games or watching TV. Bycicles and balls have been replaced for computers, PS3 and other kinds of electronic devices. The first bycicle which usually was received when someone is 3 years old, now it was replaced for the first computer. A difference the 90s' children, the worst punishment that this kids can suffer is can not use electronic devices and they have to play outside.
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