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Some subjects that I really enjoyed at school were Philosophy and Psychology. The same teacher taught both of those subjects and they were practically the same, but in 11th grade the contents were just about psychology and then, in senior year, the contents were about philosophy. The teacher name was Igor. He was a nice teacher, very helpful and responsable. He always answered all our questions and on his classes he always rewarded us for participate. If you made questions or comments, he gave us extra points for the next test. I was a good student in this class, I was participating and making questions almost all the time. So, I had good grades in both years. I enjoyed a lot his classes because the subjects in matter were very interesting and one of my favorite topics at school. The other classes were boring for me because teachers only pronounced the matter, but not explained it well. In addition, Igor was very clever and systematic in his subject, so me and my classmates were able to understand and learn properly the contents. Furthermore, the main reason of why I enjoyed everything of his classes, was that the contents of the subject really kept my atention and were useful in real life. We studied greek philosophers like Socrates, Platón and Aristoteles, and the tradition of the sophists and presocrats. Also, we talked about the modern philosophy, where we saw Jaspers, Heidegger and others. The essential aspect of this matter is that it made you think, and simply philosophise.

This holiday took place last summer 2013/2014, I stayed almost all summer here in Santiago but in February I went to a little town called "El Yeco", located near Algarrobo. I stayed there about two weeks with my family.

The first part of this holiday, when I stayed in Santiago I practiced a lot of sport and juggling. I enjoyed this part because I met new friends who stayed here, I also spent a lot of time with my grandma whose was sick with cancer.

In February when I went to El Yeco, everyday we got up and went biking on the hills next to the town with my cousins and my brother. There we had a beautiful view of the beach and ocean. Later, we had lunch all together with my family and enjoyed the air of beach. After that, who ever wanted to go to the beach, went and the others stayed at home. At night we all played cards and table games, and then we talked until we were tired.

This holidays is not my best, however it was very important for me because it was the last summer that I spent it with my grandmother and the entire family. In this vacation we got closer to each other.

First of all, I didn`t really choose to study psychology in the first place, because I didn't know what to study so I entered to Bachillerato. There I had many subjects, one of them was an introduction to psychology. However, I didn't really like this class, so psychology was it disappointment. But in the second semester I had more humanistic subjects and I began to like this area, so I searched a career that includes philosophy and social thinkings but also that included some scientific knowledge. I got to psychology by ruling out the other careers in FACSO, because they didn't have the scientific area that I was looking for.

Secondly, when I chose to study psychology, I didn't really know much of it. I learnt that psychologyst help people, diagnose their mental disseases, but now I realise that this carreer study many more aspects of human being. For this reason now it is a more attractive career to me.

I chose Universidad de Chile because it is a historic and prestigious institution. Also, I was influenced by my family, because they knew about that. The last reason I chose U. de Chile was that I had a high score in my PSU to enter to Bachillerato, and I didn't know what to study at that time.

I want to visit Japan because their culture is the opposite of the one in we live. This duality between orient and occident  attracts me because are so many differents in many aspects like language, accent, phonetic, food and principally in the way to conceive the life. I know that nowadays the globallizating world supress the differences between cultures, but in the deep aspect of mental estructures, I think there are still being differences in conceptions of existing.

I know of that country that they eat a lot of fish and the live in the big cities is very fast and caotic, because they have a lot of people concentrated in there. They have a tradition of samurais and fishing thats cause me curiosity, the very rich traditions that comes from many years ago, from one of the cradles of oriental culture.

There I'd like to interact with the japanese people, in spite of the differences in language and culture. I think they can understand english and sign language so we can communicate and understand each other.
I want to explore the cities and know how is normal life there.

Principally, I'd like to live there and experience the life of a common japanese man, because attracts me the way of conceiving life and thats is only perceptible by living there. But if I have the chance to study in english or to learn japanese, I really like to study my carreer psychology there. It seems really interesting to know how is the focus of knowledge in that area and how they conceive that career.