First terms: good points and bad points

I think the last semester was the most difficult period I've ever experienced since I got in this college, that is to say, it was difficult in the academic side. This is my second year in this career, and the hardest, because the first year was very easy compared with this. I learned a lot of things related with anthropological theories, specifically cultural materialism, and with different aspects of social sciences. For example, I had subjects like: linguistic, psicology, and physical anthropology. I was very stressed up, because in almost every subjects we had a lo of things to read and a lot of pieces of work, essays, investigations reports to do; and the hardest thing of all this was that the most of them were in group, so it was very difficult, because doing them took a lot of time.

Actually I was very tired, so I didn't have the chance to do other activities, besides I didn't have many free time, but when I had it, I listened a lot of music, I went out with my friends, I read things for my own and not for the college's subjects, I saw a lot of movies, and I went to Valparaiso to see my family. I didn' t do any sports!!!!, but I walk a lot during my daily life. I started to participate in a project of popular education (educación popular) called "la escuelita", doing workshops to kids. Sometimes I felt very bad, because I couldn't lay out my time in my family and friends, college and "la escuelita"; on the other hand, I'm a very "slow" person, and everything I do take me lot of time; but I'm trying to achieve my purposes of making things right.

Since I got into college, I haven't seen my family very often, but I try to travel to Valparaiso every weekend. Last semester I was so stressed up that I traveled to Valparaiso every time I could, because I feel very good and relax when I'm with my family and specially when I'm near the sea. Besides, almost all my friends live there, so I try to meet them when I go.

regards,
penny