I am so happy, because I like all essays, I read them and I found special stories.
I can infere that all of my classmates were affraid in their first day. Some were happy
because made friends, others for learning a language that it really difficult.
Thanxs classmates for the experience
Alain Hasler
UNACH is an Adventist university located to 12 kilometres from Chillán. Is an extensive campus with many green areas that making yourself comfortable in your school life everyday. Also, I would say that it was the best option to come here, because here I met many of my present friends, at UNACH you can do relationships for all your lifetime.
Last Sunday in a publication of “La Tercera”, in its section “Trends” appeared an article referred to “Young people’s new organizations in their universities”. Young people don’t feel attracted to student groups either formal or informal. Some people allege a continuous repression for part of executives, others administrative assistants. To know what happens with them? I talked with “Aguilas” group leader Rodrigo Pérez, who is a Christian and an active member of his group, since its beginnings, he talks with us from the other trench, the trench of participative youth.
Rodrigo thanks for accepting this invitation to analyze this important matter for student circles.
– When did the group be born?
– Well Aguilas was born a long time ago, 1 year and half, more or less, but the group carries 5 years working with student of different universities; Catholics, Christians and Lays.
– Which are the activities that you carry out in the meetings?
– Look, they are spiritual essentially. There is a brief ceremony, where we join to sing, read the bible and pray. We share our love for God and search spirituality in a common place where most of the people are not amiable with our beliefs.
– What do you mean?
– Well, in some universities guys cannot express their beliefs freely, for different causes, for that reason Aguilas born as juvenile group in universities.
– People from different religions?
– Yes, of course, here, everybody is invited to participate.
– Interesting, but what do you think about the rest of young people that are discouraged?
– I think that people need to accept God like their only savior, God is love, love for the other ones, if you have love in your heart, God’s love, you can conceive acts of love.
– Acts of love? How do you do that?
- Look, when you accept God as your savior, you see God’s work from another point of view, because every day you see people suffering, people with needs. You can open yourself to stare society out, and from there you can do something to ease the pain of your brother and sister.
– Can we say that student groups are crucial for the community?
– In fact, I think that, because they depend on socioeconomic context where your university is inserted. Is there where you must act; sometimes is not the way, like what pedagogy in English does every year when they go to visit homeless children or seniors. This is in other towns, but the activity improves some lives of some needy group in this society.
– Where is that?
– It is in San Carlos near Chillán in a foster home.
– If they do well, why do universities don’t support them?
– Universities are always in constant strikes, for different kinds of demands, but, a question, who are behind of those protests? They are students of several informal groups. Rectors don’t believe in them as competent organisms.
– Should they believe in their students?
– Yes, sure, it should be so, because likewise society produces its own changes, good changes, where people are able to help somebody else.
Rodrigo, again, I want to say thank you for accepting this invitation to talk about an interesting topic.
We have many changes in our lives. One example of this is when we pass from one grade to another. My first day at UNACH, was and will be, the most memorable academic day in my life. I never thought seeing so many people thinking and speaking in English. Just in the same way, it was the first time I met an indescribable amount of people and it was the moment that I started to respect my teachers, for all their knowledge and wisdom. All these things make me think my first day at UNACH was and will be the most memorable academic day in my life.
I remember that first day in the morning. I was in my house. I got up at 6 AM and then, I prepared my breakfast and watched the news like every morning, but I was so nervous, I felt that day would not be any day. As the time passed, I felt more and more anxious. I was looking at the clock and it seemed be at a standstill and I just want to go to university as soon as possible.
My anxiety made me arrive early there, however, I felt something special when I came in. I never thought seeing so many people thinking and speaking in English. I had some classmates that spoke the language well, which it was not my case, really. My English at that moment wasn’t the best. All the time, I remembered my previous teachers as Mrs. Gonzalez in the high school or Mr. De la Hoz in the Elementary school, I wanted to kill them! Because I remembered their second-rate classes and my second-rate classmates who didn’t like to learn English.
Anyway, all pressures and bad memories of my past passed rapidly when I started to chat with a girl during the first talk about “Basic Principles of Conduct”. Her name was Carla and she was in the English program, too. After the talk she presents me some friends and acquaintances, while the beats of my heart slowly started to normalize themselves with that moment of relief, which I realize that would be the first time I met an indescribable amount of people.
That moment of relax, allowed me to appraise how good my teachers were. I can remember two or three that teachers surprised me for their power of expression. One of them was Mr. Herrera who taught philosophy’s class. That man opened my mind to an amount of knowledge and information, which never I believed to receive.
To summarize, the simple fact of meeting a considerable amount of people, seeing these people thinking in English, and appraising your teachers as the best, make me think my first day at UNACH was and will be the most memorable academic day in my life.
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