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- How is nursing in your country?
Hi
I'm from Spain and I'm studying nursing at university. I love this job and I'd love to be a good nurse in the future. However, I haven't decided yet in which field I'm more interested (I change my mind everyday! there are a lot of things I'd love to do). Nursing is a study degree that last four years (here in Spain) and we learn a lot of useful stuff. I love how it works here because when we finish university we have a lot of skills, we don't need to take any course after that to learn new habilities as in other countries (at least that is what I've heard). Furthermore, nurses can prescribe some medications here (this is something new)! Which I think it's totally fair as we have phamacology at uni. We don't depend on doctors as people usually think. I don't like that people underestimate this beautiful job. Believe me, this job change your life and you see the world differently.
I'd like to work abroad for a while, however, I don't know where I'd like to go. I've heard that a lot of countries demand Spanish nurses as we are really qualified. Nevertheless, people don't work the same way in those countries. For example in Germany nurses work like Spanish nursing assistants, I've also heard that in England nurses do a lot of paperwork and so on. Please, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that nurses are better than nursing assistants! EVERY JOB is important. In a hospital everyone has to work together and every task is essential. Anyway, maybe I'm wrong and it is not like that. How's nursing in your country? What nursing specialties are there? I've been thinking about doing a master there instead of working too, or maybe doing both things. Are there good nursing masters?
November 15, 201741 - What do you think about nurses? Is your job undervalued?
Hey there!
I start university in September and I'm really excited about it as I'm going to study something I truly like. Yes, I'm going to study nursing and I'm looking forward to it. However, I've been said things like "Oh, why did you choose nursing? You could have studied anything else, it's under your possibilities", "don't you want to be a doctor?", or "Are you sure you want to clean poops for the rest of your life?".
Honestly, it makes me kind of mad. Cleaning up after people isn't what nurses do, at least not in Spain. Nursing assistants are the ones that do that and they are as important as doctors. Or do you want to be dirty and pick up an illness? Furthermore, nurses are not doctor's handmaidens. Yes, they used to be that but not anymore. If you want to study nursing you have to go to university for 4 years and study hard. Doctors focus on illnesses but nurses focus on people. Their jobs are just different and both of them are beautiful.
Nursing is not a really valued job. It's not well paid and a lot of people don't know what they do. Anyway, I'd love to help people and take care of them, no matter how much money I earn or what people say, I'll be happy.
What do you think about nurses? Does it happen something like that with your job?
July 29, 201782 - Me, meself, nowt. I'm reading an English book and I have some questions about what I've read. The story takes place in Liverpool. I noticed that instead of using "my" the author used "me". For example, if he wanted to say "my house", he would say "me house". Happens the same with "myself", which would be "meself". Furthermore, instead of writing "nothing", in the book appears "nowt". However, that only happens when the character doesn't speak posh English. Does it happen in real life? Is it because of the pronunciation?July 28, 201770
- Making mistakes. We want to run before we know how to crawl. We want to do everything fast to show our skills off... Once we've already learnt something, we go over another thing. It shouldn't be like that. We ought to enhance what we already know. Don't you think so?
Life is about making mistakes and learn about them. We have to fail sometimes to reach the top. Don't be afraid of making mistakes! We're humans, we aren't machines. Do you agree?
July 23, 201732 - I am lost. How can I study a language?
Hi there!
I've been studying German for almost 6 years in my school but the level was soooo low that I didn't learn much. I decided to study it on my own but there's too much to catch up on!
On the one hand, people say that learning vocabulary is one of the first things you have to do. However, I think I know enough vocabulary to understand simple texts or simple conversations. Anyway... I can't say I know A LOT of vocabulary because that's not true. I can recognize words but when I write or speak non of them come to my mind.
On the other hand, I know some basic grammar like how to make easy sentences, which can be useful sometimes but I need to know more grammar in order to express myself correctly.
Not only that, pronunciation is also very important. It's crucial to know how to pronounce the words correctly in order to avoid making huge mistakes that we could internalized.
To sum up, I'm very lost haha. I don't know where to start studying. Vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation? I'm not a beginner but I don't know much either. Do you have any piece of advice?
July 7, 201772 Los ojos azules
Ya sean claros u oscuros, casi toda mi familia tiene los ojos azules. Pero yo no tuve esta suerte - mis ojos tienen el color de la avellana con algunas lentejuelas verdes. Cuando era más pequeña, me ponía triste pensando que no formaba realmente parte de la familia. Recuerdo haberle dicho muchas veces a mi madre:
¿Mamá, por favor, me puedes prestar tus ojos sólo un día?
Cada vez que jugaba con mis primos, miraba a sus ojos diciéndome: ¡qué color tan bonito, ojalá tuviera los mismos!
Solía pedir al cielo antes de acostarme que mis ojos cambiaran de color durante la noche. Por supuesto, nunca funcionó y estaba muy decepcionada cada vez que me miraba en el espejo por la mañana.
Pensaba que el marrón era común, que las chicas con ojos marrones eran más feas que las con que tienen los ojos azules.
Mis amigas también tenían los ojos azules, y me sentía rodeada por lo que me encantaba pero que no podía tener.
Con los años y gracias a mis amigos, aprendí a querer mis ojos. Pasé tantos años quejándome por no tener los ojos azules sin entender que el color no hace la belleza de los ojos de alguien, sino su mirada. Azules, verdes, marrones, grises... todos los ojos pueden ser magníficos si la mirada está llena de vida.0 votedJuly 6, 20171
