My experiences as a student and what I would change.

When I got into the "Universidad de Costa Rica" I really don´t care too much about grades, I used to go to the university to talk whit my fiends and drink some beers, actually a lot of beers, at the begining it was like a dream I enjoied so much and everything was perfect, but some how I failed the whole first semester, I mean I failed all the courses, even "Humanidades", and anyone failed that course just me, after I wonder to my self: What is going on?, I discover that maybe if I study instead of drink beers I will success in academics, but sometimes is easier to think someting that make it true.
I tried to stop drinking again and again, but I couldn´t, then I went to study to San José, where I didn´t know too much people, but it was just matter of time and I got new friends to spend time drinking beers.
After a few years I decide to stop drinking and amazingly my grades improve a lot, I mean a lot, I reach the best score of the 416 students registred in animal science in 2006.
Probably if I could change something of my student life, it would be the amount of alcohol that I used to drink, maybe the half of the beers would be enough.

"Corporación Monteverde S.A." a good company

This company has 250 direct employees and buys the milk of 300 little dairy farms, most of that milk (about 40000 kg per day) is procesed into cheese and sold in a very selected market here in Costa Rica.
The concept of good or bad is relative, but I consider that a good company should care about:
1-The wellfare of it´s employees.
2-The emviroment.
3-The social wellness of the comunity where the company is located.
4-The economic retribution to the company.
Based in the previous description of what a good company means for me, I will give an example for each of the four points mencioned.
1-"Corporación Monteverde S.A." taught about psycological an physical topics in order to motivate the employees and to prevent any accident related to the everyday work.
2-This company also has very strict quality norms related to the whey degradation in order to prevent pollution.
3-As a way to reward the farmers work, this company gives scholarships to the farmers son´s and daughter´s that otherwise couldn´t be able to study.
4-"Corporación Monteverde" makes sure to make enough money (near to one millon dollars per year) to keep in business.
I think that this company is a good company.

Dream Job

My dream job would be a job that allowed me to travel arround the world, knowing new countrys an places with diferent cultures, and traditions,  like a traveling TV show. But it should be a family travel show because I wouldn´t like to be far away from my son and my girlfriend.
I think that the reason to choose this kind of job as the "dream job" is because my perception of vacations is to travel with my family, so if I could earn money to support all the needs of them by doing this it would be perfect. I supposed that as every job after a few years I maybe feel tired of taking trips,but I would like to give it a try.
I don´t think that it´s a prestigeus job nor in Costa Rica or any other countries but, I strongly believe that you have to make your decisions based in your future happiness, and most of the times it´s not important what people think about it, also I think that prestige is a subjective word that depends on the context.

AP-4 First Blog

I am in this class because to me, it`s absolutly necessary  to improve my lenguage skills by practicing every week and because I like it.
I hope to keep learning until I can comunicate myself with fluency and confidence.
I like that its the most common lenguage on earth and there are a lot of people spread over the world that comunicate in this lenguage, I dislike that I didn`t born in an English spoken country, I am not complaining of my country but probably I would prefer to speak this lenguage earlier in my life.

Confirming my Blog

I think that my blog is still the same, so I hope we dont have any troubles whit the blog,

Alejandro

Graduation Presentation

It was the culmination of my studies as an agronomic engeneering, the presentation was programed at 2:00 p.m. but I was in the auditurium since 8:00 a.m. I was very nervous, there were going to be five of the most experienced teachers in the topic of dairy science.

I remember that I was feeling a funny sensation in my stomach, similar to the feeling of seen the person you love, but not as good.

I asked my girlfriend for company to get some emotional support, it was the best idea I made that day. She suggest me that it would be a good idea to present the material to her as if she were one of the teachers. That practice allowed me to performe the presentation more fluently. I couldn’t have lunch that day because I was too nervous.

The moment has arrived it was 2:00 o clock in the afternoon, at that right moment i felt more confident because one of the judges was an all life friend of mine.

The presentation last one hour and another hour for the questions. After that, the chair man told me: now you have compleated the requirements to get your tittle.

First Time

First time on a plane

It happen in august 18^th 2008, my sisters and I decide to travel to Europe on a 15 day long trip, until that day I had never been on a plane.

I was very anxious, the first flight was from Alajuela to Miami, I remember that my hands were sweating, and then I realized that I was extremely nervous.  My sisters were making jokes about it; I think they enjoyed that flight more than I did.