"Culture shock"

Nowadays travel or moving to a foregin country is becoming very important for a lot of people. They go abroad to study, have vacations or go on business, but setting into a new culture can be very difficult and sometimes " Culture Shock" is inevitable.

Culture shock happens when we move to a completely new environment, it grows out of the difficulties in assimilating the new culture. People start feeling surprise, desorientation, uncertainty or confusion, because everything is different, for example, not speaking the language, not knowing how to use banking machines, to find other´s people habits annoying, not knowing what is appropiate and what is not and so forth.

There are some ways that can help you to avoid or to deal with culture shock in case you are thinking about going abroad. Before you go to another country you can read about it and its culture, this way the country and its people are more familiar before arriving.

Be open-minded about the culture you will visit, with the different types of personalities, socio-economic conditions, try to familiarizate with the language and avoid being offended.

Each person has their own way to react to culture shock, in some cases it may be really difficult to tackle it, but you should take it in a possitive way and try to positively confront the obstacles.

Secondary School

Should physical punishment be an option for teachers to deal with bad behaviour? Of course not. In my opinion beating of children in school has no place in any society, violence is not an acceptable way to solve or to correct problems.

As a teacher you can not use corporal punishment that´s not the way to improve discipline in the classroom, because if we teach with violence those students will probably be violent people in the future. Studies indicate that levels of violence are rising every day in our society and we as teachers must help to improve that situation not to make it worse.

Research shows that a lot of teachers use physical punishment against their students for such things as not finishing work, not learning fast enough, talking in class or just for doing work incorrectly.

I am of the opinion that teachers´ job is really hard, but there are a lot of better solutions to solve that kind of problems.

From my point of view teachers should look for another way to deal with school discipline, because physical punishment is still an act of violence against a child, it goes against the law and against child´s rights.

Something about me...

Hello!!!

My name is Sandra Osorio, I am 21 years old and I am from Curico but I have been living in Santiago for almost four years because of my university.


I am living with my aunt and my cousin. I don´t have any pet because I don´t like to much animals the only ones that I like are horses.
In my free time I like listening to music, watching movies or just sleeping.


If I have to define myself I will say that I am an introspective person I am really quiet I don´t like too much talking about myself even with my family.


Every long weekend I travel to visit my parents I can not see them more than five times a year, because the trip from Santiago to there is around five hours, so I can´t go every single weekend but every time I can I go. I really miss them.

I am studying English Pedagogy, I love English that´s why last semester I went to the USA to do a college program. I was there from february until august. It was a great experience, I met a lot of people from around the world and I made really good friends.
I enjoyed it a lot and once I finish my degree I would like to go back to the USA or to any other English country.