domingo, 31 de mayo de 2009

My favourite subject

Until now, my favourite subject is Anthropology I. Although we have to do many works and the teacher's assistant is very demanding, I think I learn a lot doing all the works. I liked the last one, because we had to do field work. It was very interesting because we could live, on a little way, how is to work like an anthropologist.

This subject is teached by Daniel Quiroz. I like it very much, because I think he's a great teacher. He know's a lot and he's not interested on the marks. His objective is that we learn. He answers any question and teache's the topics as clear as he can.

This semester, we have learnt how to write an essay. In my opinion, it's not and easy job. You must think a lot and argument all your ideas. In my case, it's not something I can do from one day to another. I like writting them. Now we have to write one about anthropology and ethic, and I'll do my best.

On this semester we had read a lot of books too, and some of them were very interesting. Others, quite boring, but we have learned a lot.

Well, that's all for now...see you on class

BYE!

lunes, 11 de mayo de 2009

My future life


Hi classmates!
On this time I'm going to talk about my hopes and dreams, and what I think I'll be doing on five years more.
By 2014, ideally I will have finished my career. I'll probably be working. Where?, I don't know, but I hope it will be somewhere where I feel comfortably. I don't care if I don't earn much money, I just want to be happy :) . Maybe I will leave Santiago, and I'll be living on the south of Chile. It would be great!!
I would like to live on my own, maybe with friends or with my boyfriend, if we're still together :P. I know it's not easy but I'll try to do it because I want to be independent. I love my parents so I'll visit them all the weeks. Well.. being realistic, maybe I'll achieve it on eight years or more haha..all depends on me.
I hope I'll be a better person, more mature and independent, and I'll not be so denise like now.
I believe all is possible on this life, and I know that if I do things on the write way, I'll be fine.

I hope the world will me a better place, like the Maya's profecy says. A new concious will come on 2012 and we'll be more evoloted people.


Well, that's all for today..peace for everyone (hahaha it sounded soooo hippie)

The best in my area


Hi everyone! today I'm going to talk about my favourite anthropologist. He's name was PierreClastres, a french man. He was ethnographer too, and he is best known for his fieldwork among de Guayaki in Paraguay. We read his work for our Anthropology class, and I liked it very much. I think it's a very interesting work, because it shows the life of de Guayaki comunity from their ownperspective. It was a big work. He lived with those people for about nine months, and he wrote allthat he saw on a diary. He also took records with a recorder, and he learned their language. On his book he makes us realizes about the ethnocide caused by "civilized" societies that disregard any kind of different living. He shows us the difficult life of communities that are not like us, the Occidental society, and how we are, indirectly, killing them. I like it because he's very intelligent and he has wrote lote of things wich are very important nowdays, and makes us understand our world and open our eyes. That makes him the best. He has another work about political anthropology wich it's very interesting too, and I share most of his opinions. I hope we read more of his books. He's my hero, and I want to be like him, a great anthropology wich loved what the did.

lunes, 27 de abril de 2009


Hi everyone! today I'm going to talk about a picture that I like very much. I took it on Valdivia, on a trip that I made with my friends. We went to Argentina first and then we decided to visit this beautiful city located on the south of Chile. It was my first time on Valdivia and I'd like it a lot, instead we arrived one day before the "valdivian night", so we missed all the "valdivian week". There you could breath clean air. We slept two nights on a camping where we could see great landscapes, but then we decided to move to the city.
The photo shows an organ grinder, best knowned as "organillero", a chilean character wich plays music next to a parrot and sells stuff for children. It reminds me my childhood. Nowdays it's more difficult to find one than ten years ago. I remember that I loved them and I always bought whatever they were selling. They rock.

Well that's all for now.. see you on another post

My career

My dear english class:
Today I'm going to talk about my career. I'm studying Anthropology since march of this year. I decided to study this career because I wanted to help people. I think there're many things to do on the world and if we work hard we can make many people happier. I'm very interested on education, and I would like to learn more about it, but first I want to learn about human beings and understand them. I hope that at the end of the career I'll be a very cultivated person, so I'll be able to work on proyects that will make better our society. That's my dream. I want to be useful for the Earth, and do my best for people. I want to help my country to grow, because we don't live alone and I think we're all responsables of the things that happen. Maybe we don't provocate them, but we have the option of making them better.
My favourite subjet it's latinoamerican history. We have to read a lot, but the teacher it's very inteligent and the book very interesting.
On the future I want to work on a magazine or something related with visual Anthropology, a subfield of cultural anthropology that is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and new media, wich contributes to society. That's my north.

domingo, 19 de abril de 2009

My favourite web site (talking about studies)

Hi everyone! Today I'm going to write about a web site that I visit a lot. I'm talking about FACSO's site, the place on the web where I can find all the information that I need about my career. I only visit the anthropology section. The link of this web site is http://www.facso.uchile.cl/antropologia/index.html.
I found this site one day looking on google for information about anthropology on University of Chile, before I wanted to study that career. It was very easy to found it, I just asked for web sites related with the words "antropología universidad de chile" and it appeared on the first page of google results.
I visit this site every week, and I like it because there I can find all the papers and texts that I have to read for my classes, so I don't need to waste my time looking for them on the web. It's a great site. I can see too, on the main site, the last news related with the university. It's cool.
Well, that's all for know. See you on my next post!

lunes, 13 de abril de 2009

My favourite piece of technology


My favourite piece of technology is my refrigerator.Since I was born, there was one in my house.Last year we gave our old refrigerator to my grandmother and we bought a better one, wich is bigger than the old one and can do ice :D. It's cool. I use it for saving food. Every day, I go to my kitchen and I look for something to eat. My refrigerator always has something for me. I like it because it saves my food and eating makes me happy. If I hadn't a refrigerator I couldn't eat things like ice-cream or meat from one day to another, because they wouldn't be on good conditions. My refrigerator lets me enjoy dessert because he can saves and take care of them for months. I love my refrigerator, and if I hadn't one, I would suffer a lot. My life would be a nightmare, because I love food, and the worst thing you could ever do to me is get rid of a great dessert because it has gone stale. My refrigerator is my happyness.