Good and bad ponits of this wear

Well this year even not finish and for this reason is more problematic make a evaluation, but exist some elements and aspirations that I can say if had good or bad. The first point is the best, because since May I have as girlfriend the person that I always like. I know her in four years ago, is my classmate and with the first moment her was my friend, but after a while her started to like. The bad news for this is she is in Spain now, because her get an exchange scholarship since September to February of the next year. The second good event of this year was know that the girlfriend of my brother is pregnant, thus I will be uncle. The third good point is that I staying approve alls subjects, yes, the ten subjects that I taked this semester. This is a great news for my family because if I will not approve this, I should be late one year for finish my career.

In general this is a good year for me, the only bad points that I can remember have a relationship with my political organization in the university. I am a member of Frente de Estudiantes Libertarios (FEL) and this year we had the presidency of the FECH. The problem is that this year was bad for the student movement and we had problems inside the FEL. All this impacted in the results of the elections FECH where we did not do so well as expected. However we win the FECH presidency with our alliance and the student center of FACSo, the CECSo.

My english challenges or my english enemy?

The english requirement in the university compared with the english of the school are many different and I think that was disastrous for my. I never had a good formation in english. In my house I remember that my brother helped me with the homeworks of english but him learned playing virtual games and this method did not work with me. On other hand, in the basic school my teachers learned me the same content in all subjects and at high school also. I know that this may sound like blame the other people for my problems but I can assure that since seventh year to fourth year in the high school I viewed the same content year after year. In the summer of 2011, months before to enter to the University I bought storybooks for children's in english for learn and I could not read more of the half part.

Since the first year en my career we must read text and book's in english, and were not storybooks for children's. We must read about biology, genetics, geology and concepts of archeology. I felt me in disadvantage in comparison with my partners that studied in bilingual schools. I had that learned forced me for approve the subjects, read with google translate or with dictionaries. Now in the fourth year of social anthropology I can say that I know more of english, but even have problems with this, I know the meaning of many words and verbs but I can't articulate the word or create paragraphs easily. My big problems are the connectors and verbal tenses. I think this can be improved with practice of reading and listening.   

The best's nobels books

  In the school I was read many more novels that now, because with the University I preferred to read more politics books. I remember four books in specific that marked my life. The first was ''La granja de los animales'' of George Orwell, although the school forced to me for read this I don't regret. This book is short and very entertaining. In a first look somebody may think that is for childrens, but have a deep and strong political message. Other short book that marked me was ''El viejo y el mar'' of Hemingway that I choose for a personal decision. I recommend this because is very emotional and exciting story with the most amazing event in the life of a simple person, but finished without glory, as in the initially.

  The second book that I remember was ''Crimen y castigo'' of Dostoyevski. I read this for a suggestion of my brother. I think that the genius of this novel is the ability of insert the reader in the mind of the protagonist. Is a very psychological book to the point of one may sympathize with a murderer. The last novel that I want to reference is ''La senda del perdedor'' of Charles Bukowski that I read also for the suggestion of my brother. The story is autobiographical and is the only book of all that I could not stop to read. This is too much recommended.

I'm a green citizen?

I think that the people learn about environmentally in many places, for example with family, with friends, in the schools and in public debates about this. Mainly I think are public debates and schools teach, especially when the pollution cause direct danger in the people.Too many people had never recibed education about environment, however with Hidroaysén and the thermoelectrics problems in some cities, the population has responded against this.

For me, the individual habit of recycling is good but not is the answer for this problem. The big problem are the big companies and the industries, because they produce a great part of the pollution and consume, in other great part, the nonrenewable energy. For this reason I think that the habit of recycling is only a complementary factor. In the first place the State should require to reduce the cabron dioxide of the industries. Secondarily this industries must to implement an progressive methods of energy complementary. In a third step, the minings should use water of the sea and not of the rivers, although this is more expensive to extract. In the last place in terms of effectiveness, we should have a environmentally education and change our culture with the environment.

Anyway I use a bike but nor for the pollution, I use this because is funny and I can do exercise with this, but I know that is a good practices for the environment.

Three years ago I participated in protests again Hidroaysen but this is the only cause that I supported more directly. I consider it very important to have a sustainable development but if it not accompanied with more social justice, I think that is an useless progress. Even though is an cause that I support, it is not my priority today.

My experience in the field

I was not too much fieldworks like others students of anthropology in others university or including other generations of students in this university. However I was fieldwork in two of the three areas of my career: biology and social anthropology. The fieldwork in biology was the first year with all my classmates in the hill ''La Campana'' where we camped one night and in the day walked seeing the nature. In social anthropology I remember two fieldworks importants for me.One of this was in the rural area and the other was in an andina zone with indigenous of ethnicity ''Atacameña''. In both us slept  in sleeping bag in a community centers, we had to cock us and had problems with the personal hygiene. I think that this aspects were the only problems, although in general I missed my friends and family, especially because inside Calama and Talca we do not had cellular signal. 

I like share time with my classmates and the research that we did. In the rural area, the village of ''Curtiduria'' we worked about the familiar economic strategies and I talked face to face with four women about her everyday  problems and said that the municipality did not know theirs problems. With this I found the importance of the fieldwork and the researchs with interviews. With the Atacameña people we worked about the conflict between their community and the mining companies in relationship with the water of the rivers.

My future job

What is an anthropologist job? People asked me this question since I entered this career and my answer never satisfized them. I only know that I would like to work in something that is related with the public area or I would like to conduct classes in some University. I will never have a job in a private institution, because I would like to use my knowledge to help common and needed people. I think that private companies do not necessarily do this.

On the other hand, respect of my dream job I think it would be working from my house hahaha. I heard of one anthropologist that have a job mainly of theoretical research and have a few fieldwork. Anyway what I would like to do work on something related to publics policy, enhance in the progression and integration for some rural or urban areas… in general in local development levels. It is not important if it outdoor or indoor job, or with a fieldwork or not. Finally I would enjoy  to do some classes. The subjects that more important for my project I think that were public policy, rural anthropology, qualitative methodology, culture in Chile and ethnography. 

Cultural Shock

A principle of respect and tolerance is accepting the multiculturalism and the existence of many cultures between diferents humans groups, even inside of same country or the same society. Even in Chile there are many different cultures and not only indigenous people because also are difference between regions, rural or urban areas, high or low social classes, etc. Thus becomes extremely difficult to delineate where end one culture and another begins. I think that in many cases of our occidental world is corresponds talk about a culture with different subcultures.

I think that most Chileans; without those who live in extreme areas or have and indigenous cultural descendants, have common cultural elements that we can identify beyond of the various subcultures that are expressed. I don't daring to speak of chilean culture or identy, because is methodologically can't cover, if I think that we have common elements. Just this duality makes them among chileans have a common cultural base, but still  culture shock can result because some cultural views are mutually unintelligible. A simple case of this occurs in the dialects or some words, for example my family is from the South and say ''patinas'' to the ''Hawaianas'' or ''Chalas'' and this term in Santiago nobody understand.

Summer 2014 Vacations

Last summer, I traveled to Talcahuano by bus to visit my grandmother and my family. My whole family lived in big Concepcion, even my brothers borned there, but I was bron in Santiago. My parents are divorced and I live with my mom, that is one reason why I have lost contact with my father's family. So when I travel I visit my grandmother and cousins for the part of my mother. I was there for like a week, I stayed five days with my grandmother, one day with a cousin that is also a friend of mine, and the other day I spent it with my uncle. When I was at grandmother we shared together, we walked through the city during the day, and in the nights we saw the news on the TV and play cards. She is very funny and we really get along. The thing that I like the most when I go ther is to visit the port, swinming in the ocean, walk on the beach, but almost all the time it is too cold to swim, because chilean coasts are pretty freezing.

Why anthropology?

Well in the first place I must confess that I choosed study anthropology because my brother everytime told me about this carreer. He studied laws in the University La República and after the bankruptcy of this Universitiy his finished the career in University La Central, but the area and courses of social anthropology were the most intersting according to him. My brother told me about the indian studies and the importance of the multiculturalism, together with the filosofic bases of this discipline.

When I started to find more information about the social anthropology in the school, I compared this option with others careers such as laws or history, but finally I decided for the reason of that I wanted understand the various forms of relationship of the people on different contexts, even in our society, not only in the indigenous society. I think that with this and the understand of why operates the culture could be a factor for progress towards a better society. On the other hand I saw that laws and history have a vision more superficial of the humans proccess and their focus in the description and memorise instead of the understanding.

Country I’d like to visit

The country that I would like to go to is Myanmar (ex Birmania) in the Asian continent, mainly because I know that there a very beautiful architecture. In the pictures that I have seen about the most amazing places in the earth there were the buddhist temples that they are located on the hearth of the forest. I was really fascinated with a image of many old structures with a big circular figures that end in tips surrounded of trees while rise smoke for the wet.

Really I want to visit this place but only as a tourist because I don’t speak there language and the alphabet writing is too different to the indo-european origin. This country is very unknow for the occidental world, they had a dictatorship for many years until recently and yet has human right problemas. All this makes that I'm fear to go, but nevertheless the images are really fascinating for my. If i had money I will visit Myanmar and would contract an traductor or an tour guide.