Post 10: English Challenges

This will be the last entry of this blog. I have to say that I really enjoyed doing the tasks for the class, because every time that I made an entry in the blog I had to stop my messy, unhealthy and rush way to think and make a pause to elaborate the texts and sometimes realize some things that I did, do or will be doing. For example, in the entry "How green you are?" I realized of all of the behavior ecologically friendly that I actually have, and that surprise me very much because I never said like "Tomorrow I will be more ecologically friendly", I just did that things unconsciously.  I think that for now and on I will be doing that exercise to take a pause for a little bit of time at the day for calm down and put everything in order in my mind. It was very interesting to find that in a class like English, I didn't expect that, and I think that because of that, this was one of the subjects that I most enjoyed this semester.

I think that one of the aspects that I need to improve in English is the speaking. This class results a very good instance for practicing it, in the videos, but I still think that I need more practice. A good way for improve and practice the speaking would be playing online with some american people, I only have to get thought the first embarrassment and don't be afraid of speaking.

Outside the English class I use the language for many things, playing trading card games that are in English, viewing series with English audio and no subtitles, playing videogames in English, reading comics and reading papers for the college.

Post 9: 2015 Reflections Have you had a good year?

Well, in this post I have to talk to you about this year, and how it's going . First I have to say that this year I have had some good and bad moments, one of the worst moments in this year was when a couple days after my birthday my fater went ill, and he fell into the hospital, he was there for two months, it was really hard to see him that way. For those months I barely saw my mom, because she was always worried about my dad, she was all day in the hospital, and in the night she was very tired, so when she arrives at home she eats something and then go to sleep very quickly. But as the illness brings bad moments, it also brings good times. Now my father is at home, resting, and I'm able to see him every day. I skip classes when I can to stay at home and pass time with my parents, now I think that we have to show them that we love them and how grateful we are for the things that they have done for us. My father looks more joyful, and me and all my brothers expend very long times with him. I hope he gets well soon.
The coure that I most enjoyed this year is Anatomy, because the teacher is a very nice person, and I learn a lot. The most difficult part was to get familiar with the smell of the bodies, but until today I can't get used to the smell.
I wasn't really clear of my achievements for this year, but I know that I have been concretizing things that I consider to be important. I get so many new hobbies, like cosplaying and starting to play Yu-Gi-Oh! card game in a more competitive way.
I guess that every year comes with really bad and really good moments, so I think that this have been a very normal year.

Post 8: Summer Plans

Well, in this post I'm going to talk to you about the places that I would like to visit in the future and in this summer.
I think that one of the places that I most want to go is to San Diego, California, in the United States, for the San Diego Comic Con, I was supposed to go next year with some friends, we are planning this trip for months, but we never get something concrete. I think that I won't be able next year, maybe some day I could travel there, when I get a job and I could start to save money for things like a long trip. It excites me very much to think about that trip, because all the things that I could see in the convention. I really want to go there. Another of my plans is going to the Salar de Atacama in the north of Chile, to see flamingos in natural state. I think that that trip is more reachable than the trip to San Diego, because of the money that I would have to spend in it. I'm making all my efforts to being able to travel there during the next year. On the other hand, my plans for the summer are very few. In this summer I would like to be with my friends, those that I barely see along the year and spend some great time with them. I don't have any plan of activities for this summer, because I know that I have to work the whole summer, for paying the college registration fee of next year and save some money for things like the journey to the north. If I reach that objective I would go with my girlfriend, she loves the flamingos, and we really want to see them free, not in the zoo.

Post 7: My Best Friend

In this post I'm going to talk to you about my best friend. This is a little bit problematic for me, because I love very much all the friends I have, and consider one above all of them is very difficult. Well, I'm going to pick one of my best friends, his name is Nicolas, I met him at the school in 7th grade, so we have been friends since 2007, for about 8 years, I consider him my best friend because he is very special for me. We always laugh at stupid things, we share the same sense of humor, share the same interests. Now it's difficult to maintain the relations close, because in the past we used to see each other every day at school, and even we spent the weekends together playing video games, seeing movies, and listening to music, and now we study in different places, we meet often, but not as often as I want, because there are always exams or group works for the college.  Still we talk like every day, we play video games together, online, and we talk by Skype, so we are in virtual contact very often and when there's a subject in which I have some trouble understanding he always helps me, like in anatomy or biology, because he is studying Nursery and he understands almost everything about those subjects. My best memory with him was a summer, we went to Pichilemu for one week, with another of my best friends, Hugo, and his parents. We spent a precious time together, we ate a lot, we laughed a lot, and we always remember that summer. The last time I saw him was this Monday, we went to a bar with my girlfriend in Plaza Ñuñoa and we drank some mojitos, and he told us about his practice in the Hospital de Carabineros.

Post 6: How Green are you?

Well, first i have to say that I'm not very "green", not because I don't want to, I think it's because I'm a little bit inattentive with the things that surround me. The environmentally friendly practices that I have are very few, like not wasting water, paper or plastic. I learned the most of that practices by my mother, who always is worried about water and electricity, but for economic reasons, not for ecological. I always try not to use paper unnecessarily, for example when  I use an ATM, I never print any receipt. I have other environmentally friendly habits, like trying to purchase glass maded bottles over other materials, like the plastic maded ones. You can reutilize them and produce much less plastic waste.
I usually use the bus, I don't have a car and I live too far away of everything like to go on bike or walking anywhere. I never have joined an eco-organization. Once I sign for Greenpeace, against Shell, who are going to search oil in the north pole, destroying several polar bear habitats. Then like every week Greenpeace sent me an E-mail asking me for economic support, but I never have donate anything. In the future I would like to buy the less plastic made goods that I can, I think that is one of the most helping actions that we can do to reduce our carbon footprint. If I live near my job in the future I plan to use a bike as trasportation too. In our city, I think that an ideal solution that would help very much to the environment and the pollution problems would be to enhance the public transportation, because in that way, there would be less cars in the streets, but only with fixing the buses I think that the pollution will be very reduced, because sometimes I see buses that throws up to the sky so much fumes, like a chimney...

Post 5: My Future Job

Well, i would like to have a job in the PDI or in the SML as an forensic anthropologist, I imagine it very challenging, because the kind of things that you could see and it could be both indoors in a laboratory and outdoors in a fieldwork. I also would like to have a job as an investigator related with physical anthropology, and the main themes of the discipline as evolution or migration of ancient human groups. That's only a hope, because usually in the mention the older classmates says that there are not too much work offers, they say that is very difficult to get any job, and when you get the title you only can work in archaeological excavations if you are lucky, but i don't listen much to them.

I think if i get any job i would have to travel a lot, even if i'm shut in a laboratory, because always is necessary to travel to get some information. If my future job involves being locked up in a office i would be grateful, i would feel very comfortable, because as i said before, even if i'm locked up in an office or a laboratory i would be doing something related with physical anthropology.

I heard once of a major in facial reconstruction in Universidad de Concepción, that sounds very interesting for me, because combines two of my favorite areas, art and physical anthropology, and is an area of the discipline that is very new, with several new things to discover. I never have looked for information about this, but when the times comes i'm sure that i will wear out all the possibilities to get there. Finally i have to say that in any job that i would get related with physical anthropology i will do it gratefully.    

Post 4: Election Day

Well, i guess we should start with the fact that i'm an student of social sciences, that's because one of the most important things to me is the common well-being. I think totally that the first step for the common well-being is to be kind with each other. We first should start to think in how could we help other people, or how we can make everyone's day a bit more pleasant. In my opinion, after having the idea of helping each other in mind, we can start to speak about politics. In the next presidential elections i think that i'm going to vote depending totally on what kind of people will be the candidates. That's a very important matter to me, and actually in the national contingency i guess, because all of the investigations and process that surrounds the politics and economics. I prefer not to vote than voting for the an option that not fulfill all my expectations. According to electoral campaigns, i think they are very invasive and messy, maybe whit the actual technology we could try not to get our towns so dirty, like having just electronic campaigns., but they are still invasive, because they are a form of publicity, and in my opinion publicity is always invasive.
I think the qualities of a person that would have a public position should include characteristics like being respectful to other people, being intelligent and eloquent.
I never have consider become a politician, simply because i don't like the politics careers, i like much more science than politics.
Making a constructive criticism to the electoral campaigns in my district is very difficult, because the politicians don't matter much about where (or even when) they put their posters. Still now, i could see publicity for Ricardo Lagos, who got elected a long time ago. That only means that the campaigns are not being executed in an efficient form, and how i mention after, we should take advantage of the technology for make this campaigns more clean and better.