10>> My experience with English and blogs

I have never written in English before University (just for school when I was a child and I had never thought that was something important) and I think blogs helped me a lot to improve this point; right now I feel surer of my writing skills, although I have so much to do to keep learning how to write well in English. But I thought my English' classes would help me with better communication when I have to talk about anthropology or archeology and I'm not sure if that actually happened; I feel like my English classes just teach me some little things, but I still don't know how to talk about my career with someone else in English. I don't have an idea to solve this problem and it isn't something really important right now, so I won't do anything until I really need to communicate with someone else in English.

For me, it is weird to talk in English. I actually read some texts and listen to a lot of music in English (even though not for my classes), but I'm very shy when I have to talk; I just don't feel comfortable about it and I start to mispronounce the words and get blocked. I wouldn't say, my classes helped me to improve this another point, but I think I realize that talk in English is actually very complicated and, especially give my opinion, is harder than I thought. Talk (or read, but I am not talking about this right now) is more important for me than write, so it is something that I wanna fix and improve in the future.

9>> change anthropology program

Anthropology nowadays is already in a changing process, which started around the time my generation started studying. This fact makes me feel satisfied with the current curriculum for the career; besides, I don't feel I'm in conditions to suggest anything related with a matter this relevant, or at least not quite yet. 

Regarding workload, my opinion is now the same: subjects show an abysmal difference in terms of workload, some of them demanding way too much time due to long texts that require more time to be read, others make you research for details and additional information than the rest and, finally, there are subjects in which you don't need to make a big effort to approve, more than just attend regularly to class. This, for me, is a negative trait, as it makes you focus on specific topics, leaving the rest aside or making you pay less attention to them because you need to put all of your effort on the most demanding ones. This is not fair, as all of us want to learn and understand all of our subjects evenly.

About the physical environment, I think the campus is lacking nature, there are not enough green spaces and grass and places to spend our free time on, breaks become dull because of the little room we have to rest. However, I love the artistic expressions you can see everywhere you go, it makes the place less monotonous.

Libraries and classrooms are another point to consider, as they are small and feel even smaller with the number of students that transit the faculty on a daily basis. This can also be seen on the cafeteria, a place that doesn't have enough room to contain everyone, despite lunch is an essential meal.

And last but not least, some professors are in need of more educational formation. We know that not all of them are teachers per sé, it's completely understandable, yet this fact makes an important difference during classes, as their traits and/or way to approach contents, tests and evaluations are lacking elements that pedagogues do include in their methodology. 

8>> Personal Opinions

What is your opinion about recycling?

I like the idea of reuseing some products. In my house we recycle everything, since clothes to rotten food. We try to use all our stuffs until they cannot be use anymore and if we don't want something and it's in good conditions, my mom give it to differents places as Cruz Roja, nursing homes or some friends and familiars. (It is a little funny that my mom like to recycle, she was how start with this at home, because I have a small family -one aunt, one uncle, three cousins- and when they don't want something, the stuffs always come to my house). Reuseing and recycling is something normal for me and I really like the idea of give them new uses to the things.

What is your opinion about the Chilean tradition called "mechoneo"?

I hate it, with all my soul. I think the idea of give a welcome to people who are starting a new moment of their life it's a good idea, I mean, it's good if someone how already passed for that can help other people if they are having rough times; this moment can help you to create friendly ties with other people. But, notwithstanding the above I don't like the violence of this 'tradition'; it's become in a punishment rather than in something good.

What is your opinion about legalizing marijuana and other drugs?

I don't have problems with that. I don't consumption marijuana, or another ilegal drugs, but I don't see it as something bad; we can smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol known that could be bad, why we couldn't smoke marijuana?. For me the problems is that some of the people who do that don't know what they are doing and choose bad choices; lack of education about it (as much as lack education about sex, or abortion).

What is your opinion about tatoos?

I really like them, I like how the body looks with tatoos. We have the power of decide what we like or not in our body (and I am talking about clothes, piercings, tatoos, hair colors and another things) and I have to respect if someone have a tatoo or not; it's not a reason to discriminate someone.

7>> CSI Crime Scene Investigation

Left to righ: CSI Crime Scene Investigation (Las Vegas), CSI NY and CSI Miami

I started to watch the three different Tv shows of CSI a time ago (exist another CSI whos call CSI Cyber, but I have never seen it so I will not talk about it), because my mom studied something similar to what they do so she liked to watch it; and as you can actually deduce, I started to love it.

When I was twelve years old I loved these Tv shows so much that I wanted to get into PDI -it was the closest I found on Chile- to be like them; of course later I thought again my decision and I reconsidered.

My favorite of these three kinds of CSI is CSI Crime Scene Investigation. The history happens in Las Vegas and I think it is the most real, or the less fake, of the three. It is true that any of them aren't 100% real, the procedures don't happen like that, the allocation either and of course people who work on that it is not so cool as the people on the tv show, but for me, CSI Las Vegas is the most "real".

CSI Crime Scene Investigation

Lately, I don't watch Tv and I don't have time to watch series -because I have to study-, I just watch CSI, Law and Order: UVE and Caso Cerrado. That's because I can watch them when I come back for my classes, but also because I like the detective atmosphere; I like try to think like a detective and solve the cases. For the moment I don't want to watch any other series or tv show, I just wanna pass my subjects and relax.

6>> Postgraduate studies

The truth is that I don't know what I want to do next year or semester, so I don't know if I want to keep studying when I finish my program. As I said in a previous blog, I always thought that I wanna keep studying when I finish anthropology, and a part of me still thinking it, but I don't know if want to study biologic anthropology, social anthropology or archaeology, so I don't know if I would keep studying.

As I also said earlier, I want to live in another country, so If I decide studying some Ph.D or if I decide do something else I would like doing it outside of Chile. For living outside I think that I have to work so it could be better if it would be a part-time couse and a system in where I would have to go someplace (because I am really irresponsible when I do courses on internet).

If I have to decide some topics that I would love to learn, I can say linguistics, how children learn, sports, makeup, literature, music and several other topic, really differents on each other. They are very vague and big topics yet, so I don't know how can I mix this with the anthropology, however, I have time to think about it.

5>> Job as an anthropologist

I wanna be honest in this post, one of the biggest problems that I have with my career (I am studying anthropology) is the job. An anthropologist can work in almost everything so I cannot imagine myself doing something in specifical like an anthropologist. All I know is that I would like traveling or living in another country so it would be amazing if my work is an excuse for doing it.

When I start university, and before that, I always thought that I would keep studying when I finish my program, because of these days you can't just be just a professional, you have to have a Ph.D. too and a series of another hardest and specifics programs. But right now I don't care so much about that, I just want to finish anthropology first and then make enough money for traveling and live (although I am not saying no to the idea of keep studying).

All I know about my future job is I want that would be flexible, sometimes indoor, sometimes outdoor, sometimes near, sometimes far, early in the morning, late in the night, with all kind of people; a job where I can do things in my own way. Of course, I know that this is not something really easy to find, but I have hope that I could find it.

4>> Bucket List

I had never think on a bucket list, or something similar, before. I think that it's because I always change and I make things at this moment; it's difficult for me to think in the future or what I'd like to do the next year or month. But since I have to do one right now I cannot die without before traveling, alone (because I think that I often depend on other people and I wanna time to think and know myself) and with friends (because it could be really interesting and funny have this kind of memories with my best friends), and live to another country. I was travel with my friends already, but no to another country and I had never travel alone anywhere, so I really like so much the idea of doing these things as I say.

Live in another country it's especially difficult for three bigs reasons: first, I had never lived alone, I think I can be good by myself, but it'd be a completely new dimension and the change would be giant. Second, I'd like to live in some place where Spanish or English is not spoken so the language barrier would make it even more difficult. And third, which I think would be the most difficult because I can only get used to it with a lot of time (I would overcome the other things in six months or a year, but I'd need more time than that for overcoming this thing) is the culture barrier; get used to a culture that is often completely different from one, I think it will be especially difficult.

3>> Favorite movie?

I don't like watching movies. I don't have an explanation about it, I mean, I don't have an important reason to say that I don't like movies, I just don't use my free time on that; I prefer to ride my bike, read a book or listen to music (sometimes I watch little videos on the internet about random things). At the time, on the weekends, I watch some kids movies because my parents are watching it, but it's not something that I decide, I just stay there when the movie is playing. However, I dislike so much horror and romantic movies, they are not interesting for me and are a bit repetitive. I prefer to watch some funny and comic movies.

The last movie I saw was HOMECOMIG, a Beyonce movie. It's not a movie actually (it's a documental of Beyonce and her concert, but I think that can work as a movie -and as I don't like watch movies, I don't remember any other movie right now-). I think it's a great movie if you like Beyonce and her music. It was like actually being in a concert. 

The other movie I vaguely remember it's called If I stay. I saw this movie when I was, probably, fifteen years old and I saw it just because it's based on a book which calls the same way. The thing that makes me remember this movie it's the soundtrack; it's all my style of music and I love it until now.

Another movie that I saw time ago its called 3-Iron (Bin-jip) and it's a South Korean movie. I had to saw this movie for a class in the school and I remember that was so important for me. The relation of the central actors are simply magic and the way the story happen it's the perfect complement. I REALLY recommend this movie.

2>> Day6 concert

When I was a child I never went to concerts. The first time I went to one was two years ago for a Seventeen concert in Santiago (a k-pop band). However, the most memorable concert for me is the Day6 one (another k-pop band), wich was in November of 2018 in the teatro Caupolican in Santiago. 

It was memorable for me, in broadly, for three reasons: fist of all, because k-pop bands don't come to Chile frecuently, so was like a dream that this people choose come to Chile. Second, because this band is not too popular in Korea; they are a band who actually play instruments, wich means thay they don't dance or rap (they rap sometimes, but is not tipical in them), so they don't have a big fandom like other groups. And third, it's because I had an amazing time. I started to love their music and the band in general at the beginning of the last year and when they posted their concert on Chile I was really excited. I went to another concert in July, so it was luck went to Day6 concert.

I never danced, screamed and sang how much I did that day, I appreciate all things that fans made for them and it was incredible saw them so close. They always took care of us in the concert (they actually stoped the concert twice because fans in VIP zone was get in troubles) and they had so much fun (they jump all the time, play with us and smile bigger). Every time I think in this concert I remember when we was screaming so loud that I got goosebumps, shivers and my ears were stuffy. I almost cry when the two girls by my side start to cry.

1>> South Korea

As the tittle say, I'd like to go to South Korea, because I think that is really diferent in comparasion with Chile and it could be interesting learn and know things about their culture. I would start visiting tourist places (like Haedong Yonggungsa temple, Jeju Island, traditional villages, among others), but I would like to stay there studing and working for a while. In this way, I would really learn the language (and not just specifical words and phrases) and other tipical things (for try to understand them).

Haedong Yonggungsa Temple

Jeju Island

Namsan Mount

I know that it could not be easy to be part of their culture; their work really hard and all the time, for us they are workaholics, and have this pali pali thing that mean go faster (they make all fast, work, clean, eat, everything), wich for us it's weird and hard to understand. But that kind of things are what make me feek interenting about them and their culture.

Practice post: My personal information and websites

Most of my time I spend it on Instagram, Pinterest, and other websites on my phone. I understand that these applications aren't safe at all and I try to take care of what I post on it; I don't lie with the information, but I don't give complete things like dates and places where I am. Even though I have to admit that always take care of what I am postings or not and how much information that could be used with bad intentions, the need to be constantly alert is annoying and stressful. But there is nothing that I can do at this moment about it.