My last post.

Hello, this is my last post of the year, so I’m going to talk about my experience with the English this semester, and how my English level changed in comparison to before.

This was my first and unique subject of English in all this years of university, so was a new experience for me. I think it was good because I don’t usually have the possibility of practice English anywhere, I don’t have English or American friends neither, so my only approach to the English is with music and movies… it’s good to talk and learn an specific things that you can’t learn seeing movies or listening music, like vocabulary, connectors, etc. Also I never write in English, so to make blogs every week it helps me to improve my writing abilities.

About the things that I have to improved, I think that the most important is the reading comprehension, I read really slow in English, and that is a big difficulty when I have to read big texts, apart are difficult texts, so It’s a double work for me… I supposed that the only solution it’s to read and read and read in English. I want to start to read English novels… I never did this before, must be fun to read a novel in other language.

And how I mentioned before, I do not usually talk in English because I don’t have the possibility, however I think my speaking and listening it’s fine, I think because I see a lot of movies in English, sometimes without subtitles. I made some travels also outside the country and there I had the possibility to talk, but is minimum. I would like when I finish the university, to travel around and practice my English, also I would like to learn other language, like German or French.

Well, that is all for today and for ever.
Byebyebyebebabybaby 

Changes to my study programme

Hi, today I’m going to talk about some changes that I think that are important for mi actual career.
I study anthropology and there are many things that works really bad. The first thing is that we have something called the “basic cycle”, this are the two first years of career, are years of introduction of anthropology in order to guide you in your later  specialization decision (social anthropology, archaeology of physic anthropology). I think that this two first years subject doesn’t help in anything, are to general and you don’t realize about the real meaning of study anthropology. Also in social anthropology are many subject that doesn’t work for my personal interesting, so I would try to make more elective subjects that goes according with the personal interesting of each person. In the same way I’m really interesting in issues relating to esthetic, visual arts, anthropology, and how these are connected… we have some subject relating with the visual thing but it’s to vague, the information and the capacitation for this is really basic so I feel that I’m not learning anything, the teacher is not good… so I would try to make a couple of subject  of this topics with good teachers, and with some technology to make some visual material. That is other thing, I think that the focus of the career it’s to theoretical, but there are many other ways of expression that we can use to realize about social problems, or whatever.
All that I say before was a personal thing, but in general terms I think that the worst thing of the career is a problem that is happening right now for me, the degree process. It is really long and you have to pass many proves to approve. First you have to finish all the subjects, then you have to do the “investigation studio 1”, then the “memory studio 1”, then the “memory studio 2”, at the same time you have to do the practice and finally the thesis, that it could take you many time, so at least you have to study in the university 7 years. I think it’s many time and I don’t really want to stay longer here so I don’t know what to do. So I try to modify that, because is the really hell.
Well, is that for today.
Bye

Postgraduate course.

Hi, today I’m going to talk about of my future studies after finish the university, the postgraduate courses.

Actually, I’m really confused about my future in the studies terms. I’am not sure if I’m going to study more. I feel that at the moment I spend a lot of time studying in the university and I want to do other kind of things. My plan is to finish all my courses the next semester, or in the worst case at the end of the year (next year) and then I want to take a break of the academic thing. Maybe travel, or do things that I want, maybe work in something. I’m not sure about anything.
However, I think that in the future… maybe in five more years or close to that I might like to take a master in visual antropologhy. I realize a time ago that I can postulate to any master without the tesis, only with the licenciature in antropologhy, so the plan is that.
I hope to do that master in other country, I don’t know where, but I know about some places in Europe, specifically some universities in Berlin, Barcelona and Sarajevo, the best is the last one, and some of the teachers of that place are like my actual favorites movie directors, so it would be great to do the course in Sarajevo.

Well, that is all for today.
Bye.

This summer.

Hi, today I'm going to talk about of my plans for this holidays.
I have two plans for this summer, one for january and one for february.

In february I want to go to the south of Chile, in particular to Chiloé, I have family, a couple of cousins that are a kind of hippie (haha) and they live in a comunity. I went a few years ago but I couldn't stay longer, so I want to stay at least two or three weeks with them, work with them and I hope that they have time to go to other places with me... in the other case I'm going to travel alone or maybe with other friends -that I now that also going this summer to this place- aroud the islands that are near to Chiloé. There are many nice places that you can visit, and is very sheap, but anyway I need some money, so my plan for january is to work on something... I have a contact in a Bar that I can work at nights… I think being a barman, or something like that, so my plan it’s to do that and  also other kind of things and with that money I hope that my Chiloé plan becomes true. Also in January I want to make some music because I’m going to have enough of time, and things that I liked, like read books that I can’t read in the year, makes some videos… I don`t know. The idea it’s to do things that I like it.

Well, that is all for today.
Bye.

Future job:

Hi, today I'm going to talk about something really important and basic for the life: my future job.
I study anthropology, so I suppose that my future job have to be relacionated with a anthropologic things. I like art, cinema, and the visual things, so I would like to mix this visual thing with anthropology. I'm interested in describe by images, different kind of situations, different kind of realities.  I think that the closer type of movies that I want to do is the documental, but is not just that. I want to play with the sensorial spirits that things have, try to go deeper into the material... is not just about the material, is how this material work in a context, the way of  the relations that this material have. Is not just about the "table" for example, is how this table operate in a determinate situation. I think anthropology is about that, realize that normal things are not just normal, are more complicated than that and that exist infinite dimension to look at them. So I think that the visual entry it's like ideal or optimal to describe this. The visual thing is the only that comprise time and space in one, so is perfect for the things that I want to represent. I can not do this just writing, I have to shoot. And for that I want to do a master of visual anthropology when I finish the university here. I don’t now where, but I suppose that outside the country, because here we don't have many opportunities to do that kind of things.
Of course that this is a strange job, or not usual... maybe is not a job, but is that I want to do. It is an outdoor job, and also that is one of the reasons because I like it. I like to be outside, I like to see, to admire, to know new things, to surprise all the time with the reality, so of course that travelling is important for this, but not essential... we can surprise with anything, here or there, close or far. The magic is in all the things and situations.

The salary is a complicated topic, but the money is just a fake invent and I'm not going to stop to do the things that I want to do for the money. I believe that you can be happy just doing the things that you like. I suppose that I have two options... one is be really good with my plans and make some money with that, but if that don’t happen, I suppose that I'm going to be "poor". But today is not a point. I can make some money also with fondart postulations , etc... I really don't know about the money topic. I suppose that one day I'm going to be worried about that.

Well, that is all that I want to say today about the job thing.
Bye

'Have you ever experienced with drugs'

Hi, now I'm going to talk about my experience with drugs.
I think that life it's about do things, make things, try other things. Life it's about experience, so drugs for me is one of all the experiences that you can try. I don't thing that it's a bad thing... of course the excess in all the cases are bad, but to try sometimes new things its just a personal thing.
Also the concept of drug is a kind of confused, what is a drug and what is not? why tabacco is legalized and marihuana for example not. What is the limit, who make this limit? Laws are an strager thing, and we don't have to believe in all of them, we have to be persons who questions this limits, because they goes against of our freedom, and this freedom is the only that we have.
So, for the cuestion about de legalization of certains drugs I'm totally agree, for the above reasons. I'm not sure what kind of drugs can be legalize, that is an more deep discussion. But at least marihuana must be legalize. (I don't understeand how we can drink alcohol and don't smoke weed, for example).
I have had many experiences with drugs, and the reasson for this is the same. I think it's important to try new things, to realize about things that in your normal consciousness state you can not. And it is true. For example after try LSD I realize about family problems that before I didn't think, also I realize about personal things... maybe some ways to afront some problems. After this day (5 year ago) I get definitely more calmed about problems that I had about the society, about my life, about things that now are not important for me.
About the restriction of some areas to smoke I think it's good, because here there is a limit. The liberty is over when you overpass the rest of the people, and cigarrete is annoying for many people, in particular in close places so i'ts good to have a regulation. I don't like the park or stadium restriction because are an open places.

HOLIDAYS
I think that my best holidays was this year, a few months ago, when I went to Europe. It was on July, and during about 7 weeks. I traveled for many cities and countrys, like France, Italy, Croatia, Germany, Holland and Switzerland.

I went alone, but my two older brothers lives in Berlin, Germany, so I meet them there, and I did some short trips with them.

The activities that I made was basically go over the cities, walk a lot, I went to a lot of museums, artistic venues, some concerts, I visited a lot of parks too. Everyday I did different things beacause it was summer there, so in all the places it was events, many people in the streets, a lot of things happened.
Also in Italy and Croatia I went to some beaches, the weather was really warm. Actually in Italy I meet with a friend that study circus in Bologna, so we went together to a close beach... was nice.

The most of the time I stay in Berlin with my brothers. They are a artist, musicians, so it was so great to saw their concerts/performance there. I realize that the artistic scene its so different than here, and I like that really much. There is more movement, and is not like a difficult thing to do, you just do it. In Chile doesn't happend that, it's more difficult to be an artist, the oportunities are less, and always you have the "money problem".

I think it was my best holidays because I meet with my brothers, and I understeand the things that they do in Berlin...  It was always a mistery for me, but not anymore. Also was great becasuse a meet a lot of people, nice people friend of them.