English Language Challenges

I classmates! This is my last blog and I want to talk about my English Courses.

I took four English Courses with four different teachers. Everyone was very different, not only for teacher but also the methodology, and activities.

I think that in English I and English II, I learned so much because I don`t knew nothing… and in a year I learned to write! However, I didn`t learn a lot of vocabulary. The methodology of this courses was like at school: very childish but entertaining. I liked to sing in English I! hahaha.
English III was awesome! The teacher was young and very funny, that is why the conversation was very entertaining and the topics were more friendly/nearby.  Besides being with my friends, meant that English III were great. In this course I was able to speak English.

In English IV the methodology is very different. Although topics are the same, in this semester I have been able to write in English. I think that in this course I haven`t learn so much, but I have practiced to writing. That is the reason why I think that the blogs are very useful.

In general, I think that the vocabulary is an aspect of my English that I need to be improved. I hope start to read simples book in English, and watch English serial. Exactly this week a friend lent me “The Little Prince” (English version). This is my favorite book and I have read it many times. Actually I don`t use English. That is why I think that read books of literature, and watch serials are good ideas.

In spite of that the classes are good, I think that is very important to Anthropology (the career) have a special course of English because papers and important books are in English, and they use a biological and technical vocabulary that the wordbooks or translators don`t have.   

Good and Bad Points 2014

Hi bloggers! In this post I want to make a sort of evaluation of 2014.

Well… I think that my year has been good. During the first months of year I enjoyed so much the summer: I go to beach and mountain with my boyfriend, I go out with my friends, I celebrate my birthday, and I traveled with my family.

During the first semester, I worked and studied. That was tiring but I could learn so much. Besides, I make different research and so it was very interesting: I do research on a school that accepts Down's syndrome children. I also do research on the history of a train of “Cajón del Maipo” zone. In this work my boyfriend has companied me. Besides, I went to Socaire (in north of Chile) and San Gregorio (in center) for the University. These trips were very good!

In the first semester I don`t have so time, and I can`t see a lot my friends and my family, but I think that I enjoyed a lot.

During this semester, I have seen my friends and my father but I can`t have seen a lot my mother. Anyway I have continued with my research about Down’s syndrome children, and I trip again to San Gregorio for make a research about the work of women to this town. Besides, I have continued to participate in an organization of students of anthropology in the metropolitan region.

I think that I have had little time to see my family and my boyfriend. I think that I still can spend time with they :)

The end of gender?

I bloggers! Today I must talk about the end of gender, commenting video of this link: http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_social_media_and_the_end_of_gender#t-486930

This link tell that nowadays the gender is not useful to the social media because is a very restrictive label, and today the people escape of categories demographic box.
I think that is very important understand the category “gender” like a social constructions. That is, the gender is a product of the culture and so that`s why have an ideology and is possible to deconstruct it.  

Is really that nowadays the gender is different to in the old time, but is really too that in this time exist categories of gender that the society reproduce. That is obviously in the market, but all the time we are reproducing these categories: with clothes, language, our movements… all the time! Including the space is order to maintain these categories.

Sometimes we criticize other people (models, soccer players, etc.) because they wear or behave “like a girl”, for example. But we also wear and behave using the gender categories. We reproduce this restrictive label. All of us tell “gay” when a man behaves “like a girl”, and criticize when a women does not shave her leg. All these form of act are the application to gender categories, and that is why I think that the change is deeper that modify the publicity.

That is why I think that the exposition of the women of video is not useful: this only serves to market and bigger business… and these companies only going to use this information to change the mechanism to offer their products, and not to recognize and eliminate the oppression of the gender categories.  

Facebook!

Hi bloggers! In this post I talk about my relationship with Facebook.

Well… I check my profile all the time: in my mobile or my notebook. It is a fatal attraction! Yes! Sometimes I don`t can concentrate in my papers and I don`t can read. Therefore I have to switch off the computer and disconnect the wifi to study. I don`t have portable internet and this is a help. All day appear news notifications to events, photos, comments… and there are always something to see. Facebook is really a distraction.

I use the Facebook to upload photos, inform me to events and communicate to my friends. Besides, I can recorder easily the birthday to my friends. This is awesome because I ever forget the celebrations. I think that Facebook is very useful to recorder events, birthdays and other dates. I use it very much to I am informed to theater plays and cultural festivals: I can see the play, dates, theater, price and the different troupe. For example, a friend invite me to his theater play eventhough I don`t see him three months ago. So I find their work and I can see him.

I think that Facebook is very useful to calendar, but it not can replace the personal communication. Sometimes the people meet friends only to Facebook, or the people have a relation (with friends, or boy/girlfriends) without see them. I think that this is other negative aspects to Facebook.

Environmentally friendly practices

Hi bloggers! Today I want to talk about the environment and environmentally friendly practices. I think that in Santiago and Chile in general, the recycling and the use and consumption to Green products are very difficult. That is so because this products are very expansive and them don`t are reachable for the majority of the people.

In general, I use the bus in the city, but also I use the bike, especially in summer. I love the bike because is cheap and friendly with the environment. The problem is that in the city are not very bicycle parking and in some place is not permit put the bike in bars or in the inside of the restaurants or cinemas. Besides, the cars don’t respect the bike… is very difficult use the street! However, I prefer use the street to bicycling.

Besides to use the bike, I recycling in my house: we classify the litter in different trash can and a special garbage truck picks it. Also in my house we have a little vegetable garden and we consume this herbs and vegetables. I think that it is very important to Environment. Finally, I consider important use rationally the water using only the necessary.

I consider me a green person, but I know that is so much what I must do… and especially that the government and big business must do to protect the environment.