Anthropology~

Hello! Well, today I will tell about why I am studying anthropology. I always knew that I wanted to study a humanist career, but not like the typical careers like laws or psychology, so I started to find out about different careers, and finding information about each one, I decided to study anthropology, because it seems to be very interesting. I think professionals in this area contribute to society through the effort to understand the different mentalities of different groups and cultures, and using that knowledge they try to improve the life conditions of the people, but from the idea of what they consider like a better lifestyle, not what we think it’s better for them. This is what I want to do, because I think that a real vocation always involves a social purpose.

For that, I think that professionals in this area need to have the skill to interact whit people, to comprehend how they think and live, an needs to puts in the others place to understand the other’s situation, mentality and culture (because  this is essentially what anthropologist do).

My favorite subject is ethnography, which is being with the people in their own environment, looking their activities and behavior and being part of that, participating whit them. I also like biology and how it is related with the different cultures, the different genetic information and even the running of the cells, it is incredible!  

But I am just in the first year, so in the future we will see how it really is. (: 

My family

Hello everyone! , today I am going to talk about my  family, because I can talk about any topic that I want to refer, and my family is the topic that I know the best. Well, I live with my mom, mi sister, my grandmother and my cat. I really admire my mom, since she was young has been a hard-working woman, she left her house in Ovalle when she was seventeen , and came to Santiago to study, far away from his family. I also admire her because, since my dad died, twelve years ago, she has to go ahead with the responsibility of being mom and dad at the same time, but always keeping alive the memory of our dad. I think that my mom is a very strong woman.

My sister is fifteen years old, we are like friends, we share everything (but sometimes we fight because she steals my clothes) and we tell everything to the other. We also go to parties together, because we have friends in common, so we are like a pack: “the Lea-Plaza sisters”.

My grandmother is the best, she came to live with us when my dad dies, and since then she takes cares of me and my sister. She was a teacher, so when we was little girls she help us in our homework and teach us math (the Lea-Plaza sisters are horrible in math).

I also have a brother, he is 29 years old. I love him, he is tall and looks like a serious old man, with his rough  look (when my friends met him usually are scared, but then they realize that he is nice). With us, his little sisters, he is so affectionate; it’s like a teddy bear… a giant teddy bear.This is a picture of me and my sister (L) .

  

Hello! Today I’ll tell you about the websites that I most enjoy to visit.

I usually visit sites to find information for studies, but this is not really something that I enjoy to do, so when I have time to relax and visit any site that I want, I use to visit the website of a Chilean caricaturist, Alberto Montt, the website is www.dosisdiarias.com , I like to visit his site because his cartoons are very funny and also he make an analysis to the people and the society. For the same reasons I also like to visit the site of an Argentinean caricaturist called Liniers, his website is http://www.porliniers.com/ .

I discovered the site of Montt because someday I saw one of his cartoons illustrating an opinion in a blog and I found it really good, so I wanted to know more about his work. In the case of Liniers, I discovered it for a friend who shows me a book of Liniers and I found it great, but I didn’t have the money to buy a book, so I decided to look for his work on the web.

Also, when I have time, I like to look for the work of a street artist that I really like; it’s called Banksy, who is recognized as one of the most important street artist. He do graffitis and another artistic interventions…he painted the wall that divides Jerusalem! Is very revolutionary and daring, he launch a fierce attack to the society through his work. This is his website http://www.banksy.co.uk/

Finally, I like to visit Facebook to be in contact with friends, and Youtube to see videos and listen to music.

Bye everyone! Here I leave you with Banksy’s work.

Hi classmates!, today I’d like to tell you about Los Bunkers. I really like this band because they have a social message in their songs, they show how is the Chilean society (they are Chileans), and I think that this is really important because is an opinion about how the people that lives in this society see the things that happens in our country. They play rock, but I don’t know how to describe specifically their style. In the last time, they launched a tribute album to Silvio Rodriguez, and they also have made covers of Inti Illimani’s songs. These artists play a style of music that it’s different of the style of Los Bunkers, but this band  play it well too.

I think that it’s important that Chileans know about Los Bunkers and about another Chilean musicians, because they are really good, and they are representing and showing our country to the rest of the world by means of their music .My favorite song of this band is “Canción para mañana”, it’s beautiful and reflects the historic memory of Chile, it talks about the militaries and the hope in a better future. It’s melancholic, but it’s also nice and encouraging. :) 

Bye! :D