Greatest Chilean~

Hello everyone!. There’s a lot of Chileans that I admire, like Juan Carlos Bodoque or Alberto Hurtado, but today I’m going to talk about one that I have heard about since I was a child, because my mom admires him a lot, and now in university we are studying his life and deeds in detail. I’m talking about Clotario Blest.

He was the father of syndicalism and worker’s organization. I think that Clotario’s deeds are important because he was conscious that being organized was the best way to confront the employers and to fight for what workers want to obtain. I think he was a personification of consistency and commitment with his cause, to build a better country, more fair to everyone. He lived his commitment with his cause every day of his life. He was a pacifist, admirer of Mahatma Gandhi, and he achieves to combine the ideas of social fighting with his catholic faith. Was a critic of political parties, being a defender of the political and social movements.

He defends the idea of “direct act”, which is understood as the resolution of troubles for the people, without waiting that the government does that, or forcing the government to respond. He also takes part in other political activities, like the defense of Human Rights during the dictatorship in Chile.

If I could ask anything to Clotario, it would be something like “¿What we have to do to change this situation?” or “¿How we have to organize ourselves? I think he was some of those persons that came only a few times in history to do great things, and are full of   knowledge. As I said before, I have heard about Clotario since I was a child, because my mom admires him a lot, and now I know more about him and I admire him too.
I also think that my mom is one of the greatest Chileans of all time. Bye!! :D 

Presents! :D

For my seventeenth birthday, my brother came to my house with a giant box; the box was very big and very pretty. When I opened the box, it was full of candies. There were chocolates, biscuits, all the candies that you can imagine…and more. I loved it because ¡I love the food! ¡I LOVE IT A LOT! I love to eat, and I love candies. I remember that the arsenal of candies was so big that I was eating candies from that box during two months. My brother gave it to me because he said that my seventeenth birthday was my last birthday as a child, because the next year I will be eighteen and I will be “an adult”. Now, I preserve the box in my room, and there I keep things like pictures, plain tickets, recital tickets and things like that, is my “box of memories”.

Well another present that I received has been the surprise birthday parties that my friends have planed for me, I talk in plural because it wasn’t ONE surprise birthday party, they have organized THREE surprise parties, and the most incredible is that they have been consecutives, and for none of them I have ever suspected anything.  I suppose I am extremely absentminded. Well, the three surprise parties have been THE BEST! I love my friends  :D ! 

Language ~

Hello! Well, I have to talk about the ideas developed by Mark Pagel in his speech “How language transformed humanity”. I think that the most of the time, we don’t think about how our language is a power tool, as Pagel says, it’s the trait that makes possible the cooperation between people, that makes possible the exchange of knowledge, the learning and because of that, it makes possible the progress of our specie. We owe to the language the existence of the culture. At the same time, Pagel talks about the language and the construction of identity, I think the language put barriers in the exchange of knowledge but at the same time it built cultural identity, so more than a conscious determination to protect knowledge, I think language is an expression of cultural mentality, it reflects the mentality, preferences and habits of the group that belong to. For example, the Chileans have a different form to talk the Spanish that the Spaniards or other Spanish-speakers, that sometimes doesn’t understand what we say, and we supposed to talk the same language. I think my form to talk form my identity as individual and as a Chilean because of that, because it shows how I appoint my reality, it’s the expression of my form to see the things, and what things I see daily.