My Semester.

Hello everybody!

Today is my last post and I’m gonna talk about my semester.

This semester was so hard because third year is the most difficult year of the career, especially because we start other stage in the career. We finished the basic cycle, and the paternalist teachers, so, all the subjects was harder of the normal. Instead the difficult, I have to say that the second semester of this year was easier and relaxed to me, and my marks were so good to!

I think that the best things of this semester were, first of all, the friends that I made and the friends that stayed with me. In second place, I finish the research that I was doing in all year with my friends for one subject. This research was very important because was my first work like sociologist with a community (I worked with real people and not just with dates and survives!). Also I worked like assistant of epistemology, and this was the most important academic experience for me, I learned a lot and I think that his motivate to me to stay me in the career.

The bad things of this semester were the high rhythm of academic life, and that I had to work a lot to survive in the university. This made my life so hard, but with my friends I could move forward.

I hope that my next semester will be cooler and kawai than this.

Thanks for read this and all my blogs.

Bye! 

My ambition.

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Today I’m gonna talk about my biggest ambition.

I’m not sure that my ambition will be the same for all my life, but, today I’m want to live in the south of the country, having a house with a vegetable garden and working like teacher of sociology (I hope, of theory) in the University of Valdivia.

I want achieve this because I’m tired of the pollution and noise, and the bad people that exist in Santiago, and in the last summer I traveled to Puerto Montt and Chiloé, and in both place I knew another way to live, a way more calm, more pacific, more slowly, and the most important, I saw so much people happy (difficult thing to see in Santiago). After this travel, I started to think how can live in this place (or nearly) and have this kind of life without throw away my career. So, one day I listen to a friend that in Valdivia will be open the Sociology’s career very soon, so I started to take assistantship to have the competent curriculum for being teacher. I think that this mix of things, be an academic of the sociology and have a life in the farm, is the best combination that could present to me, especially (and this is the reason for that I would like to achieve this ambition) because of this way I could reset of the noisy Santiago and I could connecting me with the nature without throw away all this years in the university.

If I can fulfill my ambition, it will mean to me started of zero, and a big progress in my idea of living better than now, and if I have children, in give to them a better life –I think- that the life and childhood that I had.

Bye!

ACTIVITIES

Hello everybody!

Today I’m gonna talk about a practice activity and my results.

In the activity I had to do three exercises about reading, two about listening and one exercise about vocabulary. My best score was on reading activities, in both I have the maxims score, but, for another side, in the activity about vocabulary I had 25 correct answer of 33. For this reason I think that I need work more on vocabulary, because there a lot of words that I don’t know and if I don’t have so many vocabulary it will be difficult that I can read, listen and talk English very well.

We’ll see as, bye!

A person that I admire

Charles Aranguiz

Hello everybody! Today I’m gonna talk about a public Chilean person that I admire J

The name of this person is Charles Aranguiz, a soccer player, and I know him because he played in Universidad de Chile, the football club of my life.

Charles before to be a soccer player was a very poor boy. He and his brother played soccer in their neighborhood and their mother have a lot illusion that one of them could be a great soccer player and could get out of the poverty.  How Charles was the second child, all the cards were putting in his brother, but he was dad, so had to star to work and leave the soccer. For this reason Charles was the hope of the family. He left his house in Santiago, and traveled to Calama when he was very young. Far of his family started a silent and lonely football career, career that was fruitful when he came to Universidad de Chile. His hard story life, and his way to play, very silence, very smart, very solidary, very exactly, are the things that I admire of him. I admire to his modest, because after all, being America’s champion he still being very shy and very humble and this give me admiration and cuteness.

 If someday I could see him face to face, probably I asked him if he will come back to Universidad de Chile, and if is real that “Dany Daniel”, a man that I knew in this summer is his friend.

Finally I just want to say that if the entire soccer player was like Aranguiz, we could win the world cup!

Bye J

My favorite artist

Hi everybody! Today I’m gonna talk about Syd Barrett, my favorite artist.

Syd Barrett was the founder of the Britannic Rock band called “Pink Floyd”, and his real name was “Roger Keith Barrett”, but don’t had problems with “Roger Watters”  he change his name to Syd. Also, he was a very good painter. I discovered him in 2010 because I knew Pink Floyd and I liked it, but, I don’t feel me complete with the band, I felt that something was missing in my life and in my music, and someday, I don’t know why, I wrote “Effervescing elephant” in google and show up to me all the songs of Syd Barrett.

I like about them principally the lyrics of his songs. I feel very represent with the lyrics of Syd, especially when I was on a very dark depression. Also I like his paints and sometimes his music, but he wasn’t a very good musician jaja.

My favorite piece about him is I think that maybe “The madcap laughs” but I really love everything of him, I love too Opel and Barrett .I think that he must be live, but the good people die young.

Finally maybe is interesting say that the Pink Floyd’s song “Wish You Where Here” and “Shine In Your Crazy Diamond” (the best songs of Pink Floyd after him) were wrote for him.

Good bye!

the job that I would like to have

"Something with woman".

Hello everybody!

Today I’m gonna try to talk about the job that I would like to have. Why I’m saying “try”? Because now I’m in a “vocational crisis” or maybe in an “existentialist crisis”. I really don’t have idea about what I want to do with my life. I don’t have idea if I want to have children, if I want working like sociologist, if I want live in Santiago, I don’t know nothing. But, putting me in the place of a very good sociology’s student maybe I would like work in a municipality.

I like the idea of work in a municipality because I think that is a good form to be closer with the people and help them a lot. Before my existentialist crisis I wanted work with woman, because I’m considerate very closer and agree with the feminism, and I think that a part of feminist’s fight have to be make aware the woman about the our oppress condition in this system.

I don’t know exactly what will be the functions in a job like that, but, I think that a qualities or skills that could help me in this kind of job are the empathy, the patient, and the love for find new knowledge (academic and the knowledge result of the job with other woman, of the experiences).

I think that the satisfaction that this job would bring to me is make this world or at least the borough where I will work, a place freer of patriarchy’s oppression, a place where the woman can speaker high when she feels forced, humiliated or assault.

Finally I think that with or without this job, is very important that the woman fights all the time, in our house, in the street, in the school, in the university, well, in all the places that we can, against the patriarchy.

Bye!

What I'm reading now

SOCIOLOGY OF DISABILITY

Hello everybody! Today I’m gonna talk about the things that I’m reading right now.

First, I want to say that with the university rhythm, I can’t read so much, so, what I’m reading now are academic things for a subject called “Técnicas Cualitativas”.

Well, in this subject we have to choose one research problem and locate it in a specific community and work with them all the scholar year. The research problem that my group and I choose was the “Sociology of disability” and we are working with a pedagogic school which students are autistic or have some cognitive damage. For this reason, what I’m reading now are papers and research about Sociology of disability, so, as you can see, they are all academic texts.

I’m enjoying reading academic papers about Sociology of disability because I think that is a very abandon topic for the sociology and the social sciences in general, and I think that is very important to know about this topic. For other side, I have a brother with autism (students of the school where we are working) so is a very valuable knowledge to my personal and familiar life too.

Finally I want say little things that I learn about all the papers that I read. First, I learn that the handicap is a mix of a biologic aspect and social aspect, so, despite the physic or mental problem exist and you can’t overlook this, people etiquette handicaps persons like inferiors for the social consensus that you have to be functional for the system (productive system). Secondly, I learn that is crucial to change the way to see the handicapped, passing of the “personal tragedy” to a “social etiquette”. And finally I learned that all the intents to include the handicap persons are in reality, attempts to “normalize them” but not let them be like they are.

I'll see you the next week.

Bye!