Music

Hi everyone! Today I will talk about something that I like very much, actually, I love it: Listen to music.

Seriously, i love it since I have use of reason, almost every style of it.

 I have very clear why I like so much to listen music, because I firmly believe that it  can be one of the best ways to express our emotions, in any way that we want. Composers, singers, bands... I am going to talk about two of my favourites now.

  I like very much Béla Bartók, an Hungarian composer, who based his pieces in traditional Hungarian music. They may haven’t got a message or an emotion when they was composed, but when someone listen to it, can experiment a full variety of emotions. When I listen Sonata for Violin & Piano No. 2, I can easily imagine someone running afraid of something, or a suspense scene in a movie.

 And, in the other hand, I really love a band called The Spill Canvas, because their songs always are very deep and emotional, expressing feelings trough their lyrics, but in a way that  feel so much especial than other songs. That is because (I think) they use words to express in a less simple way that other bands, not using big words or anything, but giving them a sense of deep feelings and emotions, and, at least for me, that is what makes their songs amazing, filled with expressivity on each line.

Something for my presentation

Well, today I would like to talk about the topic I chose  for my oral presentation. It is has to be related to something according my career. I am studying Anthropology. Under my point of view, in this area there are many things I would think are very interesting for everybody, but I decide to talk about a thing that particularly caught my attention during my classes, The Kula.

The Kula is a ceremonial exchange made between people who lives in Trobriand Islands. The first time I heard of it, was while I was reading a text called Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922) by Bronislaw Malinowski (an anthropologist who documented the exchange)  for one of my classes. The Kula exchange consist of two elements that go through different villages, a necklace( called soulava) and a bracelets(mwali), in different ways, depending on which corresponds to each.

My presentation will be like this: Probably I will start talking about how I know the Kula, say how this information came to us and who wrote it. Then I will explain how it works and dwell on it.

For me, the interest thing about the Kula consist of the way that it works, how societies that are participating on it are formed and respond to social patterns dictated by this exchange, how relationships between people are generated from this. I think it would be interesting for my Anthropology mates, and for everyone in the class who is interested in relationships in general.

Technology

Hi! Today I am going to talk about my favourite piece of technology. And that is my tablet. I really love my tablet. My parents gave it to me for the last Christmas, because the last tablet that I have broke up  when it fells. I think is my favourite technological device because it allows me to do a big variety of things, from play games, to watch videos or study for university with no problems. I think I like my tablet for that reason specifically, because I can carry it with me without use much space on my bag, and can use it in a comfortable way in many places, like the subway or the bus.
It has been very useful in my university routine, on my free time between classes I often use it for reading the texts for the subjects, study for any test and get information for my homework,  and when I have nothing to do, I play some games that I previously downloaded as apps. I don’t think I could live well without my tablet, it makes many things a lot  easier than if I haven’t got one, but I try very hard to do my tasks trying to not require my tablet, if not someday I don’t have it with me.

A Picture

I took this picture in a travel to San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, during my study tour in the summer between third year and last year of high school, in January 2014. We went from Santiago, trough a big part of the Southern Chile, to finish in Argentina. There, my class stayed a few days. We went to many places, and this picture was taken when, after getting on a Cable car in an excursion, me and the girl who was my partner, reached the top of the mountain, and saw all the magnificence of the place we were. In that moment, I just felt the need to record that view forever, have an incentive to come back one day and feel the same thing that I felt, the feeling of looking at the nature in the most beautiful way.
I think the picture looks exactly like the view in that moment, in the morning, and very natural. I like how the mountain looks so majestic, like it is floating on the lake. I like how the woods, looking so small in the picture, actually was a very big piece of land, covered by trees that are enormous.
I hope come back one day, and  hope everything looks the same as it was when I went.