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.

Ice Cream!!

Hi everyone!

I am a vegetarian, so is difficult to me go to any place and realize that the restaurant doesn’t have a vegetarian menu. It is sad, because i only can eat salad, and that bores you at the end. Because of that I’m not a person who go out for eat, I prefer stay in my house and cook my own food. But I really love Ice cream, and if I find somewhere I can find it, that would make my day. There are many places in Santiago where you can find Ice cream, from the typical McDonald’s site, passing through a place called Paradiso where there is an offer ( Two simples only  for $550, if you need desperately an Ice cream), to any place specialized on it, where you can find an infinity variety of tastes.  A place I know is in Los Leones station, in Providencia. There is an Ice Cream shop called Emporio la Rosa, where you find a big and rare variety of tastes, like rose, or orange-ginger. I think is a little expensive, but their Ice Creams are very delicious.  

Art and me

If there is something I would like to learn is art. Any type of art: painting, making sculptures, drawing, compose, etc. I believe art is the pure expression of the soul, the consequence of the mix of all our emotions in one final thing, a thing that, with only see it or feel it, can express our interiority.

I already tried with music, when I was about fourteen I tried to learn how to play violin, but it requires a lot of time, and a lot of practice. I gave up because I thought it was too hard for me. Then, I tried to learn piano, and I think that is the only instrument I can play, but in a very basic way.

In another matters, like painting and drawing, I think I can improve the few skills I have, but actually I have not got the time, because I have many things to do for the university.

Anyway, when I have time I will spend it on try to improve my drawing skills; draw and paint  always relax me, even if my draws are not very good (:

I hope have time soon! 

My Ambition

I do not consider myself a person with many ambitions, but if I have to think about one, I remember that when I was younger, my principal wish was become a writer, and create and know fantasy worlds. Now, a little bit older, my greatest ambition is travel around the world and know the most I can about other cultures. On the television, in the books, in the movies, people always travel to different countries, know other languages and people from other culture, and I always wanted that for me. I think I have this ambition because my curiosity, my desire of know new things.  Like when I was a child, I still want to know worlds that, to me, can be a new experience, something out of the ordinary, something that belong to the fantasy. I think if I know other places, I will feel full of the best sensations.

Plus, I would get many benefits, like speak many languages, and taste a lot of types of food!

Internet?

Hi! mmm Internet. I really, really like internet, but I have a little problem with it: I spend too much time searching for things that are not so important like the things for the university, for example. I’m an addicted! I think I wasted time that I could use for more productive things, but I’m trying to reduce the time and focusing more on my studies. Despite that, the sites I most visit are Facebook, for communication; Google, I love searching things, even the smallest and worthless issues. Another site I use usually is Youtube, where I mostly use for listen music and watch some Youtubers, and some blogs about my favorite books and movies.

Because of Facebook, I found a very interesting website, where I find news that are not often on the Television, http://vozciudadanachile.cl/  Here, I read about almost every kind of theme, with a little bit of political tendency, but I like it because it have sections like Human Rights, Justice, Education and Healthy. I visit this site very often, because i see the post about it on Facebook

But I have to admit, I am a little bit addicted and, interesting things or not, I should spend less time on internet!