This last week

Every last week of classes or holidays are the hardest one. Mainly because of the feeling for change the status.

At the last week of classes there is a concentration of tests and works for university, and the last effort is the biggest one because you only want to finish quickly. In this moment I’m in that position. I’m doing my best for pass every subject without having to take an exam in March.

I just want to be on holidays with my family. Now they are in Santiago but I can do all things they do because I’m in class.

In these five weeks of holidays I will spend my time between beach, party and a lot of sleeping, also going out with my boyfriend and friends.

At the end of holidays I will have to decide what mention do I want. Now I’m not quite sure but it is possible that the choice be between archeology or social anthropology.

I hope everyone has decided what mention are they going to take, because to don’t know is very stressful. If you are not sure about what you’re going to follow, don’t worry because you’re not the only one.

I try to imagine in the future and I see both possibilities as a good choice. My preoccupation is what thing will make me happy. I don’t know yet but I hope that the roads that I will walk guide me in a good sense.

Right now my family is at the living room eating, and I’m so hungry. After I finish this note I will go and sit in there to share some time.

I wish you the best for this week and try to not get much stress. It’ll happen after this Friday.

Cheers!

How green I am

To be honest I am not the most green person in this world, but I do try to do a contribution to the enviorment. My family also is trying to do one making shortest the showers or not doing the dishes with the water running.

Also I’ve learned that we have to disconnect the charger of cell or unplug the computer when you’re not using them to save energy.

But I think that my biggest contribution, and also my biggest use of nature for my own is that I make my own yogurt. I don’t have to buy yogurt in the market and also it’s more healthy to the body. The home yogurt is made in basis of fungus called “pajaritos”. This fungus were really common in the country and my grand mother used to do her own yogurt, so she gave me “pajaritos”. Other thing that I like about my “pajaritos” is that I don’t have to buy creams made of chemical products. I used the yogurt in my face in the morning and in night. It is really good to preserve the skin of my face.

I think I don’t do espectaculars things to change the world, but I do try to save in all the thing I can. Also when I go to the supermarket I carry my own bag, so I don’t bring home all the bags that supermarket gaves you.

Also I do recycling. Every two weeks we go to the recycling park to drop the millk boxes, the tins of beer, the bottle of wine and the plastics and the cardboard boxes, insted to throw this things to the garbage.

To be green is something that you learn once and you don’t forget it. Is an actitude of respect to the world and with time been green feels normal, and then you learn another green thing.

Have a nice week, bye!

Negrita: my dog

Today I’m going to write about my dog. Her name is Negrita, I called negrita because when she was a puppy her fur were all black. Now she’s 8 years old and her fur turn white in most of her body.

I’m writing about her because she is a very special dog, everyone always say that. When she came to my home I lived in a big house with a huge garden, so she was our guardian and she was fierce.

She always walked by me side with me to school, I took half hour in get to school and when I arrived she walked alone back to home. In nights she used to walk to the center of my city, and sometimes my friends told me they’ve seen her there.

One day we change of home to a smaller one in a village, and my neighbors didn´t like that she were free so they threatened to kill her, so we had to safe her from ours terrible neighbours.

In the country people tie up her all day, so she got depression and we take her again to my home. Since that experience she become in the most loyal dog I’ve ever seen. She wait for me outside the supermarket when I go by walking, or when I want to eat for some pizza I look over the window and she is waiting quietly outside. Also when I go to my home in south, she jumps of joy when she see me and then she lay down ,making me to do some cuddle to her.

Here’s a picture of my lovely dog J

The guardian.

The museum of natural history returned 138bones to Torres Strait Islanders.

People of Australia and New Guine are happy to have back the bones of 138 men and women. It is believed that this is the biggest repatriation of human remains from any UK museum collection. They said that this is a wonderful moment for them because their people are “coming home”.
The biggest ranging of skeletons has been en England since 19th, but it has been transported to Australia as souvenirs, or as a private collections.
For twenty years native people is reclaiming the bones, but the museums weren’t legally allowed to return the collections.
Since 2006 the Human Tissues Act gave national museums the power of return some things of value to the communities who where agree with the repatriation.
In this case the repatriation doesn’t mean that the science will lose the research, instead this could continue for years. Also the museum is offering to build a place where to keep the bones there because the study can provide answers to this people about their past.
In response to that a native said that they are not doing this for the science, they are doing it because those are remains of human being. But they don’t deny scientific studies.

This is the link of the article! http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/mar/10/museum-returns-torres-strait-islanders-bones?INTCMP=SRCH

Looking at the past.

Today I’m going to write about things that I used to do on this time of the year, but a few years back. Always when class got over, my parents send me and my sisters to the country with my grandparents. It is in Los Muermos, and it was a beautiful place to spend the summer. I used to go with all my cousins, we were 8 kids with a few difference in age. Every day we were playing or helping in work to our grandparent “opa”. I remember the first time I had to spurn on some cows, I was really nervous but exited because to me that was the most important thing to do in the country. Also I remember that my opa every evening used to told us stories about the pictures of the living room. We had to choose a painting and he started talking about it. At the end we all went to sleep, to start a new day. I always returned to Santiago in March, so I don´t remember how is to spend the summer in here, because now my family lives in Puerto Varas since ten years ago.

A new and strange term

This new term is a little bit chaotic because it’s starting in the time it should be finishing. But it’s a consequence of been in strike for six months, so now we have to do our best to get good marks. I was working these months but the academic charge is really big so I had to quick mi job, I really want to have good marks.

This semester I have to take seven subjects which are structuralism, prehistory II, English level 4, Ethnography, Ethnology, Psychology and research workshop I. It’s a hard semester when all the contains of the subjects is resume in just 9 or 10 weeks, that means we have to work without a break in this time. That’s a very complicated situation because I’m from out of Santiago and I will spend the summer away from my family and lost their vacations. Also in the month we won’t have class I’ll be studding for the exams. Luckily I will travel to my home for Christmas and also I’ll spend the new year there. So now the only thing it worry me is that I cannot see my boyfriend for a while because he is in the same situation than I but living in Valdivia.