Post 9: Changes to My Study Programme

Hi everyone! Today I have to talk about my Study Programme and inmediately I think about my first years of University. The career of Anthopology at the University of Chile has a programme of five years, two of them form the "Basic Cycle" where we had subjects of the three mention: Social Anthropology, Physical Anthropology and Archaeology. In that period, I didn't like that the subjects were focused in the area of social Anthropology, while the subjects of Physical Anthropology, the mention that I like, were a few. When I started my third year and I chose the mention of Physical Anthropology, everything changed, but I also found problems here. 

The mention of Physical Anthropology is known as the hardest mention, with a heavy workload and severe tests and teachers. But I would say that I have no problem with that. If you want to have good grades, you just have to study daily, practice your skills with time in the laboratory and trying to be a methodical person. About the subjects in the mention, I can say that I don't like the fact that we don't have methodological subjects specific to the mention, so we have to study subjects with the archaeologists. I don't think that it's bad, because we need to learn to excavate, for example, but we don't learn how to excavate human remains. We can read about this, but is not the same experience as doing it on the work field.

Another problem that we have as a mention is the precarious infrastructure of the University. In the Faculty, there are only two laboratories, one of Genetic and the other of Osteology. In the last one, we have problems, because the amount of people is over the capacity of the laboratory, so the learning environment isn't the appropiate. The new building have two more laboratories for Physical Anthropology's studentes, but they aren't equiped yet! Also, we don't have gloves!!! and they are very necessary to us :c 

Besides, I would like to have access to new technology in the area of genetic or virtual anthropology, but the money of the University goes to other places.

Bye!

Post 8: Summer Holidays

Hi everyone... for this blog, I don't have much to tell you because I am not used to make plans in advance. Actually, all my summers are almost the same so I don't have to worry very much. Every year, I go to Licancheu, a rural place in the VI region where my grandparents live. There, I will spend time with my cousins because this house is the destination for my maternal family. This is one of the reasons why I like this time of the year, because I enjoy being with my cousins who I don't see during the rest of the year. We are probably going to go to the beach and the river that is near the house. We are going to play cards and see movies like we usually do and we are going to talk and laugh, which is interesting to see how everybody is changing with the passing years :'') (I'm one of the older cousins)… But not all is happiness, because I can't take my dog with me so I have to leave him in Santiago and I miss him very much :(

Sometimes, my dad says: "this holidays we are going somewhere else no matter what" but not always happens hahah. This vacation I would like to go with my family to some place in the south of Chile like Valdivia or further south like Puerto Natales and go through those nice landscapes. However, I spent part of my vacations here in Santiago, using the free time to sleep more, rest from the University, seeing my friends of school and seeing my boyfriend, who is boring and doesn´t like to go out. During this time, I also would like to do a driving course because I find it necessary…It is not the first time that I think about it, so I hope this time to get my driver’s license.

That's all, bye!

Post 7: Someone I'd like to meet

Hi, today I'm not very enthusiastic about think and write this blog (never, actually), so I' ll tell you about a person that I have seen a lot recently, but by my computer, of course. He is Evan Peters, an American actor, and for me, he is good at his job. 

He's 29 years old and he made his debut on 2002, when he'd 15 years old. He acted on the movie "Clipping Adam" and he got his first prize in the Phoenix Film festival for the category "Best stand-out action". Over the years, Evan played many minor roles and usually he was rejected of the castings that he attended, until he was classify for a protagonist role in the TVserie "American Horror Story" on 2011. For this TVserie, I know about him and I followed watching the serie because of him hehehe and because the serie's plot obviously.

I will not say that I admire him but I like him very much <3 , because he seems to be a nice and charismatic person and he can play roles so eccentric and he does it very well. He is very memorable when he plays these different roles without doing the same things over and over again, which really shows how talented he is.

About his accomplishments, I already mentioned one of the two prizes that he had won. This year, he won on Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, in the category of "Best secondary actor". But I think he could win more awards if he continues to improve his performances.

Well, I hope I can meet him someday, even if I can only see him :p