My experience with blogs

For me, it is weird to talk in English. I actually read and listen a lot in English (even though not for my classes), but I'm very shy when I have to talk; I just don't feel comfortable about it. I never write in English before (just for school when I was a child) and I think blogs helped me a lot with that; right now I feel surer of my writing skills. But I thought my English' classes would help me with better communication when I have to talk about anthropology and I'm not sure if that actually happened.

In this sense, I would have liked to write more about topics that have a direct relationship with the career that each one is studying (in my case, anthropology). However, the topics that had to touch on previous blogs have been found and have been taken into account at the level of English and in which we are, and that has not been put a little more on the rest of our faculty colleagues. Following this last point, in my opinion, I miss a travel blog. I know we did one in relation to England, but it would have been interesting to know which countries or places they would travel to and how they would get there.

French fries

As you read in the title of this blog, today I will talk about my favorite food which are French fries (I love potatoes in every way they cooked). I like so many kinds of food and eat (I'm always eating hahaha) so it was hard to select a favorite food, but I decided French fries because you can eat it everywhere and every time you want. You can accompany them with different types of dishes and salads and you will not feel like a forced mix. In addition, you can eat them alone and at any time of the day, with cold or heat, although they are not completely healthy for the fried part (in any case, all the meals have their buts, so I do not care).

Even though they are my favorite food, I don't eat them so often. I live with others five persons so we have to cook A LOT of french fries and it takes so much time. Also, as we are six, it is hard to decide what we are going to eat and french fries aren't something very chosen in my family.

Hunters-Gatherers

I am not a huge fan of study and this (my first) year was especially hard; I had to adapt to University. So I didn't enjoy my subjects. UNTIL Hunters-Gatherers comes to my student life.

In the beginning, I wasn't excited about the subject, it would be an archeologic subject, in Friday and at 8:30 am (I live far away from the University so I have to wake up early -and I like to sleep- so sounded like a bad subject). The first time I went to the subject (I was REALLY late and I was the second week). I fell in love with it. I like so much the way the teacher make classes, he makes you feel interested and you wanna keep talking with him even if the time of the class finished. Also, you can learn more about what Hunters and gatherers are and leave the stereotypes aside.

Despite the fact that the subject did not have assistance, I went to each of the classes, I ARRIVED EARLY, I would quit because my notebook was ordered, I enjoyed reading the texts and reviewing the PowerPoints after school; In short, I enjoyed studying for this field even if it was not strictly necessary.

Anthropologic page

Today, in this post, I have to tell all of you the truth: I don't follow any anthropologic page and I don't care about it. I don't know so many names of anthropologist either. I still don't know if that's what I like, so I don't wanna know about them in my free time (everything would be about University and it would be boring). I just use WhatsApp and Instagram and in the first, I can't follow other pages, so I don't like using the single page that I have for leisure with more anthropology.

The closest thing I have to an anthropological page that I like is an Instagram account on social sciences (I'm pretty sure that's what I like). It's a page about politics, but it makes me laugh a lot, although I only see it when I get it at the beginning of Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/toons.political/

I like that page because, as I said, It makes me laugh a lot and they have informative posts where I learn about some internationals decisions and about things that happened. 

Music, my love

I'm the kind of girl who is always listen music. When I wake up, when I'm studying, when I'm eating, when I'm reading, ALWAYS. I use the music for relax, for concentration and for other thing that I do in my cotidian life. In this sence, I like so much genres and musician because what I listen depends of what I will do and how I feel. So, for example, when I read I listen to relax song, in other idioms or without lyrics. And when I want to feel motivated I listen to energetic and happy songs.

At this moment of my life I like K-pop songs I think they are diverse and I like so much watch Idols dance. Of course that it's dificult be a k-pop fan for the distance, the language barrier and for the diferent culture, but, as I said, I like so much their music and I learn a lot about Asians in general.

Got7

This last month I was obsessed with Day6 music because I went to their concert in Santiago and I can't stop listening to their music. I like so much their song called I like You because was the first song I heard of them and because it makes me remember that time when I didn't know what K-pop was. Although I also love I need somebody SO I CAN'T DECIDE WHICH ONE IS MY FAVORITE.

My nephews' photos

I like to take photos about everything. I like when are simple and natural. As usual I take photos of the sky and trees or of people (family and friends) when they don't know. I think that when you take a picture of someone laughing you can remember that situation and you can feel part of that happiness again. For me picture are an amazing way to remember something.

Emilio

Samuel

Mateo

I especially love my nephews. I have three: Emilio (7 years old), Samuel (2 years old) and Mateo (1 year old). I like to see them grow up and play with them (even though it's quite exhausting). Emilio and Samuel are my sister's sons and Mateo is my brother's son. This photos were taken by them (my siblings) like a month ago and I like them because my nephews looks naturals and happy.
I think this photos show a little about my nephews: Emilio is a crazy child who doesn't like to do his homework and like to play games in computer, phones and on tv. Samuel is even crazier, he runs everywere, he likes playing with farm animal and dinosaurs, with water and with my sister's cats. Mateo is a little baby, he likes to go for a walk and watch Finding Dory.

My 13 siblings

My parents always had pets. They had cats and dogs, but some time ago, because of fate, we are a cat's family. My history with cats begins when I was seven years old and my mom and my older sister came home with a little kitty that my sister called Helena (by a My Chemical Romance's song). With her, the story of my current cats started.

At that time we weren't fans of having too many pets at home, we were six o seven  persons living in a house and had too many pets was something that my parents didn´t want (they had two little girls and two teenagers that they had to take care about as to have also take care of many pets). But when Helena get pregnant and had just girls and then this girls get pregnant and also had just girls added to that in 2008 people didn't like cats we started to go up our number of pets fast.

Today we have 13 cats living with us and they are a family (becoming more children of my mom than my siblings or me). The names are:

1. Helena
2. Guatona (her name changing over time)

Left to right: Helena and Guatona

     

3. Rusia (by the color of her coat)

 4. López (by Ska-p's song)

5. Lia

6. Samy

Up to down: Samy and Lia

Left to right: Lia and Samy

Up to down: Lia and Samy

7. Vicenta (because he has only one ear like Vincent Van Gogh)

Left to right: López and Vicenta

8. Ojos Azules (by his eyes)

9. Agus

10. Kuf (because of its resemblance to another cat we had before it got its name because it was silent - it's a Mapuche word-)

11. Verano (or mini Agus)

12. Invierno (or mini Kuf)

13. Primavera (or mini Ojos Azules).

Up: Ojos Azules
Left to right: Verano, Invierno and Kuf

Left to right: Invierno and Kuf

Up to down: Samy, Lia and Rusia

Left to right: Agus, Invierno and Kuf

Up to down: Samy, Lia, Ojos Azules, Kuf, Guatona, Agus and Rusia

Left to Right: Invierno and Agus

Me and my phone: the longest relationship I've ever had

I try to be a person who doesn't rely completely on electronic devices; on one side, to save myself from suffering in case they get lost and, on the other side, to keep cultivating, and not leaving aside, certain aspects which I consider relevant that have been left aside since the boom of technology.

Despite the previous point, and as a college student, technology is fundamental in life most of the time; their uses go from reading or writing for university to keeping in touch with other people or lurking. In this sense, phone is what I use the most: I can read and highlight texts, taking tests, write e-mails, listen to music, keep in touch with my family, among many other things.

It's true that I prefer to keep my tasks separated -for example, I would rather read and write texts on my laptop-, but still, the cellphone is easier to carry around and, as stated before, gives me the possibility to sum up several devies in one.

A while ago, my phone was stolen on my way back home and I had to spend a couple weeks without a new one; that period of time made me realize how much I really need it and use it. I was completely distanced from my classmates, so doubts about works or texts couldn't be solved until meeting them personally. I couldn't set alarms either -because I'm way too hard to wake up-, and lost important files (pictures and music). Those were stressful days, full of stress and confusion, yet I finally managed to live without my mobile.

Recently, I got a new phone -that I almost lost again-, and we have gotten into a new relationship, which hopefully, will last for a long time. I use it most part of my day and now I', fully intended to take care of it properly.

Why did I choose Anthropology?

I'll start this blog saying that I ask myself every day why I am studying Anthropology. I'm a curious girl that get bored so easily so it's hard for me doing something that doesn't like. For that reason, I must look for ways to stay interested in what I am doing.

When I was a child I wanted to study so many things: I wanted to be a writer, a CSI detective, a marine biologist, a pilot of the FACH, a gymnast, an Olympic swimmer, and the list goes on. At Highschool, when we have to start to choose what we gonna be, I felt frightened because I didn't know what I wanted to be the rest of my life.

In 2015 I told to myself that I wanted to be a math engineer because I really like maths and I was horrible for biology and physic so I just wanted math in my life. But I couldn't choose just math (and add to that my father doesn't like so much my idea) so I decided to choose the three humanities (philosophy, literature and history) that were something that I like, but I didn't think I was good at that.

In 2016 I found the Anthropology and I seemed the best option considering how broad the program is. At the end of Highschool, in 2017, I started to get the idea that I would enter the university; I was happy because School wasn't a very nice experience, but at the same time I was anxious and nervous about my new life.

Right now I'm having a stressful but so funny life at the university. I don't know what I'll do in the future, but I consider interesting the linguistic anthropology so maybe I'll focus on that.

Autobiography

My name is Camila Arias, I am from Santiago de Chile and I'm nineteen years old. I live with my parents, my older brother, one of my two sisters (the youngest) and my pets: thirteen cats and one dog.

My family has a weird attraction for cats. Before I was born, June seventeenth of nineteen-ninety nine, cats were living in my house. Right now, the obsession is so big that EVERYTHING is about cats in our life.

At that moment I'm on my first year of Anthropology at Universidad de Chile and although the change between high school and university is hard and stressful, I feel happy and excited to be where I am. I try to make my university life get better (less stress and to be more healthy) so I started to play volleyball, although I had to wait too much, and ride my bike.

Added to sports, I like to read, which is amazing because I have to read a lot in Anthropology, and to watch videos on Youtube about lettering. Some of my days are just reading and studying, but to be here teaching me so much about life and at the end of the day the result is positive.