Post 10: English Language Challenges

The english language has been one of my greatest challenges on my way to university, because sadly in the majority of public schools teaching language is not a priority, and a lot of times it teaches a rather precarious way. When i was on primary almost never had an english teaches, there was a lot of replacement, so the formation was disorganized and I had a hard time understanding. On secundaria, my teacher was doing classes angry and always punishing us going down our evaluations, it really made being scared of his subject so he end up killing my interest about learning, that's why i started to refuse the language, it gets me angry that it was an “obligation”and i thought i would never learned it 'cause it was a privilege for better socioeconomic position’s people and who could pay to receive a better education.

The truth is that I still think it's a class problem, but over the years I understood that learning another language opens many possibilities and should be a tool and not a impediment. The blog helps a lot to break that tension, doing it is more entertaining than other methodologies, it allows to interact with schoolmates and I was able to know their opinions on some topics, it was very interesting!

With respect to my English I must improve in all aspects haha ​​just since this year that I started to stop being afraid of the language, so I am familiarizing myself in small ways that help practice, such as reading press releases or opinion columns of topics that interest me, and I have also paid more attention to music and film dialogues. I hope to progress with time J

Post 9: Changes to my study programme

When I started studying Anthropology, I thougth that the subjects were very diverse and complete. I thougth it was a good idea to have subjects of the three mentions that the university: social, archeology and biological anthropology. However, I think now that doesn't meet its objective of "knowing a little bit of everything" rather I turned out to be a disorganized programme, and I would have liked analyze more in subjects of mi mention (Social Anthropology). But since last year that there is a new curriculum map, and it seems to be much more comprehensive, and has more field work that is very necessary!

I think it's a long career, the students take a long time to get a degree (eigthteen semester aproximately) that's why I think we could have less academic responsabilty, and that would help us to take better advantage of the subjects and learn more.

To improve the professional training of future anthropologists, should be modernized the teaching methods, including latin american bibliography, and increase field work, because the best way to learn is practice. Also, the school of social sciences needs better infrastructure conditions, for example, the library is small and very noisy; there are few computers available, and finally, we don't even have a cafetería. Many times I don't reach lunch and it is difficult to perform correctly in the afternoon.

It is neccesary that we constantly question our training, that we dialogue with our teachers and always look for new mechanisms to improve education.

Post 8: My personal opinion

Hi! Today I will give my opinion on some topics of interest :)

1. What is your opinion about legalizing abortion in some cases?

I really believe free abortion should be legalized. In every case: since the three current causes (Chile) to free abortion, just ‘cause i’m convinced that our bodys are our, and of our own. All contraceptives can fail, even when you are using more than one at the same time, and you are in the completely right to decide.

People actually abort, but in hiding. And most of them end up dead. The real debate is if you’re with legal abortion or with hiding abortion. I think people don’t must die for just being empowered with their own bodys.

2. What is your opinion about tattoos?

I see tattoos like a way of capture art in our bodys, to express our thoughts and dreams; all our vision about the world, at the same time we are free living the sovereignty in our bodies. I guess every tattoo has to have a great meaning for yourself, you must be aware that it will be with you your entire life, so you have to be very responsible to choose it one and to decide to impress it in your skin.