About reading

I don’t consider myself as a person who has read a lot and knows a lot about literature. But I really like it and I enjoy reading and writing. When I was a child I used to ask my mother to buy me different books to read, additional of the books that I had to read for the school. When I was a child, my favorite book was “El jardín secreto”. I had to read it for the school and I liked it so much that I read it again. When I grew up, I started to read less than before, maybe because I didn´t have enought time, but I have allways enjoyed to read.
It is difficult for me to choose one favorite book. Maybe, two of the books that I have enjoyed the most are "La invención de la soledad", written by Paul Auster, and “La elegancia del erizo” of Muriel Barbery. I read "La invención de la soledad" the last year, and "La elegancia del erizo" in the summer of 2011. I liked them very much. 

I don´t remember very well which was the last book that I read, without considering the books that I have had to read for the university. I thing that it was a book of the Victor Jara´s life. The name of the book is “Victor, un canto inconcluso” and it was written by his couple Joan Jara. I like it very much also. 

a spontaneous holidays

Hello everybody! Today I want to talk you about a very special holidays. I don't know if they was the best holidays in my life, but I had a really nice time there.
The last summer I was in Santiago with some friends, and we were boring. We were talking about something to do, that doesn't require a lot of money or previous plannig. So we decided to go to Valle del Elqui. My father lend us a tent, we bought some food and two days before we set out on Valle del Elqui. We were six firends triyng to arrive "a dedo" to La Serena, it was dificult but we did it.
We stayed there for one month almost, and we were in diferent amazing places like Pisco Elqui, Cochiguaz, Montegrande, and many others. The people was amazing too. We made friends of a couple of french people. They were artisans and they had come to visit Chile and they loved this place so much that they stayed there to live.
We didn't have any plans, so we were knowing places and people without necessary of hurry up our journey, it was a very spontaneous trip and I think it is the aspect that I liked the most.

"Un vasito de ron"

Hi everyone! Today I am going to talk about a text that I readed de last semester and I liked it so much. It wis called "Un vasito de ron", by Levi-Strauss.
He speak of the etnographer as a individual person that studies the different cultures of the world, trying to understand all of their cultural aspects. He take the problem of the influence of the own culture and how can we "take of" it to really understand the other culture. Also he makes question about the necessity of occidental culture, to study and try to understand the rest of the cultures, as if we were THE big culture, unsatisfied actually with our own progress.
I really liked this text because it is like a dificult challenge for the the antropology and it is very interesting. I think that is importnat to read it, not just fot antropology, also to the rest of the world, because it help to eliminate prejudice of other people or countries, and it help us to evaluate equally all of the cultures.
I really recomend you to read.

travel dreams

Hi! My name is Beatriz. When I was a girl I didn't have a big motivation of travelling. Actually I had never travelled so I didn't have the idea. When I was 12 I went to Argentina with my family and I really loved it. Not necessary Argentina, I loved to know different people with different culture, words, foods and customs.

Now I want to know a lot of countries. First of all, I would like to know all the countries of Latin American, to talk with a lot of different people of different cultures, and know about the common aspects and the varied styles of life that coexist in our continent.

I would need a long time to do it but I really think that I will. I plan to go travel for a year and know all of these countries. And in the future, when I finish my career I would like to continue my studies on the University of Mexico. After that, I don`t have any more plans, for now.

My blogging experience

Personally, I had never used this system of blogs. But in general, It hasn't been difficult and I think I have progressed in this.
I think that it's a good way to develop the writing skills in English. In the school, the English classes were very focused to learn to speak English. But it´s different speaking and writing , and both skills have to be developed in the same extent, with reading and listening, the four necessary aspects to communicate.
Also, in the blogs system, everyone may write their own opinions and read about the classmate's opinions too. This becomes the learning more dynamic.
Respect to the topics of the blogs that we had to write week to week, sometimes I liked them and sometimes I didn't. I would like that in the future, the determination of the topics were more open, so nobody would have to write about a subject he doesn't like.
But in general I have to say that I liked to use blogs.

Zombies

Are you afraid of zombies? Do you thing they exist?
Zombies are a really interesting topic, present in a lot of movies, books, games, and others. Today I will talk about them. Bur first, we have to know what zombies are.
Zombies are the representation of a dead body that resuscitated because of different reasons. According to Vudú beliefs, a "Houngan", "Bokor" or a Vudú sorcerer, would be able to resurrect the dead body in a special ritual. But the body would be submitted to all the wishes of the person who returns him to the life. 
I don't remember the first time I haired about zombies, but I can remember different movies of them that I saw when I was a girl. I didn`t like them so much  because it really scared me in that time, but now I don`t. Actually I like them. 
It is not the case of my brother. When we saw this movies together, I really wanted to continue seeing even I was afraid. But he didn`t, and he invented a lot of excuses to stopping the movie, because he was ashamed to assume that actually he was very scared. So he said that he was boring, or that my mum would arrived and she would give us a reprimand. Nothing true, he was scared.
In the school, I had a teacher who somoked a lot. Her face was like a dry and crumpled paper, and her voice sounded like a retired metal singer. So, she really remind me of a zombie. I remind my movies and my brother, it was difficult for me to concentrate in the class. Actually, I thing I had really bad marks in this class.

An interesting website

http://antropologiaseimagem.tumblr.com/

Hello everybody! Today I am going to write about a career-related website that I enjoy visiting. The link of this website is specified at the final of this post.

If you enter in this website you will see that it is formed for a lot of different photographs. I have always considered interesting to use the photography as a method to communicate different ideas. Although it requires an interpretation more deep for the part of the reader, it can also give us important information. 

This website presents a lot of different images that give us valuable information about anthropological aspects. Most of them also includes a brief explication or an interpretation of the content, the year it was taken and the respective photographer.

The first time that I searched this website was the last week. My mom showed me a very interesting photograph of an African woman, who were impressed seeing the body of a white woman. It caught my attention, so I searched the site where this image came from. There, I found many other interesting images. Since that day, I accessed this site several times to see new pictures and read what they write about it.