A COUNTRY I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT

I would like to go Brazil mainly because I feel curious for the Brazilians and their life style and too I would travel across natural exotics places. When I watched Up! (The animation film) I felt an uncontrollable wish for travelling in especially to a country where there are exotics natural areas.
Who don’t hear about “the biggest country of the world”? Is famous for its carnivals (specially by The Carnival of Río), its soccer selection and its people (good for singing bossa nova and dancing samba).
Only I know about its food is that exist some kiosks where you can buy a corn cob and season it as I season a hot-dog. And also sell any topical fruit and its respective juices.
If well there rain frequently but the sun doesn’t stop of shinning, I think that is a nice and refreshing combination.
My girlfriend and one of her friends went to Brazil the last summer. And her commentaries and pictures describe at least the place that they visited as beautiful and quiet. They say than you can see a big spider, birds of a lot of colors, a mouse so big as a cat,
Finally I want to add that I would like no just visit it, I would like to live there. I want to study a post degree there at Federal University of Río de Janeiro, related with Public health. But always I think that if I go to other country to live after a decade I would return to Chile for making some contribution to develop the quality of life with knowledge and the most important with a new attitude front to life.
I want to try their style of life, more community (at least mi girlfriend describe thus the behavior of residents and tourists of the Island that her visit).

My last term

Three weeks ago I went back to study at university after a couple of vacation's weeks. With new courses and the new experience of going to a different faculty is more easy to refer my last semester. Because now I can weigth the appropriateness of my last courses.

In general the last term was difficult for me, mainly by my doubts about the speciality than I chose.I wasn't concentrate in my courses so I didn't study enough, I spent my time imagine where I would be if I had chose other speciality.

I learnt the most important indicators for estimating sex and age (from human skeletal remains)in , this activities constitute the basic knowlodges than a physical anthropology should know.

I'm not sure if correct at least in my case to do the difference betwen free time and study or academic time, becouse when I had to study I went to a walk with my dog or I visited my girlfriend. And after that I spent a lot of nights studying or doing works than was for the next day.

Late I realized than it was damaging for my physical and mental health. If well I had various courses than don't interest me and also they were very hard, It was my fault got bad final marks and lost some kilograms of weigth.

The best thing of my last semester was to know that I rely on a great little course.

My first blog and my blogging expierence

Write a little notes about me, my career, my friends or my plans in English has been something good for me by two reasons. First I felt comfortable writing and sharing some personal ideas than It will be a testimony of me and for me, because in a near future when I remember this blog and I read my notes I will see how an what things has changed in my personal and academic life. The second reason is that through activities on blog I improve my skills to write in English and that is cool, because parallel you improve your reading and understanding ability of English texts.
After I wrote than I have felt comfortable writing but I must add that I feel so nervous when I have to talk, and the only one thing that I sorry is that we haven't more time for practice talks for to improve our skills related to interacting directly.
I think that work's blog could do it at house and this way we could have more time to practice and improve our comunication skills face to face.

My ideal job

My ideal job would be work in a health organization of research and intervention in latin american, like WHO (World Health Organization) or like Unicef.
I won't work a office, I want do a lot of fieldwork about nutrition and its consequences in the social aspects and vice versa, about infection illness too.

For to get a job like above I need know how collect and analyze a big quantity of biostatic data. I have thought study a Magister degree in Biostatistics at our University and after that study a Doctor degree in Human nutrition or Public health at Federal University of Río of Janeiro.

About difficulties First I need to develop a career as researcher, but I believe that as Physical athropologist I will get the profile and abilities for research. And I have some more important: the pasion to contribute to desing and apply news political of nutrition to improve the life quality of latin americans specially of child.

The creativity as the pathway

I just heard the Sir Robinson's speech. Some points of what he said are interesting for to discuss. The creativity as victim murder of the school, the school as instrument of political and economical interests, the reproduction of social system and its inequalities (associated with capitalist values).

The school is a social institution through wich the child are incorporate formally as part our society. They receive a formation that persuit to make them useful persons to the society in the future.

Of the above it results understandable, at least in a some grade, that some values penetrates deeply in the schoolar child (future workers) and in his fathers, through talks with their kids, in their works or through mass media. What I mean is that the school is a important social space of trassmision of values. In our case of values directed to consumerism, individualism, competivity, and the purpose of to improve the production and not necessary to improve the social welfare.

This is a elaborated form of alienation, and for to keep the social order they do seem like if it were normal even desirable. They kill the creativity through of which is socially expected.

I believe that the one way for to go out of this unhealthy reproduction of capitalist values is through creativity, we need imagine other differents ways of order and be critical of present system.

My favorite subject

All tuesday I have a great time because I have my favorite subject: Physical Anthropology I. I like its becuase we examine human osseous pieces after to discuss the methodological aspects of identification: how estimate sex and age.

Although at begining it was a bit weird manipulate remains of adults and of child. Now I feel so good learning specific things about our bodies and their changes, about our diversity.

Also this course is very important because what we learn is the basis for the identification of human remains and thus in the future as forensic anthropologist, I will be able to assume a heavy responsibility:
Telling a family with certainty "Yes, it's him" and give them a minimum of tranquility.

After the class of Tuesday I want not anymore than to rest on my bed, because the most of class time (since 10:15 to 16:00), we have that to stand up around the central table of examination. ¡But It's the class that I enjoy most!

My future plans

I will finish my degree of Physical anthropology at University of Chile in the next two and half years. I will take some courses of Social anthropology, since fourth year, because I want to complement my profile as researcher of bio-culturals processes.
After that I'm not sure. Exist many areas for develop me as Physical anthropologist, all it will all depends on my interests and if I get a scholarship to study a Masters or PhD, or failing if I can save enough money to pay one.
For example if I decide to follow the forensic area, it would be great go to study to The Forensic Anthropology Center at University of Tennessee.
Or If I decide will work with populations alive I would continue my formation with the posgrades programs of: Escola Nacional De Saude Publica Rio De Janeiro at University f Rio in Brasil, HENGE at Cambridge University in UK, Escuela de Salud Pública at University of Chile.

(I will refer later to my personal plans -not academic-. Because now I have no time to continue. Sorry.)