Addictions

Hello!

The topic for this season is Addictions! And I don't know what to say 'cause I think that I don't have one...or maybe yes... and...I haven't noted it yet >.>!

Anyway... I have to write something...

I like to drink coke and it could become in an addiction if I had enough money to buy it every day. But I don't have enough money... and if I had it I won't spend on it, 'cause there are a lot of other things that I could get with the same money. Actually, when I was in the high school I smoked ('cause my friends do too) but I gave up by the same reason.

If I drink it a lot I would get yellow tooth and a high level of caffeine in my blood, which would be very dangerous for my health: it makes me vulnerable to some nervous disorder, like insomnia or anxiety.

In my opinion a person who suffers any addictions didn’t received enough love during his/her live and probably she/he is looking for it in materials things. Cigarette and alcohol (for example wine, beer, whisky, etc.) are two things that people usually use to “feel better” when they had any problem or when the feel nervous. In my case I take a deep breath.

Although I could have enough money to buy every day coke, I wouldn’t become in an addicted, since after a while I would get bored of it. Through my life I’ve been changing my favorite things: when I was a child I loved superocho (it is a chocolate bar) and chocman (a delicious mini cake to cover of chocolate) and I almost was an addicted… but then… I get bored of them.

I like much eat chocolates, candies, cakes, cookies, pizza, hot dog, spaghettis, and other things, I mean... I love eat, but I think that I’ll never be an addicted of one of this food.

I hope that if someone nears to me had any addiction, I could help his/her, but if his/her problem is too complicated, maybe a specialist will be more indicate.

Probably I won’t stop drinking coke, but I’m sure that I can control it.

Good Bye!

Post 3: Transantiago. Before and After

Hello =)
In this oportunity I'm going to talk about the public transport system in Santiago, its name is Transantiago and it isn't really good.
I was born in Santiago and I've been live here all my life, so I'm an appropiate witnees to talk about of its changes.
Before Transantiago, there were yellow buses wich recovered the city in sense north-south and west-east. The most part of them made a long route, for example there were bus wich were almost that 3 hours "working". Those routes were very usefull 'cause you could move by the city using just one bus. In that time the subway was unknow for the comon people, and it always had space. It was very strange if the subway was full, that didn't happend normaly.
I've always been thinking that Transantiago is a good idea, the problem is its implementation. When the Government introduced it in 2007, they didn't think about the demography of the city, wich were the most using routes, etc. They just did it 'cause they had to show to the people that they did something for the country, it doesn't matter if it was right or wrong, just did it.
There is just three things that I can to emphasize of this new public transport system:
1. Bip card
2. New Buses
3. Color buses
The bip card is a good idea, and it brings a lot of advantages not only for busdriver: now they don't carry cash then they aren't victims of steals as like in the past (yellow buses); in respect to users, now they can use the same card (and ticket, until 3 transfer) to travel by bus or subway, it is more convenient, fast and safe than pay with cash, even if the bus is moving.
Altought there are few new buses, they contribute to the earth, because the don't pollute as much as yellow buses. Finally, I like the color buses cause it changes city's image. It is very nice to me to look for my way to one place to another in a color map, and it get better when I stay in a corner and I can see different color buses by the street.

In my opinion there are more bad things than good things related to Transantiago system, they are the result of a lot of differents factors wich are connected. Anyway, Transantiago isn't a good public transport system, actually it is a big problem.

After all, it could be better and it must to get better

A country I would like to visit

Well here I am. I would like to visit a lot of countries, but I have to choose one.... so.... the winner is....(this is too hard..) Scotland.

I've never been out of Chile (wait... I'm lying, once I was in Argentina), even I know my own country. Although I would love it, I don't have the conditions and the enough money to travel to other places. I could get a job and to saved money but I've spent my time in the university, with my family and boyfriend and doing housework (it isn't so bad).
The time that everyone usually use to travel is in holidays or vacations. In my case, I trip with my family to cities near to Santiago to spend our "relax time". Unfortunately my parents, every summer, didn't have enough time, so we went out just for a couple of weeks; the rest of the summer I took care of my little sister and my little brother ( I became in a babysister) 'cause my parents had to working. Nevertheless I always had a good good time, because my family is very funny.

Anyway... returning to Scotland...

I would like to visit it, because I want to see with my own eyes its beautifull and great places: its landscapes, castles, lakes, etc etc etc... I love that piece of earth (meadow, rain, clouds, and a blue sky) I don't know much about it, I just think in it since I've been see pictures of it. Nothing else. Altought I think that Scotland must be a beautifull and a great place to live, I don't feel sure about go out of Chile and saty to live in another country.... probably I won't stand up be far of my family. I even want to think about it.

If I had the posibility of study in another country, just for a while, there is a high probability of do it, even if I know, from now, that it would be very very difficult. I am a home-loving person and I enjoy a lot spent time in my home doing things there or with my family.

Travel, is something that I would like to do if all my family could come with me.

Regards =)

Dania


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1 st post: Good and bad points

Hi!
The last semester was really hard. I'd never been so tired before. I had to read a lot of texts, essays and papers, releated with my subjects, and then made works or presentations about it. Psicology, Latinamerican History, English 3, Anthropology III, Linguistics, Statistics II, and Elements from Physical Anthropology were the six subjects that were given the last semester and that I had to take. In all them I learned a lot of new things, like perspectives or approachs to understand the human phenomenon. Psicology and Linguistics were very interesting for me, beacuse those discipline are totally different of my carrer even they can to complement. My favorite subject was Anthropology III, it given to me a new concept of the carrer and a new perspective about the kind of research that I would like to do in the future, even I want to be a Physical Anthropology.
The last semester didn't let me any free time, it was a shame. I like to do sports o just take a walk, but the last semester makes me spend a lot of time studing, even during weekends. My boyfriend and me had some troubles to meet us, because any of us had time. Although, we always tried to stay together. Actually, some weekends we get together just for study.

I think that this semester would be hardest than the last one, but I'm trying to organize my job and let time for my family, boyfriend and friends. It would be my priority.

Task 11: my blogging experience

Hello!

This will be, probably, the last time that I write in a blog. Before this course I've never had one, even a fotolog or a website. I dont like much to show my life in a web site, it gives to me a little of scared. In my opinion, to talk about me is not an interesting topic, it doesn´t make sense that I don´t love to myself (noway!) It is just, that there are a lot of different themes in our brains ready to get out and to build new things. Why could be my life interesting? I don't know, and I don´t want to know neither. Internet is a totally different world to me, and I have many respect for it. I don´t like much to register me in forums, or play games in internet because I feel unprotected, so I´ve development a negative position in front of it.

Even that, in this semester I ought to take an English course, then I made an account in blogspot and started to write about some themes, in order to show and paractice my "English". I thought that to write in English would be more difficult than to speak, but I noticed that I had a problem to talk about my interested, likes or dislakes... as consequence, was very complicated made some task, and that point (don´t know about what to write) was more significant that my knowledge about the English language. So I have to say, that even all the bad feelings that internet could produce to me, I enjoyed this part of the course; it really helps me, not only to write, but to extend my vocabulary too. Blog is an axcelent tool to become in words our thinking, expression skill, language domain, etc.

As advantage, in the blog I didn´t have to write about my personal life ( If I did, it was in a bit way) so I didn´t felt exposed. However, I try to control all my movement at web.

I said that this will be the last time that I write in a blog.... I am not sure now....

Task 10: My Ideal Job

Ooohh! Hello!!
This is definitely some of the most important topic in my life, even I've been not thinking a lot about it at the last time. Sometimes, when I've felt very tired and stressed since I've had to do a lot of things releated with university (like essays, reports, reading, etc), the only thing that has given me support was my life project. It is not an ambitious project, but is a simple proyect. I just expect to get a job to have enough money to live with my boyfriend (survive) and to get a house which would have enough windows, then we could enjoy the daylight.

Thinking about job.... mmmm... I am not sure what exactly job will be, but I would love to get a job releated whit my carrer after finish it; like teaching, doing research in physical anthropology, working in ministry of health, etc. Independent of that, I would work in shift(my ideal job would have shifts), 'cause in that way I will not be everyday in the job. If I had to work in the same place, for the same amount of hours, everyday... It would be so boring and I couldn´t stand up.

I would like have a job which allows to me travel, to another cities or maybe countries, at least had vacations to travel by my own.

Now, I notice that I've never thought about my ideal job, I just have some preference, releated with job's free time. In relation with the kind of job, I just expect a entretaining job, I guess that I hate the routine so I will feel very very happy with a dinamic job, in which I had to do a lot of different things and learn new things too.

Good bye!!!

task 9: my favorite subject(s)

Hello!!! well the last week were really hard, and that makes me remember that in all my subjects I have to do a lot of things, like essays, readings, theorycal research, etc. Although I have many work to do, I like the mayority of my subjects. I'm not sure which of them is my favorite, actually I don't have any favorite subject.
(I have to write more words so... here I go)

The last year were given subjects releated with archaeology which were very interesting. In the first semester one of them was Archaeology I. The theacher in charge of it was Isabel Cartagena, she is an archaeologist graduated in University of Chile, and she teached us some theorical and practice aspect of her discipline, like archaology's hystory, technicles, methods. Furthermore she presented us some archaological research.

There was another subject very important for us: Prehistory. It was given in the first semester too and it had two teachers in charge (their surnames) Benavente, Cristino, and two assistant (their names) Boris and Jaie. I don't know why I just remember the surnames for theachers and the names for assistants...Very curious... Anyway, the contents of this subject were ( in a general way) human evolution, prehistoric popuilations, domestication process, firts states, etc. In the second semester was given the second part of this subject, and in that opportunity we reviewed the precolumbian population as Maya, Aztecas, Incas, and the populations before them. In that course the teacher in charge was Nuriluz Hermosilla (I remember her name... unbelievable)

I liked those two (or three) subjects because I learned a lot about some topics that I didn't know and given to me a base to think in possible future research. It was very important to me to know about our origin, as species and as american population, since in high school I studed some of this themes but not in depth.

There were other subjects releated to different approach in Social Anthropology, they were really interesting too, but is much information to resume here.

And finally in relation to Physycal Antropology I had two subjects very important: Biology and Evolution which were the most interesting of all, the only problem was that I didn't like so much the teacher so I don't want to talk about it. The content was (and it still be) very interesting for me, because I didn't study it in high school since I thought that it would be very dificult for me and I couldn't learn something... Now I know that I was wrong.

As a final coment I want to say that I would love to have subjects with mathematical content. In this semester I have Statistics but it isn't enough for me.

Good bye!!