Blog Experience - 18 July 2013

Today I want to write about my blog experience this semester. I can say it was complicated… not because I had difficulties with language, but because I had to stop blogging from the strike.  

However, I enjoyed to write here, for the same reasons that I had when I did it in level III english course: It was a possibility to say anything in a public space. On the other hand, I’ve improved my vocabulary and I’ve learned to express me with a better grammar order, as now I write more clearly. I think write is the better excercise to improve clarity.
 
My favorite post was “My future Job”. I enjoyed it, because it was a good excercise to explain what I can do as anthropologist. Although it seems easy, anthropology career is complicated to explain.
 
My least favorite post was the first one. I talked about my favorite place in the world, which I dream to visit one day…but finally I didn’t enjoy to write about Tahiti. Not for this amazing land, but because I felt a strong desire to travel there.
 
In regard to the most attractive blog, I think Nicole Alvarez (http://nicolealvarezcordova.blogspot.com/)  had more aesthetic capacity than my other classmates.
To finish, I think blog is a good educational tool, is a good grammar exercise. As I already said, blogging experience allows me to order my thoughts into another language.

Me and the world…

I think this is a double relation, because I live in a social world but in a natural world too. I like them both, but I live in the former more than in nature because now I’m living in a big city: Santiago.

Here is just social life; even the trees are not natural because they were planted, but I like this urban life. I get used to the fast world and I have met great people and goods friends. But even if I have all the things here, I need to give time in nature landscapes… so, when I talk about “me and the world” you have to see a dynamic relation, I mean a mobile relation among urban and natural worlds. I usually travel a lot to enjoy the sea or to camp and hike the mountains.

When I return to Santiago, things look differently… I return more optimistic and with more “newen” (energy) to do the things! I think it's my mental health therapy to breathe the fresh air of nature. But…as time passes I begin to realize that I have more work to do… more obligations, etc. so, is easy to lose serenity and I became another individual over the urban world. But this is interesting because here are many social problems which we have to stop it, and I take a natural break only to keep my daydreams and not fall in a pessimistic vision about world.

Future Job

Hi everybody! Today I’m thinking in my future Job.  Maybe it’s something ambitious to think in it, but dreaming is free.
I would like to work as a “museum curator”. Curator is a specialist responsible for   the acquisition and care of objects, so… a curator is who takes care and who make the interpretation of heritage material organized in collections. For this reason, a curator works not only in exhibitions but also he works in make inventories, makes researches about it, he preserves it and participates in the diffusion (exhibitions).
In my case, I want to specialize in ethnological and archaeological collections. So,  it is necessary to work in museums that engage in this type of research.
I want this job because I’m really interested in the link between objects and ethnology, but mostly because this job allows me to work in a more flexible way. I mean, this job allows me to link the laboratory work with a more creative work in exhibitions. I think this is the biggest advantage because despite being low-paid work I prefer to do what I love and not fall into routines, which would make me sick.
My expectations with this job are riding my own exhibitions with a critical approach, I mean to generate reflections about our society from the collections, and whith what objects can tell us.
But also I want to gain experience working in museums in many different places in the world, because in Chile museums are not considered and therefore, we can see not much development in this area.

Post 1 English IV

This is my first post for the English IV class. So... I'm going to say you What is the land that I would like to visit: Tahiti.
This is not a country, but a French island located in Polynesia. So, you will understand that even if Tahiti is located far from Europe, its history of colonization still continues. This history is marked by the hegemonic struggle among the three principal colonist countries in the XVIII century ( Spain, England and France)  who wanted to appropriate the island. Finally, France was the winner.
But the island was already inhabited by ethnic groups.

I would like to visit Tahiti for its beaches, landscape and because I knew some peoples from there, and I think they are very nice, and girls are very beautiful.

I will not live there, but ... every time I see a photo from the island I think it is a paradise and I know I will be very difficult to get out of there (I know myself).
 
I leave you a picture! Bye!

Biography

Biography

Hi! My name is Juan Sáenz, I study anthropology at Universidad de Chile. 
I have lived all my life in the South of Chile and I love his landscape. 
So... to resist in the urban life in Santiago I practice a lot of trekking in the mountains which surround the city.
And... this is my english blog

Last Post

Dear readers,
 this is my last post and I think is neccessary to reflect about the experience in blog.
I enjoyed to write in a public space, although never viewed by other people outside the english class. The only aspect that I consider hard and bad, was to force the inspiration to write something coherent in  Friday afternoon…

With respect to performance, blogging experience improved my ability to express more clearly, and I could to increase my vocabulary too, so in my case was a positive experience. I like the didactic activities to improve the abilities, but I repeat that is really important to mind about the temporal context, because many students are tired Friday afternoon. The most difficult part of blogging is to think what we can say about the subject expected by teachers, and although I’m talking just about the beginning I have to say that there’s almost anything so hard than to commence something, and this difficult is originated in context and more in inspiration than obligations.

Paradoxically if we think the inspiration could to emerge more easy while the post is turned by a free subject, in my case was most difficult to think in a free subject to write…

I will consider to write more posts in future, maybe in holidays, but in this moment I just think in to distance myself from computer, internet or any technology and to take a breath outside Santiago, a real healthy breath after class.