lunes, 21 de junio de 2010

My blog experience

Write a blog was very fun for me, especially because the topics chosen were very interesting. I don’t talk about these commonly, and it was nice treat at this time.

I think that a blog is a good chance to improve our way of writing in english, but it’s necessary to take it more seriously, with a greater commitment, and try to make it without the help of online translators jajaja! Like any form of generating knowledge, it can be good if people put all their effort and commitment to practice them. I assume that I lacked a bit of effort in this.

But, in general, write a blog was a good experience. I had fun thinking about each subjects and reading what my classmates wrote. Considering my fellow students and career, I realized that there are many things that I didn't know about them, simple things that we never talked. On the other hand, considering my colleagues from other courses and careers, I met new points of view on things, very interesting opinions to share. I think that is the great strength of this experience: sharing, show our points of view and listen the point of views of others.

Anyway, I think that I will not continue writing, either on this or any blog. I like be a little anonymous, that only the people closest to me know what I do, feel and think. I'm not saying that those who have a blog are few discrete
and need to scream to the world their private lives. No. It just isn’t something appropriate with my personality (this may be because I didn’t grow up with computer and internet). Anyway, it was nice writing here.

Now, I just hope that come holidays. I will sleep a lot the first days, and then I find a part-time job to save money and visit my niece in Valparaiso. There are only three weeks.

Good luck everybodyl!

martes, 15 de junio de 2010

Across the sea



This is something that I think permanently. It doesn’t mean that I don’t like my career, but I always wonder if this is truly my passion, the activity to which I'll devote all my life. Sociology is a beautiful discipline, but it raises me questions, sometimes I find little serious as a science, too abstract. It's something that makes me dizzy very often.

I have other interests, some even a bit irrationals. Apart from the desire to be guitarist of a rock mega band (as Gun’s N 'Roses) or Manchester United's striker, I think I would love to work on a boat.

Since childhood I have had the dream of traveling across the Atlantic in a fishing boat, work cleaning the floor or washing dishes, or cooking, but knowing hundreds of ports in different countries. I think I have this dream due reading tales of pirates. I'm very curious to travel, to know the world, but I don’t like it's something "off", for pleasure. I like the idea of traveling with little money, sleeping on the streets, with odd jobs, meeting different people, improvising the language, communicating with gestures and signs. So, I think that if I didn't study sociology, as well as working on a boat, I would devote myself to something related to tourism. The only problem is I'm bad with foreign languages, especially with the english jajaja!


Yes, I think it may be something related to tourism management, promotion of tourist centers in my country: to travel, tours, camps, entertainment, events, parties, etc. Displaying the culture and customs of my country and its most beautiful places. Chile is a beautiful place for tourism. We have thousands of miles of coastline, the majestic Cordillera de Los Andes, the wine valleys, forests of the south, Pascua Island, the old neighborhoods of Santiago, and so on.

But this is not entirely incompatible with sociology. I can use the knowledge of sociology to help generate tourist centers of economic development for the community, and involving people in the processes of economic growth in the country. I would one day realize these aspirations.

martes, 8 de junio de 2010

My niece in a picture ;)

This photo is very important to me. Really I don’t know if this can be considered truly a photo; it’s a 3D image, an ultrasound which show a very special person for me. I present you her: she is my niece, called Violeta, and in this picture she was 6 months old. Now, she is just a few weeks before of birth.

She will be my first niece, the smallest “little person” of my family. I’m very excited about her birth, but I'm also a little sad because I'm not sure if I can be with her on this important day, as she will be born in Valparaiso, 120 miles away. Anyway, I hope visit her very often, even though it will be expensive.

I love this image. The photographer was the doctor jajaja! She looks like her mother Evelyn, especially in his chin and mouth. Also, I hope she will be so nice and funny like her, and that she inherits the intelligence of my brother Cristian.

The last weekend I visited them. It was nice, I had fun. Evelyn is very fat jajaja! ... obviously due the baby. She moves very slow and gets tired quickly. She said that she gets bored much because she spend all day at home watching national television, without going to walk or work. (It's assumed that on monday she was going to hire cable television). She showed me all the clothes of the baby, and it's very pretty. My niece will be seen beautiful with all those clothes.

My brother Cristian appears to be quiet, but I think that he is a bit anxious (there is little time for the great day!) Anyway, he looks very happy for his first child. He is a great person, taught me important things that I hope Violetita will learn too... Nobody teaches you to be parent. That can only be learned in the practice. But I think that the most important thing is to put love in every day and every moment of the family life. The house of Evelyn and my brother is full of love... I'm sure that they will be excellent parents.