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English Language Class

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Hello everyone, today I am going to talk about my experience with this language. First of all, my experience with university English classes has been the best, because the type of class is very interactive and I can participate with peace of mind, it´s a safe place to try to learn something as difficult for me as English is. In school for many years I learned English in bad conditions, my teachers were strict and I felt scared in every class, if I made a mistake I didn't feel the same security that I feel now in the university classes, I think this is caused by the corrections of the university teachers because they correct in a good way. I really love writing a blog, it is a very good experience, this kind of task makes me feel so happy when I do it, it´s so motivating to learn by this way.  I think I need to improve many aspects in my English, like grammar, it is one of the things I never understood so well and I always forget the grammar rules, I want to practice this area by re...

Changes to my study program

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Hi everyone, today I´m going to talk about some changes I want to make with some things related to my career or my university. Last year, my first year, I had ten subjects related to my career, I feel that these subjects are very necessary and the teachers taught them very well. But this year, my second year, I have problems with some subjects, especially with the way my teachers do the classes or the workload.  Complex society is one of these subjects, the teacher doesn't have a good order to do his classes, and the homework doesn't have a good guide to do it. Contemporary Problems in Anthropology: Collecting, Anthropology and Museums. It is a subject where I have to do a lot of things, I need to read and see a lot for a single class, for me in this subject they have a big workload, also in the classes I feel that the teacher repeats a lot and that we don´t advance, it frustrates me because I feel that the subject of the subject is very interesting but the way of doing i...

Time travel to the past or future

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Hello everyone, today I´m going to talk about whether I want to travel to the future, and at what time. First of all, in my case, I don't really know if I want to know my future or the future of the world. So, if I had to go to some point in the future I would do it with a lot of fear because if I discover that in the future, I´m not fulfilling my dreams, I would go back very sad to live my present, and I wouldn´t enjoy the now thinking about what will happen to me in the future. But if I have the obligation to select a moment in the future to know it, I prefer to go to when  I´m fifty years old, to see what kind of life I have, if I´m happy, if I will fulfill my goals, if I could fulfill my dream of traveling out of Chile many times (even though, probably I don´t exist, neither does the planet, because of the pollution).  I wouldn´t like to stay at that time in the future, I would only go to see what I mentioned before and then I would come back. Maybe I would like to travel ...

My dream job for the future

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Always when I think about what is the best job for me, I imagine my future in places like museums doing presentations for visitors about the museum collections, in ONGs helping in conflicts caused by cultural differences, in the middle of the desert working for some mining industry investigating if in  the area there are any archeological objects, and my favorite but the most difficult and fantastic, is in my own coffee shop themed about different books, and a place to read and buy books, and in that place I want to write books and attend to customers. In all the jobs I mentioned before, I need to develop my social skills. But in museums I need to develop my conversation and research skills. In ONGs I think I need some sentimental skills, and to know diplomacy, politics and history of different nations. In the mining industry in desert places, I need location and survival skills. And in coffee I need management, economics and leadership skills, and have some ideas about food, marke...

My best Holidays

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The best holidays was when I was fourteen years old, six years ago. with my family we decided to travel to Futrono, a place in Los Lagos. We went for a week in February, in that month the weather is cooler and some days it rained. At that time there were seven of us, my parents, my grandmother, my brother and my two sisters, one of them was only two months old. My parents rented a cabin in the middle of nature, with miles of grass, trees and a small water path. In this week we went to many places, like Frutillar, the town square of Futrono, a craft fair, an incredible place with thermal water in the middle of the mountains. And when it rained, we ate local delicious food like blueberry pie and played cards in front of the chimney. Those holidays were the best for me because that place was so peaceful, I felt happy traveling around that beautiful place, knowing those green places. And my family and I shared so well that week, it was a dream. This year, in February, we went again one day...

Blog Post 1: A country you would like to visit

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 The country I would like visit is Liechtenstein, because some time ago, I read the book "From Plebeian to Princess: For a Night at the Vega", and the protagonist go to live inside casttle in to Liechtenstein, and I really want to knowing the true casttle, because de author in real life knowing this part in the word, and she said is a amaizing place. I know about this country some things, like that, it is a small country with  few  inhabitants, they speak germany and furstentum. I want to visit the casttles, lakes, museums, citys and villages. In the future, when I´m ve old, I want to go to living in peace some years, in a village,  or in middle of the  prairie, or by lake.  But firts I want to go with my best friend Romy, she read the same book and both of us loved the story and the place the author describs, and some times in the past we looked for pictures of the places in Liechtenstein, and We loved it!.  (The Casttle of Liechtenstein)

My favorite subject

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  Hi everyone!!, today I am going to tell you about my favorite subject of study.  My favorite topic of study is Materiality, it is part of one of my second-semester classes. In the subject, I have to research litics, pastes and animal objects, their different uses, history, symbolism and other things. I like it because I need to study different places, objects, and their history. I always like to know the history behind things, why they were made, I love to know those weird facts.  Thanks to that's classes I have learned how important materialities are, those of the past, those of the present and those of the future. That you can and should investigate the reason for the existence of things.   Before I had this class I wasn't sure I was going to like it, because it is an archeology class, and I didn't like archeology very much before, but this class made me love it, it made me see how good this subject is, the topics and objects the teacher told us about and th...

How can my major improve the world?

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 Hi everyone!!, today I am going to tell you how my major can do something good for the difficult world we have today. The major I want to choose, social anthropology, has affected in the past for bad and for good, but today it has affected it in some good things, at least in Chile, it has improved the relationship between people who don´t belong to native peoples with those who belong. It has tried to make them understand each other and their cultures.  In the future I see myself trying to make them understand each other better, to stop seeing that being different is a bad thing. I would like to help the world and people to open their minds to others, to say "bye-bye" to prejudices.  I feel and believe that my career with that things my teachers teach me makes me think critically but also to respect other cultures, and to try to understand them without prejudices, and for me that is the most important thing to help in this world.  thank you for read this, that's all...

Photo of one first moment

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  Hi everyone!! Today I´m going to tell you about the story behind this photo... In this photo I was in the National historical museum with my university friends, this day was the first time I met them because the university started online, because we were in a pandemic situation, thanks to this, we met in July. They are the reason of the importance of this photo. I remember I was so happy this day, before see them I was so excited, like a doggie. At that exact moment, we had just finished the tour of the museum, we saw pictures, statues, tools, models, clothes and other things from the history of Chile, many things from the past. That time was the first time I go to that museum. The most important thing about that photo is the memories and the emotions that it brings me, it is a happy moment, very happy for me because I met the people who made this wonderful year for me and who continue to make me happy.  That is all for today, bye bye !!

Holy food!!

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  Hi everyone!! Today I´m going to talk about my favorite food in this world. This food is...  LASAGNA!!! Is one type of pasta, and you put in slim layers, one over another, and in the middle, you can put different sauces, meats, cheeses, vegetables, etc. Exist different forms of cooking.  In my case, I prefer to cook with bechamel sauce, bolognese sauce and yellow cheese. The bechamel sauce, I cook with butter, milk, flour, a teaspoon of salt. The bolognese sauce with tomato sauce and small cubes of meat. And  I prepare in one tray, I first put some part of bolognese sauce, one layer of pasta, bechamel sauce or bolognese with cheese, and I repeat alternating the ingredients. Sometimes I cook with spinach but isn´t the same. The flavor change with spinach, I always prefer it with nothing more than what I already mentioned. I know what is the reason makes me love lasagna, his flavor is amazing,  the mix of ingredients makes this food one of the best things in thi...

My most loved tech thing

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  HI everyone!! Today I´m going to write about my favorite piece of technology, which is obviously my kindle. For everyone doesn´t know what´s a kindle, it is an electronic book, like a small tablet, in which you can put many books, comics and audiobooks. I have had it since February. I have used it usually for reading books, and that is every day, but I prefer to use it in the morning or when I´m going to bed at the night. I pass more than one hour reading in it.  I like my Kindle for many reasons, one of  these is it had ligh, thanks to that it can be read at night.  The screen can configure his light, and if you don´t use it. the screen see is the same as paper to a real books, and I really love it. And it has much memory for many books, I like that because you can have many books in only one place.  Right now I can´t imagine my world without it, but if one day in the future I don´t have it, I know that day I´m going to feel bad. because I love to read, and n...

My Career

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Hi everyone!! Today I go to tell you something about me. If you read my last post, you know that I study anthropology and archeology. But I never in my mind imagined this.  When I was little Cony, more than I be now, I had many dream jobs like doctor in a distant city, police of investigation or forensic (because I´m obsessed with CSI and Criminal Mind), but my Smurfette height fucked up that dream. In one little moment, I wanted to be a teacher of language or history, and I also wanted to be a singer or animal caretaker in Zoo. And Cony adolescent wanted to be a writer, well, I keep wanting it.  Past year, when I had my last year of school, I hadn´t the idea of what career study. My study options after were agronomy, sociology, literature, international studies and anthropology, but one moment I discarded the last. Some days after I ended school, I passed a crisis and this made me decided what thing to study, one only option is"anthropology", I didn´t want anything else. But...

Autobiography (obviously of me)

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  Hi, my real name is Constanza Belmar Valdes, but in this blog I´m Circe. Well, I will tell you some things about me, my life, and the things in my life. I was born in Puente Alto, Santiago, Chile, on August 13th of 2002. Right now I´m 19 years old, but always other people think I am younger. My zodiac sign is Leo, my moon is libra and I don´t remember the others, but I think now is so important to say what your sign is. (IDK, somebody will want to know). In the past, I studied in many schools, but the most important was the Sagrado Corazon of Talagante. Now I´m a student of anthropology and archaeology in the Faculty of Social Science, in the University of Chile.  I have a big family, I live with my parents and 4 siblings. My brother is 14 years old and my sisters are 12, 4, and 1 year old. And my maybe unpopular opinion, being the big sister is bullshit. In pandemia is way worse, because you stay with all these people in one house, and you are "the big sister", which means...