My favorite author

Hi my friends! Today I will talk about different important thinks to me, that converge in a name: María. 

Since I was kid I love to imagine stories. Since I was a teenager, I love to write: my ideas, my feelings. Create a particular and huge world by words, in wich my mind and my heart can talk. And, in 2011, I read a book that I really loved: full of passion, full of elegance, full of privacy. I felt that the author was similar to my; I had never found someone like her. Reading María Luisa Bombal, I felt rained woods inside my chest. 

Borned in June of 1910 in a aristocrat chilean famliy, M. L. Bombal was a intense women. She went to meetings only for men to talk about literature, she wrote of the feelings and sexuality of the females of ther time and  shooted  the man she loved once time. Years ago I met a guy that was friend of María in her last years. When I asked to him about her, the first thing he said was: 'A very depressive women'. 

The books write by María have a surrealist erotism and prose; a beautiful, elegant and precise prose. I really love her. The worlds she creates: the Chilean south, full of humidity and shadows, the place where people expose common feelings and thoughts; sometimes, like everyone in certain moments, their reflections full of wisdom.

My writing style is similar to her, today. I treat to make surrealist scenes, in which common but deep people suddenly appear, and move displaying their intimate world. I like to think that I’m like a more political inclinaded nephew of her.

My future work

Hi! Today I will talk about the job that I'd like to have in the future.

I want to work —as independent or like a foundation employer— with LGTBI communities or groups in social risk with the objective of contribute to solve their necessities; also, to learn about their life and prove social theories.  In this sense, as the social anthropologist that I want to be I'd like to work a time in the year in field and later indoor, analyzing the information and making the reports or something similar. The idea of stay moving between different spaces is exciting; I really want to stay months or years in a community in Chile’s south, by example, and later come to my office and think and write.

Also, I really like to write narrative. In this sense, I think the field’s work and the tools that Anthropology gives will let me know in profundity certain communities and problems I`d like to write about in future. I`ll want to publish my books, and may realize cultural management or studies about lierature.

In other way, I'd like to teach in  universities, schools or in another instances.

Actually, I don’t sure about how kind of major I will study at the future, but I think that something about qualitative methodology, gender studies of poststructuralism.  Also, I want to work alone sometimes and, in other moments, in projects about problems of my interest with social scientist and/or other professionals. I have so passionate and smart friends studying my career and others relate, and I think that together we can do great things.

Cultural Shock

Most of  humans live and grew up  with other humans in small or big comunities, like tribes or cities. All of these groups have  a particular lenguage and folklor, and specifically  relations with the environment and customs .In brief, different ways of live;  the  Antropology uses the concept 'culture' to refer to that. Is important to say that in one society you can fin many cultures, for example the specifically of the old or young people of the same comunity  or the case of urban tribes

In this way, when a person has a change of social ambient has many problems: the costums and the relation between the people are different; also, many times the lenguage was different too. It is called 'culture shock'.

For example, when I traveled to Bolivia last summer I felt that I was in a really different place. I arrived at La Paz, that has an urban pattern so different in comparation of Santiago. Also, the people bought and sold so many things in the street and drive the cars so quickly. Days later, I found more differences between Bolivia and Chile, like the variety of lenguajes that people talk, like quechua or another dialects. Also, the people were more shy, use a mix between typicall clothes and things that people use here in Santiago, has different customs about the hygienic; many chilean people that I knew may have problems with it, I think. I'm tolerant and no demanding, but in the personal case I had problems to find vegetarian food.

Final Fantasy Distant Worlds Tour

In the tauru's month's of 2014 I had one of the most beutiful experiences of my hole life.  In company of my childhood friend, Pablo, I went  to a concert of Final Fantasy's orchesta: the soundtrack of my favorites video games ever. Music composed by the japanesse Nobuo Umeatsu, of   beutiful stories of many rol player games that made me felt and learn many things,  played in that ocassion by the Universidad of Santiago orchesta.

The atmpsphere was unique: many fans, expectants. People I felt was similar to me: their clothes, their gestures, their expressions. I felt in home. Also, because of the absence of sales of the concert tickets, Pablo and me were at the front line. And the music began.

It was so special to me. I played final fantasy games alone in my house; I only talked about it and played with Pablo and other friend. I had so intimate memories, and in this moment I heard a orchesta playing to mine. I cried. I imagined and rememberd. I was so so happy. And so many people felt like me; I wasn't alone.

http://youtu.be/YXlE8ZESSEI

The Anthopology and me

I arrived to this carreer looking for knowledge about the people and society. Also, I wanted to work at National Geographic and travel a lot in the future. Altough I knew that many anthropologists work in this organization, and I had talked with a professional of this field that had worked in other areas, I didn`t know very well what  Anthropolgy was.
But, for years I wanted to study at the Universidad de Chile,  It was really my dream. Also, I liked Gómez Millas and the people that studied here.
I  had the idea of working at Nat Geo, and I was faithfull about knowing more about the Anthropology and finding other ways to continue studing this career.

The time has passed by, and I don't think the same way. Now I understand what Anthropology is, and what I can do with the knowledge and tools that the study brings me. Also, my idea about the workers of the discipline has changed, and now I feel more certain about what I want to do in my life. In this way, I want to work with LGTB communities in the future. I want to work with them to make them and I feel happier, and to contribute to make this world a fair place Also,  life is long, and I think  working with communities in social risk and teaching in a University I will be happy too. Finally, I have the idea of going to work with a kawésqar population near to Puerto Natales some time in the future.
May Nat Geo ideas are not so far of my mine yet. Hahaha.

A respectful place with cold and bears

Few year’s ago I met a friend who lived and study in a boarding school in Canada: the lonliness, the bears; the cold weather. Also, he told me about the great experience of meeting so many people from different countries. All of them lived in Toronto, a good place.

I would like to visit Canada, and Toronto in especific. I really like the geography, the weather and the ecosystem of the country; also, the Canadian’s idiosyncrasy, especifically of people of Toronto. I have read articles that talks about how cosmpolitan Toronto is:  only the 11.3 percent of the population of this city is Canadian Descendant, while the other persons are from North America, Africa, Europe, Asia, etc. (Canadian Census, 2011). Also, the LGBT —lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people— are treated as anybody else in that place: they can marriage, and have no problems to live their life.

The Torontians are nice and respectful, told me my friend, and I’d like to have the experience of live a time whith them in this especial place. There, have postgraduate studies in Anthropology or Micro-Sociology in Toronto’s University, I whish. Also, in the city are too many bohemian life, and others things to do: museums, an aquarium. Living there I could move to other places of the country and visit the natural parks, and enjoy. 

Possess

I really like the photography. One photo can make you feel some different things, can make you imagine, remember and learn. Also, are photographs that are amazing because their colors or the scenes that they are showing.

Today, I will talk about one of my favorite’s photos. It was taken by my best friend mom, when they were together traveling around Perú. It was in 2009, at the time they were in Cuzco, the mythical city of the Incas. It was in a cloudy day.

The image shows my friend, Pía, inside of an ancient building, made of stones and with straw roof. She is in the front of a window, and the green landscape of the mountains with the clouds above it, is behind her. You can see clearly the luminous window frame and the roof over it, the mountains and the roofs of two other buildings behind Pía, but you can’t recognize her face: she looks like a woman shadow with long hair, holding a bag with one of her hands and looking at the camera. She is anyone, with the immensity behind.

I love this photo for different reasons. Because I love Pía, and in many months we can’t met: I remembered better her looking at his photo. Also, it is so beautiful, and the first time I saw this image, I remembered a quote that I really like, and that I remembered every time I see this picture: “Maybe the prison possess her, but she possess the liberty”.

If you look carefully, you can see that Pía is smiling.