Something I'd like to learn

Since I was very little, I was an intelectually restless girl. Not because I had divine qualities. It was only because I had physical limitations. I have always had problems with interacting with people and my enviroment in general, so I was almost obligated to develop some other quality. As a very shy child, i had to refuge on books. Then, the little I talked with people, the most I read. Certainly, literature came first. My mum had always encourage our reading, to me and my brohers and sister, but I am the best reader in my house (obviously, it is because I have no more qualities, as I said). So, from short stories to large novels, I eated every book that passed through my hands. 
As a result, I started to learn a lot of things and, with that, I learn the love of learning and knowledge in general. I like to learn new things, but I’m afraid that everything that I learn is related with some topics in particular. I just learn by reading, so I am completely incompetent in terms of sports, music abilities and many other things. 
I really would like to learn to play some instrument, but I think that I don’t have the talent in music. I always say that my only talent is to apreciate arts, but I am not an artist. I do not write quite enough to be a good writter, and I don’t draw pretty much good to be a drawer. I don’t sing really well to be a singer. I practiced dance until I was eleven years old, but I got tired of that. And I’m really bad at sports. The sad part is that all of these things are interesting to me, but my corporality doesn’t let me do them well. 
Maybe the problem is that I don´t have courage, so I may start by learning how to lose the fear that keeps me quiet.

Santiago

I have to admit that is delightful to me to speak about cities.  Precisely because I like to think, live and go through human spaces, analyzing the structures, the meaning of the constitution, in a material and discourse sense in which are builded. I really enjoy to see how spaces are a place in which we find lots of meanings and dispositions. Particulary, cities are a center of human activities and, because of that, is full of material and metaphysic senses.

In that way, Santiago is a very important space to me. I like to walk for hours without a definite course. I consider the excercise of walking through the city  as very relevant, because it shows on some events some aspects of our society. For example, is not coincidence that, as a girl, I am not able to walk alone along the city without experiencing  Street harassment, or the fact that if you walk through a bad neighborhood, or “dangerous streets”, you will be surely a victim of assault. Then, in that sense, Santiago has very good things that I love, like those spaces that recall history events and are patrimony (Barrio Yungay, for example), and those places that are full of culture and arts. I dislike those spaces that are determinated by material conditions and socioeconomic level, not by itself, but because there where designed places that reproduce social injustices, becoming guettos and focus of violence. Those places are usually not pleasant to community.

To make Santiago a better place, I think it has to be more democratic. In first place, there must not be able to have the level of segregation that characterize our city. And then, I think we have to socialize every space, and eliminate neoliberalism that stalks our city. But I’m convinced that first we have to change radically the social structure and values that are deeply in the heart of Santiago. I hope I will be alive to see something change.

Hi everyone

I had some trouble during this weeks, so I had not the time to do the activities. I think that is a similar case of most of the people that are participating on the strike, so probably you are in the same situation now. I’m going to post the activities now, so you can post me if you want to.

What we do:

I choosed to study sociology  because it brings me usefull tools to analyze society. Also, because I really enjoy most of the contents of the career, and because I feel that the structure of the discipline is similar  to my way of thinking. It gives me a lot of perspectives that are related with other personal interests as economy, philosophy, psychology, politics, history and so on. I can shift from one perspective to another easily and, I feel, it connects differents knowledges, so I may explain or understand societal phenomenons in a deeper and critical way.

Professionals in my area have a lot of skills to contribute to society. Having a degree in sociology allows you to work in different spaces. In our country, sociologists focus on political publics or academy, and they work on public and private organizations, to analyze social phenomenons, thinking in solutions to society issues, creating projects, supporting other disciplines, et cetera. I think that, in the future, sociologists will have to develop some mechanisms to approach to a society that is becoming more technologycal, so most of the phenomenons will have place in some no-places on the internet, and some stuff like that.

At the moment, my favourite subjects those thar are related with history, psychology and philosophy. I like most of the subject, with the exception of statistics (in wich I am really really bad).