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). 

First of  all, I think that is necessary to think strikes as a way to express not only particular opinions, but collective demands. In that way, I think that university strikes in Chile as high school strikes are mechanisms of expressions that are internally legitimated. I mean, internally because, as a way of expression, it cause different impressions and feelings in population. Anyway, if there are bad opinions and feelings about strikes, I don't see them as a bad thing, because that's the point of striking.

So, I agree with this way of expression, then I participate too. Last year I didn't have the chance to participate always, because I had to work during that time, but now I'm not working so I’m expecting to participate as I would to. As I said, strikes are internally legitimated, not only because it has become a traditional way to express, but also because is a way to disturb the routine of the institutions and the routine of the people related with institutions that seems to be affected with strikes (I mean, institutions like universities, schools, education minister, government, and so on). As a result of that disturb, institutions are obligated to give answers to students demands. I think that the problem is that institutional answers are not always satisfactory because, at the time, there are not true intentions to make structural changes. So, related with that, there are some troubles that appear like losing classes. I think that both things are related because while we are not having classes, we have not the time to think how to recuperate them without the damage of our knowledge. But, in the other hand, there are not responses to our demands or projects that change the structural problems so, even if we recuperate our classes, educational system is still getting worse.

As a conclusion, I think that to resolve that issue (losing classes), is necessary to stop, to strike, everyone and everything, to disturb and interrupt the course of this bad-educational-system and resolve in real terms the structural problems. Then, it would be possibly to restart our classes and have a good (and free) education and will have not to strike anymore. 

About my presentation today... I talked about Michel Foucault. A philosopher that I really like, and have read a lot, so i choosed him to talk about because I thought that it would be easily. But... the thing is that I hate to speak english in public. I mean, I hate speaking in public in general (english or spanish), but it makes me really nervous to speak in english. I think that it may be really funny to see me when I'm speaking, because I blush so fast and so red, hahah. Also, i think i speak in english like Slavoj Zizek (a Yugoslavian philosopher that speak in english with a funny accent. Here is a video of him if you wanna know how he speak: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2014/dec/03/slavoj-zizek-philosopher-what-is-freedom-today-video). Anyway, it was a short presentation so I didn't suffer too much.
That's all. Hope you're all ok. Regards

When I was a child, every family celebration was by going out to eat. I doesn’t matter the motive or the situation. We always went out to eat. So, birthays, graduations, anniversaries,  or any motive, was equal to going out… and eat. Anyway, my mother used  to cook delicious food in my house, so the entertaining thing was not eating by itself. The enjoyable thing was to get served, and the time for talking calmly and have some fun, without my mum working alone for everyone. It was a lovely meeting time. 

When my parents got divorced,  many things changed. But not the habit to celebrate by eating out. Now, we have to go twice: one time with my mother, and other with my father (I think that’s why I’m becoming fat, maybe haha). So, we ussually eat out at different places. One of my favorites is called “New Horizon”, and it’s located in Merced, Santiago. It serves indian food. I love it, because is good, attractive and affordable. They have some vegetarian tasty alternatives. I’ve been vegetarian for almost five years, and since I’ve become veggie, I really love this place for eating out.

I like to eat white rice with vegetals seasoned with  curry and some other indian ingredients. It’s really  really good. 

Hi bloggers

Here's my performance on the activities:  

Activity 1 : 

I choose this computer: HP Envy 23-o014 Core i5 23-Inch Touch-Screen All-In-One Desktop Computer + 8GB Memory + 1TB Hard Drive (Refurbished), and a simple living wood computer desk:

Activity 2: 

-Here are my results on the quiz: 

Total Question(s): 10

Question(s) Answered: 10
Correct Answer(s): 9

I Just failed on the question that asked me about the three most commonly used Boolean operators (I really had no idea about what was the question), but I learned that the trhee most commonly were  "and, or, not".

-On the second quiz, my final score was 49. I'm really impressed about that, but I don't kow if that is good or bad (I was expecting something wrong, like one thousand points ahahah).

Activity 3: 

-My results were 100%

Activity 4: 

I choosed an article named: 10 things That Aren't Free Speech, because I thought that it wpuld be interesting. I did not find enough information in the arcticle beacause it were anything of what I was expecting for. The most interesting thing that I learned about was some speech topics that U.S. does not admit.