English Language Challenges

Hello everyone! 

This is my last post for the course of English, I finish all my English courses this semester, so is probably that I'll do not continue with the blog, but it was a good experience to do it, I had fun writing each blog post and I think that is a good form to improve the writing and learn new vocabulary. 

I have three English courses in the university, and I think they have been good, I improved my writing and pronunciation, but I have to improve my auditory ability, but I only can improve if I continue to practice, for example, try to translate the lyrics in English just by listening to them or talking to other people. 

I think the activities was funny, although I do not like to make exhibitions, but the blog and the videos was very interesting to do they, especially for the subjects, because were very diverse 

Outside the English class, I do not use English much, except when I have to read English literature for the university (although often the anthropological texts are very complicated by its specific vocabulary) or when I listen to music (many of the artists I listen, sing in English, such as my favorite band 30 seconds to Mars)
I do not know what will happen with my English studies, but is very necessary that I continue learning,  because the most of the archaeological literature is in English and although I am not interested in the academy, many magazines así to publish in English and in this country is important that the archeologists make scientific research and publish the results.
So, that is all, it was a pleasure write this blog. 

Changes to my study programme

Hello everyone!
today I will talk about changes that I want to do to my study programme.
In general I like my career and its curriculum, but I thinks there are many things that can to get better.
An example that is the curriculum of the basic cycle, because I think that is too long (two years), and, although it serves so that those who have not chosen a mention can do it, it is too much for those who already know to what area they want to dedicate or study,  besides I think that the basic cycle is more oriented to the social anthropology and lack physical anthropology and archaeology courses.

On the other hand, I think  most of classes are just theory and we need put into practice what we know, and in that sense, take advantage of the laboratories that exist in the university and the excursions to different places such as a museums, archaeological sites or ethnography works.

Respect to teachers and their teaching methodologies, I think that they have to be more didactic, because not all students accommodate standardized tests, and for some courses the academic load must be level or reduced, because in courses such as anthropology III or prehistory II, the amount of readings is too much and in some cases the requirement of the evaluations is very high (especially in prehistory II). but although for this situations exist the teacher survey and the qualitative evaluation of teachers, I think this evaluations many time are not considered and the situation does not change.
despite all of the above, the career is good, but there are things to improve.

Summer holidays

Hello everyone!
Today I'll talk about summer holidays.
I don't know what I'll do this summer, but I only want to come it soon and my classes in the university finish, because I am very tired and I want time to do something that I like such as play volleyball with my friends or read my favorite books (thing that I can't when I am in the university).
Maybe in this summer with my dad, his couple Ester and my twin sister we will go to the beach the Tabo or Tabito for some days or maybe the one weekend, beautiful and quiet beaches that I've known it since I was a girl when we spent the holidays with my uncles. I always have fun when I go there.

I think that the most of the time I'll be in Santiago, in my home, with my boyfriend (I will have more time to see him and in the summer holidays is also on Valentine' days an excuse to celebrate and surprise my boyfriend with a gift or go somewhere), my mom and brothers or with some of my friends, and maybe we will go to the cinema to watch some movies, the pool, museums or we'll go to a park, such as O'Higgins park or the park in Quinta Normal, or maybe I'm going to stay for a few days at my cousin's house.  In Santiago also are many things that we can to do.

My favorite myth

Hello everyone :)
Today I will talk about one myth that I like: Persephone and the origin of the spring.
I've always liked Greek mythology, for me is very interesting, although I also like other mythologies such as Egyptian, Celtic, Nordic or American as Mayan mythology or Chilean, but what I like most are the Greek myths, where the gods are more humans and also is the one I know the most.
The goddess Persephone is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter and the wife of Hades, god of the underworld. 

The myth tells that while Persephone collected flowers one day she was abducted by Hades, who fell in love for her and made her his wife. Then, Demeter traveled the Earth looking for her, and the flowers withered and the Earth became sterile.
Zeus intervened and ruled that Persephone would spent a certain amount of months a year with his mother (then the spring came and the earth came back to bloom) and the rest in the underworld with Hades as the goddess of hell.
I like this myth, but I like more how characterizes the character of Hades and Persephone Sherrilyn Kenyon in her books saga "Dark Hunters", where she tells romance and science fiction stories  about mortals and Greek gods and gods of other civilizations in the world today.
I recommend her books, they are very interesting and funny.

Post graduate studies

Hello everyone!
Today I will talk about post graduate studies.
I think that today is necessary have post graduate studies, but sometimes the people do not have the possibility to do it.
I still do not know if I'll do some post graduate course, but I want to do one in Chile or abroad, but that depends of the course and  where is better to do it or it is easier to develop.
I would like to do courses about heritage or maybe marine archaeology, because this are my favorite subject, but I have to search information yet about the courses that have the universities in Chile or abroad.
I would like to do some course abroad, especially of the marine archaeology in universities such as Cadiz in Spain, where the language would not be a problem or in  Denmark, and although there are course in Chile such as in the university Andres Bello, I think that is better to study in other countries where this kind of specialty is more developed.
I do not if I'll have to the possibility of to do a post graduate course in the future, but there are still several years to finish my career and think in that. however, I do not rule out the possibility of doing so no matter where.

My future job

Hi everyone!
Today I will talk about  my future job.
I always interested in the history and the mysteries of the past as the origin of the great civilizations or cultures, because I think that there are many things in our past that are awesome and can to explain important thing about our present.
I decided to study archaeologist when I was in the high school, I can not imagine me study or work in other thing, because I interested in the past cultures, and the Archaeology gives me the possibility to know more about these,  travel to different places and the most important, working outdoors.

I don't know in what specialty I would like to work yet, and Archaeology has many possibilities of work as patrimonial diffusion, environmental advice, conservation, investigation, work in museums, marine archaeology and others.

Although I'm not sure about what culture area (north, south, central or southern zone) I would like to study, I hope to work like environmental advice or work in conservation in some museum, I don't really like the investigation area in general, but I'm interested in doing research in marine archaeology, because I think that this area can gives us a lot of new information and a different kind of knowledge about the past.

TV series I'am obsessed with...

Hi everyone!
today I will talk about TV series that I like very much.
I don't say that I obsessed with some TV series, but in this moment I hope it goes the second season of two of my favorite series, one of them is Shadow Hunters and the other is Digimon Adventure Tri (anime series).
I began to see Shadow Hunters because this series is based in a books saga of science- fiction that included very different kind of myths, with the same name that I read some years ago and I loved it.

The other series is Digimon Adventure Tri, the second part of the Digimon Adventure, one Japanese amine series that I saw when I was a girl,
I love this series because remember me my childhood, I began see it when I was in preschool and I saw it again very years after. I think that I saw this series as four or five times because of returning to repeat the series in several TV channels and I never got bored of see.

Although I like many other series too, especially anime series as Inuyasha or Nube, I hope that second season of this series out soon.

That is all, see you soon in a new post.