Any colour you like

During this year, and during my study of this carrer, i began to wonder a lot of different things. I began to swim into different waters; traveling into different places and different times. A lot of differents doubts came to me after every class or after finishing a text. 

In order of this, I figured out that the society, the social theory and all the things related to that, are very complex to understand. There are a lot of things that we can learn in a carrer like this. The sociology is a very ambiguous subject into the humanities. We can find the society in thousands of different subjects. Thats a great thing of this carrer, but in some way cause some fear.

However, one of the things that would like to learn by now is more philosofy. I know that it could sound a little bit weird, but i think that is very useful to guide every future knowledge, especially in a carrer like sociology. In this way, I cant't wait having that subject next semester.

Another thing that I wolud like to learn it's about literature. It's for me something very interesant, even though I dont't know the generalities of this subject as a theory.

For the last, I would like to keep learning different things on the guitar, like techniques or scales, so I can improve on my playing.  Unfortunately, time is limited, so I can't do all I want to do. 

Santiago

Hi everyone! Today i'm going to talk about the capital city of Chile: Santiago. 

Im going to start saying that no one chooses were (and when) to born. I think that, if i had the chance to choose the city where i was going to born, i I would not have chosen Santiago. However, Santiago it's my native city. I've always lived here, and I think that I will live here for -at least- the more years. 

Santiago is a huge city. It never stops growing. I imagine that in 50 years, Santiago will reach Viña del Mar if the urban growing rate keeps in this way. However, and for this reason, I cant't say that I know every place of Santiago. I only know really good some neigbourhoods. 

I've always lived in the same place: a house in Ñuñoa, near this university. My school was really close too, so I didn't have to spent a lot of time traveling through the city. For that reason, I chosed the bicycle as my conveyance. I really like Ñuñoa neigbourhood, it is my favourite place of the city, basically for the reason that I know their streets and squares like the back of my hand. I really like to travel with my bicycle through these streets.  

However, Santiago offers a lot of different landscapes, it is a very varied city as for the type of constructions and  soacial realities that you can see. In general, I think that Santiago is a city that reflect all the problems of our social sistem. Begening with the pollution of the air, the segregation, the inequeality and the overpopulation. All these, added to the disastrous public transport sistem, makes Santiago a city where the quality of life is very poor. The things that I would change are the Transantiago and all those giant building towers. 

I recomend to any person who wants to visit Santiago, the city centre, because it have a lot of interesting sights to visit, and a lot of historical meaning that -or me- it's fascinating.

Being there on the society.

During my life, I always wondered to solve the doubts that came to my mind. I spent a lot of time thinking about different themes like the time and the space during my adolescence and part of my childhood. In this part of my life, I didn't care so much of what I wanted to study on university. However, I always tend toward to the humanistic area: my favourite subjects were history and language. The first time I linstened the word Sociology was during a conversation with my brother. This word attracted my attention very much. The "study of the society" as a carreer sounded really good, but at the same way a very abstract. I decided to study this carreer the last year. I think that this decision was influed principally on the philosofy classes that I had during 2015. In those classes, my doubts began to grow, and in that way, the incentives to resolve them too. I enter to this carrer basically for that reason: to solve the doubts that I had of the society.

Now, on my third month studying this carrer, I realised that there exisist some doubts that are impossible to resolve.

I think that a sociologist have the difficult mission of construe a determinated society or social procees and, in the same way, help to improve them on a constructive way. For this reason, I consider that the social research and the active participation on diferent public policies are a fundamental things on the work of a sociologist.

By now, my favourite subject is Antropology. I like the topics that are inclued on the clases: it's -for me- like the elemental explication of phenomenons like the economy and the politics. It's very interesting to know this thing before I begin to studying them on the actual society.
 

  

Strikes

Hi again. Today I'm going to share with you a little reflection about strikes.

First of all, I have never taken part of a strike during my whole life. This is basically for the reason that my school wasn't involucrate on the political contingency during the last five years. 

Now, in 2016, the student movement keep fighting for achieve the things that where proposed at the beginning of the mobilizations. In this sense, I think that the student movement has to go on, but I have strong doubts of which will be the mechanism of protest.

Well known is the case of the strike that took place on the Universidad de Chile last year. I had the opportunity to listen the version of different persons who lived this process. In general, they’re impressions vary a lot. There are the ones who defend the strikes, arguing that it was an effective way of pressing the authorities to do something. In the other hand, I found the ones who suggest that the strikes were just a waste of time. They say that in the end, this mechanism of protest loses their meaning.

I think that every mobilization have to design a clear plan of action, and in that way, include the biggest amount of participants. The discussions must be for everyone. In spite of this, I think that the strikes attempts with some students that want to contribute in other ways. In my case, to have a strong opinion of what is happening nowadays with the Chilean education, I need the classes to go deep into the discussions. But talking in general, I thing that a strike can help only if there is a very clear plan behind it. The student movement needs concrete achievements. In the last years there was more failures than real progress in this subjects.

English and kwnoledge

Hi everyone, today I will write a little reflection about the importance of the English language in our present context.

I think that English is nowadays considered as a universal language. This condition means that in the practice, a big percentage of the scientific publications are written on this language. This is a reflection of the globalization process of the last decades. The English language became a tool for every person who knows how to speak it, in the way that allows the communication and comprehension between persons of very different countries and cultural realities.

English works in the same way on the sphere of the knowledge. For students as us, from Latin America and in general for any Spanish-speaker, knowing English allows them to comprehend a big amount of works into the different spheres of the scientific investigation and the a lot theories developed at the most important universities of the world.

The most of these universities are located on the United States and in Europe, so it's very important to improve the understanding of this language, looking forward to improve –as well– the knowledge in every university of the world.  It’s like a democratization of the knowledge.

Presentation Experience

The today's presentation was great. I felt good, even though I didn't prepare too much the presentation. Contrary to the presentations on the school, I felt more comfortable, I think because it was a theme related to the social sciences, something that I like very much. 

In general, all the presentations were very good and very interesting. I learned a little bit of another careers into the social sciences, some social theories and finally, the life and thinking of different authors related to the social theories. 

I hope we repeat these kind of presentations, because I think speaking is the best way to learn this language.

Eating Chinese food was a tradition in my family. I remember that during my childhood, we visited every Sunday a Chinese restaurant called "Tung Hoi", located in Grecia with Salvador. Nowadays, this restaurant is not Chinese any more, now it is instead, a Peruvian food restaurant.

 In spite of that, that restaurant will always be on my memory.

I remember that my favourite dishes were the fried shrimp and spring onion pastries and the Mongolian meat. These pastries were served with a sweet and sour tamarind sauce, which combined perfectly with the shrimp and the spring onion inside them. On the other hand, the Mongolian meat was the perfect combination of the sweetness of the spring onions, the flavour of the meat, the salty taste of the soy sauce and finally, the brilliant spicy touch of the green pepper. All these were accompanied with "chaufan" rice, giving as a result a gorgeous and complete meal.

For the dessert, we always bought popsicles in a little market next to the restaurant. For me, it was the perfect way to finish the lunch.