Improving my English during this semester

This morning when I came to my English class I felt very happy to think that my English has improved a lot during this semester, I must say that thanks to the classes of this semester I have ventured to write more in English, and try to improvise in a Conversation, I was always a bit afraid to be wrong and I was frustrated not being able to communicate well what I was thinking in English, now I can say that I'm trying it and the truth is that there not other way. To learn a new language you have to eliminate fear and shame. Writing blogs has been a good tactic to improve my writing and make use of words that I know but don't use because I don't use them often, I used to think that watching movies and listening to songs in English was enough, today I know that helps you improve your hearing for this language, but it does't teach you to write well, in that sense writing blogs is very useful. For now I plan to continue doing this, writing in English, watching movies and listening to songs, but I must find a way to make myself speak more often in English with people, the truth is that I have many friends who can help me. For a long time it has become more necessary to improve my performance in this language, since at least in the university it is increasingly necessary to read research that contains information that I can not find in Spanish and books for which there is no translation.

A different university

I have never wondering about this topic, and I consider that is very important to thinking it. Maybe I never really thought about it before because I felt that my career was demanding enough for me. I have always listened to my colleagues who talk about many things that must change in our career; In fact two years ago the curriculum of our career changed a lot; but for me it was always enough in level of demand of this university, since to be honest I don't have very good references about universities that are better or worse in the field of anthropology. This career was always for me a means to better understand the world in which we live, so I never thought about whether I was good enough or not while I learning new things every day. The infrastructure seems good enough, on the other hand, I think the university should allocate more funds so that anthropology students can do more field work.

I think that if something should change in the career, it is the way in which some teachers do class. Many of our teachers are very outstanding people in their field, but they aren't prepared to teach. Of course isn't easy to learn and there are those who say that teaching is a talent with which you are born. I think that teaching is something that you learn over time and approaching students. That is why teachers must come down from their place of superiority and be more modest, recognizing that even if they are great researchers, they should still learn a lot about how to teach. On the other hand I think that this is also the responsibility of the university and therefore they must take actions to get their teachers to give a better education.

This summer

I am thinking that this summer I will not be able to have holidays, but this is not a problem for me because I think that staying here in Santiago is not so bad after all. The only bad thing is that I will have to work all summer, but at least I hope to find some fun work, the most important thing is that I can learn something interesting and useful, I don't want to be in those boring jobs like a call center, or seller or any another thing like that. What I would most like is a job where I can practice my English, that would be ideal, I'm serious, because that's something important for me, so now I'm thinking about trying it really, I'm going to practice my English in some job, I hope be hired, I'm crossing my fingers for that to happen, maybe it's a bit stressful because I'm not very good, but it doesn't matter, I'm going to do it, in fact I'm thinking right now that maybe I can get a job outside of this city, It would be even better.

I leave here a picture of my instagran of my last holidays in bolivia.

Find a topic for my thesis

writing a thesis to graduate is a difficult job, so today I will take the opportunity to choose a free topic to vent my burden to see me so late with the delivery of the advances of my thesis. When you complete the last semester of the fourth year of anthropology, you must leave ready a research project on which you will work; While it is not a thorough investigation with data collection and analysis, it is still a difficult job. Some would say that choosing a topic is the easiest thing, this has been very different in my case because as I advance in the background research of my subject, I discover new complexities that I must take into account before writing the background, the problematization, the methodology and the theoretical framework. The idea is that next year my job is to gather data, analyze and draw conclusions; If I discover that my research topic is not convenient, I will have lost all my work. Many of my colleagues are in this same situation, I feel I have all the ideas in my head but I have not started writing yet. So I ask you to stop talking on social networks of how much or little you have advanced because it stresses me to look at my phone and see how hysterical everyone is with this issue.

What do I want to do after studying anthropology at university?

I have always liked to study and handle new knowledge, the truth is that everything catches my attention, for this reason it was very difficult for me to choose a career, and in fact if today you ask me what I would like to do at end of my career, I would answer a million things, however the only thing that I have clear is my avocation for history, the compression about societies and travel. I know very well that I want to continue studying, and it is something that I want to continue doing in a self-taught way for some time to rest from the work of the university. I have two things in mind: the first is make a small independent magazine, maybe this will give me the opportunity to continue learning without having to enter a university and at the same time it gives me the opportunity to travel and learn a little more about the world. The second thing is that I would like to spend some time learning to speak English and French well, I think I can achieve it without going into an institute, in fact I am already trying and I feel that I am achieving it, of course that people always help you and always you learn from them, that is something indispensable. Today there are many ways to learn to do things having conviction in what you want and knowing well what you enjoy of the life. I want to visit many countries and there learn things that only there I could learn, I have the feeling that my first stop will be France, there I will learn to speak French, it is the only thing that I could assure if I am going there. As for a specialization that's something I'll decide later.

Postscript: as I did not know what image to put, I put this cat meme that I thought was very funny.

My future job

I'm studying anthropology at this moment, which wasn't an easy decision for me, before I studied something totally different, I studied engineering. I realized that what really interested me was understanding how society works, anthropology is a social science that allows you to analyze society and its culture from different approaches and theories. I must admit that at the time of choosing the anthropology career for the first time in my life I didn't think about the pros and cons and much less about what I would like to do afterwards or if I would earn a good salary; I only focused on what I really wanted to do at that time in my life, today I think it was the best decision I could make and I am very happy with my choice, I don't know if I will work on this, but for now I plan to continue studying and specializing and dedicate myself to research while I'm studying, for example I would like to specialize in international law, audiovisual studies or pedagogy, although I think that I will learn to do it in the course of my personal development, in fact I am already in that task. To be honest I'm not sure what I'll do next, what I'm sure of is that I would like to continue traveling, live a good time to the places  that I go. As for the money, it's enough for me to have enough to do whatever that I'm doing at that moment. For a long time I've been working on things that allow me the freedom to manage my time and my productivity and allow me to do other things that I like, that is a priority for me, I prefer to work on my own project because that is a guarantee of doing something that really satisfies me. Of course anthropology is something that I plan to always keep in mind in my life in one way or another, whether or not it is my source of sustenance. I know perfectly well that it is not easy but I have faith in this.

My choose career

I've to confess that I studied several careers before wanting to study anthropology. I come from Colombia and there I studied mechanical engineer, industrial engineer and industrial design, but I couldn’t finish them for divers reason. I didn’t have money, I was living alone and I worked all the time; some people can get forward despite of the difficulties, but I think that I wasn’t really convinced of what want to do in my life, so I took my bags and come to Chile. After of one year I knew better what I want to do, and I discovered the social anthropology, I don’t though too much about this, I simply knew that I wanted it and knew over time that this really passionate me. I can to say that since I arrived to Chile I knew my self-better and for that I choose the anthropology as first option, although I had other options: psychology, history and sociology. At this juncture I’m really satisfied of my election, I could learn thing that I never though before that I could to learn, my aspiration is learn increasingly about the society and theirs cultures for some day known how to contribute to building a better world, I hope.