Accidents

Actually i don't have a huge accident record, i mean, i've never really had such a fall which haved make me go to the hospital. Y barely remeber a few falls when i was a kid. One of them were long ago, when i was 7 or 8 year old; i was playing in the neighborhood along my friends, and we were playing "Escondida Pelota" (Is like the classic Escondida but to save yourself you must kick a ball that is in a settle point on the ground). Well, when i saw that nobody was watching me, i started to run as fast as i could to try to kick the ball. As i was running, suddenly, i hardly tripped, and fell on the asphalt. I fell all over mi knee and the pebble stone on the ground hurted me really hard. When i got up, i saw my knee and it was all covered in blood and huge part of my skin was tear apart as the point that i could see the flesh inside my leg; it was so disgusting. After that, i felt the intense pain and i started to cry. My friends helped me to get home and my mom healed me. When i were in the shower, i could see how deep was the wound and i got really really scared. Well, after a while, i felt better, with bend-aids all over my knee, i lied down on the couch to watch T.V as i eated something to palliate the accident, it was not so bad after all.

A nice picture

This photo was taken on September 2016, almost exactly one year ago. Was taken by one of my closest friends, Daniel. I appear in the front of the picture, sitted with my arms over my knees ,watching the majestic plateau of the "Andes Maulinos" from the top of "The Enlardillado". This place calls like that because of the form that the ground rocks have, they look like a brick paved wall( well, it can't be noticed in the picture because of the snow that surprisingly were covering all arround.)  Actually the origin of this geologycal phenomena is unknown; in popular cultural, it is believed that this place were formed by The Incas, who has randomly come to this southern lands from the plateau of Peru, because of the unusual form of the ground that could be interpreted as a majestic architectonic masterpiece. Other unusual theory consist in that the origin of this mysterious landscape was product of alien activity; this theories are introduced facing the wide incertitude that scientist community has shown. Well, this photo is important to me because it is shown as an graphic memory form a really memorable trip that i did with some good friends: Toño, which is shown spectral besides me; Maca who's behind us enjoying the lunch, and Vicky and Daniel who are not appaering in the picture. A nice picture form a nice time.

What we understand by drugs?

Actually there's a wide open discussion about what people mean when they talk about "drugs",  especially in new generations. Personally, i define drugs by any substance that could involve a neuro/motor psycho estimulation, ultimately a drug could be any object of consumption that may implie effects on our psychicall estructure, and therefore, in our behavior. So, i consider a cigarrete, a beer, and even a chocolate as a several conditioner of behavior and, according to the previous definition, straigthly as drugs. I think that we could segment the "drugs universe" in two parts: the farmaceutical/first category drugs, as narcotics, painkillers, analgesics and antidepresssants; prescripted drugs, in short. And on the other hand there are the unprescripted drugs/second category, and those that i've been trying to define at this letter. Here enters all those substains that at first look doesn't fits with the traditional/medical definition of a drug: "every substance that potencially can cure or prevent a disease". The first category drugs are those ones that are consider legal, prescripted by a doctor, a "science's man" who we can trust at every time, whenever we were. The second one, although they're not recognized into the medical kit, they're still being a chemical substance that affects our perception, cognition and central nervous system as well as the first category drugs. And as they can affect the user in the negative ways, like when alcoholics people become violent, or when chocolate/candies/junk food/etc adicts become diabetics or anxiety people, these "drugs" as well could help to upgrade the physicall and mental well-being of people that consume them. In this way, the meaning of drugs is biased, influenced by officialism and hegemonic comunicational media. Sometimes, an anti-depressed pill could be more nocive to the health of people, as they generate dependance on users, than mariguana plants or LSD, floripondio and so many other natural chemical substances, wich not presents features of dependance. So, if you ask me about what i think about drugs? I think that the official sciences as psychiatry and psychology have done an erroneous idearium of these, and against that, i think that we as society have the duty of reivindicate the category of drugs and think again about what is really nocive on substains that we consume everyday, and what is the real reason to hegemonic groups to construct idearium wich one fatalizes the psychedellic drugs category against the official drugs that they promoved.

Favourite Device

One of the devices that i spend more time in is my notebook. I practically use it everyday, either to be in touch with every university's works and issues or to do any other stuff like watch movies, listen music, read anything or chat; I think my notebook is an essencial device to stay connected with the world in a certain way. For example, if there's an assemble in my university, or if i need to contact a friend whom i don't used to talk much, or any other subject, my notebook helps me a lot. My actual notebook was a gift; i needed an own one, because me and my brother used to share the older one, so now is easier. I like to use it for its many uses; from watching movies to do homework, it is always suitable to every places on my home, also. Why i would do without it? Well i think that technollogy devices are just things, and no matter how much they could help us in our dialy life, they should not overpass our capacities. Neverthless, i have to admit that without my notebook, things in university would be really tough, because i read great part of university lectures on my notebook, so, without my notebook it would imply to spend a lot of money

                                           

Why antropologhy?

I've never had a whole life vocation about antropologhy, actually i didn't knew what it was about untill i were currently in last highschool years. Either influenced by friends or reading stuffs, Antrpologhy suddenly appeared to me as an amalgam of subjects which were on my concern since i was a kid: the question about "the past", the missing link (this remits on human evolution to those unfound human specimens which were in the middle of two known species and that could give information about how the first one turned to the second), about the mystical recondit origin of many cultures in the world, among others stuff. So, even when i never really propused to myself the posibility to become this discipline the history of my life, it was always on my mind.

When i was a kid i were always interested in animal stuff, but not in a medical or political way; i used to like it just because, mere interest. So i never wanted to become a veterinarian, not at all. I also enjoyed the drawing from early age, i used to draw lions, bears, spidermans and faces. However, i never did improve my drawing aptitudes, so i've always been an amateur at that.

Well, in relation to my other options before enter to my carreer, certainly never was my first option. On school i got really interested in psychology and the social sciences sphere, but also i liked the idea of being an history teacher, maybe because i admire my school teachers by helping me to figure out my vocation path in a quite big way.

Anyway, i finally got into antropologhy because my score in Psu exam weren't to good to enter in the university i wanted, and there i realized that i was not willing to try again next year, i didn't like it so much. So with psycologhy discarded i looked up to my actual carreer, and i felt curious to try it.

Today i'm in second year and i've learned a lot of things, as well as into the carrer as outside it. I think that i haved changed a lot in the last 2 years, and maybe this career has influed.

My wishes to future as a professional is, in a huge way, to become a commited social scientist with lot of social compromise, and to preserve my actual convictions about things that i consider vitals to work on society, like ethnic rights, resistance to factic power and to the patriarchy's claws, among others... I hope so.

Autobiography

I was born in Santiago on Auguut 18th in 1997 - so today is my 20th birthday- and i've lived here during my whole life with my parents and my older brother, who has 6 years more than me. I never went to the kindergarden because i disliked it, i preffered to stay in home doing other stuff. When i was a kid i liked to draw and to learn about animals a lot, i learned to read in home by playing PC games and watching movies; i think that it was so more interesting that doing it at kindergarden or school with all of those gramatical rules stuff and teachers around you all day. The best way to learn something is doing it the way you like the most.

Well, later i went to school. I did Pre-School year and the first three grades in a school near to my house. But, suddenly things changed in my family when my grandfather passed away. By economical issues me and my brother had to moved to another school. In my case, i moved to a public school, when i knew big part of my actual friends. This school called "Colegio Providencia" and i was there from 4th grade to 8th grade. After that i reached to my highschool studies, in a public school called Liceo Lastarria. There i learned such a important things, not just refered to the obligatorial subject, but things that i use everyday; there i formed my convictions, and part of my identity, and dispite of a couple of things that i don't share with the school's vision, i save great acknowledge from there, but well, it's happens everywhere at anytime.

4th grade was such an important year, because it was the last year that i was being along with my partners, who have become really good partners in life and i appreciate them so much. But also, 4th grade was important because it was a decisive year, the PSU was coming and i haved to prepare myself at the time that i wasn't sure enough about what do with my life, i mean, about what to study next.

I always felt attracted by the social sciences, at least since 2th or 3th grade of highschool. In the begining i was interested in Psycologhy by influence of some teachers and some older friends, beside some stuff i could read parallel to school. But actually, i was never really sure about it untill the day of the PSU exam results. When i looked it i thought in my posibillities, wich in that moment were: Psycologhy, History and Antropologhy. My score were not to good to enter directly to Psycologhy, so i decided to enter  Antropologhy to see, meanwhile i looked for an inner exchange, if this carrer was mine stuff.

Once there, i realized that Antropologhy contained a lot of subjects that i liked since i was a kid, and i i felt really passionate with the carrer since then. Today i'm very happy to have entered to the carrer instead of psycologhy or History, i kinda found part of my essence here. Here i met real good people and my actual girlfriend partner, people who have been along with me all the time, learning real important things about cultures, sites, bones, and Levi-Strauss.

Etnic Items

In this picture, we can see a curious celebration: The Aztec New Year. This event it's realized on Seattle, Washington, and, as i can see, with the purpose of commemorate an etnic tradition in a country that represents, in my opinion, conquer, imperialism and expansion. After centuries of occidental colonialism and consolidated domination, the United States tries to do an assertion about how they really care about the integrity and wholeness of an erradicated culture. However, this celebration hides something elses because, in fact, the people that participate in this event are aztec descendants, and they does it to the  eavs of this northern country. This reveals a really known fact: Cultural Sincretism. In antropology, we concibe this  etnic individuals as "the others", wich history is subordinated to our history --occidentally history, i mean. Actually, they only have this place , this oportunity to "celebrate themselves" because we provide it. Ultimately, they're just result to be a residue of our own culture; they only exist in the 'hegemonic imaginarium' because we allowed it. In conclusion, I rather to see this phenomenum "between lines", and i make a couple of questions to the readers: Is this really a genuine way to honorate an ancestral culture, into a city? Are this iniciative an efective form of redeem the damage that occident has done over and over through the time to this etni groups? When we look as this picture, we really think about the aztec integrity or we're just fascinating our minds with at etnic fetish? The subject is open...