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English Language Challenges

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I really like to learn english so, the experience of this course has been interesting for me. It would be amazing to incorporate more vocabulary and talk more fluid, but, being in the university is a bit complicated to learn in a good way, because a language is a universe, and you must focus on that world to get inmerse of it, and so you can really speak english, and for that, I think is even necessary to be in a country which speaks in english; nevertheless you can acquire a lot of familiarity with english by internet and this kind of instances. The blogs, on the other hand, have been good exercises to improve my drafting and learn on my own some things about grammar and vocabulary, with the help of 'word reference', of course. In addition, to be doing blogs every week has been a little bit exhausting, because it is not easy; but to learn and stay in practice is the good part of the above. I need to improve a lot of aspects in my english, like my limited vocabulary, above
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Blog 9 - Changes to my study programme

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I have been just one year and a half studying in my career, so I think there are lots of things I don't know yet about Anthropology according to 'universidad de Chile', but, nevertheless, I have some comments already. Regarding the subjects I have studied, most of them have been to my liking, and the ones which are not, beyond my liking with it's topics, I think have been necessary. But, something I would change, it would be the workload, because university it's always so overwhelming and it work that way, with pressure, but in a manner that several times you must discard some texts or topics and to prioritize some of the total topics included in the career's curriculum, because there are too many and there is very little time to cover it all. The length of my career I think it's fine, maybe one more year to lighten the academic load, mut beyond that it's ok.- On the other hand, the building the university has are good, but the infrastructure I think co
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Southern Highway (CArretera Austral)

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If there is a place I really love, and I never get bored visiting it, it's the 'Carretera Austral'. On the one hand, I love that kind of landscape; the abundant forests and that green that surrounds you, the rains, the glaciers and the little towns..that kind of experience I would love to live every day..so, next summer holidays, I wish I could go there. Being there, I would like to visit different kinds of places, and get there in a special way. First of all, go by car with my closest relatives would be amazing; my mom, my brother, my maternal grandparents and aunt..Although, not with the sole purpose of getting there, but traveling without any rush, and, having enough money, stopping and even staying wherever we want; visiting beaches, national parks and/or reserves, like Truful Truful and/or 'Saltos de Petrohue', and maybe some towns or cities like Valdivia, Puerto Montt, among others. Already being on the 'Carretera Austral', I would love to rent a c
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Free Topic Blog: World Crisis

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When I think about something I can freely talk about, the relevant problems on a global scale come to my mind. We all know, I guess, about global warming and the extreme levels of pollution in a lot of ways that our planet is passing through. But, like the topic it's so obvious in some way, and, on the other hand, threatens and judges our way of life, in the deep sense of the word; the problem and the topic in itself, deriving from the above, it's turning into a cliche, in some level, downplaying this issue and accentuating the threats, dangers, and the scope of this problem. One thing we can do, it's to think about our daily actions, and how to incorporate some practices to it, as a manner of doing something to collaborate that at least contributes as a grain of sand, but helps. Typical things like recycle, do some ecological bricks filling plastic bottles with non-recyclable plastic packagings, do some compost, reducing the water consumption with short showers; those kin
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Post Graduate Studies

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As I´am practically starting my career, It's quite visionary to think about a postgraduate study, apart from that I feel I can barely face my current career; just one thing at a time. But that must not be a limiting. So, I can dream a little bit and think about my future study. As a master or postgraduate if you want, I would like to study something related to environmental issues, like the relation between humanity and the environment, or in anthropological words, the relationship between culture and nature. I Know maybe it's quite a general, non specific topic, but well, anything close to that subject. One of the most important reasons it's the little laboral field in anthropology; if you get an extra degree, your chances to have any job related to your speciality it's much better. So, thinking more as this would be a reality, trying to materialize it, maybe, it would be awesome to study abroad; to know a different culture, reality, and to get new fortifying exper
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My future Job

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Well, As I'm already studying at the university, I have already thought more or less what kind of job I would like to have. Social anthropology it's my topic, and I would love to have the chance to work on that in a foundation, public or private, that makes me dedicated to deal with sociocultural issues related, as possible, with environmental problems. So, that's one major I would like to specialize in, and it's incredible the fact that anthropology is so wide; everything that it's related in some way to humanity, can be addressed by anthropology, especially it's social branch. I have heard that there are some anthropologists who face problems related to pollution, like in some specific communities or populations that have or generate some kind of rubbish dump, and they try to find out the sociocultural root of that situation, seeing the dynamics of the community, and definitely, the social way in which a group of people generates a trash dump.- This is an exa
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My career and its Implication

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When I had to choose one option between the whole spectrum of pathways, related to careers, it was difficult to me, but I always knew that my area was the humanist topic. Nevertheless, I didn't have too clear the specific option. History was my second option, but Anthropology finally was my first one, and as I could be admitted in the 'University of Chile', I took a risk and accepted, from that time, "my choose fate". For me was one of the most passionate topic the one related to the human being and its cultural sphere, because, in some way, it covers many of the areas I'm interested in, like history, social scientific questions and terms, and even philosophy, in a way. And the cultural aspect it's one of the most interesting ones, in the sense of being so incorporated and naturalized in the people , and probably in the whole different cultures, who do not necessarily realize that it's just a social construct and not a truth in itself, namely, beyond
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