Blessed computer.

The technology is something that we all need. From a piece of paper, ink and a pen to write a letter, to a little machine called mobile phone to talk with persons in the other side of the world. Technology is in everywhere, in the house, in the school, in the university, in us (pacemakers, ships with GPS technology, amongst others), etc. And we need it, that’s sure. I do, at least (although I don’t like to depend on it). Maybe it can be good as a help, but not as an essential resource. Anyway, I need it and I think that a very good technologic machine is the computer. What can be more useful? We can write on it, send images, letters, documents, we can play on it, talk with other people, use calculators, and look for information, use translators and encyclopedias, almost everything. This machine makes my life easier. I’ve been using it since I was like 6 (more than ten years, almost all my life). I use it almost every day, especially now at university. Why do I like it? Why not? I mean, seriously, is a very useful gadget, like all you can imagine in only ONE artifact. Ahhh…but I forgot something, what would be a computer without internet?

Anthropology/Archaeology

Well….I entered here because, from one day to another, I decide this career was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, and because I think anthropology is really fascinating, especially archaeology. Actually, archaeology is a kind of anthropology, but that has a different approach.  The study’s object of anthropologists or archaeologists is the man or the human kind exactly.  Their contribution for the society is to generate knowledge (about themselves) and try to give an answer for the lots of questions and problems of the society.     Anthropologist’s tools   are his logbook, his eyes, his knowledge about “the other” (this expression is used to designate the study´s object of the anthropologists, that is, the man than is different from him) and the initiative to know and interact with people and to share/live with them. He doesn’t need many artifacts, actually. Archaeologists, in the other way, need more tools. But, in general, their principal tools are theory and experience. Now, my favorite study’s subject are the ancient cultures, especially the biggest one: Egypt. But that is probably temporal, is like the big dream of every beginner student of archaeology, I think. Anyway, both (anthropologists and archaeologists) work with the “field studies”, and that, that's what I love to do.

A lonely place called Vilches.

Well, I can´t say I had travel around the world because I had never go out from Chile. But this don´t sad me. I love this country and I think here are many beautiful places to know. There’s especially one located at the south-central area of Chile. It’s called “Vilches”. I could say this is a country place near the mountains. I went there in the summer, so it was warm, but, usually in the winter, there is very snowy, especially in the altitude. I went there with my family (parents and big brothers) and we enjoy and rest very much. It’s a quiet place, particularly in the winter, because the people prefer to stay home due to cold season, so you can walk almost alone on the woods. I love to walk, so I spent a lot of time covering the paths of this beautiful place.
I like this place because I can relax there and watch the sky and clouds, birds, trees, flowers, the water, everything. It’s good to me be connected with the nature, because this allows me to speak with myself, to see things beyond the walls of the city. It’s liberating.