Mmm... Christmas...

Well,  first I have to  say I come from otherside (I`m not  Santiagos`native), so I had to came back to my hause, because it`s  localized on Doñihue. It was on the Friday evening.

The Saturdays` night I was with all the family in the goodparents` houses  and there we did so many things.

First we had a dinner, I have to say we are almost 30 people, so we had to form  3 groups, in the first did stay the adult people, the second did stay very young people and a couple of adults to take care of them, and in the last one did stay the teenage people and me.

Then, we played secret friend betwen all the families and betwen all the child. There, the sense of the play was give a gift  and it have to content a symbolic meaning, this situation is very nice, because is not just a gift, is more then this, is something you can remember, because we had to describe the family`s gift.

On Sunday we had a lunch together and then we played on the swimming pool all afternoong long. Since I study in the university that I had not time to share with all the family, this was a very nice moment and I`m planning to come back and do it again.

I loved, I`m loving and I`l love the sense of the Christmas in my house, because, like I said, is not just about gifts, it`s about the meaning. I think it would be of this way on the Christmas and everyday

Mmm... language...

Related with the topic developed by Mark Pagel I can say that language is not just this, language is bigger than just talk and communicating.

If you use this topic in the anthropology, I could say the language can communicate a people context.  When you talk you are saying what you are thinking and why you think of this way.

The language can reproduce the behaviors of the people like Mr. Pagel says, you are teaching and learning at the same moment, as I said, language is more than just talk.

If you want to apply what I said to the Chilean society, we can observe that the different social class uses different kind of words to express oneself and the same thing reproduces the same behavior inside the same social class. For this reason you can differentiate the kind of people and at the same moment you can classify them, because you understand the each social class code.

Now, if we can understand the different social class codes we could take a thought and use it to complement what you know, concerning to the wise, and after you could give the tool which you built and give it to the society to change what something is wrong.

BBC website…

At the moment I think is necessary to learn english, at least I need to do it. I didn`t know a web site to learn more about it, but now I know the BBC website.

There I could find everything  I need (I know I`m a little exaggerate) and I think is interesting, because I could see a video related with volcanoes (link:  words in the news),  although I know this is not important of the majority of the people, but I don`t care.

There (BBC website) I could learn some “technical terms” that for me is necessary to know , like: shimmering, lava, a vent, erupt and forecast. Then you see the video, you have to do an activity (if you want, but remember… is necessary)  and it consist of to complete the sentences with the words I`ve  mentioned. The result was not too bad  (I think so), because just I`ve had problem s with past`s word (ending :ed - eruped), I think the americans or people like they could understand I want to say, they can infer it or …they don`t?