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?

Well...

At the moment the education en Chile is one of the most important topics. The educational system have problems and this can show when we want to get something, we do it together and we would do possible and impossible ´things.

The problem related to the education have existed since immemorial times, but is more complex in Chile since the 70´s, when the Secretary of the Treasury, as a way to make better the happen of this moment, he decided privatize all, and this included the education.

One of these problems is the institutions influenced by the Economic system at the moment. Then, the origin of the actual education is with the objective of get money and this boost the inequality.

We can talk about meritocracy and we can imagine this would help us to get the equality, but appear a problem when we say all of us have the same opportunities to reach our goals. If we want to get equality related to opportunities, first we must to have the same bases in all the topics, but this won´t happen. Since the beginning, all we get is related with the money we have, and this is a limit for we want. Is probably all of us have access to education, but influenced with economy, appear different things we would get. If you want to have the best thing, you have to pay too much, because is expensive, if you don´t, you would have other thing, but this isn´t the best. The majority of the people don´t have too much money, so we have to pay the things we can pay.

Now, we would imagine which we said before, but now related with the education.

As the majority the families cannot access to the best, this children study in a public school. The people all their lifes hear if they want to get something, it depends of themselves. The differences are evident when you want to study in a University. For this goal you have to compete with all the students and this include the ones of the public school and the            private school, where generally you can apply a rule: while more you can pay for education, better is your education. Then, if we have the same opportunities to study in an university so, why we are less students in the university respect to the all the young people? My answer is… because we cannot access to the same opportunities, and this situation create new and more differences.

Children, education and creativity...

Is curious the interview to Sir Ken Robinson is about the topic of education, because it want to say this topic is not just in Chile as at the moment, the topic is related with too much countries, but about different “places”, I mean different postures about it. This interview is interesting, but I want to comment some points about his opinion about the creativity and the education in a school.

Respect “of be wrong” like said Sir Robinson in the interview, I think the children have to be wrong at least once in them life, because I believe the mistake make you strong and later, when you are living the same situation you can say: “ I lived a similar situation, now I know what I have to do”. The mistakes make you take a good choice to do something or take a decision.

Sir Robinson thinks creativity is just about the arts and I do not think so. You can be like an artist being a humanist or studying math, I do not think is necessary know arts to be creative. Each people have different ways to show her/him ingenious. They can write, speak, paint, dance, sing, run, learn, etc., depend of you if you are creative, what you do depend of the way you do which are you doing, with passion, interesting or other.

When a person want to educate to her/him daughter/son in a school, in this moment something happen with the kid. When a kid start to studying in a school, there the people who teach are limiting the creativity of the children, are telling them how they have to be and what they have to do.

I think is necessary to learn something about all and I consider when you are learning something new, you can show what you know as you want, always remembering the respect to the other people.

Freedom!!!

Well… now I have Freedom and I do not know what I can write… ok…

Somebody has said when the people have freedom to talk about something, we use to have problems, and I believe him, because at the moment I have problems to talk about something. I do not want to say I have problems with my freedom, just I want to say when we have limits, sometimes is easier to do something.

For me, is very common to hear the people when a professor told us we have to do a test about a topic you want. I think this situation happen because you want to talk about everything and you do not know what you have to say, I think is a problem with main ideas about all you’ll say. I have survivors of this situation! He he he.

Sometimes we have too much to say and sometimes we do not. Sometimes we think we can vomit too many words in the same moment and other times we do not know how we can say something, because we want to say is bigger than a word we would use. For this situations, some people write songs, poems or do things to explain what´s happening them, and something like this… Sometimes just we want to stay quiet and in silence. These situations happen, I do not think so very often, but happen.

We have to say all we want respecting the people who is next to you, some people do this, but this show a problem sometimes, because the people think you are a bad person. I think when you say which you want to say you can feel relaxing and feel better with you and with the other people… my thoughts… J

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ell… I do not like a specific web page, the fact is that I use internet because at the moment is really necessary. I say “necessary” because I need to share information, for example, about an investigation or for “visit” the people I know, is like a feeling that you have to check  the people you know is OK, I think this happen because we are human being… is a strange situation .

Now I do not use to use a web page because I want but I need to use it. In these cases I think I have preferences … but I do not want to talk about it. I know some people is addict to some web page… for example, Facebook. The owner of this web page has become multimillionaire because we use his creation… no commentaries about it.

Exist other type of web pages are useful, like the e-mail, I have to use it very often, because when you stay at home in the night you cannot go to the classmates ‘houses and nock at the door at the 3 a.m. for give an information about an investigation of the group, neither  you can give some message in a pigeon, neither you can travel to the farthest places to visit a friend ,but in this cases you can use a cell phone, but  these calls are really expensive (for the other countries). Finally al that you do depend of you and these situations can show to the other people how you are…I think.