My blogging experience

I enjoyed to write in my blog and to read the posts of my classmates, but sometimes when I had less time I did not enjoy to write my post because is an obligation. But maybe is my way of thinking because I don’t like the sites as facebook, fotologs, or blogs.

However, I think that the blog helped to improve my English, for example, I learned more words increasing my vocabulary and now I can to read more easily. This is very necessary for me because I might can read texts or books for my courses in the university, or to write any article in the future. Also, I need to understand when exist webpages with informations about investigations or studies that they are written in English language.

In my opinion the advantages of blogging are the possibilities for to learn the forms of redaction in the English language with the constant exercise of to write different topics every week and to read the post of my classmates and comment on them. Also, the blog is an opportunity for to share histories and opinions with my classmates. Nowadays, considering the importance of internet, it is a good idea to use this element as form of learning.

I consider that the disadvantages of blogging in the English class maybe that isn’t a very dynamic system for me... sometimes this is a bit boring. Also, in my case I need a form for to practice the listening in English because this is most difficult for me, and is necessary for to have a good conversation in this language.

Well, I can say that for me to create this blog was a good experience but I confess that I’m happy because this is my last post of this semester jijij

Good bye!

Photograph

This photograph was taken by my friend Claudia Acevedo. It shows a road of Valparaíso in January of 2010, and she took it in your holidays.

I like it because this is a beautiful place, and I like the perspective of this photograph even though my friend isn’t a professional photographer (she is sociologist). When I see this image I would like to walk in this road as these persons of the photograph.

Also, this place is very important because you can see the material heritage of our country, for example in the image you can see the old buildings with his special form of construction and the “adoquines” in the road.

Although in this case the architecture is very important, the immaterial heritage is important too, for example would be very interesting for me to can know anything about the histories of the persons who live in these buildings, because your testimonies are a part of the history of our country.

Also, in this image I can see that the first floors of the buildings are used as commercial centers, and this demonstrate that this place can have the same form a long time, but the history of your residents are in a constant movement. For example, I imagine that the clothes of the girls isn’t the same that your grandparents used, and probably your way of thinking changed too.

I love this place although I don’t know this road of Valparaíso. I want to visit it in the next weeks when I finish the works and exams, for to relax me and to know more about this place, maybe I will try to take a good photograph for other post jijij

Mi work of Rural Sociology

A few weeks ago I did an interview for a work of rural sociology, and I must do an analysis about the rural history, the institution of the “Hacienda” and the process of the “reforma agraria” for example.

However, the most interesting about this work is that I went to place called Peor es Nada, where live don José, my interviewee. He is a very nice and interesting person; He tells me about your life and your rule as leader of an “asentamiento” in this place when was the process of “reforma agraria”.

The moment of the interview was very funny because I went with my family and they participated of the conversation… I think that they missed that the interview was for a work and my idea was to hear only to don José! XD

Then of the interview we went to visit some relatives hadn’t seen in a long time. It was very moving for me, in special when I saw to sister of my grandmother; because they are very similar and she did me remember her. She gave me apples and very delicious quinces !!!

Well, finally the most important thnig don’t was the work of Rural Sociology.

Lolitas in Chile

The last year I and my classmates did a work about the “Lolitas” in Chile... and well, my friend is Lolita and for this I'm interest in to write about this.

What are the Lolitas? or who is a Lolita?

This is a subculture that it has your origin in Japan, that it mixes the afterpunk and the glam with elements of the aristocracy of the Rococó and Victorian time, and modern elements.

This subculture has different styles and the clothes that they use are very expensive, but only if it is of an original designer, and for this in Chile some Lolitas make your clothes or buy other similar products. Sometimes they can buy for example a dressed of an original brand, but for this they to buy in the abroad, and it costs at least $150000.

For this investigation we use a method that is call participant observation. In this case we assist to your reunions and we participate of your different activities for know him.

With this experience and reading some theories of authors, we can to conclude that In Chile the Lolitas are not a subculture as in Japan, this is an urban tribe if we read the ideas of Maffesoli, because in Japan your origin is a protest against the machista culture and this have an individual orientation, and different of this in Chile they have an collective orientation in that the emotional relations are important.

My netbook

My favourite piece of technology is my netbook.

The last weekend my mother and my brother went to buy it because my notebook had problems with the screen. It was very bad.

I use my netbook for to do my works of the university, for to see any things in internet, and listen to music, to save archives, important documents or pictures.

I need to use my netbook everyday because I work in the website that I administer and I read the news, my email and speak in the chat of gmail in internet.

I like the netbook because is small and light, and for this is more practice for me when I need bring it to university or to houses of my classmates when we do works in groups. The white color and designs are very beautiful. However sometimes is difficult for me read in a small screen.

For my life, I think that without it would be more difficult in the aspects relatives to my role of student, and in the communications with my friends, but I think that for my life in general it is not very important or essential.

I hope that this netbook work without problems or simply I will try to live without it.

Water

Today I went to forum about the water and I will speak about this.

In this forum the expositors were experts in the topic of the water: agronomic engineers, a sociologist, representatives of the RANQUIL (Confederación Nacional Sindical Campesina), and a journalist that he does a documental about this.
In our country exist nowadays an interesting and important debate about this topic because in the south there are hydroelectric projects that affect the natural landscape and to people that live in this places.

And in the north, the problem is with the mining companies, because these extract the water of the places that are important for the people and for your subsistence.

The most of expositors explain that this is a social, economic, politic and cultural problem that it has your origin in the normative because this is not specific about the water resources and this it enables that the economic interests of transnational companies are more important than the little farmers, for example.

I think that these reflections are important because we use this element every day but many times we don’t think about this.

This forum is an initiative of the project of The Popular University of our Faculty and his idea is to create a space where the different organizations have a dialogue with academics and students for to produce a common knowledge.

My favourite website is....

I enjoy visiting the website www.nucleoarteycultura.com.
This page is of the “Núcleo de Estudios de Artes y Prácticas Culturales” of the Sociology Department, University of Chile.

This website present differents sections that you can see. In the menu you can access to information about the integrants of this group, to know your activities and projects and to read an archive with the past reunions.

Also, in the principal part of page there is an area with information that it can be interesting for the persons that studies topics related to arts and culture, for example information about a new related publication or any activities such as seminaries. In the final of the website you can see the images about the study lines too.

I visit this website everyday and I like it because with my brother was the creators and I’m the administrator jajaja. However the most interesting is that this website is an instrument for show the important work of a group of persons that investigate about the arts and cultural practices and studiants that we hope to learn more about the sociology of arts.

Also your coordinator is my teacher Marisol Facuse, a very nice person!!