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  In my last post i’m going to talk about my experience with English. I’ll start with one of the challenges of this course which is weekly writing in a foreign language like english is to me. Thankfully it wasn’t really that difficult personally, but that is because I tend to write in English and sometimes help translate some stuff for my friends so I already had some training, but I do have to say that sometimes it took more time that I wanted, that’s my fault anyway I tend to want to correct things many times and I’m never completely content with it. The part about interacting with my classmates was something that I really liked, I genuinely enjoyed reading their entries and leaving comments, I also like reading the ones you all left me. Apart from this activity in particular the reasons I have improved my English have to do with me reading stuff in English (mostly literature, because reading academic papers it’s always a very hard and tedious task, hasn’t helped me at a...

This year has been so hectic that the summer plans haven’t even crossed my mind (if anything I have been thinking about how I’ll be able to sleep as much as I want to). I think that I will most likely be working this summer and saving up money, I don’t know where but I have been sending curriculum/resumé to different retail places that I feel comfortable working in. But I do wish I have some time to relax and maybe even travel somewhere, even if it’s just for a few days, which probably will be a beach near by, last summer I went to Papudo with my cousin, I think I could repeat that because I had a great time there, also hopefully I can make a quick trip with some friends, some of them my best friends from high school, since we’ve wanted to do that for a long long time but it hasn’t worked out. Getting out of Santiago with my family would be nice too, since we haven’t done that in a few years. But even if the trips aren’t possible for whatever reasons I hope I have time for my...

In my career, Anthropology, we are already in the process of curricular innovation for ciclo básico , which is the first two years. This cycle it’s supposed to be an introduction to the discipline of Anthropology, but the way the study program is made makes it too focused on social anthropology, which to the younger me was boring and personally it confused me and made me think I needed to getaway from all that, so I took my major in physical anthropology but I got so used to the pace of my first two years that the first semester of this year was a NIGHTMARE, so I think the majors presence should be equal (archaeology, social and physical anthropology). Now I have two years of classes in my major and I would like to have both physical anthropology courses and social ones, now, after I complained last year I see that social anthropology should be kind of a bridge between the different disciplines, I see this as a problem because we tend to forget that before anything we are...