The last post

Hi every one, this is my last post of the year, just when I was beginning to enjoy them jaja, and it it’s about my experience writing this blog.

Well I must say that it has not been easy, with all this I have realized that it is very different to read in English than to speak in English. For this same reason, writing post has been a good exercise to know how and when to use certain connectors, such as talking about the past and the future and in general improves with my vocabulary. 

About the post comments something funny happened to me. In my first posts there was no comment from my classmates, and I really thought that they did not understand what I. Apparently everyone had bad access to the address of my blog, so he was redirected to a blog calling "GREETINGS KOREA" (http://blogbustervideo.blogspot.cl/). It only has one letter of difference, what was the possibility? Finally, after solving this, I started receiving comments from my classmates.

Outside of classes, I do not write much in English. Sometimes I use the App “Duolinguo” to practice my English. The idea is to do it 5 minutes a day but I usually forget it. On the other hand, I like to watch movies, and I prefer to see them in their original language. Sometimes with the movies that I have seen many times (star wars for example) I learn the memory dialogues, so I do not program the subtitles. This is why when I try to speak in English I usually use movie phrases.

Vacation in the capital

Since I was born, I always celebrate the end of the year parties with my family in Calama, the city where I was born. This year, my sister and I are already living in our own apartment, so our parents will come to spend Christmas and New Year with us. Maybe we can see the famous fireworks that launch in the Entel tower or those that launch in the beach of Valparaíso.

 They plan to come in their car to visit the places close to the city, like Curicó (the city where my mother was born, Pomaire, Chimbarongo and maybe some places further south.) My little brother will also come and I plan to show him the funniest places in Santiago: the zoo, the natural history museum, Fantasilandia and maybe some toy store.

It will also be a good opportunity to participate in the summer activities of the capital, such as film festivals, “Santiago a mil”, “Providence jazz”, among others.

I've heard that the heat of summer in Santiago is very intense, so it would be a good idea to go to the beach or to a water park (it's been a long time since I've done this with my family)

It will be a very different vacation than what I am used to, it will be sad to not be able to see my grandparents and the rest of my family that lives in Calama this summer, but I hope to be able to travel in the winter holidays.

I really think it will be fun to spend my vacation in the capital.

Hi everyone this is a post about the changes I would like to apply in my career (Archaeology).

Some years ago the Archaeology curriculum map of the University of Chile really attracts my attention, but now I think that it should be modify. We need specific subjects about etnoarchaeology, rock art, hunter gatherers, contract archaeology, conservation, praxis archaeology, among others. In the same way, some subjects left over. This situation actually is going through by a modification process, but I not sure if they really solve the problem.  

Anyway, besides the subject’s situation, we have a big problem in the career, we don’t have fieldwork. Is very important than the archaeology students have the possibility of leave the university and know the archaeological sites (Is very different read about how an excavation does and really does). Taking into account the number of students, is difficult go far away. Considering the lack of money, we could visit the archaeological sites around Santiago.

Finally, maybe this is not really a university problem, is more such as education problem in general. I would like to change the methodology of evaluation. Some time it is given more importance to knowledge than the abilities. In the twenty one century we have practically all the knowledge of the humanity close at hand with a cellphone.

I think with these small changes, the university would prepare better professionals.