A good Christmas...

Hello.

I talk about the lost Christmas…

Well, this year the Christmas was different for me, because was more special, I think   this was the best Christmas of all.

I spendt it at home with my family; my sister, my brother and my parents. We have some traditions in Christmas and always were together in this date. First, we rehearsed some Christmas Carol (for first time), because in my family my father play guitar and my brother and me sing in a choir. This was a new experience and very fun. Then, my father cook the dinner, he cooked lasagna (is the tradition) and my mother clean the house and decorate the table, and my brothers and me put in order the rooms and the living.

Then, We changed our clothes, and we dressed formaly and we had a dinner (other tradition).

When we finished, my father with my sister and my brother were to wait to the “Viejito Pascuero” (other tradition), meanwhile my mother and me put the presents under the three, then both get out. We had a short walk and see the decoration and lights of the others houses.

When we retorned, we opened the presents, my sister was very excited with her new bicycle. This moment was very emotive and for first time in a long time I gave a present to each.

This Christmas was very special and perfect, because I was different and discovered that I like this date and I love my family.  

On Sunday, we were at the home with a aunt, were were togheter all the day.

About of language

Hello everyone, today I talk about the language and how this has evolved in the time. For talk about this topic, I saw a video of Mark Pagel.

I think this video is interesting, but the author doesn´t explains in detail the points of his exposition.

He says that the humans have a “social learning” and we are different to the rest of animals for this, because is the form with we accumulate of knowledge; the chimpanzees only copied. The language is a social technology and is important in the cooperation and communication.

I think the most relevant for me is the point of the visual theft, the author says that the cumulative cultural adaptation or social learning is a visual theft, and the ancient humans confronted this crisis with two options; the small group family or the cooperatives societies, and they choose the second as a social form of cooperation and communicating.

Too, he says the language can be barriers of stop in the communicating and says that the future of the world is having only one language.

I think that isn´t possible, because would lose millions of languages, and this is require and very big change cultural in the world. And, I think that not necessarily the different languages are barriers in the communicating, because. I don´t know, but I think is possible the communicating of others forma and understand to other person with different language and produced communicating anyway.

Oh captain, my captain!!!

Today  I talk about one of my favourites movies, I really love see the movies and is dificult for me choose only one, but in this oportunitty  I talk about…

“THE SOCIETY OF DEAD POETS” (1989). Is a american drama film directed by Peter Weir and starring Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard and Ethan Hawke. The movie is about a teacher, Jhon Keatings,  that arrive to the aristocratic Welton Academy, when inspire his students to  love the poetry and seize the day and the life. I love this movie because invite you to think about the time of life, and think about the really important things. When I see this movie, I like be an actress, and I fell very sad when the protagonist say his parents that he loves the acting, and his father don´t let him realize his dream.

This movie is very sad and emotive, but learnt you see the other form the life. Is a history when the teacher try change the things and open minds of the students, but the Academy isn´t like this new education, and the teacher is acussed of things that he didn´t do. But, the minds of the students changed anyway...

CARPE DIEM

a new and strange term

This term is very strange for me, and I think that is strange for the rest of the students. But, I think that this was a good cause.

I don´t like have class in the summer, but I knew this was a possibility for recover the “lost” time and the lost class. Is strange having class in the summer, but this isn´t complicate for me, because I live in Santiago. I think that the worst of the situation is that I will have to cancel a travel. And, I will have to postpone a travel with my family. But, I hope that my parents should take holydays in February.

My expectative for this new term, is have good marks in the subjects, and exempt of the exams. I am taking seven subjects in this short semester: prehistoria II (my favorite subject), estructuralismo, etnología en Chile. Introducción a la etnografía, taller de investigación, psicología and English IV.

I accept have class in the summer, I think isn´t really bad. I am trying that the class not interfere with my others activities and plans.