Miró in Yorkshire...

In Yorkshire, UK, there will be a very big show or sample of the works of one of the most important artists, and especifically, sculptors, of the world: Joan Miro.
This artist is very recognized all over the world because he have the idea that "a sculpture must stand in the open air, in the middle of nature". His works are very surrealistics and splindis. The exhibition will feature bulls, monsters and giant eggs, and it will be shown at the Sculpture Park in Yorkshire, to all the public.
Miró started to sculpt very lete, when he was 38 years old he did his fisrt work. He made about 400 sculptures ranging from small ceramics to huge bronzes, before his death in 1983.
There is some concern about this exposition because before this, a Barbara Hepworth’s sculpture had been stollen. But the director of this event, Peter Murray, says that now the conditions are very different and that he took all the necessary security, and that the Park of Sculptures is the best place to show all the totems and the amazing job of this big artist; “His family said Yorkshire Sculpture Park is the correct place to show this work," says the director.
Anyways, this is a very important event, because i think that exhibitions like this one integrates cultures and helps to know about different topics of life.

The scary picture

It was Wednesday, and i was drawing a very beautiful woman playing violin. She was a very very fat woman, with a very long hair, and she were using it as the strings of her violin. But anyways she had a very sweet face and her gaze was very intense. I was so inspired that they (jaja). But when i stood up to smoke a cigarette, i saw the women move! …. I know i’m not crazy, and i know that i wasn’t drugged. I’m sure that i saw her move and play her violin! A few minutes later i told that to my mother and she laughed at me for a very long time. Then i went to the bathroom and when i got out of that place, my drawing was outside!, at my garden! So i took “the woman” inside the house and leave it in my bed. Then i went to look at my mom when i heared a noise in my room. I ran to my room to see what happened, and “the woman was on the window! So I said to myself OMG, take it easy Javi, maybe you leaved her on the window and you don’t remember. I got out of my room and went to smoke another cigar. Then i remembered… “where is my mom?”…I started to look at her at all over the house. She was in nowhere. I went very slowly and quietly to my room… and there was she! Putting my picture in the closet! She had been playing with me all the time! The two of us laughed all that afternoon.

2012, the end of the world?

According to the Maya’s calendar, a lot of promotion about the end of the world has been done for all over the globe. This is happening because scientists have found that this calendar has an end, and also has some predictions about things or catastrophes that had happen in a lot of countries, like capitalism, murders, terrorism and natural events like earthquakes, etc.

The calendar has an end, which means that our history, our age, the age of our world as come to and end. Not at all, Maya’s calendar is only one element about their predictions, and the information about the end of our world is not there, and is not anywhere. Maybe mayas were still building the calendar by the arrival of the Spanish, and they didn’t finish it. Anyways, Nostradamus coincides with this prophecy, and he also predicted a lot of events of our history, but I think that everyone can know that in a lot more years there will be wars and human catastrophes, because it ‘s just how our history works, by cycles.

I think that because of the recent events, the world has to come to and end in the social way. Maybe energy changes, maybe culture changes, or maybe aware changes in all people. I think that this has to changed, but I don’t believe that it will this year. I think that the end of the world is only northamerican promotion to sell or to frighten the rest of the world with its power. (jaja)

Now, if the world was going to come to and end, I’m sure that I would party and drink a lot with all my friends and family, to wait our death with a smile in our faces.

How Green I am

I think I’m a green person just in the way I can. Because in times like this I really don’t have much time to do special thing to take care our environment. I think that we all can learn about thins in a lot of moments and places; organizations and foundations in Chile always are teaching us about recycling and doing sports, etc. Now, in my family the habit of recycling is very common. We always try to keep the milk boxes in a different pot. And also we have three different pots to separate paper, glass and plastic garbage. Here in Santiago I always walk to everywhere because I don’t have a car, but I think that if I had one, I walk anyway. I don’t ride a bike because when I was 11, I was bit by a car, so since that day I don’t ride. I never throw trash on the floor, even when I smoke on the street. In Rengo there is not education about taking care our environment, but I think people are very aware. People in Santiago, instead, are always very hurry and they forget to use dumps. Here the diet is not so healthy. I think it’s hard to lead a healthy life here in Santiago, but I always try to do it. I don’t have much money to work with large organizations, but I try to keep my principles and tell my partners and my family that we have to keep a “green” life as much as possible.

The sense of life

This is a very hard question, very difficult to ask and to answer. It’s very personal, but also cultural. It’s trying to write about things I think every day when I sit on my bed and try to order my experiences. Is something that all of us have in common, the searching of the meaning of life, and I think that all of us, students, relatively, share some topics about our vision of life. I believe the most basic thing: my sense of life consist in searching of happiness, in short and long term. These include all the trips I want to do, all the dreams I have and my projects in general. Also be always be surrounded by my friends, family and good people. I also believe that life always are teaching us about being virtuous and calm, enjoy the simple things day by day. I don’t believe in pre-destination or things like that. I’m just trying to learn all languages (not idioms) of all the different cultures I can. It’s always very difficult to talk about something that we don’t know, but the thing that I’m sure that me and my friends and partners have in common is the sense of fight; for our rights, for a better country, and for all our ideals, because we have the certainty that we are in the right way.

I can't die before I go to...

When people ask me where I must go before I die I never know what to say, because I want to go to so many places, or go around the world. But since I was a little girl, my dad always talks me about Middle East. He told me that her mother was born in Palestine and that place were always in war because of the Jude people, so she came to Chile hidden in a ship, and got married with my grandfather and got impregnate. Then she taught my dad some Arabic traditions and gave to him all her food recipes, so now I’m a very good chef (jajaja). I always wanted to go there to find some family and realize that the Arabic-jude conflict is not that simple. I know I will go there, and completely cover the Middle East to share with different cultures too.

My life expectations...

In 15 years time I will be 35 years old, and I have never thought about what I’m going to do with my life when I have finished the university, I’m not the kind of person who makes a lot of plans for the future. But I think that by the age of 35 ,at least, I will have bought my first car and I’m going to be totally independent, on my own feets. I may will have a pet or maybe a good boyfriend who waits me at home while I’m working (jajaja). About social life, I really believe that I will have kept all my good friends, and also I’m going to have met a lot of new people. I may be working on a very interesting investigation proyect with greats social antrhopologists while I’m doing my Phd in some european country . Not at all, I’m sure I’m not going to have stoped painting my oils. Finally, in 15 years time I see myself as a happy woman who helps her parents to live a good old age, who loves her career, and I might be thinking about having a baby because by 35 I will not getting any younger.

An Anthropologycal summer...

When I went to the faculty to listen to the results of the referendum, I couldn’t believe what I was hearing; wwe had to came back to regular classes, and do all second semester in two months, because if we were not, the government would take away from us our scholarships. So I had to call my family and tell them that I would be studying all summer, including Christmas time and New Year, and consequently, I needed more money to keep me in Santiago.
I don't have problems with studying on summertime, I mean, I love my career, and I will have holydays in February. I think my subjects are not so boring; they’re very much practical this semester. It just that I'm worried because I hope to be well prepared for third grade, when I have to choosing my spatiality. Not at all, I think being studying on summer is not that bad, I only expect not to die because of the hit, and also I wait to my December paycheck to survive, jajaja…. Anyways, I’d be lying if i don’t say that the only thing i do when i begin to think about this semester is looking forward my February vacations to travel and to be with my family in Rengo.

About blogging experience...

The bogging experience it was very new for me, because I’d never had one before. I just don’t like very much this kind of pages, like Facebook or Twiter. I like directly communication with my friends and with people in general, that how we conserved our authentic lives. And that’s why I’m against to have a blog for a way of life. But anyways, and taking into account that blogging this time it’s just for my developing in English in a very entertaining class, this experience for me was very useful and practical because I learned a lot of new words, expressions, and some technical vocabulary. Also I could improve a lot my writing and reading by telling things about me and my own interests and giving my opinion by comment the posts of my classmates. That’s very good because allows an entertaining and interesting class, avoiding bored students. Even when I missed a lot of classes, because I’m in first year and it’s difficult for me to be organized in all my stuff, I fell I learned very much about different expressions that I did not know before. So, here i have an advantage about using blog in class.
Now, one disadvantage can be that even if we write and read a lot about thing that are our interests, posting comments with an ordinary and not technical English, that makes this kind of class a little boring and not very useful, because we, as students of difficult careers that demand us to know a lot of English, in the way that we can now and in the future understand all the authors, we are not yet able to translate most of the texts for different classes. So, that show us that even when blogging helps a lot for our developing in our communication skills. Maybe for this level it's not the solution. However, this experience seems very innovative and positive for me, in the sense of making dynamic and interactive classes.

My hobbie

Since I was eleven years old, in Rengo, my natal city, a friend introduce me a very particular person, it was an old man who said that he was an artist. I immediately was very interest about this man, because I had never treat with an artist in my life, so after a long talk with him, I decided that I wanted to learn. Then, he invited me and my friend to his workshop of painting to see his work. His students looked at us with a smile on their faces, and give us a very nice welcome. The man’s work was wonderful, so, since that date I have been painting and painting in my teacher workshop every time I can. He says that I’m good at it, and now that I’m at the university I really miss my oils and paintbrushes, I don’t have time to paint here. I really like it, because it let me express all my feeling in different ways and colours. It also let me reproduce the reality in the way I see it, so it so good for my head and for my career, because I believe that to can be a good anthropologist, you have to know something about making arts.

My favourite trip

When I was in school, my teacher organized a "studying trip" to Mendoza, Argentina. I don´t know this journey was the most important of my life, but I know that there is one of my favorites. So, before the trip, my friends and I began to do a lot of different activities for win money for the class and for our friends that can’t pay the trip. It was a very nice and solidarity week the one before the trip, because everybody wanted to cooperate with us. Then, on October the 8th, we began our adventure. It was so funny because one of my classmate almost stays behind, the travel started at 5 o`clock in the morning, and we had to wait for him to 6 !...
When the bus travel began, we immediately started to sing and make jokes to everybody. Then we fell asleep and when we woke up, the teacher said to us that we were almost in Mendoza, so we tried to look and take pictures to the landscape before we arrived.
At the hotel, we divided the rooms in groups of 3 or 4 persons, and the rooms was one next to the odder, so in night we all locked into one room and started to makes jokes and have some drinks. During our trip, we went to lunch every day to the "free forks ", then we went to the zoo, but we didn´t like it because of the animal mistreatment, some days all the girls of the class went shopping, and all the boys went to do sports. Some nights we go to parties and discos, but the most of the time we were all together feasting at the hotel.
This trip is one of my favorites because it was the last moment that me and my friends were all together having a very good time as joined brothers, we grown up together so it was so nice to spend 2 weeks with they and I’m sure that we all miss each other.

When the earthquake happened...

I was at home in Rengo with my boyfriend, we were watching a movie while we waiting for our friends to hang out, and suddenly my mom started to scream and run outside and inside the house trying to pray os something like that. Then my dad woke up and told us to go outside to the main street, so he took our two dogs and we got into the car and went to my boyfriend`s home, then he left his house and went to anothers houses to help. After that we went to my grandsparent`s house, and finally and when it was 6 o`clock we went home, we hugged each other and tryed to sleep a little. Nothing happened in my house, just a few paints and glasses fell down, but nothing very important. My mom was clarelly the most nervous, and i was the most calm on the house.
We had so lucky that nothing happened to nobody of our families.
After the earthqueake i`ve been working with families who were victims of this tragedy and with affected children. Our group of coopertation consisted in 20 comands: 7 for collect food and clothes, and 13 for build new houses. With these we helped a lot of people and we are very proud of it.

First session

Hey!
My name is Javiera Montecinos, my firneds call me "javi" or "monte" and I`m studing anthropology and this is my first year.
I like to read, painting oils, drawing, sleeping and listen to music.