My childhood memories!

Hello friends! How are you? This time I will speak to you about my childhood memories.

When I was a boy I lived in San Joaquin in Santiago with my mother and father, still my brothers were not born, so I was very happy… Jaja… I am lying; when they were born all was funny. In these times, I remember when I learned to ride my bicycle, I was 4 years. Yes, I was a small boy. I remember my bicycle was red color and I drove all day, all the days in the street. I love it. I just needed pedals for one or two weeks. I was a restless boy; I played all the day everywhere. And now I am very quiet...Jaja… I was a crazy boy, I remember once I was driving my bicycle in my street and I crashed a yellow autobus and this autobus was parked. I had cream in my face and bus wheel was marked on my face. I was a boy, then I cried and after I went back to my home. My mother and my father almost die laughing. After, all my family also laughed about my misfortune.

After I knew other boys in my street and we were friends. They were older than me, they named Nicole and Daniel and they were brothers. They protected me and I enjoy with them. We were much time together and I remember we went to buy bread and we ride our bicycles in the park.

After I grew up and I forgot my bicycle and I learned other things. And today I don´t ride any bicycle. Really I haven’t bicycle…

Finally, this is my favorite childhood memory because I remember I was very happy. Furthermore, when a boy learns to ride his bicycle is a moment very important in his life.

Bye! Good luck!

Mine injures Bang-Bang photographer

Hello friends! This time I will speak to you about titled news: Mine injures Bang-Bang photographer. It appeared in guardian.co.uk, Sunday 24 October 2010. After I will relate this news with anthropology, my future career.

What do say this news? It says that Joao Silva, war photographer, was badly hurt after stepping on mine in Afghanistan. João Silva, 44 years, is one of two surviving members of the Bang-Bang Club, a group of photographers who were celebrated for covering the violence in South Africa in the 1990s. Silva, in his life, has photographed conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, southern Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. He is one of the most celebrated war photographers of his generation and has won many international awards for his work. This New York Times photographer was embedded with a unit of the US Army that had been trying to secure the routes into Kandahar, the hub of the Taliban-led insurgency and one of the most dangerous places in the country. No American soldiers were wounded in the explosion. Only Silva was injured and now he had been taken to Kandahar airfield, where he was receiving treatment. In this country, mines or improvised explosive devices are the main weapon used by the Taliban. They are cheap and easy to make but difficult to detect, and can be detonated by pressure or by remote control. It is believed that they have killed many of the almost 600 foreign troops to have died in the war so far this year, and have caused devastating injuries to survivors.

In my opinion, these wars are produced for crash of cultures and imperialism. Then anthropology must intervene for communicating two different cultures and so it must look for the peace. Anthropology must study both world visions, both cultures, because the wars happens when the humans don’t communicate us.

You can read this news in: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/24/war-photographer-silva-injured

What is your opinion?

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Hello friends! This time I will speak to you about the Mapuche conflict. I think that the situation is unacceptable.

When did this conflict start? We revise the History… When the Europeans arrived to Chile, in our country there were many cultures, such as atacameños, diaguitas, yaganes, picunches, mapuches, etc. Several this cultures have died today. And actually they have problems with their rights, for example, lands, culture, language, customs, discrimination and so on. In this moment, the discussion is about Mapuche’s demands. Mapuche people always was untamable people, they were never conquered for Spaniards, and after when Chile reached its independence started the problems, because the Chilean State needed to dominate all territory and the Mapuche still were free, then State send its Armed Forces and this form Mapuche lost their lands. Then, this conflict is historical and nobody has resolved.

And two weeks ago finished other Mapuche conflict. Mapuche prisoners were in hunger strike more than 90 days because they participated in protest in the fields (before these fields were their property) and they were captured and they were considered terrorists for Chilean law. The situation was untenable and the president decided to intervene and he chose government people for solving the problem. Finally, Mapuche won the battle and they will not be considered terrorists, although they suffered so much.

My opinion about the problem is Chilean State has forgotten the Human Rights with Mapuche people. Some Mapuche are not considered Chilean people them, they are Mapuche. And I think that they have that right and they should be free and they should choose Mapuche people or Chilean people. They shouldn’t be forced; they want to live in peace.

What are your opinions friends?

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Hello classmates! This time I will speak to you about what to do and where to go in Santiago, our city. Have you a foreign friend? If your answer is yes, then you tell her or his that she or he see this post! If your answer is no, then you believe in my words.

Santiago is a big city and it seems a boring place because in this city there aren’t mountains, sea, forest, field or lakes. However, Santiago is a capital and it has very interests place. A foreigner, if he or she want to know our history, he should go to National Historic Museum, this place is in the center city and there are many objects, scale models and sheets about our history. Other important museum, in my opinion is the Memory Museum in Quinta Normal, this is a museum about dictatorship and Human Rights in our country, is an emotional place. Then you also must go to Quinta Normal, there are many museums, parks, even an artificial lake in this place. Then you must rent a boat and you must navigate with your girlfriend. Other beautiful places is the small hills in the center Santiago, I am speaking to you about Santa Lucía and San Cristóbal. In San Cristobal Hill are a zoo and one cable railway. And if you want to drink alcohol, you must go to La Piojera, a popular tavern, and there you must drink one Terremoto, but you only must drink one Terremoto, I warned it to you… If you don’t like this place, then you must go to La Tuna and you must listen to Zalo Reyes…

What´s your opinion friends? And do you like Zalo Reyes?

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