Holidays

YEAAAAAH

IT’S HOLIDAAAAAAYS!!!

But I've to come here to my English class to write on this blog. I think that I should be at home now resting or sleeping.

Well the semester it’s over and I'm now planing my holidays.

It is just a week but I want to do a lot of things. Here is my "to do on holidays list"

First at all I want to sleep. I haven't rest good since we started the semester after the mobilization.

Second I want to spend time with my family and friends. 

AAAAAAAND, Finally I want to watch my favorite TV programme since I was just a kid.

It was SpongeBob. The story about that sponge that has a lot of friends and adventures at the bottom of the sea. They live in the fictional city called Bikini Bottom 

SpongeBob home's a pineapple, and he has a pet called Gari (it is a snail). SpongeBob has two neighbors, Patrick Star is his best friend, he lives under a rock and he's realy stupid. 

The other neighbor is Squidward Tentacles and they work together at the Krusty Krab restaurant. Squidward isn't a good person and he's all the time saying terrible things to SpongeBob and his friends.

SpongeBob is in love with a squirrel from Texas called Sandy Cheeks, she’s a scientist and an expert in karate.

I used to love this TV programme because I watched it with my brothers and we spent a really good time watching it.   

Maybe, you will read this blog next semester. Have a nice day!

xoxo. Pepe.-

THE END OF SEMESTER

Hi there, I’m now at the end of semester and it isn´t good.

I’m really messed up, I´ve a lot things to do and there´s no time to go to my house in Viña del Mar, or meet my friends, or my "boyfriend" or go to parties. 

Those things are forbidden. We are at the end of semester and we have to study. A lot. Really a lot.

Let’s see. My semester wasn´t so bad. When it started I was really happy to began studying Antropologhy at the Universidad de Chile. I was excited about living in Santiago and I wanted to make new frends.

Now, looking back I think I had achieved my goals. I have some really good frends. They care about me and I care about them.

I enjoyed some subjects like Introduction to Anthropology or Latin America Social History, because I had to read a lot and those readings where so interesting. Recently I read a paper from and materialist anthropologist called Marvin Harris and he had been studying the relation between Indian sacred cow and the starvation problem. It was called "mother cow" and was interesting.

I don´t know if I got some achievements but I'm quite sure that I passed all my subjects. Including Biology, that creepy subject with that also creepy teacher.

I just want to finish this semester, I want to be at my home with my pets. I have two dogs, they are dachshunds and so lovely. I think I just want to be on holidays and do nothing.

That’s all for today … see you next week,

xoxo Pepe.

Patriarchy, the devil.

In our society are some structures and social systems and they define so many things of our life that we can not imagine it. For example, the Patriarchy is a social system in which males hold primary power. 

Almost all societies on the world are dominated by the patriarchy, men  predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property; in the domain of the family, fathers or father-figures hold authority over women and children.

We can see a lot of feminist project which wanted to destroy the patriarchy and want to have equals rights with men. They fight for equal pay at work. 

They fight for opportunities, they don´t want to be like "they have to be" they want to study or work and not staying at home being mothers.

  

Now that we have all the same knowledge I have to say that all the patriarchy stuff was just an introduction to something else. 

Those injustices that affect women also affect men. 

The patriarchy have made a visualization about women and another of men. Now I'm going to show you some examples.

First at all, men are strong.

Men don´t cry.

Men are straight and they got married.

So, I suppose that you imagine where I'm going with this. 

The patriarchy system visualize man and it discriminates all the man that aren't like them.

Gay man have to fight against it all the time. 

Recently I heard a gay activist saying that all the equal marriage stuff its another way that has the patriarchy to take gay couples into it. 

Getting married like straight couples is an hetero normative idea, he said that gay men should not get married util they want to continue with those kind of straight oppression against them.

That's all for today. I just want to make you think about it and you can comment it if you are not agree whit me.

xoxo, Pepe

I'm just happy.

I'm happy.

I met a new guy and something says to me that's he's the one. I'ts funny but I feel that.

I've just understand that there aren't perfect boys because that thought isn't real. We're all imperfect in some part of our life and we have to understand that if we want to be happy.

I found my Mr. Right recently and I want to love him, and being loved by him.

That's all. 

xoxo, Pepe.

Im back.

  

Ok, I have to apologies because I haven´t been blogging for two months.

At my University we started a mobilization cause we have a lot of problems. For example in the Arts School there haven´t enough rooms, they have also an damage elevator that causes a lots of accidents. They have problems with not having enough bathrooms for all the students. At the Social Sciences School we haven´t enough rooms and a lot of students don´t have money to buy food (lunch) and they should receive a scholarship for it but the School have no money for it. There are problems in the Government School to, they have rats and power cut.

So we decided to stop our classes and say "WE ARE TOGETHER, AND WE ARE GOING TO FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHT TO RECEIVE GOOD EDUCATION" or something like that.

After a protest we entered to the Central building from the Universidad de Chile and we accupied it.

That was on 15th May. And after that we realized that other Schools were having the same problems or bigger.

That week in Valparaíso (a city 120 Km from Santiago) two students Ezequiel Borbarán and Diego Guzmán were killed in a protest, the man who killed them was "defending" his property, but Ezequiel and Diego were just making some graffiti. It was very sad, all students were shocked. We decide to fight for them. They are heroes. They die for our rights, they die fight for our education.



It was terrible but the violence against students didn´t stop.

It was in Valparaíso to, at 21st May. Michele Bachellet, our president was at the Congress doing her annual account. Meanwhile on the streets a lot of chilean students were in a protest against the government education project.
Rodrigo Avilés is a joung student, he studies literature at the Universidad Católica and he was in coma long time because the police with his water cannons car almost killed him. It is steel in an investigation but, there are some images that show how was it.



The police car has hit Rodrigo and he fell to the street and hit his head against it. He was in come for a long time. Miraculously he survive and now he can walk, speak and make jokes. For a long time he was the face of the mobilization. We demand no more violence, no more dead people. No more corrupt people making decisions, no more repression to the people.

ANTROPOLOGY RITUAL

Hi bloggers!

I'm here again because is Friday and I have English class. But I'm not going to write about boring stuffs. I must tell you about one particular institution of my career, The Ritual.



It is a initiation for all the newbies, but it is also the first moment of our semester when we can celebrate with the other older students.



For me it was really good. first we met us at 21,00 and they (the older students) covered up our eyes, then we started a long trip hearing all class of jungle noises, ritual mapuche instruments and all kinds of noises.

We were drugged, and after one and a half hour we stopped walking, and we seat on the grass.
On the second part of our ritual, there were a lot of artistic shows with fire, bands, and drum circles. After that I went with my career godparent to another place and she said some really lovely things. I was so emotional. It was so beautiful.

After all those beautiful things, we went to a party. And it was really good, they have a lot of alcohol (I love piscolas, it is Pisco with Coca Cola), music and drugs. I remember that there was the most beautiful guy I have ever seen, and we spent really good time together (if you know what I mean..)

I arrived home at 4.00 very tired but happy.

The ritual is more than a regular party, it is the best party of the year in our career and for me it was really good.

xoxo, Pepe

Expectations for a new semester! (and another surprise)

(This entrance its going to be boring, so you can go to another interesting blog.)

So, I have to write about my subjects AND IF YOU DON'T WANT TO STUDY ANTHROPOLOGY THIS MAY NOT INTEREST YOU. 

My subjects are Anthropology, Archaeology, Social History of Latin America, Philosophy, Methods and Biology (yes, I have Biology at University). My loved subject is Social History because we have to think like the latin americans -who were normal people like you or I- that were very important to their own country and they really made contributions to build our Latin American Identity. 


What do I do in my extra time.

In my career we have to read a lot. REALLY A LOT. So I don't have so much extra time, but when I don't have to study I take a bus, and in 2 hours I'm at my parents home in Viña del Mar (a lovely city near the sea, it´s very beautiful so if you are thinking about traveling, you may go there). There I met my school friends and we do stupid things, we get drunk and then we go to disco's. 

But I'm not just a party lover, I have social conscience.

I want to participle in political stuff. If you (my lovely reader) want to understand some manifestations in Chile you may know that here we have a lot of problems in different categories (education, health, retirement, lgbt movements, abortion and political corruption).    

I have a writer group, I love poetry and I'm a little nerd on my musicals tastes, I'm 19 and love Mozart. (my favorite Mozart concert)

I don't really have big expectations about this new academic period but I know that I want to got goods results.

IF YOU READ ALL THIS, YOU HAVE MY HEART.

xoxo, Pepe

What this blog is for.

Hi, I'm Pepe and I'm studying Anthropology at the Universidad de Chile. For my English class I have to create a blog about terms we discuss in class. It isn't the most exciting thing to do but I'm going to make it a little funny. 

To make it clear, here in Chile we called "vaciles" to the university's party's, and on my campus -when I'm doing this- all my other classmates are in those party's because it's Friday.

Anyway enjoy this hell, it can be really good (or bad), I don't know.

xoxo, Pepe.