Good and bad points

This year has been a completly different one. I decided to study antrophology an this university, and it was far away from have been  an easy decision.

I enjoyed the summer at home in Coquimbo with my family and friends, and after holidays I had to come to a new reality for me, Santiago.

Well, I have always been shy, so during the first weeks I didn’t speak much with my classmates. It was at the beginning, but nowadays I have good friends.

I like the career I am studying, and the friends I have made have done this easy for me, but I can’t deny that I miss Coquimbo. I miss my family, my friends, the air, the coast and all the activities I’m able to do there. Sometimes I want to go back and study something there, but I like anthropology and this is a challenge I’ve already taken.

This has also been rewarding experience for me, because apart from the university I’ve learned many things about life that make me grow up and value what I have.

Although the good and bad points of this year, I think that is more important to learn about our mistakes and about the people we know and have known during the year.

I couldn’t say that this have been an excellent year, but this hasn`t been a bad year either. 

Childhood series

Rugrats

Rugrats is a cartoon based on the adventures of a group of babies that are children of a group of adults who are friends. At the babies’s world they can speak and understand each other, but their parents don’t know what they are saying. They play all the time and the also use to get into trouble.

I enjoyed it because they did many things without their parents help and they show the world from another perspective. They don’t know anything about rules and they just do what they want, and of course what they can. They show also a strong sense of friendship although they are just babies.

Saint Seiya

Well, this is definitely one of my favorite series ever. This is a story about several orphan children who are joined by a man named Mitsumasa Kido (their father, but nobody knows that) for obtaining an armor and becoming bronze knights. In order to that, they are sent to different parts of the world to have their trainings. Well, once they got them, they have to come back to a kind of championship, where they have to fight to be the best one.

What nobody knew is that Saori Kido (the granddaughter of Mitsumasa) was actually the reincarnation of the Greek goddess Athena. The problem is that there were other knights that were commanded by Arles, and they kidnapped Saori. The bronze knights have to rescue her fighting against the gold ones, who represent each of the zodiac signs.

That’s just a part of the whole story, but I remember I spent hours and hours for watching them on Sunday night. They are and they still been (because I watch them until now) my favorite anime. Apart of them, I like another series such as Rurouni Kenshin (Samurai X), Sailor Moon, hey Arnold, among others.

How green are you?

Let’s talk about ecology!

I have never joined any eco-organisation, because I don’t trust in them, but maybe if a found one that convinces me I would join it.

Despite that, I’ve always worried about our environment. Of course I’m not “the most ecologist girl in the world” or somebody who lives for that, but I think that everybody is able to do something.

Of course it’s not easy, because sometimes it requires time or the custom to do it, but it’s not impossible either.

What I’m doing now is collecting my plastic waste to put it in a plastic bottle. That’s called “eco-brick”.  Some organisations collect them to build even houses.

Another habit I’m trying to incorporate is not using plastic bags on the supermarket. I try to carry my own fabric bag, but I sometimes forget it and I have to use plastic ones (when I have to carry many things).

I would like to go to university by bike, but in this moment I have neither a bike nor money to buy one. Once I get enough money I will probably buy my own bike.

I believe that all we have a responsibility with our environment, but there is something unfair.

Although all we (individually) would take care about this world, we wouldn’t solve the problem. Why? … Because we are part of the problem, but not the problem.

 Big mines and industries pollute every day more than we can imagine, and even if they say they do something to help, It isn’t anything compared with the damage they do…

Of course I agree with changing our habits, we need to do it… but we need also have influence in those who are bigger than us.

Scariest Monsters

Have you ever seen the cartoons? There were always at least a chapter in which the characters where frightened because of a  mounster, or what they think were a monster.

Well, I’ve never been afraid of monsters, because I’ve never belived in them. I remember that some of my friends couldn’t go into  dark rooms or they could’t sleep with the lights turned off. But monsters were not so popular…

In spite of that, we had lots of horror stories or weird characters that where frightening for children. One of them was the story of “the old man with the sack”.

He is a kind of poor man who wears rags. I his back he’s always carrying a sack with bad children. The story says that if kids don’t behave, the old man comes home to kidnap them.

If you are that poor kid, once he has already kidnapped you, your life has two possibilities: If the old man want, you can work for him until your dead or worst, you can be eaten by him.

This story is very popular here, in Chile. Parents usually told it when I was a child, and I think that they still doing it. Of course, their purpose was to make the children behave, and I am sure they use to get it...