NOT IN MAR BRAVA

Like our teacher, I don´t like the beach for swim, because the water in Chile is very cold. And neater like take sun because to makes me feel headache.  

But I really love walk for the beach. And for that I recommend the beaches of Chiloé Island, because these have a very specials view.   

I think Mar Brava is one of the more interesting beaches in Chiloé Island. This place has green voyage and hills and rocky beach with grey sable.

In Mar Brava are an archaeological sites when we are found shells, pieces of potteries, animal´s bones remains, one “animita” with flowers rests and human bones of 6000  years old. Turn this site in the more ancient of the Island.  

This site is protected for the Commission of National Monuments but still that some people want to build there a park of wind power. The community is angry because this initiative not only affects the archeological site but generate ecological changes, because affect the course of migration of the birds.

For all that I recommend visit this place if you can. I went there twice, with my family and friends, but I like return there to study the site for make a research.

http://www.revistamilcaos.cl/patrimonio-cultural-arqueologico-de-mar-brava-siglos-de-historia-amenazada

http://www.birdlife.org/community/2011/01/proyecto-parque-eolico-chiloe-y-sus-potenciales-impactos-cuando-el-uso-de-las-ernc-no-se-planifica-apropiadamente/

                                 

Go to the Park

I like go to walk for the park that is my favorite outdoor activity. Perhaps because I lived in the countryside until age nine.  I love walk between the trees, just walk and walk and walk. Sit-down and appreciate the view. For that in my teens I choose to do outdoors activity like climb, trekking and camping: in this time I went to Mahuida Park in “La Reina Alta”, “Sun Park” in Barnechea, “Cajón of Maipo”, “Las Chilcas” (in north route near of Santiago) and “Los Puquios” near of Chillán.

Then I went to the park with friends and my boyfriend to make social life, my favorite’s parks in this time was Forestal and Intercomunal. Before I left all the parks for Gomez Millas, was my second home, I love it.    

In my time in Buenos Aires reinforce my parks love and walk all the Sundays for Palermo Woods and for Francia square. I love the museums in the park like Quinta Normal in Chile, is perfect for me.

Now I am going, very frequently, to the park near of my flat called Montegrande, with my son Tomás. Is very big and beautiful, with children plays areas and many different places to sit.    

song´s collage

The last Wednesday we -my friends and I- spoke about this topic. For that I have a lot of song in mind in this moment. Really I don´t have one song in particular.

Well, twenty years ago is the most “past” can I remember. In this time I learned to dance with Juan Luis Guerra. I cried of pain for first time with “El Unicornio Azul” of Silvio Rodriguez. And always for lunch, I was “Sopa de Cararol”.

My first cassette was of Mecano.

My first dance with friends was with “El baile del perrito” (A very modern dance!). And my cousin and I to made sketches of Marta Sanchez and Locomia.

Then, like others girls of my age, I love Cristina y los Subterraneo songs. That was special for me as well it is remembered when my father sang sad boleros for my sister and I. For me in particular sang a Mexican “corrido” called “La Valentina”, a song of the Mexican Revolution.

That kind of songs, the political songs, always brought our childhood, because we are sons and nephews of exiled and tortured people. We learned to play guitar with “Todos juntos” of the Jaivas, and songs like “Manuel Rodriguez” and all the collection of Inti Illimmani. Was the time of “Chileee, la alegría ya vieneeee” ¿you remember that guys? Never come in any way…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9QR1f-UnEo

Jemmy Button

I like to have “One on one” with Jemmy Button, a yámana indigenous of fifteen years old who together with Fueguia Basket y York Minster was taking captivity in the year 1830 for a Captain Parker King and there, went took to England, where they met King William IV and Queen Adelaide.

It is not clear the reason of the abduction. Apparently was taking as hostage to ask for exchange stoles provisions by indigenous, but their family never came to find there. But the official reason was the savage´s education. They will be an experiment of civilization.

As took Darwin and Fitz Roy in them travel diary, Jemmy learnt to be an Englishman, but when he is return to his land: Wulaia Bay, he also returns to his costumes. It is said that Jemmy had a very particular mood and a superhuman view.

I would like to talk with Jemmy because is a really interesting case of cultures shock and hi life history tell us many things about the ideological context: the young nation of Chili and the mixed identity.

I would ask him: do you like England, tell me about something that take your attention in the trip and tell me about your family.        

The rescue of submachine gun

Always I remember a trip to my grandmother´s house in Chiloé, was when I have six years old, I was with my cousins: Constanza, Nicolas and Colombia of ten, eight and seven years old, and my sister of eight years old. We played in the wetland (“humedal”) in front of our grandmother´s house. Chiloé is famous for its long wetlands, this in especial measure as a hectare and have the particularity of when the tide comes in, its cover completely of water and looks as a lake. We played to throw toys or other things in to the river (in the middle of the wetland) from the bridge and rescue when the tide goes out. In this memorable occasion we throw a submachine gun of water. And our plan to rescue was down to the wetland from a gully of three meters and from there make a single line at the river when the submachine passes. The idea was that my cousin Colomba takes the gun toy for the river and pass it to Nicolas, and then at the others at the gully. But, Colomba could not reach, and then Nicolas takes Colomba for the boot and she takes the submachine and fell in to the river. Then, Nico looked at us and shouted: at least save the boot!!!

JGM

My favorite place in Santiago is the Juan Gomez Millas Campus of the University of Chile in Macul neighborhood. I was there for the first time in 2002 with a friend that studied anthropology. In that time I love it because represented for me a space when we meet different people with the same philosophical ideas or ideology of life. I was a dreamer secondary student in that moment. Two years later I can join the university life as a student of art history. But when we have sometimes wished other things, two years later I went to live to Buenos Aires to study there, in awful concrete building of five levels without green areas, with only have a very small schoolyard of concrete too. There studied as a million of stressed people without place to rest (neither the eyes, because the walls was completely occupy with politic propaganda) and without space to do “university life” (in the sense of “nothing”).   In that time I really miss Juan Gomez Millas, with its lawns and trees, its football field and lunchrooms. But overcoat with its very relax and funny students.

Return to university in Chile was a very nice experience in that way. And now that I´m finishing my career I miss this place again. For that I have thought do a Master in History in the future. For return one more time.     

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO6eVf9LkNc  

be happy

Dears All,

Sorry for the delay…

Well, in response to the topic suggest for our teacher. I have to say that I don´t have any great ambition in this moment of my life, I only can think in my near future. For that, I going to invent something for do this homework.

I´d like be curator of an important museum or cultural center in Paris, like a Louvre or Pompidou Center. I like Paris because is a city with very much cultural life, but also because I have family there (I´d not be far away and alone!)

I´d like have money for a good life for my son, Thomas. And also for travelling with him and my boy friend to the Far East: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and also for Africa and the near East for the Arabic countries. Because from Europe is more accessible and affordable that from America.  

But sometimes the ambitions turn in a chimera. And we forget the important things, like be happy. Because, I think, isn´t very good for a child change his habitual environment. There for thinking only in my son, I think, the better choice would be live in a country place, but that isn´t very stimulant idea for an art historian like mi… but, who knows?      

Finally, I´d like to be happy with my son and my boyfriend, I don’t know how, neither where.  

student movement

I think this is a historic moment for the students movement because is the first time from democracy return (if a say 21 years!) in this movement was a organized way proclaim for a FREE EDUCATION and not for a any eventually law, as a case of “Penguin Movement” and the “LOCE” law´s changes in 2006. We are proclaiming (myself included) constitutional changes. Because we are the bad experience of the changes of the LOCE Law, which students don’t approve and the government play a dirty game, passing the same law disguised under another name (LGE).

Well, 80.000 people walking down the “Alameda” in a strike demonstration for the Public Education, speaks us of strong movement. Because, while the massive announcement could be effect of HidroAysen´s mass media topic. There has been a real organization and cooperation between students (of the High School and the University) and teachers.

The principal demands are:

For the High School Education:

-          the municipal schools to be state again

-          All year school pass

For the University Education:

-          Free and public access

-          Removal of the university selection test

-          Changes in feeds and materials grants

For the teachers:

-          The historic debt

-          Recovery of free education.

The education has to be a right and not a privilege of few. Otherwise we deepen existing inequalities. We must fight for our children's future. Fight by not be slaves to the market.

They want automatons. Only critical thinking frees us from the subordination to the ideas of others (those in power). Only through education can achieve better working conditions, namely more free time to spend with us. Finally, that is all, to have more time to love and more time to do nothing. But the point is, that opportunity for everyone!