Abortion

Abortion, it's a big subject. I have an image fixed in my memory, Carlos Larraín, a chilean politician, saying something like he wouldn't even discuss about abortion because he wanted to avoid all women the pain of aborting a baby.
It makes me really angry that people like him thinks that he is the one to decide for me what can I do and what it's prohibited. I really believe that that decision, that never can be an easy one, must be only made for the woman in the situation, with the support of her family, friends and, if he is in the picture, the eventual dad, but I must emphasize: support! it's not for any except the woman to decide if she will put up with 9 month whit her body and life being disrupted, and most important, if she wants to be a mother.

I don't think that a fetus isn't live until far advanced the pregnancy, just when the fetus can survived outside the uterus it isn't a life, is just a possibility of a life, and as all possibilities, it comes with the obligation of making a decision (that, as I said, it must rely only in the eventual mom). That decision, in EVERY case, no mater if the pregnancy it's due a rape, and accident, etc, must be toke thinking if this life is really wanted in this world, if it would be a baby, a child, a person that will be surrounded by love and care (it's sounds very sentimental, I know), and we shouldn't believe that every pregnancy it's automatically supposed to become in a child.
Finally, remembering the words of Larraín, I have already said that I hate that people like him think's that he can make decision about my body and my life, but really, the think that I hate te most, it's that he actually can make that decision for me, making me, an all women, no able to speak up and make decision about her owns lives.

Being green

Being green it's very trendy today. I believe that that's good, that people are conscious about how the thing that they do affects our planet can't be a bad thing, but sometimes I have doubts about the reasons for adding green habits to our routines, An example, if I decide to wear only eco-friendly clothes, is it because I really believe that is the right think to do, or is it because it is the most fashionable think right now? Is it because it just sounded fun to do it or I have other reasons for doing it?

It's not a mix of actions that makes you a green person, for example, I ride my bike more that using the public transport system and  I also grow a garden in my house, but just because I like to do those things. I don't believe that this simple actions make me a 'green person'. More important than that it's to respect our planet, the place we live in, and take care of it, just as we take care of cleaning our houses, we should take care of every space that we inhabit. 

I believe that the entire relationship that we establish with our planet is the thing that one must evaluate in order to establish if we are green persons, and not just a couple of actions that we do. I know that it may sound kind of hippie, but I believe that that it's and important thing that we often don't consider, because what's the point in ridding my bike if I still produce a lot of garbage in my house

Art

When I was a kid, I remember I took some painting lessons. I really enjoyed it, and during my school years the class that I always enjoyed the most was the art class. There is something about making stuff with my hands, playing with color combinations, textures, etc, that I really enjoy. I guess you could said that I am a crafty person, I can knit, felt, make origami. Can you consider that as being interested in art or as being good at art? I suppose you do.

Let's think about origami. Yes, you can do a little boat out of a piece of paper, but I doubt that someone would consider that as art, but there are some pieces of origami that could be in any museum of modern art. What can be consider art and what not is a discussion that is to big for this post, so we will go ahead an consider origami as art, because I say so. 

There are some really skilled persons, that can made beautiful thing just with a square of paper and their hands, like Akira Yoshizawa, an origami artist that is quite famous for working with wet paper. He even got and exhibition at the Louvre! 

Yoshizawa's work with wet paper

My future

Today I have to write about what I believe is my most hated subject, my future. 

I have not clue about what an anthropologist do. It sounds like a joke, but it isn't.

You may think 'why is she studying something without even knowing what she can do after she graduates?'. That's a good question and I can't really answer it.

What I know is that I like some topics, and I think that I can have a work related to them as an anthropologists.

I would like to work with patrimony and memory, because I believe that this are important subjects and there is a lot of work to do there and I hope to be a contribution as an anthropologist.

I believe that I could work in something related to protecting patrimony or researching about our memory. That would imply to work with lots of different people in differents places of the country, so it would imply to travel around Chile. It also would imply some outdoors and field work time, but also working in a conventional office. 

I think that working in the government would be a good option, because it's the institution that handles this topics (or at list it should handle it) or also in an ONG.

I don't expect to become reach, but I hope to live without always being concern about paying my bills.

Dreams

Last night I had the weirdest dream. Somehow, I had a new pet, that was a little hippopotamus, and I forgot to feed it.

I woke up felling very guilty, and I spent the entire day trying to figure out what that dream meant. I believe that dreams are messages from ourselves to ourselves, I guess that is similar to consider dreams as messages from our unconscious, but I don't like saying that because all of the associations that come to my mind, I immediately  think int Freud and the stuff that he said about dreams that I learnt at school, and I really thing that dreams are much a simple thing.
I usually remember parts of my dreams, like having a little hippopotamus and not feeding it, but I know that are some parts that I don't remember, like who gave that pet. I also always remember very clearly some images from my dreams, they are always very colorful. 
I spend a lot of my awake time dreaming. I always continue more time on the bus or on the metro because I don't realize that I have to get off it because I'm daydreaming. I thing that is something important to do, because that way you may can realize what are the things that you are wishing for. 
I don't really know what dream I could achieve with a lot of money or political power, but I guess that knowing that I have enough money for doing whatever I want to without money being an issue, would make things eassier, but I don't think that money is everything for making dreams come true.

Best Holidays

My high school has the tradition of, before starting the senior year, going to France (yes, I know that it sounds crazy) during two weeks with all our classmates and five teachers, and then we have the option of staying a while longer all by ourselves. I ended up spending whole extra month with two of my best friends.
It was crazy, we went to so many places! After France, we went to Amsterdam, Rome, Florence, Venice, Barcelona, Prague, Berlin and a little town in Germany, but it's name remains, until today, a mystery for me.
We did so many things. It was crazy the amount of things we would do on a day, the number of places we visited. When we were alone we also would do everything we could, we had a crazy routine of getting very early in the morning and getting back to wherever we were staying (usually it was a cheap B&B) only for sleeping. 
It has been my best holiday so so far for many reasons, but mainly because I was expecting this trip since my older sister make it (when I was 8 years old!) and because I got to share this with some really good friends, after 2 years of planning it.

My Childhood

I'm just getting back from a visit to my grandma's house. Last night it rained so there was this unique smell, the smell of wet soil. It's that smell that brings mi back to my childhood, the sundays afternoons playing around with all my numerous cousins, while our parents scolded us for getting dirt on our clothes.

My first childhood memory it's from one of those days, when I was very little, maybe 5 years old, my cousins an I were playing below the avocado trees; it was very windy so the avocados would fall down to the ground and game consisted in avoid and pick the avocados from the ground and then throw them to each others(and sometimes, we actually keep playing this game).

I believe that that was one of my favorites activities outside school, spending time with my cousins. I remember that for a very long time I went with three of the to an art class for kids, and was the best moment of the week for me. My mom use to thought that I was very talented, but I believe that it was her motherly love clouding her judgement, I wasn't really good, but it didn't keep me from having a great time.

I remember my childhood as a very happy time, surrounded by my very big and loving family.

A country I would like to visit

  Have you ever heard about Bhutan? it's considered the happiest country on earth and people there seem to have a completely different life style.

  In Buddhism, Bhutan's main religion, exists the belief that in the past the earth was a paradise that disappeared at some point, but some of it remains should exist today. Can you guess where we can find can find this paradise? Well, Buddhists believe than Bhutan is that place.  
  Let's get back to this happiest place in the world thing, they even have a Happiness Department and their own happiness index; that considers cultural, educational and environmental issues, all of them inspired by the country religion. Despite being considered one of the poorest countries, the people of Bhutan claim to be happy.

  Being there, I would love to know the people to understand what makes them so happy, and also visit the places that are considered as the Buddhist paradise, they have to be so beautiful. I would work there for a while, because I would get to understand the culture, but I wouldn't live there because I don't think I could get used to such a different reality.