Cultural Shock or my experience in Santiago

Talking about cultural shock is an experience that I am constantly living today. Like I said in another post I am from the Chile's north. I was born in Iquique, and I always lived there until 2011, when I entered to the University and I Moved to Santiago.The anthropology says that a cultural shock is when two or more cultures link together, with their world's point of view, in some cases they are in a constant fight for hegemony or Resistence, Like United States and Latin America, and in some cases they take some things of each other and they build or are building a new culture, like in some borderline Cities. In my case I am alone in Santiago, so the Centralization's Weight is over me. First of all, I use some words, like "lapicero" instead of "lapiz scripto", o "Tipex" instead of "liquid" or "corrector", My friends in Santiago make jokes about that when I borrow those things. The other thing is that, the people in Santiago is very individualist, they do everything alone, in Iquique I always was with my friends, in my house or in another place. Past the time together was not a big problem like here, I guess it is for the long distances from a place to a another. My experience with cultural shock have been very difficult in some times, but I have been lucky about the people who I met, and things that I learned.

I can't understand how the people in Santiago can used the subway every day!

Why I Study Antropology?

Hi, I have to talk about why I study anthropology. Well, you could imagine, is a difficult question. I think that I wanted to study anthropology because I loved history, but I didn't like to remember dates, heroes and things like that. I was interested in social process, like the discovered (or colonization) of america or the Latin American Dictatoships. So I started to look for information about differents carrers that study those themes, and I found Anthropology in the University Website, the description said that it was the culture's Study, it sound very insteresting, after all, I was from Iquique were the people had a pronounced culture. So I started to study, to entry to the Chile's University you have to achieve a very high score in PSU. In that process I learned more about the carrer, I started to read about structuralism and marxism, I was very excited with the idea of a Complete social Science!.Now I am in fourth year of social anthropology, I don't Know if it was the best choice, but I am very happy with my studies.

                                                                     La Tirana's Devil

When I went to Bolivia

Hi everyone, in this time I want to tell you about what I did in my summer’s Holidays!. On February I went to Bolivia with my boyfriend. First he Flew to Iquique, my natal city where I spend my holidays. We had fun in the beach and in parties with friends. After that we went to Bolivia, the first place was Oruro, where we saw an organization’s parade, and then we climb up a hill, where was the Oruro’s Virgin. The second part we visited, was Potosí, where we entered to the potosi’s mine, I was scared in a moment but then i was so interested in the mine’s history that I forgot it. The next day we went to Ojo del Inca’s lake, it was very pretty!. Then we went to Samaipata, a little place near cochabamba, it was very nice, but the people in the camping were a little annoying, The next parade was Santa Cruz, it was so hot!, but the forest was amazing. At the end we went to Copaccabana were we found our friends and we travelled all together to Isla del Sol!. I hope the next holiday will be cool too!.

Ojo del Inca