About time: About Life

Today's post its about "TIME",and how i feel i about it.

Have you ever feel like you should be  doing something else  because you dont want to  "waste" your TIME? . I usually feel like this and i think it isn't a good feeling.

Sometimes when i realize that i'm

"wasting" my time on things i shouldnt be doing ( freinds, movies, not-university books,etc) because i have other "important" things to do , like studying and stuff i think about my life... i use to think that i won't reach my goals if i don't work hard for them, but at te same time, i want to enjoy the things i have now, the moments... the present, beacuse i won't be a teenager for ever, i'll never ne as young i am now.

This probably sound a bit like the Peter Pan's story, but it makes me really nostalgic.

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i'd love to have more memories that the ones i've actually got. When i was on highschool i thought everything was a waste of time and thats the reason why i missed  a lot of things, the reason why i missed i a lot of memories that now wourld be amazing to have.

I don't want to waste my time for living by wasting my time on studying...  a big dilema.

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I love my career and the only thing i want is to finish  the last year that now seems to far away from herere and now. I want to work and do all the things i've ever wanted to do as an anthropologist... but i want to be more free now, i want to fly a little bit more... the watch is not going to stop ... the minutes are not going to stop for me . So i probably should organice better my time...  i actually do it, but i can't stop the feeling of growing up, of wasting the time, not living, use all energy on university... -

Maybe noneof the paragraphs above  make sense... express this feeling it's really difficult

Dream Job

Ever since I was a little child, I dreamt of traveling all over the world, do anything I wanted to ever do, see everything I've ever wanted to see. 

While growing up i realized that i really loved to express myself and learn about how other people do. I get closer to arts and social sciences.When i was 16 i knew that my dream job would be to travel everywhere and see how people lives, how people act , how different cultures see this world, so i decided I wanted to be an anthropologist. Why? Well, I just felt like I could know and experience better the different realities by studying this career. I really dont like the "academy" side of this discipline and i don't feel like i'll write  books and articles even when i know that i'll have to- maybe-. I want to work in a different way. That's why i'll go with Visual Anthropology.  It's basically the antropological study of all visual representations such as dance and other kinds of performance, museums and archiving, all visual arts, and the production and reception of mass media . I really want to work with that ,it would make me really happy if I accomplish my goal: travel, see, show, live. I can think of nothing that would feel greater then actually doing what I've always wanted to do. I never wanted to end behind a desk in a small office .

Concert Experience: the secret

I know it's a little bit weird to talk about the band i'm going to talk in this post  but i can't deny that day was one of the best days of my life.
I'm used to heard things like "you're too old for that kind of music" "please tell me you dont like them!" etc, but i really don't care , if you enjoy something , you can't let anyone to make you feel bad about it ;  in this post i'm going to tell you about my One Direction concert .

The story: I've been a fan of them since 2010 so when i knew they were going to come i almost died. I couldnt buy tickets close to the stage and that made me super sad , i thought everything was lost BUT it wasn't. People started to ask for another concert , and producers said yes, so they were going to come 2 days! April 30th and May 1st! i bought tickets for May 1st but i didn't have the money for the other date... i told myself it was okay to go and see them just one day even if i waited for them for  4 years ,i'm not going to lie, i was devastated hahaha, but everything changed 2 days before  the 30th of april... I BOUGHT A TICKET SUPER CLOSE TO THE STAGE FOR SO MUCH LESS MONEY THAN THE ORIGINAL PRICE,         i was very  happy ! In that moment i didnt know that that day was going to be the best day ever.

The waiting:
-8:00 am and i already was in the  Estadio Nacional waiting for the doors opening , the concert was at 21:00 hrs.. so imagine how nervous i was, yes, ridiculous.
-Doors open at 13:00 pm, I was runing like there's not tomorrow
-13:20 inside the stadium. I lied to the guards and i got closer to the stage , more than i was suposed to be
-14:00- 20:00 troubles. I almost got kicked out of the stadium. Yes.
-20:30 , this part is weirdest, i was hiding under a chilean flag because a crazy guard was looking for me ! I won anyways, she didnt find me.
-21:00... it started

The concert: I never thought i was going to see them that close, i never thought they were going to see me , and smile at me  - maybe it was for my green hair,i dont know- i never imagined that i was going to talk with their backguards, i felt amazing!
I went alone but i made friends there so it was pretty amazing!  teh concert was 2 hours longer and absolutly wild!
I cried, i sang, i danced to the rythm of my favourite songs, i was truly happy !  you probably will say that all this story is stupid but they make me happy - or deeply sad, i don't know at this point-. I'd give a lot to go throught that day again, closer, if it could be possible, maybe hug them hahaha


That was the story of one of the best days of this year for me :) One of the weirdest and coolest concerts ever

Anthropology: The Myth

                                                                          the article
                                                                     
Looking for an article about the importance of anthropology in today's world i found this short article about how this discipline is taken by the majority and a bit of the debate about if it is a science or not. The myth about the Anthropology and what is actually what anthropologists does.
Of course we're not Indiana Jones but that's what people always say when you tell them what are you studying. I bet if you ask all the anthropology students the feedbacks they get when they tell people their career they'll say things like: "oh, beautiful" ," you'll have a lot of fun finding bones" , "dinosaurs, right?", "oh so , are you moving to egypt?" , but the award goes to "anthropology... what's that?" . We need to change that because we hava so much to give to thsi world.
Is weird for me to say "we", considerating im just in the firts year of this career, but i think that this discipline is underated in comparation to other social sciences that you can hear everywhere everytime and we have the responsability of introduce this career and what we do to the daily world.
The debate about Anthropology being a science or not is infinite but even if people don't take it like a science perse they can't deny its relevance! We're humans living together , we are so many cultures, we are so many places, we are so many ways to see this one world and we have to know ourselves. We can't move foward - we can't even move, or we shouldn't- without knowing US, like humans, like cultures. If we don't try to see eachothers what would be the point?, we would be blind.
Away from the "fun" that everyone find on studying something like this - the myth- , the importance of anthropology, at leats, for me, is that as discipline it allows us to try to understand us in a better way, and gives us tolls and methods for that. The true is that we study about others but we are the others too. We are our own study objetc.
I hope i didn't miss the point but more than indiana jones, as the article says, we are -will be- available to make a change, to make a difference and help .

Wanderlust

(n.) The irresistible ,

uncurable desire 

to travel or wander.

Hi, I'm Javiera and i'm a studet of first year of Anthropology. This post, the firts post of the last semester of this year and is about  dreams, basically...When i was a child i loved to look at pictures of different places, cities and countries that were far away from where i was ( still far away from me ,honestly) , places with different colours and different people, different cultures...cultures with so many and diverse leguages and ways to live.  I used to imagine stories of me runing through the streets of London with an umbrella or drinking coffe like the ladies of the movies next to the Eiffel tower. I loved to imagine how could be living in an unfamiliar place, without familiar  faces around me.. isn't that i loved the idea of being far away from home and family but i thought it was an amazing plan to be somehwere else ... not here, not Chile.  Through the years i loved my "plan" more and more. Now i can't imagine my future without thinking of traveling, without thinking that i have to go away, and fly. I think people have wings and this world is just the sky . That's why i decided to study this career... it's amazing how much you can  learn about different cultures and places, and i MUST visit them all. All the palces. Believe me, the only thing i want to reach in life is be avalaible to travel , everywhere, everytime. I always think about how amazing it could be to wake up one day thinking " oh , i want to visit Italy" and go to Itlay that  same day. i get exited everytime i start to think about that.Ok, that's was me daydreaming, but they're not impossible dreams att all. I have a dream that i could make real soon . I want to go to France and study there with one of those interchange programs.I'm working so hard on that. ¿Why France? because the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) of París. That's why. 

ps: I love London, that why i chose that picture, my second big dream is to live there.

Marc Augé

Marc Augé ( 1935)  is French anthropologist who mainly works in the area of ethnology.
His work get's closer to the concept of "over-modernity" made up of reflections about individual the individual identity of people related to the quotidian places and the presence of technology  in our lifes.
He has been professor of ethnology and anthropology at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) of París and then director of the same institution , also has been director of many investigation programs at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).

I like his work because he talks about the "non-places" that are the transitional places where we make part of our lives without staying. i think the concept is an amazing way to get close to an era made up of "non-relations"; Also , is actually this book, called "The Non-Places" one of the reason why i'm in this career today. I read it the past year in one of those critical phases of "what am i going to do with my life?"; my Language professor gave it to me and told me "hey, read this! i made my thesis about this book" and i was truly amazed about Augé's work. I realized that that was what i wanted to study because i was interested about  the  ways how people live in the today's world and the culture going around.
He has many other  books  and articles but i haven't finished reading them yet , i'd love to.

Between the pages of a book is a lovely place to be

I think Reading is one of my favourites things to do and i  read a lot because it makes me happy.   It's amazing how you can imagine all the stories, all the universes, all the moments , all the characters... like if you were there , with them. You can escape from the world, into infinities stories that're way more interesting than yours...Is like taking a journey, an infinite journey.        I always liked to read. When i was a child my mom used to read a lot with me,  books were always important in my house so i grew up with books and conversations about them around me. I think that's why i like to read...books are part of me since i was a little girl.                   To be honest i don't really know how many book I've read in my life, if i tell a number i'd be lying ; i just can say that some of them changed my life and the way i see the world.                                                              I love to read a lot of stuff but i prefer fiction.I love to imagine things that could never happen in the real world, i love to escape from reality.              Fantasy , Science Fiction, Horror, Mistery, and that kind of literature is my favourite... but i also like Poetry, and that's in the top of the things i like to read.                     QOUTH THE RAVEN.. NEVER MORE.                                                            My favourite author is Edgar ALLan Poe,I think he's sublime.I love how the words in his books can make you feel you are right there, in that time, having those feeling, living the story through your skin. IS Wonderful.. and i can't choose a book, just "one book" so i'll say my favourite book is the collection of short tales by Edgar Allan Poe translated by Julio Cortázar - i have a picture of one of the books, they're 2, with a drawing i made of the reaven , so i'll add it here),my favourites tale are "Eleonora" and "The Reaven" but believe, i can't choose a favourite even when there're some that i like more than others. 

Anyways... my favourite character isn't created by Poe, is actually from a book called "El túnel" by Ernesto Sábato. There's something in his mind.. something i cant relate to myself in some way ... he has the mistery.. the essence of those rany days at midnight, with art in the skin and the  mess in the thoughts;i don't know, i like the mess and  messy and dark atmospheres. 

The last book i read is in a way very different from the books i usually  read, (i'm not counting the poetry books because as the last books i read because i read the poems one by one , not like books) so.. the last book i read is a best seller - i don't.. like best sellers but this one is cool hahha- is called "The fault in our starts" by John Green. It's Sad. I Hate John. He KILLED THE GUY WITHOUT MERCY . I WILL NEVER FORGIVE HIM FOR THAT.NO. I'M NOT RECOVERED OF HIS DEAD YET. ( i won't lie, i cried a lot with this book,no regrets)IT TOOK ME 2 HOURS OF TOTAL SUFFERING TO READ IT.                                             

If you want a teen love story.. but a super sad story without a happy ending at all i recommend you this book... i think is a bit "girly" but is okay, we all need hose guilty pleasures sometimes.(they're making the movie...)                                                                                                                                                                                    PS: I THINK I HAVE A FAVOURITE BOOK . IS THE ONE OF THE ONES. THE MAIN ONE.

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