The Laguna del Laja National Park

I this new post I want to talk you about one of my favorite places in Chile, the Laguna del Laja National Park.

This park is located in Antuco, a Chilean commune and town in Bío Bío Province, Bío Bío Region. In this park, it is the Laguna del Laja, the Antuco Volcano, Sierra Velluda, the tallest mountain in the region, a ski slope and a network of hiking trails. Since I was a small child, I go there with my family to visit my aunt who lived there caring for a refuge. I say lived because she has to left that place.

When we went there we did a lot of things like fish in the lake, barbecues, parties, play with the snow when we had and especially walk in the trails, one of my favorite things to do there. This park is really beautiful and there you can see spectacular mountain landscapes, animals like foxes (there was one that went to my aunt´s house looking for food) and it is very peaceful place. One of the things that I wish to do it would be come back there again.

Here I leave you some pictures that just shows you some places from the Laguna del Laja National Park.

Website

Hi everybody! Today I’m going to talk you about a really useful career-related website. In social anthropology, archeology and physical anthropology you need to read a lot of papers and books so, as students, we need a way to get all these papers quick and easy and the most important, free. In this way SciELO is really good because you could get a lot of papers from different Chilean archaeologist and anthropologist, and of people from other countries, all of this with no-charge. According to the website, “SciELO is an electronic virtual library covering a selected collection of Chilean scientific journals. The project of regional character, it is being developed in Chile by the National Commission of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT). This project envisages the development of a common methodology for the preparation, storage, dissemination and evaluation of scientific literature in electronic format”. Nowadays there is so many countries in the network, not just Chile; there also is Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Cuba, Spain, Portugal and Venezuela.

Other than as stated above, I recommend this website because is very easy find the papers of the topics that you are looking for and because there is a tool that give you the bibliographic reference in APA format.

So, if you have time take a look at this website, I leave you the link http://www.scielo.cl/

See you later!

Seashells

Today I want to show you a photograph that I really like. I wasn’t so sure if I have to choose a photo from another person or upload a photo that I took so I decided choose my photograph. Sometimes I like to take photographs with my mobile phone to different thing like animals, flowers, natural landscapes that call my attention or to my friends.

I took this photo when I went to La Serena this year in august. That weekend there were storm surges so the whole beach was covered by a lot of shells and when we went to the beach with my family we found this beautiful scene. I like this photo because I love the ocean and walk through the beach so when I saw all this seashells on the sand this reminds me the wonderful things that you can find in nature.

Do you take photos too?

See you later

Technology

I don’t like when your life depends on the technology and distances you from the people but I have to say that sometimes it’s really helpful in our lives. Anyway, the technology is part of my daily life. What I use the most is my television, my mobile phone and my laptop. I should mention that I often use these things to watch series and movies. I don’t like to use social networks because I prefer to talk face to face with a person then you can express your feelings in a better way, that is my opinion.

Like I said, I really love watching series and movies so I often use my laptop for that. My laptop is small so it’s easy to carry everywhere, that’s one of the reasons why I like it. You can keep anything you want and due to the keyboard it has, it’s very comfortable when you write.

I think that if I wouldn’t have my laptop maybe my life would be a little bit boring because I couldn’t watch the things that I like. I really enjoy using my laptop

  

The Maoris

Since I saw the movie “The Lord of the Rings” and when I heard that it was filmed on New Zealand I wanted to know more about this country and its culture; this is how I learned about the Maoris.

The Maoris are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand, they originally came from eastern Polynesia and arrived in New Zealand creating their own language, mythology, crafts and performing arts. In New Zealand there is about 600.000 Maoris and they form a really important part of the culture of this country. In fact, in New Zealand there is two official languages the English and the Maori and their national anthem is written in this two languages.

With respect to Maori culture there is something that I really love, their traditional dance called Haka. The Haka dance, according to the official travel website for New Zealand “is a type of ancient Māori war dance traditionally used on the battlefield, as well as when groups came together in peace. Haka are a fierce display of a tribe's pride, strength and unity.” The dance consists of various movements with arms, legs and hands accompanied by a loud chant. Nowadays, this traditional dance is using to welcome the visitors or in sport games like a way to challenge the opponent. In the case of New Zealand (in which the national sport is the rugby) the national selection and also the currently world champions (the “ALL BLACKS”) do a haka dance in all their games. It is really exciting see them dancing! Stands your hair on end!  

Ka kite anō! or in English, see you later!

A detective or an archaeologist?

When I was a child I dreamed to be a detective or an archaeologist despite I didn’t know exactly how it was. I always liked mystery and the detective series and books so that’s the reason why I wanted to be a detective and when I saw the movie “The Mummy” I said “hey, I want to do that it’s interesting”. I thought that was what the archaeologists do, except for reviving mummies of course. 

I was a child so I didn’t know a lot of things. Then, when I was older I discovered that I really like History so I tried to find some career related with it. I thought about studying History but I didn’t want to be a teacher so in the last moment I chose Anthropology and that’s why I'm studying this. 

I love the career and I'm happy with my decision until now. About the kind of job that I would like to have I want to be an archaeologist and perhaps I want to work in the south of Chile.  

About me

When the people ask me about me, usually I don’t know what to say so I’m going to start with the most easily, my name. My name is Stephanie but my family and my friends call me Stephie. I am from Chile, a long and thin country located in south America, and despite everything I love living here. I was born on November 14^th 1997 in the capital city Santiago so I am eighteen years old. We are five members in my family, my parents and my two little brothers.

I studied in a school only for girls for twelve years so I don’t feel very comfortable with abrupt changes however now I’m studying anthropology at the university and I really like the career despite at the beginning I wasn’t so sure; in fact, my interest was study geology.

About the things that I like to do it is watch movies and series, especially anime (animated Japanese films) and some British and American series. One of my favorites series is ‘Sherlock’ and my favorite movie is ‘The Lord of the Rings’. Also I love reading about different things like mystery and adventure. I like music but I don’t listen very often and usually are the same songs although I love to sing. Besides I like learn about other cultures and other languages. And finally as a curious thing about me, when something interesting me I search a lot of information about it.