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.