Burkina Faso

I would like to go to Burkina Faso, because I would love to visit an exotic African country. As an anthropologist, it excites to me to visit countries where possibly we will see natives and unknown, mysterious and amazing behaviors, mentalities, sports and cuisine. In addition, I would like to go on a trip to Burkina Faso because French is spoken there (it’s the official language, but also there are other native ones) and I am a French-speaker.

I do not know much about this country, because I have known about it since the last 30 minutes, investigating in Wikipedia. I would like to visit the traditional homes in south-east Burkina Faso, which seem very pretty in the photography of wikipedia. I would also like to visit a Burkina Faso's savannah and to run happily like a leopard running through rain. In addition, I would like to visit the Cinema Sanyon in Bobo-Dioulasso and the The Grand Mosque of Bobo-Dioulasso.

I would like to work in Burkina Faso, because I would like to do my first field work of Anthropology with the Burkina Faso’s natives. It would also be nice to open a restaurant of completes and empanadas there, and to live calmly in a rural community of the country.

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Hi!

The most important thing that I learned during the preceding term was that our degree tends to depress and to disorient students, but that one can to solve these problems with a bit of faith (I am not a religious person, it is another kind of faith), in the company of friendly affection and with the utilization of alcoholic drinks as red wine or beer (I am not an alcoholic person either).

One of the most relevant things that I studied the first term was the subject of Latin American history. I liked it very much because this subject considered the vision of the natives, which is very important to me. It seems very positive to me that we had to read the analyses of the chronicles of the sixteen and seventeen centuries, and to see as the vision of the natives varied through the interaction with the huge western civilization and its noble army of cures.

In the first semester I played soccer: the most beautiful and exciting sport of the world (this is only my ethnocentric personal opinion). As member of the selection of Social Sciences, I exposed myself continuously to all kind of physical training to improve my capacities, in order to represent with pride our dear institution.

The main challenge that I had to face during the first term was the weather. I solve this problem by buying an electrical stove.

Regards,
(K) :) :D

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Hi everybody! Considering the instructions of this task, I guess (and hope) that this is the last task of the semester (yes, we are very tired xD). Like everything what occurs in our lives, this experience had a beginning and now it has its end (“It's the Circle of Life, And it moves us all, Through despair and hope, Through faith and love” -Elton John-). This was my first blog and now I’m going to write about that it meant for me.
As a general rule, I think it was a very good experience, because it was very useful in improving my English (especially to improve the aspects related to grammar and vocabulary). Most times I had to visit frequently different dictionaries, so I could learn many new words and expressions. In addition, with the corrections that you realised, I improved many grammatical and syntactic aspects, from punctuation to verbal forms and connectors.
In general I like blogging experience because I didn’t know about this fabulous and practical technology and its many advantages. In fact, thanks to you I have now a blog in which I write about different subjects that I like (in most cases poems or tales). On the other hand, I liked very much the fact that the use of these blogs allow us to read what the others wrote, and in consequence to be able to know about what my partners think about the different treated subjects.
One of the disadvantages of this experience was the fact that most times we have to talk about our career. I think that for other years you would have to ask for more varied subjects or to offer freedom in the election of the task’s subjects. I believe that it would be more entertained to write about music, sports, Literature, hobbies, soccer, movies, mascots, etc.

My ideal job.

My ideal job implicates anthropology and soccer.
When I graduate as social anthropologist I would like to follow a postgraduate study in social Anthropology or in another Social Science. Then I would like to study some speciality or to take courses related to sports, especially if those are of soccer.
Then I would like to work for Everton de Viña del Mar S.A.D.P. I feel that you are probably thinking: oh God! What could make a social anthropologist for a sport institution like this one? I think that if I work for Everton I could help to improve the communication between supporters and Everton’s directorate (with the corresponding previous studies of both). I think that I could describe and understand the interests of both, helping to the development and gradual progress of the institution. On the other hand, I believe that the study of the situation that lives the Everton’s junior players (as its education and its different problems) could help to improve its professional formation.
A different job that I would like much is to work for the FIFA. This international institution must take many decisions to regulate and to improve the soccer activity in the world. According to that, I believe that a social anthropologist would be very useful to anticipate and to improve these measures that affect different sociocultural systems.

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Sir Ken Robison is an internationally recognized (and charismatic) leader in the development of human recourses. His talk "Do Schools Kill Creativity?” says that the great majority of present educative systems don’t support the artistic will and creativity of students. He explains that those aspects are sacrificed to give importance to a deeper formation in matters than presumably are going to benefit students to find a “normal" job. This sacrifice, according to Robinson, kills the creativity of the majority of students of educative system. Just a few, those who have a tenacious aptitude for arts, end up developing their talents until turning them into their work.

I agree with Robinson’s opinion and I think that the theory of multiple intelligences (that intelligence, particularly as it is traditionally defined, doesn’t sufficiently include the variety of abilities humans display) would have to be considered by the educative systems. In my opinion, these systems would have to give more importance to creativity and to the other nonacademic talents (as the artistic ones). I also think that the Chilean Ministry of Education would have to give more importance to sports.

Do Schools Kill Creativity?

I think that schools limit the creativity, influencing of different way to the different students. It is normal that schools, as all institutions, establishes limits and follows programs and methods. So I am in agreement with the idea that the creativity must be limited to maintain an order, to avoid a disciplinary chaos and to prepare children to a so competitive world. In general professors accept or even like students’ creativity, whereas they follow certain parameters and norms.

On the other hand, I think that schools don’t kill creativity because it cannot be destroyed. In my opinion (as some materialist anthropologists say), there are some biopsychological determinants of culture that allow the human adaptation. I think creativity is an important part of the human adaptation to its surroundings, and because of that it cannot be “killed”.

Ideal future

Hi! I’ m going to talk about my ideal future. In 2014 I would like to be following a postgraduate study in social Anthropology or in another Social Science. I would love to do that in a country like Belgium, France or Spain. As I have Spanish nationality I believe that it will be possible because that allows me to enter with greater facility to the European Union. I think that I would like to study at the historic University of Paris (this university is often referred to as the Sorbonne or La Sorbonne), due to its quality and to its great international prestige.

On the other hand I would like to be playing in a football team of the university (like I actually do). I would like to play as much soccer as I can before aging.

Another goal that I would like to reach is to be married with Francisca Herrera. I think that we would make a perfect couple and that we would live happy forever.