Valentina's blog

In this blog I will write about the changes that I would make to my study program in the sociology major. I will not be realistic at all, because I feel that the most important thing is a much deeper change than just a few small things. First, about the subjects I think it is important that in our major to have more art, music and sports classes will allow us to educate ourselves more deeply and to be much happier beings. Regarding the workload and length of studies I think it is the number of hours we attend classes is good, it is very important to be and hear the teachers and classmates, but I think it is not necessary to send so many tasks, texts and final tests , because it is not a parameter of knowledge, it only tires us and makes us suffer. Chile is one of the countries where the major  lasts five years or more, which is ridiculous because it is expensive to study and very few can pay so many years. I feel privileged in terms of infrastructu...

Today in this blog I'm going to answer to 4 questions about different kinds of violence. The questions are:  So, fist: My opinion about owning an exotic pet: I think that today the exotic pet's industry is huge. In Tailandia they have a big problem with animal's trafic. They sell snakes, monkeys or tigers and they become rich with it.  They abuse of these animals making them live in little cages, removing the teeths and a lot of other horrible behaviors.  This is violonce to beautiful kind and tender creatures for the human fun.  About violence on television: I try not to watch to much TV because I think that is full of different kinds of violence: on news, in national and international TV series, but the worse kind of violence is in reallity shows.  Reallity shows are made to insult, embarrass, hit and make fun of people in a close space, exhibiting the most horrible behaviors of humans beings just for ...

    When I was in school I never had the chance of doing a sport, first because in my school it was not important, and second because I was always very bad in it. The only sport I practiced a bit was basketball, but over the time I realized that I was not very good in it and I didn't liked it that much either. My team and I where invited two times to a competition, but I was very bad and I hated to fight with the other girls. So I realized that sports where not my thing, so I decided to practice something esle. I started going to a art class after school, I really loved that because we could paint all afternoon and we had all the materials for us; brushes, paint, papers, scissors ... Then a teacher told us about a new class after school: orchestra. First I didn't think that I would like it, but then I met Luis Palma, the teacher in that class and I knew that I would love it. First I thought   that I would play the violin,...

When I was little, like 4 or 5 years old in the school I realized that I wanted to study Art, but in time I started feeling scared about that decision, so I started thinking about architecture, bacause it is connected with art.  Then, my best friend started talking to me about Sociology and I fall in love with trying to understand this world and I took that way, but art is always in my mind.  Also my sister is an artist related with the movies world and it is beautiful, so that makes me to be even more sure that I have to do it.  I dont care if I do a regular major or if I do some courses on my own, because I dont want to see this  as a job, I want to do it for me, if I do it outside  the conutry it will be better because I love to travel, but it is not discriminatory.  I want to be a sociologist, but I also I dont imagine my life without art. It is something that I feel since I was a kid, and I think that when you are a...

When I decided to study sociology I dind't know what to do after finishing my major, but now  -two years later- I think that I'm finding my way.  When I was in school I really enjoyed history classes, but now in university I have classes whit professor Avendaño. He studied sociology and history and now he makes classes of Latin Amercian history, History of Chile and Political Sociology. I'm really falling in love with this major after that.  So now I know that I want to keep in that way, maybe like teaching like him. I can't picture my life in the same place, or in the same city, so I think that I would be happy been teacher because you can make classes or keep learning abut your major in a lot of places. I think that I would be free making that.  I really don't care a lot about money because I don't have planes to make a family for now, so I just want to travel and learn, but if I ch...

Luis Alberto Spinetta:  When I was a child my family and I always traveled to the South of Chile. My mom allways put some Inti Illiman's and Los Jaivas' discs, and my father put on the radio some discs about Soda Stereo and Luis Alberto Spinetta. Every summer the same songs.  I was not aware of how much I really liked that music, but when I was 13 or 14 years old I started listening my own music: The Smiths, The Cure... but I didn't felt like in summer. So I started listening by my own that bands.  Also my best friend has family on Argentina, so when I started going more to her home, her family always always listened Soda and Spinetta's music. So, I always loved Cerati and Spinetta, but last year I listened for the first time "Cementerio Club" from Pescado Rabioso, a band of Spinetta and I felt like in summer again. It's like feeling like a child again, in my farther's car, on the road, with my dad si...