My ideal job

My ideal job is in the area of investigation of physical anthropology, I don't know yet in which specific area, because I really like all that such as forensic anthropology, biological anthropology, human ecology, genetic anthropology, bioarchaeological anthropolgy, etc. For this job I need to have the knowledge of the specific area, a master or Ph.d, and good ideas to make an important investigation about new topics or about somethig important or relevant for the society or even about some topic of my interest.
I think I will be good at this job, because I'm interested in this matter, and I'm a person who does well what I want, with enthusiasm and interest.
The only problem is that it is difficult to find a job like this, because there is a lot of people intersted in the same thing so the competition is hard, and also the people need a very good curriculum, with good references and marks. So it's not eas to make an investigation about the subject I want, sometimes it is easy to work in other people investigition, its diffficult to have your own.

The speech of Ken Robinson

Like Ken Robinson, I think the educational system is wrong in differents way, because in Chile a lot of establishments are control by capitalism, so the education is not serving to the student, but works for employers, who earn income through the monetization of education. In Chile other big problem related with education, is the differents between private schools and the municipal couterparts, because the education from private school is better than the municipal education, and the consecuense of that is the kids from municipal education has less oportunities than the kids form private education.In some establishments is very important the development of the creativitie, and the school can estimulated or reprimed the artistic development, I think this is a very important area from personal depelopment, and the school have an importan funtion.
So we need to restructure the school

My favorite subject

My favorite subject is physical anthropology, the teacher is Rodrigo Retamal "Pelao", the course has two parts: uno es theoretical and the other is practice. In the theoretical part we learn the informacion and the important things about the subject. And in the practice part we work with skeletons and we apply the information. The practice part is my favorite part of de class, it is very interesting and didactic, I can talk with my classmate and compare our results. In this class we can laugh and talk even with the teacher, is like he is as if he were one of us. Even we put music during the class. Is very relax the class and we can feel comfortable and confidence.
I prefer the practice part over the theoretical because, the second one is more stactic and we have to be very concentrate for understand the informacion and theory. For all this reasons physical anthropology is become in my favorite subject.

My Career

I’m studing physical anthropology is a branch of anthropology that studies the mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human adaptability and variation, primatology, primate morphology, and the fossil record of human evolution. In University of Chile the career has two parts: a) common plan, in which we study the general areas of anthropology, its like a little bit of everything. b) The specialties: in this moment the course is separated in tree areas, archaeology, social anthropology and physical anthropology. When I finished the school I had to decide what career I liked, in that moment I was so confused, I really wanted to be a dancer, but it was very difficult because I didn’t have enough studies in this area. After the confusion I decided to study anthropology, in that moment I didn’t know what specialty chose. At begin of the year I choose physical anthropology, because the last year I took a course about this specialty and I really like it. Now I’m very happy in this career, I think it was the best decision I have ever made.

My future

The next year I'm going to graduate from University, and this is a new thing, because when I finished the school, I went inmediatly to the University, so I have to continue studing. When I finish the University I'm going to end with a season. When I graduate from University, I'm going to take a master, may be in the same place, and when I finish this course I'm going to take a Ph.D probably in other country, I hope this woudl be one from Europe, like Austria, Germany or Switzerland. If I want to going to live to this countries I must learn to speak in german. In my personal life, I really don't know how is going to be, I'm prefer don't think about it. I prefer live the present and enjoy the moments with my friends, boyfriend and family. I really hope to be happy in every thing I do.I dont have a ideal future, I prefer to build it on the road, and try to do the best for me. The only thing I have to do is travel around the world, I don't know when and how I'm going to do this.

The best in my area

In my opinion the best in physical anthropology is Arthur Auderheide, because he is a pioneer in

the field of scientific mummy studies. His researches focus in paleoepidemiology and paleopathology, for the reconstruction of diaseases in ancient populations. In his investigations he uses ancient DNA methods, and with this he could demostrate the presence of tuberculosis in America before Columbus arrived. He also demostred the presence of trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease), in South American forests long before humans migrated there. He also did some works in Chile with Bernardo Arriaza, about Chinchorro mummy. He has published different books (4) about this topic, and more that 100 articles. He worked for 36 years in the University of Minnesota Medical School .

Through out his career he has become one of the wordl first experts in paleopathology. In November 2008, he retired. I think hi is one of the best in the mummy studies, and I admire he for that, we works in different countrys and topic, about paleophatology. Hi has the qualities to be one of the best mummy investigatores, with a long history in the area and a lot work.

I love this photograph, in this picture there are my best friends from the school. I knew them since I had 8 years, I spent a lot of time with them. When we take the photograph we was in the birthday of one of as, Clau, she turned 20 years. This day was holy friday, and we started to celebrate on holy saturday, because the birthday gilr was a religious person. That night we celebrated, and we talked about a lot of things. In that moment, we had time to see each other, because the university was not too hard at the begin of the semester. Now we don't have enough time to stay together and we miss each other a lot. We try to get together but it is very difficult, but we still have time to go to our birthday. They are my best friends and we still have very good moments together, although we are older, have diferents career and interest, the friendship still the same.