My Grandmother

The gift I brought my grandmother from Ecuador. "Tears of Blood" by Oswaldo Guayasamin in homage to Salvador Allende, Pablo Neruda and Victor Jara. "By their deaths, Latin America cries" (1973).

My favorite relative is my beloved grandmother. When I was very young and my parents worked, her kid me at home with my uncles, I am the eldest grandson and so was almost a son to her and she's a mother to me.

I'm lucky it's still alive and every time I see her, I remember everything you taught me, I see what she knows, show me everything you want me and all the effort of a full life ahead to get a family .
From 1 and up as 4 years, it was she who taught me almost everything, then only visited, but very often almost every weekend. I have fallen teeth with it, I've punches, I care when I've gotten sick and many other things.

I think the most important thing I learned from it is that nothing in life is impossible and that one wants can have a happy life together with a happy, large and struggling family, who all work for everyone. I think this kind of things today are not given as before and the people are very friendly, looking for simple and if unsuccessful leaves. My grandmother is a living example.

Me in the future...

Hi I’m in fourth year of my career of medicine veterinarian and in the future I would like to work as a doctor in the south of Chile. I like very much the south because is a place that has a lot of difficulties for my career and is a big challenge that I would love to take. Once there I will try to help people that don´t has access to the help that the government give in programs of development like PRODESAL or PDTI.

Maybe later that I gain some experience working in the south I will take a course that allow me to work with indigenous people like a course of “Mapudungun” and teach to this people all the knowledge of the university and learn all that the mapuche people has to give to Chilean guys like me.

Finally in a more distant future when I have won some money I will love to back to university and study a career like cinema and after that back to the south and film documentaries with all the great persons whom I have work in the past years and try to show their reality to the people in the city that don´t know the troubles of the south of our country.

Veterinary medicine Continuous Assessment 3: Gender roles and stereotypes

(Follow the link below and read the article about gender stereotypes

http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/15910/1/List-of-Gender-Stereotypes.html)

1. Do you agree with the article? Why? Why not?

Yes Im agree, because our society, its base on these stereotypes, despite our society has had advances in the equality of woman and mens, still are a lot to been done.

2. Which gender stereotypes do you think are based on biological factors?

I think that none of the stereotypes are based on biology factors because we invent all that stuff, obviously there are differences between men and woman, but there are not based in biology arguments, there are based in cultural arguments

3. Give your opinion about 3 female and 3 male stereotypes from the list. Which are true / untrue in your country / hometown / family? Give examples. 

-Women are not politicians:I think that these is false because now in Chile we have a woman president, but whenever a woman have a position of power, the people think that is beause she is cute o have a nice body.

-Women are responsible for raising children: In Chile happens that there is a lot of single mothers because the father left his family, but I think that raising children, has to be a task of the father or the morher.

-Women don’t play sports: In same sport exist more stereotypes than in others, for example football or rugby.

-Men are not nurses, they are doctors: I think that now there are more female doctors than before, but nurses are stella lot of woman and a few man. I hope that some day more male studied nurse, because I think that a lot want to do it, but they dont do it, because they are scare.

-All men enjoy working on cars: I do not run very well and am a man! It is complicated, in my family my aunt bought a car and learned to drive together. It's not easy, I get nervous driving and stress at all times. 

-Men are good at math: I do not like math and enter this race thinking it would not mathematics, but in the first half and I had to do was very difficult.

A picture that I like...

 

These are my friends and I, when we went on a summer trip for a month between Peru and Ecuador. In this picture, we are in one of the arms of the Amazon River in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador, the place we call Cuyabeno and can only be reached by boat or canoe to the sector.

The photo was taken by the tour guide a canoe trip in the last week we were in Ecuador, it was the end of February. I like this photo because it looks very beautiful scenery, forests, rivers, lakes, many of my dearest friends and everyone on a journey full of happiness that was long and well enjoyed.

That day we were back at camp and spent the afternoon bathing in the lagoon before heading out to look for crocodiles at night, this picture was taken before we dive into the water. When I see this photo I remember a trip in peace, laughter, new things to show us the world, wise people of the jungle and great friends.

The Veterinary Option

When I was a child I liked cars and my dream was to be a taxi driver at age 10 approximately. The Veterinary Medicine option appeared in the school, I saw the TV show "The law of the jungle" and thought as I could do the same. In the secondary school, look others options of universitary profession and thought in Human Medicine, Journalism and Kinesiology. This last option, together with Veterinary Medicine, was the most important in my last year in the school.

In secondary school I practiced athletics in National stadium and, for this, I liked the kinesiology as option of job in the future. But Veterinary Medicine was always present in my plans. In my fourth year of school I had these two options of universitary carreer and after the PSU I applied to these options in the University of Chile. The two options were the same for me, so I waited and was selected in veterinary medicine.

In these four years I have had great experiences, I met good friends, learned a lot about politics and life, here I am being formed as a critical person. Because of that, I would like to work in clinic with residents as the "CESAVE El Roble" or field with small farmers.

(Volunteering work, Galvarino, 2012)

Technology in my life...

In the last years of my life, mainly in the university, the computer has become in my best friend, my favorite piece of technology. I use this machine for work, study, entertainment and distract.

I have one computer in my house, we bought eight years ago, and one notebook for my brother and me that we bought during 2012. My brother use the notebook for playing all day, my mom watch over us for play a little less and study more. I use the computer and notebook for check my mail, facebook notifications, events of week, write informs and homework of university, listen to music and watch movies... I use it every day.

I like this object of technology because this work concentrates almost all I have to do in a normal day.

If I didn't have a computer or notebook my life would be totally different, would be very slow, disordered, one great chaos. I hope that doesn’t happen.

What is your opinion....

about the Chilean politicians?

Today the Chilean politicians are liars, they  look up the vote of people with promises of better life, organization, employment and other beautiful phrases. The people vote and after forget, people are naive and not claim what they deserve.

about the Chilean tradition "mechoneo"?

In my opinion the "mechoneo" is humiliating tradition that abuse our fellows, with many fights and nasty things. All this to demostrated that old fellows were superior than news. The welcome should be companion and to forming friendships and works. 

about killing stray dogs?

The solution of stray dogs is mass sterilization and education for the owners to be responsible with their animals. Today Chile doesn't have good policies of responsability with animals and penalties when take place an animal abuse. killing stray dogs  isn’t a solution, education it is.

about recycling?

Is one of the forms to stop with the climate change and help to lower the volume of trash in the differents parts of the world. Also, this lower the rats and infections in this places too.

about “barrasbravas”?

The "barrasbravas" is bad, but "inchas" is other type of people. I like "inchas", group of people that make a carnival in the stadium, I am one, because that the best team support. I think that the delincuence is "out", the carnival is "In".