Be A Chilean

   Hello everyone, today I have to write about something I know really well: be a Chilean. But, first of all, what's make us Chileans? Like an Anthropologist, I think goes beyond than living in the country or was born here, it's more about identity, be represented for a language, tradition, history, people, and all the cultural context that represent live in a particular place. 

  For me, Chilean people are easily recognizable, 'cause we have many characteristics that are own, the first and most visible it's the language, it's true, in Chile are a lot of different idioms and accents from the Spanish, and other tongues that are native (Mapudungún, Aymará, Rapa Nui, for example) but our expressions and the base of our vocabulary are recognized from Arica to Punta Arenas, and beyond. 

Keep Dreaming ~

Hello cyberpeople, we met again. This time a I have to write about dreams.

First one: Night dreams. I usually dream a lot, and had very crazy dreams, I only remember had dreams in color, but I think sometime I had a black & white dream that I don't remember well. Personally, I believe that dreams are thing that our unconscious show us for remember people, things, places, and even for show us our fears, desires, etc. Sometimes, I had premonitory dreams that I will live years later, I don't know when, I don't know wich, but I will. I just remember one time, when I was a child I dreaming an scene of me looking to a room, and inside were two girl older than me, viewing a locker, that's it; then, many years later I lived that scene, with my classmates in High School, was very strange. This happened to me many times, and it's always strange and exciting at the same time, makes me feel special.

The next one: Daydreams. These are my favourites, because I have the control over it. I'm a dreamer, that's it, I  expend the whole hour of bus travel to my house dreaming about everything: my future, my career, travels, plans, and many little things I want to do sometime, I have the luck of accomplished many of my old dreams, the most important and for which I have fought more it's be an Universitary, and I'm very proud of that, because I could give to my mom that happiness.

Well, for finish I can say that one of my favorite quote it's "Keep Dreaming", because for me the first step it's dream it for do it, but make sure of "Do it right".

A simple advice: 

I need technology?

   Really, I don't have a piece of technology that is actually mine and still working ( yes, I'm a destroyer, hahaha) but I want to talk about two things that make my life easier, well, they did.
    The first one is my loved MP4 Fujitel, that was very special

 to me because I buy it with my own money, they was a simple and cheap stereo player who accompanied me for
 four years, and I absolutely love it because I only charged
 it one hour and I can listen music all day long, and that's
 ¡WONDERFUL!. But one day, a couple of month ago,
 just was spoiled, and I miss it so much, but I can say that I'm not dead, and my life keep going even without it.
   In the other hand, I have my notebook, that it's also spoiled, but it's on the doctor to be fixed. It is a Lenovo 3000 N100, that it's a great machine, has a very wide screen which is my favorite feature of it, and I missed so much because I really need it now, 'cause it has tons of documents that I have not backed up elsewhere, but until they arrive, I survive in the University with my sister's notebook. That's all for now, Have a nice day :)
                                                                                       

Say together: "Libérate"

  In spanish, yes, because that the characteristic word from the heroin of my favourite anime: Card Captor Sakura.  Really, I don't think that's the first anime I saw, but without a doubt it's my favourite since I was a seven years girl.
   Anime it's refers to a Japanese Cartoon, that have many different topics to a regular "Disney animation" like the couples (people it's not only straight), explicit thing (sex, murder, blood) and the combination between magic and reality, it's very interesting, funny, and some times a little bit shocking.
   The reason why I started to saw anime is my old brother, who like to see anime all day long and me, like a little girl, do the same that him, so, the most of the anime I saw was very old and strange for my child eyes, and that's the reason why I don't remember the most of the anime I see with him (considering that my brother is eleven years older than me) but even that, I absolutely love seen this colorful and magical little humans and animal who talk and do amazing things, so I still see anime during my childhood (without my brother) and my life in general.
   About Card Captor Sakura I can say that it's a really nice anime, because it's for little girls, but it's also have adult topic like the sexuality (it's not explicit, but have a lot gay couples in there), even that, it's a great anime which is about a little girl (Sakura, 10 years) that discover a magic book that release many of magic cards that she had to "seal", because they can produce a lot of damage. For me, it's still interesting because had it all: magic, love, friendship, and a Archaeologist (Sakura's Dad) and I enjoy it even now.
   I also love the anime music, like the openings and endings (I didn't take many attention to the middle music) and the most I like is from Sakura, Slam Dunk, Kaleido Star, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Detective Conan, Evangelion and many others that fully my childhood days.

Here is Sakura with her "toy" Kero, who is really a Card's keeper, who also take care of 

                   Sakura and teach her all that he knows about the cards and how catch it.

"Can you see anything?", "Yes, wonderful things."

That's the famous words that Howard Carter answered to Lord Carnarvon when he saw for the very first time the antechamber from the Tutankhamun's tomb, watching through a small hole he made.

 I admired him since I was a child, I think since 6th grade in elementary, when my favourite teacher give us the task of draw something related to Egypt, and I drew the famoust "Mask of Tutanhamun", in that moment I found my dream career, Archeology. For me, and my child eyes, Archeology was so magical, mysterious and unique that I fell in love inmediately, so I just want to know more and more, in special, from Egyptian culture, for that reason I read about Howard Carter and his discovery.

He was, somehow, a self-taught Archaeologist, because he never study formaly the career, but he was formed under the wing of other great Archaeologists, feeding on their knowledge and experience. He was  born in London in 1874, and pass his educational life on charge of tutors; he inherited from his father, Samuel Carter (Painter), their ability to draw, which led him to travel to Egypt at 17 for copying wall paintings for Percy Newberry.

His career starting very slowly, but finally he turned famous by Tuntanhamun and that's not less. I admired him because he work very hard to accomplish his dream, and that's inspired me to do the same. For you to know more, I let you this link (in Spanish, I don't know an English page) http://www.egiptologia.com/ that recount about Howard Carter and his discovery, I hope you like and enjoy it!

                                 

                         Here you can see him cleaning with a brush  Tutankhamun's second coffin.

When the day met the night

  That's the name of one of the most beautiful love songs (to me) and it's by Panic! at the Disco, my favourite band of all time. 

  They are a young band from Las Vegas, USA, that was formed in 2004, the members are Brendon Urie (lead singer, piano) ; Ryan Ross (guitar, second voice, lyrics) ; Spencer Smith (drums, percussion) and Brent Wilson (bass) who left the band in 2006 and was replaced by Jon Walker, who left the band with Ryan Ross in 2009. Now, the current band are Brendon Urie, Spencer Smith and Dallon Weekes.

 Despite these constant changes, I have loved this band since 2008, and despite the most fans think, their music is still great and magic. They had three studio albums: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (2005) ; Pretty.Odd (2008) and Vices & Virtues (2011). Each one have his own magic, and it's own unique personality, which transports me to many different places where I really can feel their music, and I love every nonsense lyric, every note, and every single scream from Brendon (I seriously fell in love with his voice). To all that, add it I saw them live in 2009, and  it was the most incredible thing that happened to me, because I met them in person, something that I imagined many times but never thought it could happen, it was simply epic , I will never forget that day. And for you to know, here I leave a video of one of the songs they sang at the concert in Chile, which was the November 10th at the Movistar Arena. Enjoy it! 

The only difference between martyrdom and suicide is press coverage - Panic! at the Disco (Chile, 2009)

Panic! at the Disco en Chile - The Only Difference...

My Autobiography

Hello everybody, my name is Karina, and here we go...

   Well, I have to write something about me, ¿What can I say? , the first thing that I have to mention is that I was born in Santiago, Chile, and I have lived all my life at the same house, like my mother did, and my grandma before her. I went to Presidente Abraham Lincoln elementary, where I met a few of my loving friend, the ones who stood by me at that time, then I went to Miguel Luis Amunátegui High School, where I met other of my very good friends and began to fight harder for my dream of becoming an Archaeologist, something that my mom didn't share, because she was afraid that I would leave her, but when she understand that I would never change my mind, she supported me in any way she could, so, here I am now, studyng Anthropology/Archaeology at Universidad de Chile, and spending my time with lovely people.