Alex´s blog

 I'm sorry I don't have a picture with this little dog, but I still want you to meet him. His name is Guardian and as far as I know he is two years old. He lives with some neighbors in the countryside where I go every year. He is a very friendly, affectionate, and playful dog. He also accompanies us every time we go for a walk and hike when we go to the forest or to the river he is always there. In truth it makes me very sad when I have to go back home, and he stays there, and I notice that he also gets sad. But I couldn't bring him either because there are people there who take care of him and besides it wouldn't be good for him to come to the city because he is used to live freely in the countryside. I remember once at night we went down to town to go shopping and while we were walking, he was there, when this little dog had never been to town. We tried to put him in the car, but he got very scared when we tried to put him in the car, so we had to go in the car at Gua...

I am never thought careful take a postgraduate course. However, I believe that I take a postgraduate in urban anthropology, politic anthropology, poverty anthropology or sociocultural anthropology. These are because are topics in I am interested. Respect about where I study, I don´t know really, but I have illusion to go study in another county. This is great because I can know other realities and another visions of anthropology. Regarding the modality, I would like to study completely face to face and full time. I think one day I must know what the university experience is like. Even if it is doing a postgraduate. To be honest, I'm not really sure which graduate school to take specifically, because I still have a lot of things on my mind. I mean, when I get out of graduate school I'd like to work for a while, and I'm also excited to pursue another career if possible. But in general, I have a lot of notions and references about what to study after taking this career. Alth...

I would like to work in anthropology of poverty. This work is the understanding of the networks of the poorest sectors of society. Obviously, the studies of poverty are not from extractives, but rather the ends are in the self-understanding of these sectors of society and through the search for networks of resistance. I imagine this work from the production of knowledge in conjunction with the territories studied, through methodology such as ethnography, memory, oral history, etc. However, I believe that the most important thing is to create forms of return of knowledge and contribute within the struggles and resistance managed by these same territories. As for traveling for this job, I would not want to do it right away. In the first place, I liked to work in the reality in which I grew up and later dedicate myself to knowing other realities. On the other hand, regarding salary, I think I would like to help in any way in the territories, especially if I can contribute from anthropol...

  Yerba mate is my favorite beverage. I drink mate every day and all day. I know that mate is not food, but I like so much. Yerba mate is a tree from Uruguay. This tree was used by indigenous Guaraní and some Tupí. Posteriorly, Yerba mate was appropriate by Jesuits and they start commercializing. The tree can grow 15 meters and produce flowers and posteriorly produce fruit. This herb contains caffeine; thus, it is an energetic drink. In present, yerba mate is principally consuming in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. The mate I prepare in the cup called mate. I put the yerba in the cup and then I dust it off by shaking it very hard and put the straw Posteriorly I put cold water to clean, which then I spit it out. Finally, I put warm water and it is ready to drink. This process is called “cebar”. I like mate, because its flavor is very particular, and I feel a lot of energy when I drink. And I search about the impact in the health, and I think that yerba mate, is very ...

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  In my life I´ve had many cringe situations. This situation was very frequently how I was walking in the street whit my parents when I was a kid. Happens that I´ve light blue, green or gray eyes, I don´t know, but the important situation is that how my parent met someone on the street for causality, the people told me “ohhh que bonitos ojos tienes” and how I wasn´t social abilities, I feel embarrassed, I was smiling and I didn´t know that answer. This situation to this day is cringe.   Another situation was when my dad and me would to play football. I remember that I was 8 years old. This day my dad went with a backpack and in a moment, a man approached him from behind and pretended he was robbing him. I scared and scream. Immediately the man started laughing. It happens that the man was a friend of my dad. After that they started laughing at me, which gave me a lot of cringe. Finally, write about my cringe memories, is a situation in where I feel cringe, so that this will an...