Summer Holidays

Well, well. There´s a lot of places I want to know. Especially places in which developed ancient civilizations, like Egypt, Greece, India and China. And of course, the Pacific islands that I mentioned a few weeks ago. But thinking in holidays, getting some rest of an entire year studying and also working, and staying in a paradisiacal place, Thailand is the place that comes direct to my mind. 

Nice, is it? Thailand is the dreamed place for some people for they honeymoon. Cottages with view to the sea and the rainforest behind of you. But that´s not all. On beaches it arise huge pillars of rock that seems belong to an ancient mountainous cord, and gives to the landscape some air of mysterious and magnificence. 

Some things that you can do there is visit temples. Temples are an icon of this country, and most of all, from the buddhism. . I think temples are such an excellent location for learn about this beautiful culture and people. Also is a place with people from other countries congregated and shared practices or at least, the interest about all that. Markets are also a good choice for knowing people and contemplate closer customs and the everyday of these people. So, some very recommended places are Bangkok and their numerous temples, like Wat Phra Sri San Phet and Wat Phra Ram, royal temples located at Grand Palace, or Chiang Mai, other turist city. I leave you a link :

http://www.turismotailandes.com/

Okay, there is another reason. Camboya is the country next to Thailand, and these are the ruins of Angkor Wat, the most huge buddhist temple. A phenomenal masterpiece, Angkor War had conserved until these days almost completely. If you go there some day, Thailand or Cambodia, make sure of visit Angkor Wat. 

Cartoons for young adults?

Have you seen cartoons nowadays? It seems that some cartoons hide more things that you expected. This is the new generation of cartoons, made for young people (around fifteen to twenty five or even more) whose background can be about conspiracy or expand our universe with the insertion of extraterrestial characters. Gravity Falls, for example. Sure some of you know it. It begin in a calm town of Oregon where a couple of twins (Mabel and Dipper) go for spend the summer with their great uncle Stan. The first day all passes normally, until Dipper is send to the forest by his uncle and finds a very strange book, that results to be a journal of a unknow person that contains very creepy and exciting information about the town. After that, everything  change. Monster of all types and forms, conspiracies and secret codes abound in each episode, leading to the most epic final: a confrontation with a deity of destruction. 

Another exciting serie is Steven Universe. Steven is a normal teenager who lives with no less than alien people, called gems. These gems are Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl, living forms that came from other planet (Homeworld) and remained for thousands of years on the Earth, with the purpose of protect the world from an alien invasion, hatched by gems of outer space (with intention of colonizing). Steven will join to the mision of protect the Earth, form part of the Cristal Gems, and on the way he will discover many things about his past and about his mother, Rose Quartz, leader of the rebellion against Homeworld. 

Perspectives about cartoons and everything change radically since childhood to adulthood. Things that we not understand before can be now completely deciphered. Although, in some cartoons like these two we can see elements that not belong to animated cartoons for kids. This means that animation opened to a new public. A public that enjoys cartoons but also gets intrigued by exciting stories destinaded to all ages. 

Post studies!

Hi! The topic this week is about post studies. Is such a theme that always interest us since high school. In this moment of my life, all I want to do is finish my career. I think that first, is very important speak more than two idioms. If I'm going to travel to India, for example, its essential communicate with the language that they use. In that country and elsewhere. So, within my post studies I give importance to language courses. The most I can, considering the situation in which I'll be. Oh, with languages I mean dead languages too! If like an archaeologist I want to understand people and cultures from the past, I should have knowledge about linguistics. Maybe a course of that It would not be so bad. I want to make these courses hopefully in the same countries, which can contribute to me in submerge inside all the richness of that culture in specific.

Also, in the purpose of accumulate knowledge of all type, I'm thinking in doing astronomy and climatology courses. Well, these are subjects that I like pretty much, and it can help me for the framework or line of investigation that I want to develop.

I always will prefer doing a course in person, so I would search for some courses in part time modality. But also online courses with interesting subjects offer good chances for money and time, making accessible for all. So I consider both options. 

My future job

Hi everyone. Today the topic is about my future job. The way that I chose was the archaeology one, and as you know is a totally outsider job! The fieldwork is one of the most important elements of the archaeology. Although there is some indoor work too. Revision of bibliography, documents and previos papers from other researchers, and the subsequent recopilation of all the information after the prospecting, excavations and interviews with the groups under study. So is a mix of both. But I have to admit that the outider part is my favorite, and what I feel most passionate. Also is a job of too much traveling. Depends on your area of study, but in my case I actually want to know at least a little bit of all cultures in the five continents. Well, maybe not all the cultures in the world. That´s could be hard to reach. 

In relation to the speciality of my career, well, in fact archaeology is already a speciality, inside the general career of anthropology. But, if I going more deep in the matter, my interests going to the archaeoastronomy, a subdiscipline that emerged in the last century, but pretty incipiently, and now has become stronger thanks to the increasing interdisciplinary fieldwork. So, in this way my plan is to take some courses of astronomy, and also of climatology, which can give me a better preparation. I took a free course of astronomy, offered by Eduabierta, a online platform created by the University of Chile, called "Acercándonos a las Estrellas", and I learned too much there. Of course is just the beginning. 

And finally, the million dollar question. The salary. Well, the pay is not so bad. While I can live with all the things that I need its fine enough.