My career :)

All pictures were taken by my cousin, Héctor Mondaca

Hi Again!

Today, I would like to talk about myself, specifically, about my career. I’m studying Anthropology in Universidad de Chile, and it is my first year.

The story about why I study this career is very simple, but very significant for me.

When I had to choice to be Humanist in my high school, I had to do a work about the humanistic careers. I remember that all my classmates included traditional careers, like laws, psychology, pedagogy, but I wanted to include other too. One of this was Anthropology, specifically, Archaeology. I found out about it, and I discovered that it is a great career, that fulfilled with a lot of requirements that I had of my dreamed career. In this moment, I discovered that I wanted to be an Archaeologist. Since my childhood, I had had a relationship with the past. I started to collect antiques since child, and I collected testimonies and stories with the old people of my family and my hometown only with the eagerness of to know about the past of my community, and also, my own past.

Parallel, in the field of my father, we discovered some stone walls in the inside of a ravine. There were also, little piece of pottery in the floor. This called my attention immediately and I wanted to know all about it.

I think that the archaeologists contribute to society, because thank to them, we can to know about one side of the past that is very interesting. Also, they can to help to reconstruct the past with thing that for anyone is trash. Today, I enjoy a lot my career, and my favorite subject is Archaeology.

I think that the principal tool that an archaeologist needs in the future is the vocation, because we can’t to be a great professionals, if we haven’t this attribute.

Today, I hope to become in a great Archaeologist, and work in my homeland, and inform to the world that Alto del Carmen isn’t only a pisco, but is a very interesting place that hides between their colorful hills, a rich historical and archaeological heritage.

It's the heritage of my homeland

This is all for today!!

Regards!

Bye Bye!

Marca Chancho

Hello Everyone!

Today, I’d like to talk about one popular phrase used by the Chileans. It is “Marca Chancho” (Pig Brand)

The pig is an animal that is using for a lot of thing in the Chilean vocabulary. For example in the domino, to name the card that has both sides the same number (in Spanish “Chancho 6”,), or like a synonymous of a belch (in spanish, "tirarse un chancho").

                               

Specifically, “Marca Chancho” it’s a phrase to use to describe an article that it brand is unknown or it is of bad quality.

There are many theories that explain this phrase. One of these say that the term "Marca chancho" would come from an economic beer sold in Chile in 1830, and apparently, was the cheaper and lower quality. The bottle would have been of clay, and the people would compare it with the popular pigs of Pomaire.

But the fame of the phrase would arrive in the first half of the XX century, with a cigarette brand. It is “Marca Chancho cigarettes” that showed in the label a funny pig wearing a suit. Also, in the label there was a note who said: “Aseguramos que estos cigarrillos valen mucho más de lo que cuestan” (“We ensure that these cigarettes are worth much more than they cost”). No doubt that there is a direct relationship between the concept of “Marca Chancho” and the cigarettes.

I have a collection of old cigarettes labels, and fortunately, I have one of these labels, that are very limited in the market of the collections.

I hope that you enjoy this little part of our Chilean history!

Regards!

Bye!

My favorite web page

Hi everybody!

I have a hobby that I practice since my childhood. It is the collections. I collect a lot of things, like coins and banknotes from Chile and the World, antiques, old keys, old postcards, old cigarettes wrappers, sugar sachets, etc.

I have about 500 coins and 100 banknotes in my collection. I like it because we can see the different cultures expressed in the money.

When I decided to order my collections, I searched information about it in Internet.  I felt the website www.numismatica.cl. This site has a lot of information about Chilean numismatic (collection of coins and banknotes), like a catalogue and curiosities about the coins and banknotes of the history of Chile. This page is manages by Gamalier Varela, that is one of the most important numismatics in Chile. I visit this website approximately 4 times for month, to check if there is new information.

Also, I love the website foro.coleccionismototal.com.ar. It is an argentine forum, dedicated to the collections, mainly to numismatic. In this page there are people from different counties like Argentina, Chile, Spain, Mexico and Venezuela that post about their collections. I like this website, because I can know people that are collectors like me, and I can  show my own collections to other people. I visited this forum every day when I studied in high school, but nowadays, I haven’t time, for this, I visited the website only 6 or 7  times for month.

It’s all for today

Bye!

El otro yo

Hi Everybody!!!

Today, I would like to talk about the music. I spend a lot of time listening to music. In each free time I listen to music, like in the Metro, in the bus and in my home, when I haven’t to study.

Specifically, I would like to talk about one of my favorites groups of music. They are “El otro yo”. They are a argentine band, and the members are María Fernanda Aldana (voice and bass guitar), Cristian Aldana (voice and guitar) Gabriel Guerrisi (first guitar) and Ricky Rua (drummer). Their style of music is the alternative rock. They have 9 studio albums,  but the first was launched in 1993 in cassette format.

I like this band, because I love their music, because it contains a strong lyric, whit a strong message too. I like the way that they plays music, because it isn’t common and the voice of Maria Fernanda Aldana is amazing. Also, I love Maria Fernanda Aldana, because she is a good painter. Her pictures are great.

I like all the songs of “El otro yo”, but I think that my favorite is “No me importa Morir”, included in “Abrecaminos” album (1999), because this song remember me one part of my childhood, when I listened to “El otro yo” with my cousin, in the vacations.

Enjoy it!

This is all for today!

Bye :)