MY LAST FIELD TRIP

Lamentably, my last field trip was long time ago. This was the last year in November, and I went to Pica, in the middle of Atacama Desert, in the north of Chile.

That field trip consisted in an environmental impact research for an Archaeology subject called "Methods and techniques of fieldwork". Was a very hard field trip, we worked a lot under the burning sun of the desert in eternal workdays from the early morning to the sunset during ten days. Now we, me and my classmates, understand why everyone says that the Atacama desert is the most arid desert in the world... in hundreds of kilometers we don't see a little bit of life, and of course, neither a smallest shadow in that we could get cool us!!

We did a material recovey from an old saltpeter campment of late nineteen century. Our work consisted in recognize the campment limits and recover all the possible material in the shortest time, because those terrains was a property of the enterprise SOQUIMICH, that after of we left literally it would do explode those lands for extract various minerals. We did a lot of grids and excavations, and we put the material in a lot of plastic bags.

The result of our work was a lot of containers full of broken glass bottles, a lot of rusty metal, pieces of centenary newspapers, a lot of diferent seeds, a lot of clothes, tissues and shoes, and many of other objects that speak us of the hard life in that campments. I'm not agree with the metodology of the environmental impact researches, because the material founded is not estudied in depth, and all consist in dig an put the material in plastic bags. The discipline needs to revise this methodology because are hundreds the archaeologycal sites that today are in containers waiting to be studied!

IMPROVING MY FACULTY FACILITIES

In my opinion my Faculty, the Social Sciences Faculty of the University of Chile, is not so bad. In general, the building is ok, I like his facade and its interior. It is not the most beautiful Faculty, but is a simple structure that provides us big spaces in that live our daily life quietly.

The building have a big central hall that recieve much light from the sun because it roof is made of a transparent material that like glass. That is so important, because the interior places looks more big and wide.

From the outside the building looks not so beautyful, but I think that the Faculty is a reflect of the nineties architecture, it's not a pretentious building, and this is fine for my.

The facilities are ok too, we have new computer rooms with a lot of PCs, a casino where the cooks serve good food, a lot of class rooms that maybe of them can be small, but this is not a very big problem. In my opinion, the faculty don't need much things to be better, anyway it need fix a couple of things related with our library that be very important for we the students.

Is imperative improve the library. It has very little space, so that not seems a library, seems rather a study room where severals groups of students do they works talking so much, even laughing or discussing. A library need first of all silent, ant that is impossible if not built more space for the library.

Finally, and maybe more important than this, we need more books. We lack a lot of titles, above all those related whit the last investigations and theoric developments, and we need more books for when we ask for a title this, it should be available always.

The solution is only a good proyect with enought money for enlarge the library facility and buy the necessary books.

Chile classifies to the soccer worldcup !

The triumph in Colombia the last weekend sealed the qualification of Chile to the next Soccer World cup. This is so relevant for the people of the country because it causes a lot of happiness for almost all. The opportunity to see our team in a world cup is a privilege that we had not enjoyed for a long time ago. Soccer is the most popular sport in our country, and after the world cup of France in 1998 we only lived a lot of soccer frustrations... Until now. The actual soccer team gave us a brilliant participation in the playoffs of South Africa 2010, and now many people in Chile admire their soccer players, and specially the coach Marcelo Bielsa, because he changed the mentallity of Chilean Soccer players, and the quelification is a big achievement of his work.

Many of the soccer players do a great performance in an individual level, but the most important aspect of this team is their almost perfect collective game. However, all the players won the affection of the people beacause they all show sacrifice, hard work and love for the national shirt. Players like Alexis Sánchez ("the wonder child"), Jorge Valdivia ("the wizard"), Matías Fernández ("matigol") or Claudio "the falcon" Bravo are at this moment real celebrities for the people. But in my case, I admire Humberto "the lollipop" Suazo, the big goal scorer of the southamerican playoffs to South Africa, because he gave us incredible joys whit his ten goals, and beacuse he is an humble man that leaves everything in the field.

In June 2010 all the Chileans will do the impossible to see all the matches of our soccer team. These matches will be broadcasted in the morning, so I hope that I do not have any class (or worse, a test!!) in these moments, beacuse I will be obligated to be absent. The next year, all the Chileans will be dreaming with winning the most desired cup: the eternal glory of the Soccer world cup!.