How green are you?

Well today it is time to talk about How green are we (Myself in this case). I think that people learn about environmentally friendly practices from their own families. For myself, my parents told me that it is important to help in any way possible to reduce pollution and contaminations, even if you just don’t drop a paper on the street or if you recycle your garbage. Personally, if we talk about these practices, I have never separated my garbage to recycle. Otherwise, I’ve always been worried about not to drop garbage on the street or in any park or square, to walk or use a bike instead of travelling in a bus or a car.

I have not joined to any eco organizations for a matter of time. Actually my time is few enough to do my work and my obligations. I would like to know if there is any chance that scientists invent new and cheap ways of clean energy and transport. For example I’ve read about energy that’s produced with the energy of sea waves and in Chile we have around four thousand kilometres of coast, so it would be very nice for us.

About reducing my carbon footprint I’ve tried to help on this way by using my legs to walk to different places instead of using a car. Also to not waste energy by turning off the lights that I am not using, etc.

Concluding on this post, I think that in our society, specifically in Latin America and Chile, there is a lack of conscience on environmental issues. We are still an economy that produces raw materials and we’re still contaminating rivers that are used to feed industrial production, etc. The only thing that matters to business men are to profit, profit and more profit going to their pockets. Everyone needs to know that if we continue polluting on this way, it is probably that we end with the entire life of this planet in a few years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI Enjoy

My experience in the field

Hello everyone, today it is time to talk about my experience in the field. Until now I’ve had few experiences in fieldwork. I’ve been doing fieldwork outside from Santiago like three times. My first experience was a visit to a museum located in San Vicente de Tagua Tagua in 2012. We had to visit that place and we had to work with some students from rural schools. My second experience was a participation in a FONDECYT project in 2013. That time I had to visit and work in Montepatria (Ovalle) for four days. Basically it was an excavation and we were looking for archaeological remains from Diaguitas. I was invited to this project because it was a curricular activity from a subject. My third experience was a work that we had to do in San Pedro de Atacama, specifically in Talabre, a town with a population of 55 people. We had to work with the community in different activities that they had to do, like to reap and sow different kind of seeds, to help to build a new house, etc.

With this kind of experiences you also have to experience some difficulties. Personally I have had few enough bad experiences on this. For example, during my stay in Talabre, I had problems with the altitude –about 3500 meters over the level of sea- only when I had to do a lot of physical work like carrying tons of kilograms of fruits on my back, etc.

About the things that I’ve liked from this experiences is to have the possibility to work with different people on different places. Also to have the chance to visit new places, because it becomes in experience for me for my future as archaeologist.

Well this is all for today and see you on November 14^th, because I’m going to do fieldwork in Curacavi and San Pedro de Atacama from next week. Have a good time :D

What kind of Job would I like to have? How do you imagine it?

Hello everyone, today I will talk about the job that I would like to have. As many of you may know, I’m studying Archaeology, so most of the jobs that I may have in the future will be outdoors, because we have to travel a lot in our profession. About that, I think that travelling during my job will be like being in Heaven, because travelling is one of the things that I enjoy with all my heart.

One thing that I would dislike to do is to work in an office for the rest of my days. Hell no, I would really dislike being enclosed in an office 24/7. Perhaps I would have to work in an office, because some works in archaeology requires transcribing information from the field to create databases for archaeological interpretation. So, to work in archaeology will mix sometimes travelling to a lot of different places for fieldwork, to work in an office or laboratory for data interpretation.

Actually I’m studying archaeology and I will finish it during the next year. I’m thinking about studying a Master in Archaeometry or even a Master in Paleontology. Yesterday I knew that the first Master in Paleontology is actually open in Chile, in Valdivia, so I’m considering that specialty for my future. I would like to have fieldwork studying artifacts, remains of any kind (pottery, bones, etc.) and then I would like to participate during the interpretation process.

Finally I would like to add that being a Paleontologist it’s a dream that I’ve always wanted to accomplish and now I have the opportunity to studying it here, since the only option before was to studying it in another country.

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