Wednesday, November 28, 2012



LEARNING ENGLISH


This  is the last post of the semester and  for this reason It's a good occasion to do a review about how we learn English, what importance it have in our life and how we can improve the knowledge of this language.
I started  to learn English at the school and later I entered to The Norteamerican Institute to keep learning English and as a form to to reinforce  the education of the high school.  In those moments the English served the function  of be a simple academic obstacle to pass the years. I felt  the English that I learnt was  very distant of my every day life.

But when I entered to the University , I could have contact with a deeper application of this language. In my experience, the English became in a useful tool because it opened a  giant current of new information. Also it transformed in a possibility to express and  disseminate and idea because it reaches a wider audience of many different places.

In the University the first courses were boring, they used many books. The knowledge was  very mnemonic, mechanic  and based in a old methods. But the superior levels are funnier. There are a connection with the interests of the student and his reality. It can  talk an develop about topics that I want . In this sense, I think that I approved phonetic  and grammatic but I should focus in expand my vocabulary, This my principal lack but I'm  trying  to develop across of activities as listen music  and see movies in English.

Finally, In my opinion the teaching of English should be connected with the reality and actions of the student, helping to him/her to develop skills and expand his/her world.  This form, the English it transformed in a useful tool and not in a obstacle.


Wednesday, November 21, 2012



"Bolivian women are breaking down barriers to seek political power"


A Quechua leader at a meeting on rural women in Bolivia.



In the last years in Bolivia has existed an increasing tendency in which women have begun to participate in politics. Many of them have similar history, begging as leader in a social organization and achieving a local public office.

“The principal obstacle to get a public office is the domestic duties and economic issues” express Lucinda Villca, a council woman of Santiago de Andamarca. She is a aymara woman who has seven sons and she is leader of her ayllu. She participated recently in a national meeting of woman leaders of rural zones, realized in Cochabamba.

Another experience of feminine participation in politics is it realized by María Cuñaendi. She is a Guarani council woman of Urubichá, one of Bolivia's poorest areas. Her politic career started working with a women`s organization and planted rice and corn to support her children and husband. She never thinks to have a public office. “There is no time to organize or have interest in politics” says her.

In San Julián, another municipality of Santa Cruz, Yolanda Cuellar, a Guarani, was deemed to be "too young" to hold a municipal position. She was 21 years old and she participated in the Without Fear Movement, opposing the Movement to Socialism party, which is part of the government. But, her husband supports her and he gave energies to achieve to get the office.

However the last cases, there are many bureaucratic barriers and a lack of support to implement the politics of the woman.  But the bolivian government have implemented a law that obligate that the 50 per cent of the public offices will be for women and they are applied the Semilla’s Programme as a way to helps women in rural districts exercise their economic and political rights

I choose these news because I consider that the Social Anthropology have many things to investigate in the politic dimension. The discipline should show interest for understand numerous forms of integration.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/aug/06/bolivian-women-barriers-political-power