One of my most special photos

In this photo i am with some of my ex classmates and with my main teacher. It was taken by one of my ex classmate's mom, in the Saint Mary Joseph School in March 2014. That was the first class day of the year and we were visiting our ex school for the first time since we graduated. This photo is important to me because every year y saw how every generation came back to greet the new students and i never tough that one day i was going to be the one who greets.

I remember how jeaolus i was every time that the ex students came in the first day. I wanted to have already finished the secondary school. Now that i did it i miss the people of my ex school. Well, maybe not everybody, but most of them.

That photo shows one of the key moments of my life, and i will never forget that special experience.

Animals and pets

Have you ever feel the happiness of receiving a dog for your birthday or for Chrismasts, after been a long time asking for it? Do you remember the first time you went for a walk with your new dog? Have you lived the experience of feeding your own dog? All of these are unforgettable moments on the life of many persons. Sadly, i never could have any of these cute life episodes.

All my life i have wish to have a dog. The reason because my wish has never been accomplished is the fact that i have lived in flats all of my life.

It is said that dogs are the man´s best friend, and the better pet. I really agree with that. They are always eager to play. They also know when you are sad, and they can comfort you.

Yes, i know that other animals sometimes want to play too, but the dog is the only one that will not exclude you. For example, hamsters, rabbits and cats only see you as their food source, but not as a friend who they can play with. The would be more interested into exploring the area, and will no pay attention to you.

Also, dogs have the advantage of been large enough to play safety sports games. They are not as fragile as other animals. One day i played with a friend´s dog and it bitted me playing, but i didn´t get hurt.

I have only owned hamsters. They are best option for someone who lives in a flat. They were funny and active at the beginning, but soon they turned into slow and sleepy creatures. Almost all of them died tragically:

-Two died because diarrhoea.

-One accidentally treading by my mom.

-One poisoned by the water of Antofagasta.

-One died for unknown reasons. We found it dead when we come back to house.

-One died because its age.

The most tragicomic thing is that when i told people about my hamster´s deaths some of them just laugh.

Well, at my infancy i tough that go the circus could be a funny experience. However, now i have changed my point of view, after i read an article about the how cruel is the life of the animals in circus.

I am not against the zoos, but i think that some animals need to have a bigger space. Also, i believe that security should be increased, because some visitors often annoy the animals with impunity.

The only think that i hate more than animals in circus, is people who likes to use fur coats. How they are so unconscious? We have the damn technology to make synthetic clothes. There is no reason to kill animals with this purpose anymore. Are not enough all the animals that die every year to feed us? And some people want to have  that luxury, when millions of humans are dying because the lack of resources and a lot of species are in danger of extinction!

Well, i if i could choose to be an animal i would like to be a dog, because all the fun that you can have with so many energy.

My favourite Piece of technology

Well, i think that the piece of technology that i like the most is my computer. However, i must say that in a few years the new winner will be a tablet. I already have a tablet, and it has several advantages over my computer (is more portable, has no virus and has a more dynamic picture view), but by the other hand, it needs to be connected to wi-fi to have operative important widgets (You-Tube, Facebook, Wikipedia) and is not designed to play a lots of games. But maybe, in a short time, new tablets with more advanced software will be researched and will make computers useless in comparison. But let's back to the computer issue.

I used to see a lot of TV when i was child, but that changed when my father show me some computer games like eleven years ago. Gradually, i begin to play more computer and less TV, until the computer replaced the TV in my life. Even the Playstation 2 couldn't undone the fact that the computer had become my favourite piece of technology.

Two or three years ago, my father bought a new computer, and at first, i though that it was a waste of money, because the old one still operative, but later i realised how faster the new design was.

I like my computer by all the things that it can do. Yes, it is annoying to wait every morning to it turns on, but the programs are more dynamic than in the tablet and the cellphone.

Well, i use my computer to write do my homework, to write my book, to play games, to watch videos and for sending e-mails.
I use it at least four times every week. Without it my life would be at least three times harder, because not having a computer now brought you so many problems like be an illiterate person three decades ago.

Expectations for a new semester

Well, this is my first year of university and a got a lot of subjects. By the way i am studying anthropology, and i want to graduate as an archaeologist. The first subject that i had the first day was Philosophy. In that class my teacher is Alberto Mayol, a sociologist and a politic annalist. He is relatively famous, but even that is enough to have a wikipedia article and a fan between my classmates. Every class we study a philosopher who invalidates the arguments of the philosopher of the last time, so i don´t know what to think, because everything that i learn last class seems to have nonsense. Another subject if Latinoamerican History. In that one is important to be one of the first persons to reach the classroom, because the teacher is kinda deaf (what makes him speak quietly), and if you don´t get the first seats then then you don't learn anything. It is a Darwinian race for academic survival. At Anthrophology we have a teacher who likes to speak loudly at any time and with no warning. So it is a little bit stressing. In that class we study the difference of the points of view about anthropology. At Archaeology we have another Darwinian race, but this time is for to take notes of what is in the power point, because the teacher doesn´t upload any ppt, arguing that if he does so, nobody would assist to classes. I learnt that the archaeology is one of the few sciences which destroys what it studies.

Antother subject is English. In that class the teacher makes us to speaks to each other in English and after a break, he makes us to write this blog. I am surprised by the fact that my blog has been seen by someone in Germany and for another person in Unites States.

Also there is a subject called Biology. We are studying some aspect of the cells and the virus. That is one of the subject that i understand more. It will be sad the next term, because Statistics will replace that subject, and i hate maths, but really!

The last subject is Methodology, a class where i learnt that the deathly potential of a non pasteurised cheese is determined by what every person thinks... What kind of things have i been learning?

Well, all that subjects take me too time to be able to take and extra class. And, by the lack of time, i am not able to take part of an extra activity of the university.

Well, i expect to approve this year, and the next one i will be more participative.

My autobiography

Hi, my name is Gabriel Alberto Montenegro Castillo. I was born on July 1, 1995 in San Fernando, a city in the south of Chile. I am an only child, and for some time, I really wanted to have one little brother. However, this wish disappeared over the years. I realised how much I like my privacy, and having a younger brother could have felt like having an intruder. Please, do not thing that I do not like people, but when I close the door of my room I like to be sure than nobody is going to open it suddenly, breaking my privacy. When I was four, I travelled to Spain with my parents. In that country I learnt to speak the language of Valency (although I have already forgotten it). Here I started the kinder garden (I went to one called “Los Ángeles”) and when I was six I came back to Chile. When I was seven I started primary school at  Florence Nightingale. I kept going to this school until 2008, when I went to Colegio el Encuentro. That was a very disgusting experience, because there was no control over the students. My classmates used to break the walls using the tables and then take the pieces of the wall to throw them to the other students. All this in the middle of the class! The teachers simply did not care. When I left that school I started secondary school at Saint Mary Joseph School. There, I had the better years of my educational life. My classmates were empathic and friendly. And in 2014, I started university at Universidad de Chile, after all the work for the damn and classist PSU. That is all about my education.

With regard to my family, I have my two parents and two grandmothers alive and just one of my grandfathers is in this world now. I have four uncles, an aunt and like five cousins (my parents and I have don’t see some members of the family very often because of the distance).

As to my hobbies, I like to play video games, like Starcraft and Skyrim. I also like to go for a ride on my bicycle and to go to the cinema from time to time.