Laurita

Today I am going to talk about my Pet. I've had just three pets in my life: a little turtle named "Florencia", a boxer dog named "Brownie" that my best friend gave me when I turned 17 years old and my cocker-poodle dog Laura.

Those three animals were and are very important to me. But I have an special relationship with Laura because she is the only one who lives with me now (and we have lived for 7 years together), so I think that I could say more about it. That doesn't means that I don't love my other pets or that I don't spend time with them.

Laura is the only dog that lives with me because she is like a little old dog so quiet that sleep so much and is the all time asking for petting. Brownie is huge and need to run the hole day so that is why he lives in my father's house (out from Santiago)that is bigger.

Laura came to my house 7 years ago, on my sister's birthday, when she had 4 years old. Before that, she was my aunt's dog, but my aunt gave us Laura because she was moving to other city and we were so near to Laura (we used to go to visit her home to play with her and to care her when she was alone).

Laura was a "easy" dog that always was loving with everyone, so the change of home wasn't so difficult to her (or that is what we always thought). She used to wait us (my sister and my) every day to play with a teddy picker and bite it. At this time she does just the same thing and the rest of the day she is sleeping on our beds.

I love to came home and see her waiting me with a teddy picker on her snout and running by the house. I use to put water on her container and to clean the courtyard.

Regards :)

Here is Laura with Bownie (when he was a baby) on me.

A friend of mine :)

I think that a friends is someone who you can trust and who yo can be yourself always. I have few close friends, but today I am going to talk about one who is really close to me and who is with me since a lot of years. 

Here we are at the school, we had 14 years old!

The name of my friend is Constanza, but everyone calls her Coni. I met her in 2005 at the school, but we make good friends later, like in 2006 (7th or 8th grade). I remember that we were part of the same group of friends but with the time we get closer. Then we were always together at the school and after it, we met our families and shared vacations, secrets, problems and our entires life. 

I feel really happy to have Coni, she is a huge part of my life that I wouldn't like to change. We have been to each other all these years despite of the last time when we separated a little because of the University and the new obligations.

I think that we are really different. And I try so hard to respect hers different points of view. She really like science and video games (things that I don't like), and she hates to read or to talk about conflictive things (things that I do). But we share some simple things like our love for the animals, some kinds of music, the love for the food, swimming, trips and laugh. 

Despite of our difference I think we share a story of a lot of things that we live together and that is something really hard that keeps us together. At this time we get together every week, because we study on the same campus. That is something that we are trying to do since a few weeks ago, because when you study is difficult to meet with your friends. 

The language and Mr. Pagel

Hello classmates and everybody there! 

Today I am going to talk about a topic that I do not like so much. Language.

I think that is really difficult to explain what language is. I mean that we can make a lot of biology hypothesis or social hypothesis but it is a fact too remote and too rooted on our human essence that makes it (almost) unachievable.

In my personal opinion, obviously conditioned for my "social" training, I think that the fact (I mean the appearance) of the language is a social thing, and it did not happens one day, it was a social process, related with the evolution too.

Now, relating this topic with the video of Mr. Pagel's speech, that outline the process of the "beginning" of language and understand language as a communication system that solves the problem of the social learning (visual theft), inaugurating the cooperative societies where the language is a piece of social technology. Mr. Pagel says on his video: "once we have language we can put our ideas together and cooperate to have a prosperity". Also, Mr. Pagel can predict what language should be on the future: just one language for the entire world.

As I said before, I think is difficult to go as far as to say what will happen with language. I feel about language as a huge thing that we really can not figure out. But it doesn't make it something useless to social studies. Language is so rewarding studying our reality, the change in our cities and country, migration events,on psychology studies about learning on the kids mental process.