I don´t know if I admire this psychologist, but he is a guide for many others works and studies in psychology area. I´m talking about Lev Vygotski, a Russian psychologist. Vygotski was born in 1896 and started his studies and works around 1915; he formulated his bibliography between 1920 and 1933, year where he wrote his last book “Thought and language”, the same year of his passing by tuberculosis. It was a difficult date for be a writer of psychologist theories, the world wars had influence in his publications, and very often his books had cuttings and vetoes by the hand of the URSS.  It explains why his works was discovery for the occidental world almost four decades after his death. The fundamental idea of his work is include social interactions for explain human development. According to his vision, human development is a process where we internalize cultural resources since we were babies, such as language. But we don´t assimilate this resources, we create a new own cultural image from own cultural context. I like his work because he took a big step including cultural influence for explain human development. 

A free topic... always when someone brings us the possibility to choose with freedom, anything, can be a way, an opinion, clothes, etc.  How much freedom we have to choose? I think, there always are a hidden slant in all these requests. When, for example, one person of a couple (loving couple), has to choose whether to go out at night with his/her friends or go out with the other person to a problematic situation, like a date with the partner and his/her parents or something like that (use your imagination), and before going out, the partner says: “no, it does not matter, you are free to choose”, and if you want you can insert a sarcastic tone. How much of freedom is there? Ok, yes, it is an extreme situation, but it serves to illustrate my point. In all of the things we say or we express there is a part of us (feelings, expectation, ideas, etc.). What we say never is neutral.

And yes, I have little imagination and before coming to class I was reading a psychology text.

Well, I like this photo too much, it was taken last year in the filming of a documentary, it´s the face of the last residents of Surire salar, a very little place in the north of Chile, only 11km of the Bolivian border. In this place only twenty persons live around, all of them are the last survivors of the Aymara culture. The zone has a lot of houses despite of the low population and each of these houses are around 3km of the others. In this photo we can see one of this persons looking, with binoculars, at her herd of llamas. I like this photo because, in my view, it describes how hard and lonely the life of this people is, mostly old people marked by the sun, loneliness and years. We could think “in this place nothing happens” but there are a kind of relations between persons and between people and nature very complex. I think the history behind this photo is better than the photo jeje.

I don’t know if this object is the most I used but the mp3 was a very important for me around the year 2006 because it was a change in the form to listen music. Yes, at that year existed personal stereos and Discmans but these devices still needed a physical format, and the memory capacity was minor. Actually I don’t use mp3 very often, the smart phones kill it, but I got an mp3 anyway and I generally use it in the travel university-house. I remember the first thing I bought with my money (not for my parents) was an mp3 I was very happy and I used headphones all day. I like the mp3 because it was breaking, as well as is a confortable form to transport and listen music, especially when I do some sport.

This semester is special in the career because we have to choose the optative subjects, and we have a great opportunity to follow our academical interests. I chose six subjects included English, and I´m very satisfied with almost all these subjects, as well as my schedule gives me a good quantity of free time. I´m free of Friday and I have time to play in the batucada group. I hope to progress in this and have a good time. I guess this is a great semester, until now it has been. I have time to go out and ride my bike, on Fridays I can take all day long to go out to some places out of the traffic.

Regards. 

Biography

I was born in La Ligua, in the V region, in May 1994. I lived in Catapilco, a little town near La Ligua, in my early life. When I was five I moved to Santiago and I started to study at the Liceo Metropolitano, then at the Instituto Nacional and actually I´m studying psychology in the third year. I´m a very quiet man, but I like go out to party, I like go to friends houses. Also I´m a fanatic of bicycle, I really love ride my bike, especially long distances, with not much speed but sure to reach the finish line. Slow but safe.