When I was in school many years ago, the school maintained a support initiative with a home for girls under the "national service for minors" SENAME. I remember that this home was in "metro San Joaquin", very close to the jail located there, it was called "Hogar los Girasoles", and there were more than 45 girls in a situation of abandonment and mental disability.

I visited this children's home with my teachers from first grade to third grade approximately, they were very intense years in which every two weekends I visited the girls, played with them and did manual workshops.

It was a very meaningful experience for me, because I was also a child and seeing the children of the home locked up in conditions of abandonment was very shocking.  At first it was difficult to enter because the girls were very close to us school students, now I understand that it was because they were in great need of affection.

With time we learned to know them and to listen to them, they had a lot to tell us... it was not easy to be part of that space but over the years we realized that we could contribute a grain of sand in such a difficult situation for them.

 

When I left school, I think that experience left a deep impression on me and made me reflect on the serious problems that exist in our society. Therefore, I decided to get involved in some way and start a search to understand these social problems.

It is for this and other reasons that I came to sociology and I am very interested at some point in the future to meet again with the issues of childhood. SENAME is an organization that showed me the state violence experienced by thousands of children in Chile and therefore I think it is an experience worth telling about with respect to my professional motivations.

 Hello class, I hope you are well at home.

Today I come to tell you some ideas about my professional and academic future, to begin with I would like to say that I am not very clear, but I think that some of these ideas are close to what I would like to do after my degree.

First of all, I think my areas of interest within sociology correspond to two main topics, the first is the study of racism and migration, and the second area of interest for me is the study of public policy.

 I think in relation to this I would like to do a master's or postgraduate degree in a Latin American university, my preferences are in Argentina, Mexico and Costa Rica because I think they have a great field of study in the social sciences.

One of the reasons for studying in Latin America is that I believe that from the region it is more coherent to study the phenomena that interest me, since the social problems that occur in the Latin American region are not very distant from what happens in Chile.

 Anyway, I still have time left and I would also like to be able to do it in person, since I want to live the experience of living in another country.

In relation to this is that I would like to explore possible avenues of study on these issues. However, I think I should continue to investigate more about which are the best universities and the programs they offer, greetings to all and thanks for paying attention!

Carmen Molina Dintrans

                                                                     Violeta Parra 

Violeta Parra (1917, 1967) is a national artist who ventured into different types of art paths, some of these were music, textile works, and handicrafts.  

I knew this artist when I was little because at home my parents listened to her a lot, and since then I like her a lot. I think she was a very brave woman who fought until the end of her life to develop cultural spaces.

The song I like the most about Violeta Parra is "Maldigo del alto cielo", because it talks about the transcendence of life with a great critical sense, at least that's what I think haha.

I decided to talk about this artist because she has been a great reference of the national culture, I hope you like her as much as I do, greetings!

This photograph was captured by me on October 25, 2019, I remember it perfectly, this moment is framed in the community organization that brought with it the October 18 for my neighborhood, where we began to gestate many collaborative activities between neighbors, cultural spaces, and days of support for the protests that were happening in the national territory. Specifically this image was taken in a day we called "defense of childhood" in which two theater companies performed puppet theater for hundreds of families.

This image is important to me because it reminds me of all the beautiful moments we created with my neighborhood to strengthen community support, solidarity that I never thought would exist as it did. 

It also makes me think if something like this can happen again in Chile, what do you think?

greetings to everyone!💖❤❤

 

 I think my favorite technological object is my computer, because I was able to get it thanks to my first salary, and for that I had to work one summer full time in a bookstore that was about two hours away from my house (it was really exhausting). In my computer I keep a lot of important things for me, like pictures of my family and friends, videos, tests and college information, but most of all a lot of music!

 I think I use it every day since the academic semester starts, sometimes I go overboard hahahaha. However I can say that it serves me a lot to face the pandemic and the online university in this health context, and I really find it hard to imagine how I could manage to organize myself without it. 

However, I like to imagine what life would be like without all the technology that exists today, and think about what would be our possibilities to work, study or simply store information.

Greetings! ❤

As I mentioned in my previous post, since I was a child I have been interested in books, particularly in learning about history and how the world and politics worked. When I was in high school I was in a social science elective course for two years and I learned a lot and got to know sociology so I decided to study it.

My experience at university has been very pleasant, but it requires a lot of effort to maintain discipline as my career requires a lot of reading and writing.

As for my professional future, I imagine myself working in research on migration and racism, a field of study in which I have deepened in the last two years of my career, in a research nucleus called sociology of the body and emotions with professor maría emilia tijoux.

greetings, thank you for reading me.

Hello everyone, my name is Carmen Molina Dintrans, I'm 22 years old and I'm studying sociology, and since I was a little girl I love reading books. I currently live with my brother and two cats, their names are poke and cotolengo and they are the center of attention <3. My favorite recreational activity is biking, I just hope they lift the quarantine to be able to go out more often, greetings to all c: