Africa

My dad’s work has made me travel a lot. I was born in Concepción, and I lived there 8 years. Then, we moved to Santiago, but only for a year, because a new job offer made us move to Tocopilla, a small city in the north of Chile. After a year, we returned to the capital. All this city changes came with house changes. I think I have lived in 11 different houses, actually, my actual home is the first house we own as a family, because we always rented them. I believe that this aspect of my childhood has really influenced me. I’m really used to pack my things and go, the first couple of years in Santiago were weird because I was always expecting to move again. My father loves to travel, in fact, everytime we moved, he took us to all the cities near the one we were living at, and I really liked that, because now I can say that I have been in almost every region of my country, which is great. I still have to visit the Patagonia (arenita ;D), and I really want to go, I think is important to know your country, before the rest.

One of the reasons I chose Medicine was because it give me the opportunity to work wherever I wanted, and now in Anthropology, I think I can do the same. My dream is to visit all the continents, so it`s very difficult for me to choose one, but if I’ve had to, I would say Africa, and there, South Africa. Africa is the beginning of men, and I would love to visit that ancient culture. I have a friend that went there and talked to a woman of a tribe, and told me that her language was really unique, she made sounds with her tongue, and that sound was a word. If she made a slightly different move with her tongue, it meant a completely different word. If you didn`t do it right, you could say “I want to kill you”, instead of “I love you”.

I also love animals, and one of my favorite is the elephant. I think there are gorgeous, their skin, their size, everything. One of my dreams is to watch them in their habitats with the rest of the salvage animals.

I don`t want to live in Africa forever, but I`d love to stay there for a while and help people, especially the kids with nutritional problems and deceases. I would also like to visit Darfur, a region of Sudan which has a lot of political and ecological problems.