Natalia Zipper

 It's hard to imagine my future job. You all know that i'm still a college student, but i've already had many working experiences. Some of them were just because I needed the money even if I wasn't really interested in the job, like when I worked at Falabella. Nevertheless, I had two experiences that i really enjoyed and changed my perception of what I want in life. The first one wasn't paid, it was a volunteering in a church where we were helping Haitians to learn spanish. Then, I started teaching french to a 6 years old child, three times a week. Now, I make 5 classes in a week, and I also help him with scholar homeworks. He is 8 years old now and it's so beautiful to see how I can be participant in his education, not only to teach french, but also to teach values, respect, and to try to make the learning experience interesting for him. This is why I wanna inclinate my anthropology career to the educational area. It's heartbreaking for me that children doe...

It wasn’t easy to choose just one favorite movie, since I love so many. Some of them are funny, like Clueless; other ones are romantic, like Your Name; while many of them are very intense and reflexive. But there is one particular movie that makes me feel and think things that I’ve never felt before, the experience at the cinema theater was unique and that’s why I choose to talk about it. It’s called “El Abrazo de la Serpiente”, by the Colombian Ciro Guerra, and it was nominated to the Oscars in the international movie section in 2016. The movie is about an amazonian indigenous called Karamakate that helps two anthropologists during two periods of his life. Meanwhile, the colonists are exterminating the Amazon to exploit the gaucho, and are slaughtering the population, killing them and imposing them to learn the occidental culture, and to abandon their own culture and language. I went to watch this movie to the cinema with my ex-girlfriend and both of us were crying during the whole mo...

It’s hard to choose, but I think that the best holiday I remember is when I went to Chiloé in 2015. In the beginning I went with two friends, and we were a little bit scared at first because we were three young girls backpacking, depending on the help of people who gave us a lift on the highway, or their gardens to set up the tent. We went to small towns and other rural places, and at the end of the trip we were no longer scared and we were sleeping in the beach or abandoned lands. The most beautiful thing I always remember are the beautiful landscapes, but mostly the people I met there. I remember that we were in Cucao and we didn’t know where to sleep, and in the street we heard about a camping. We went there, it was a 2h walk, up on a mountain carrying our bigs backpacks, and once we were there we realized that it was very dangerous and we were terribly afraid. It was getting dark and we didn’t have any other place to go, so we stayed there. Some guys we met when we were setting up ...