Los ribereños de Mundugumor, an interesting text

Since my mother taught me to read, I have always loved to do it.
Of course I'm fine with all the things that I have to read to university and nowadays I'm reading an interesting anthropological text to my class, anthropology II.
The name of the text is "Los ribereños de Mundugumor" and it was wrote by Margaret Mead, an american anthropologist.
The text is about the comparison between cultures, Arapesh and Mundugumor. Both are located in Papua New Guinea, but despite that they are so diferent.
Arapesh are so pacefull, cute and they love each other, specially their children. In fact, since people are babies, they learn that all people around is part of their family.
In contrast, Mundugumor are cannibals, they hate each other and children are a kind of curse, so babies past all days into a basket without adults care. Even when babies cry, people around just brush the basket to stop babies crying.
Actually, I have to recognise that sometimes this text makes me feel sad, because for me babies of Mundugumor are unhappy, but also I understand that is another culture and my understanding of the world is so diferent to the vision of another social group.
Also I would recommend you the text, because instead of the cruel story of mundugumor is entertaining how the autor describe all situations.
In addition is an invitation to rethink our society and our understanding of another societies.

A memorable celebration

A memorable celebration I can remember was a surprise made for a friend of mine. Although it was not for me, I can remember that with my friends, we did a special moment for her and was a good time of unit.

Everything started in March when Andrea, our friend, said to us that she was going to live in USA for a year since July, so we decided to prepare a surprise close party before the travel.

The party had to be close, sensitive and at the same time cheerful, so apart of the surprise party we decided to give her a present made for all together as a memory of our friendship.

We met days before the party to make letters and then we connected them, forming a big big letter.

The day of the party a friend just invited her to her house, but she never imagined that we would be all together saying “surprise!!!”, so we could see the surprised and emotional expression in the face of Andrea.

Then, we started to eat the food that we were prepared, fajitas, and dessert cakes.

After to talk a lot -because since we are at the university meeting opportunities were restricted- we decided to give Andrea the present prepared and then became emotional, finishing all of us crying.

Then everything finished in laughter when a boyfriend of one of us arrived to the house, so quickly we washed our faces and also we fixed the place.

I think that after that party we realized how much we loved each other and our confidence and friendship was strengthened.

Now Andrea is living in USA and we talk each other every day.

A good friend of mine

The best moments of my life have been spent with my family and friends. Actually, I have more than one friend, but I'm going to talk about one who is a very adventure girl.
The name of my friend is Nadine and I knew her last year at school. She is from Germany and came to Chile because of an exchange.
We could talk each other, because she knew spanish and english very well, apart that I know a little bit of german.
We were together for 3 months aproximately and since we met, we were friends and we had a lot in common, principally the interest in travels, apart politics and history of different realities, in fact I could learn of her a lot about the german culture and history.
Also I could learn about another religion, because I am catholic and she is evangelical.
I did mention that she is a very adventure girl, because since she is younger she has been around a lot of countries without her parents. Actually, even with the virus "ebola", she is in Ghana as a volunteer and I know that she is so happy and not to worried about being infected.
I don't know when I'm going to see her again, probably in more than a year, but we are sure that our friendship is going to continue, because we have been in contact via facebook and whatsapp.
Also, a few days ago she surprised me, sending me a postal, a lovely and creative way to keep in contact and treasure a memory.