The roles in my family

The roles in any country are always influenced by the culture. When we talk about the roles of men and women, we thought that it refers to what is socially expected a woman or a man have to do.
Anyway our culture has changed and female and male roles have changed to.
For example, when my grandmother was young, she went to the school, but she didn’t study at university, instead of that, she learnt how to be a good seamstress. After that, she got married with my grandfather and she had to take care of the children while my grandfather took care of the work.
However, my grandmother bought her children (my mother, my aunt and my uncle) up in a different way in order to avoid the differences between men and women around the housework.
In my family the roles of the woman and man are of course different but if we refer to the work at home, all of us use to do the housework.
My parents and also my grandparents have always shared the housework and me and my brother have been raised in the same way.
I remember when I was a child, my father and my mother worked, so they do the housework just on the weekends. Both of my parents used to prepare the food or clean the house and when we were older, we used to share with them the housework, we had to help doing the hoovering or tidying the rooms, we also used to clean the dishes when we went to the house of our grandparents.
Nowadays, I live with my mom and me brother (who is 24) and the roles at home are always the same way. My mother works all the week so she pays someone to do the housework in that days, but in the weekends we have to take care of the house, the only different thing is that now we are at the university so sometimes we have less time to help in things like do the shopping, do the cleaning and so on. So, if some of us is busy studying or is doing a work, the other one prepares the food and do the cleaning. Sometimes, if both of us are busy and my mother is not at home, we stop studying and we do the cooking very fast in order not to waste many time. My brother loves cooking so he uses to do that part of the housework, I prefer lay the table or wash the dishes after the lunch, so we divide the work and this familiar system works very well.

Writing a summary

Art Therapy and Neuroscience
This text shows us new discoveries of the neuroscience world related with the effects that our actions could generate in our brain activity.
Some studies show that many actions that we always do can affect in a positive or negative way the functions and activity of our brain. These results were analyzed throw a technical call electroencephalographs (EEG) which shows how the activity of a brain changed when a human is doing an activity, for example: painting.
Some Art Therapists are so glad with these researches, because they think that EEG is a very good tool to prove their theories about the good effects of art as a therapy and how positive could be the effects of use art therapy with all kind of people and not only people with some specific problem.
They also suggest this kind of therapy could be used in other medical areas in relation with mental disease.

If you want to read the original text, please click the link.
http://www.arttherapy.org/pdf/PRelease_ATNeuroscience.pdf


Bye!

My favorite topic =)

Hello!

I have to say that I thought all the afternoon of what was an interesting topic and how to talk about it, finally I decided for one and this is the result.

The subject I’ve chosen is “Ecologia”, the title of the subject doesn’t have a real relation with all that we have learned in this term, because we didn’t learn ecology at all. In this term we have learned about the human being and the relation between he and all the things that are around him. We saw many topics related with energy and the human being, but the most interesting topic for me was one related with the water.

There is a scientific man called Masaru Emoto, who

demonstrated how a molecule of water could be affected when it is exposed to some sound, words, feelings and thoughts.
He exposed the same water to rock music and to classical music and then, he froze these samples. The result was crystallization very different between the two samples.
When this man exposed the water to a nice word, sound or feeling, the water had a molecular structure so harmonic and beautiful. But when he exposed the water to an aggressive word, sound or feeling, the water crystallized without a defined structure.
It is very impressive.
The fist picture shows what happen with the water when you say "thank you" and the second one shows what happen with the water with words of gratitude and love.

So, if we can see the effects of these things on the water, we can ask: what happen with us?
A baby is composed by a 90% of water and an adult is composed by a 75% of water, so we can thought that probably all that we think, we thought, we feel and we listened would be affecting ourselves in a different way.
What do you think about it?

I liked very much this topic because it shows a different way of living. And as a student of occupational therapy I think that this information is a very good tool when you are working with people who are always thinking negative things. Maybe we can change this states just with a thought, with a song or with a hug…
So I invited you to see some videos about this experiment, and I will be waiting you opinion!

Good luck!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-BPzE3oVTk&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvzTNhVb9Y4

http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/aug1/consciouswater.html

Some Websites...

Hello again!
Today I want to share with you two websites that are interesting for me as student of Occupational Therapy.
The fir is related with the Alzheimer disease and the second one is related with therapy with dolphins.
So here there are

Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation: In this page you can find very good information about the Alzheimer disease. I like this page because it gives information about the disease but it also it gives information about the treatments and research that are until the moment. You can find also a link to ask your questions to an expert.
http://www.alzinfo.org/


Island Dolphin Care: This page is about an organization that works with dolphin therapy in order to helps children with disabilities, special needs and critical illnesses.
This page shows us a different way of treatments with very good results. There are different therapy programs that include all the family and also there are internships programs for students who are interested to learn more about this kind of therapy.
http://www.islanddolphincare.org/

I invite you to see these sites and I hope you enjoy it!
Bye!

Dianis!

Correction of a blog!

The sites I have selected are:
1. The International Classification of Functions by the WHO (World Health Organization): this page is really good because it gives a theoretical background and also clear definitions. Check it in http://www.who.int/classifications/icf/site/onlinebrowser/icf.cfm

2. Disability World: this website has news about disability problems around the world. It is a good site because it can inspire some ideas or just keep someone up to the latest trends in this area. You can see it visiting http://www.disabilityworld.org/ .

Check them out and let me know what you think about them!
I din´t find any other mistake !
Bye!
Taken from Charly's blog.

My Weekend!

My WeEkenD:
My last weekend began on Friday’s afternoon, when I met with a friend (Xime) and her boyfriend in the main Square of El Monte, because we wanted to listen to “Los Perdentos”, so we went to the theater and we spend a very good time listening them.

In the picture appears Los Perdentos and there is also my friend Xime and her boyfriend Lalo.

On Saturday me and Xime woke up very early (6:00 am) because we had some classes about Anthroposophical medicine, after that classes I met with my family and we went to have lunch to El Cajón del Maipo, we spend a nice time there, the day was very nice and the mountain was beautiful( I recommend you!).
At night, I went to a concert with my mom and my cousin in Teatro Baquedano.

On Sunday I woke later than Saturday and my mom, my brother and me, went to have lunch with my dad. Then I met with my cousin and we went to see Lo Bueno de Llorar (I didn’t like the film at all), after that, I returned to my home to have dinner with my family, and that was my weekend!

The second Mission!!

Hello again! Today I want to tell you about my second mission in this blog (the first one was the introduction). This mission is: to post the lyrics of a song I like (in english). I have to tell you why I have chosen this song, and then I will tell you a little bit about the band/singer. Here we go!

The song that I have chosen is.....

Colours of the Wind – Vanessa Willliams

You think I'm an ignorant savage

and you've been so many places

I guess it must be so, but still I can not see

If the savage one is me

How can there be so much that you don't know

You think you own whatever land you land on

the earth is just a dead thing you can claim

But I know every rock and tree and creature

Has a life, has a spirit, has a name

You think the only people who are people

Are the people who look and think like you

But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger

You learn things you never knew

You never knew

Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon?

or ask the grinning bobcat why he grinned

Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains?

Can you paint with all the colours of the wind?

Can you paint with all the colours of the wind?

Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest

Come taste the sun-sweet berries of the earth

Come roll in all the riches all around you

And for once never wonder what they're worth

The rainstorm and the rivers are my brothers

And the heron and the otter are my friends

And we are all connected to each other

In a circle in a hoop that never ends

How high does the sycamore grow

If you cut it down, then you'll never know

And you'll never hear the wolf cry

To the blue corn moon

For whether we are white or copper-skinned

We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains

Need to paint with all the colours of the wind

You can own the Earth and still all you'll own is earth

Until you can paint with all the colours of the wind

This lyrics belongs to the movie “Pocahontas”.
I have chosen this song because it remembers me when I was a little girl, I used to watch this movie, I love Pocahontas and all the songs that appear in the movie, specially this song.
My favorite part was when Pocahontas went to see the old tree to talk with it. I have always dreamt of having a conversation with the trees like Pocahontas, maybe you will think I get crazy, but I just want to know what the opinion of the trees about us is….
Well I also like this song because it talks about the nature, the environment and the respect that we have to have with it. I think we have forgotten our relation with all the things that are around us and I like this song because it shows the different views about our lives.
As you can see, the song is a soundtrack, so I will tell you something about the girl who sang this song. She is


Vanessa Williams, she is an African-American singer and she is also an actress.
She became famous in 1983 when she was crowned Miss America. But she decided to be a singer, her first album was “The Right Stuff”(1988) which was a success.
After that welcome, her albums had earned many Grammy Award nominations (around fifteen) and her singles have been accepted by the critics.
She also has appeared in many movies, television programs and in advertisement.
As you can see Vanessa is a many sided woman, but she also have another important role which is to be a mother. She has 4 children!
If you want to know more about her, you are invited to visit her website: http://www.vanessawilliamsmusic.com/

Here is the link where you can see the videoclip. ( I have tried to put the video, but I had technological problems)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkV-of_eN2w

I hope you can enjoy it! =)

Bye!

Dianis!