Post 9: Good and bad things about this (academic) year

It’s hard to say if it was a good year or a bad year, not because it’s not finished, but because every year has its own good and bad things. In fact, many important things don’t happen in the course of a single year, but through many years of the life.

My life is almost exclusively about university and the academic life. It’s sad, but true. So, if I have to say something good about it, it’s that my grades are very good this year (finally!) and I’m learning a lot. On the other hand, I became the teacher assistant of ‘quantitative methodology’ and it has been a good experience for speaking in public without getting nervous. Also, I became an active member of a gender group. It’s a group of anthropology students and we did an introductory presentation about gender and machismo in everyday life. I gave that presentation and I was terrified in the beggining but it went so good that people congratulated me at the end.

(This is me in the presentation)

A bad thing is that I lost my job. It was a research about sexual behavior on prostitutes, but the research needed to take blood samples and the ethic committee decided only nurses could be involved. I’m sad about it, because it was a very good fieldwork as anthropologist: I met many sexual workers and they told me about their lives. Also it was a well-paid job.

Besides that, I haven’t been sick or something and I’m hoping to end this year with amazing fireworks and a good New Year celebration.