Jajaja, pues si, dentro de las curiosidades que he descubierto en Ecuador desde que vivo aqui, encontré que hay una provincia llamada Manabí donde la gente tiene nombres que ni a raros llegan; y ya que en la carta de derechos humanos se contempla el derecho a tener un nombre, estas personas podrían facilmente demandar a sus padres por crimenes de lesa humanidad. La investigación la hizo un periodista de Guayaquil, Marcelo Marchán, que por medio de un concurso e investigaciones en directorios telefónicos ha encontrado estas curiosidades.

 

... Definitivamente llamarse Osa Mayor Medranda, Land Rover García, Obras Portuarias Sanchez, Chispa de la Vida Alava o tal vez, Estatua de la Libertad Murrieta, no debe ser facil, y hasta pone en aprietos a las oficinas de Registro Civil.

 

Y si creían que eso era ya mucho, cómo les queda con estos:

Bueeeno Bueeenoo... este es mi primer post sobre las cosas informales que se aprenden!

 

Aqui vamos con la primera parte del diccionario Ecuatoriano-Colombiano para dummies!

 

- chumado: del verbo, chumarse...yo me chumo, tu te chumas.. etc etc.. quiere decir tener un alto nivel de alcohol en la sangra, y por consiguiente estar borracho!

 

- muchar: conjugado, yo chumo, tu chumas, el chuma, ella chuma... etc etc.. conocido en las altitudes colombianas como entrompar!

 

- fundita: chuspa, BOLSA, ojo, si se dice bolsa se puede entender otra cosa.

 

- "me cojió el alimento...": la popular modorra después de almuerzo....

 

- chucha: vendría a reemplazar la muletilla nojoda o eché en el argot de la costa.

 

- la utilización del sufijo "azo"; ejemplo, "tragadazo", es muy popular entre la población joven, reemplazaría nuestro full y tronco....

 

ahhh claro.. y no puede faltar.. mi favorita, CHUCHAKI: el estado resultante de una noche de farra totalmente chumado, es decir, GUAYABO! Vale añadir que se puede utilizar con el verbo de posesión tener (ej. TIENE CHUCHAKI) o con el verbo de condición (ESTÁ CHUCHAKY).

 

Y así finaliza el primer post sobre las cosas informales que se aprenden en el cotidiano vivir, en Ecuador!

 

Besos,

Andre!

 

 

Hello Hello Greetings from LA NUEVA PATRIA!!!! ECUADOR!!

 

So, i wanted to tell you about one of the most exciting days of my life... where i finally see people concern about their country.... working hard and activating political participation..... or democracia del tumulto? Well.... that i can't really tell you for sure! Let's just say that changes are happening..... Ecuador is joining the lefted Latin America.. and we talk here about progressism, which means positive changes... Weather is positive or not... well that no one can tell!!!!

 

So what happend today that im writting so excitly about?? With the APDH and other organizations of Ecuador gather to express their consent to LACONSTITUYENTE... this means a new constitution for Ecuador!... Some people say its actually not that good, because it will give more faculties to the president and its a fast way to populism and dictatorishop, OR that "hey, we had like 19 constitution befores, and nothing ever changed!!!" The rest of the people says that it is waht Ecuador needs to actually give birth to a new Ecuador, an Ecuador for the people, with natural resources that belong to the population.... with more equality.....with peace that comes only from the wellness of the people!

 

AnywayS, the thing is very hectic this days, and even if i haven't made up my mind about my politicual location, i know for sure that manifestation, such as the one i experieced today, are necessary in any country that wants positive changes! There for,  will call myself from now on.. Progressist!

 

(Pictures later...... )

Hello!!!!!

 

After an amazing very jocoso zonalito, I packed my bags, and im heading for my second internship with AIESEC...... the best studentes organization of the world!!!.... This LTM, was a little bit crazy, and thanks to all newbies, that really make us fosils feel, that everything that we have done to preserve the spirit of AIESEC, will be in good hands!!!

 

Thanks to all who have been with me during this excinting four years in AIESEC Uninorte, i love you all, and anything you want you guy know you count with someone that will never let you down! Keep that amazing mystic flowing... and work always with great joy and commitment!... To my dear friends, days without are hard, but it would be harder if i actually never met you... im really going to miss you!!!

 

See you all back in October with at least 15 k less ......

 

Love you all with madness!!!

 

Andrea!

 

 

Hola a todos!

 

Escribo para recomendarles a todos el último libro que leí, El olvido que seremos de Hector Abad Faciolince. Hace mucho tiempo no sentía que no podía dejar de leer hasta terminar el libro, es un mezcla muy especial de la triste historia de la violencia en nuestro país, de una familia muy especial y diversa, las relaciones y las diferencias entre los miembros de la familia, y la vida de una persona vista de los ojos de su hijo, como sencillamente extraodinaria, que vivió por causas que por desgracia hoy en día seguimos padeciendo.

 

Les deseo una felíz lectura...

 

Andre!

 

 

During the semester we studied Martin a linguist to understand how to analyse discourse and see how this was affected by judgement , feelings or concepts. Here is a piece of anlysis he did on Tutus texts.

 

 

Here are the quotes for section 2 of the activity. On this there are some question and analysis work that is very interesting to do.

 

On Sanctions

A call for sanctions after restrictions were placed on organisations in the Apartheid era.

"Today’s effective banning of those of our political organisations still allowed to operate is an unmitigated disaster for South Africa. Many of our people will see it as a declaration of war by the government… I still desperately want a negotiated solution to our crisis, and the only peaceful way of forcing this government to the negotiating table is through properly-enforced and comprehensive diplomatic and economic sanctions. I reiterate my call for such sanctions."

(Statement made on 24 February, 1988).

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On the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)

"I hope that the work of the Commission, by opening wounds to cleanse them, will thereby stop them from festering. We cannot be facile and say bygones will be bygones, because they will not be bygones and will return to haunt us. True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgement of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know….

I hope very much that people, especially those who have not previously had the opportunity of doing so, will will come to the Commission to tell their stories. I would appeal to churches and NGOs to make available their resources to provide counselling to such people before, during and after they appear before the Commission."

(Response by Archbishop Tutu on his appointment as Chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, November 30 1995).

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On the 1994 Election

"Hey! It has happened at last! Apartheid has bitten the dust as comprehensively and as ignominiously as we had been always telling our people it would. How do you describe the almost ineffable, how can you put into words this wonderful feeling of exhilaration, of joy and of deep gratitude?…

I have waited all of my 62 years to take part in my first election. Others too have waited a lifetime for this intoxicating occasion – Nelson Mandela, Mangosothu Buthelezi et.al. have never voted in an election in their lives in the land of our birth. Incredible! We are all on cloud nine. We thank God that this has come to pass and we thank you our friends in the international community for helping it to come to pass with your support of sanctions and in other ways. You have helped to bring to birth this new South Africa, non racial, non sexist and democratic. Our victory over injustice and oppression is your victory too."

(From an article on the election, 1994).

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On nation-building

"So to build a nation we must do more than slip a ballot paper into a box. Black consciousness has not yet completed its work. We need to draw on its strengths and assert our self-worth behaving as people who are confident in ourselves and in our nation. We need to recapture ubuntu, that gift Africans have for the world which says that a person can be a person only through other persons. If we recognise our own self-worth, we will respect the worth of others and have reverence for life."

(Contribution for the Sowetan newspaper, February 1994).

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On the armaments industry

"Armies..have far too frequently been used not to protect the people but to repress them as they defended totalitarian and unrepresentative regimes… South Africa should dismantle its armaments industry. The arms race is particularly obscene amongst struggling poverty-stricken people."

(Address by Archbishop Tutu on May 19, 1993).

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On the right to carry guns

On a call by the Anglican Church to deny private citizens the right to carry guns:

"I am near tears… if the only thing that we ever did was to say strongly to people, please stop the violence, we will have advanced the kingdom of God in an incredible way."

(Archbishop Tutu, speaking at Provincial Synod, 1992).

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On women's ordination

"We are grossly impoverished and we undermine the effectiveness of our mission and witness when we deny women access to the ordained ministry…I believe quite firmly that [ordination of women] is God’s will for our Church at this time. We will be a more gentle, a more caring Church with women priests, for ordination is not to power or into an elite caste, but it is for service and sacrifice."

(Archbishop Tutu, speaking at Provincial Synod 1992. The synod passed a resolution in favour of women priests at this meeting).

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On homosexuality

"It is sad indeed that we as a church have more often than not turned our back on a significant portion of God’s people on the basis of their sexual orientation. We have inflicted on gay and lesbian people the tremendous pain of having to live a lie or to face brutal rejection if they dared to reveal their true selves. But oppression cuts both ways. Behind our ‘safe’ barriers of self-righteousness, we deprive ourselves of the rich giftedness that lesbian and gay people have to contribute to the whole body of Christ."

(Archbishop Tutu, in a letter sent to a gay and lesbian Episcopal ministry in California, 20 December 1995).

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On the church

"We are a church on the move, an instrument in the hand of God, proclaiming the Good News, nurturing new converts, we are instruments of peace and reconciliation and justice in the hands of God. We are the means of healing hurts, of building community, of feeding the hungry. We are a worshipping Spirit-filled community, who know that we can do God’s work only in God’s way with God’s means, and so we have an engaged spirituality that places first things first.

We are God’s partners, God’s agents of transfiguration, to change the ugliness of the world, its hatred, its hostilities, its jealousies, its hunger, its poverty, its injustice, its oppression, its alienation, its loneliness, its rivalry, its competitiveness, its grasping, its sickness, into their glorious counterparts; so that there will be laughter and joy, sharing and caring, justice, reconciliation and peace, and compassion.

For we have seen the Lord high and lifted up and we have heard him say ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ and we are saying ‘Here we are Lord, send us’."

(Archbishop Tutu’s Charge to Synod, 1992).