Post 4: Time travel to the past or future (25-09)

 Blog post 4

Topic: Time travel to the past or future

Instructions:

• Where would you like to go? Why?

• What time in the future/past?

• Would you like to stay there? Why/Why not?

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Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on your teacher's post

Word Count: 220 words

Chile in the 2057!

I’m someone who suffers from a big deal of anxiety, so I’ve never had a particular obsession for the future in particular, and even though I like day dreaming, I tend to think over past times... but since I need to take the challenge I’d say I would like to explore Latinamerica, particularly Chile in some 36 years from now.

This year I turned 37 and for that I would like to see the country by the time I double my age. 

Last year, I learnt through social media that the first President of the Constitutional Convention was a woman and also Mapuche, and guess what! She’s also a Language Teacher colleague.

And now, having witnessed that historic moment - I need to recognize, I never, either as a teen, a college student or even in recent years foresaw a Mapuche woman becoming a leader worldwide! so to me this is just marvellous! - I believe the future will be SO different!

I think things will definitely be different. I don't think there’ll be women or men, I think there’ll be just people, different shapes, different colours but nothing that may be strictly associated with either masculinity or femininity.

 I think there won’t be much pollution nor consumerism, I wish there are no more wars within this territory, in particular, the wars fought against vernacular cultures.

I do hope there won’t be more silly discrimination nor abuse against women or the queer community and I certainly believe there will be only green landscapes because people, will hopefully have understood that the Ñuke Mapu (mapuche concept to talk about “Mother-Nature" in its deepest sense) is the temple where we live.

I will be 74 by then so I guess I will definitely like to stay in this utopian world I like to think about. If the country changes towards that direction I will certainly like to spend my last years in an environment thatrespects everybody and above all, mother nature.