English Language Challenges

Hi everyone, in this few last week today I will write you about my experience with english language at university.
Well, for be honest all the things that I know about english I learned in school. I've had english courses since I was on third of primary school, so I have learned this language practically all my life.
Here at the university I enter in english III the last semester, but when I've told that I had to take an english course, the first thing that I thought it was that this english course it will be about technical stuff of the career, like the name of compounds, the instruments of the laboratory and things like that. So when I found that this courses it will like the regular english class, I have to admit that I was a little disappointed 'cause I was really excited about learning chemical thing in english...
The first course that I take here (english III) was a good experience because I could remember a lot of the things that I have forgotten, also the professor (Victor Rubio) was a really good teacher, he made dynamic class, the ambient was very nice and in occasions he give us little pieces of chocolate.
Here in english IV, I have learned a lot of how interact with people when I travel, of course I know how to establish a regular conversation, but the things that I've learned here more like how to interact in a hotel, if a I have problems,etc that will be very helpful when I have to go out side the country.
I things I need to improved will be the vocabulary 'cause some times I don't know the meaning of the words and practice more the reading part.
                                               

Changes to my study programme

Hi everyone, in this new post the topic will be about the changes that I think my study programme needs.
Well first of all I think the faculty of chemistry and pharmaceutics science needs serious changes of infrastructure for example the library, they don't have all the books that we need or aren't enough, in tests period this is really problem 'cause all need that particular book and there only exist 5 copies for 150 studients... Other place that need to improve is the computation room because not all the computers are in good conditions or connected to the internet.
The laboratories also need to renovate their equipment, many time that I go to lab, the material is broken, not completely but still. The compounds aren't enough for each one of us so we have to borrow for another classmate, etc.
For my specific career I think the courses that we have are really good and the curriculum its very full compared with the others university, but I think we need more courses that develop the skills to interact with people, to be more aware that we are selling drugs to people 'cause nowdays the industry and the pharmacys are only interested on sell products, not so much about people health. I think the reason of this its because the universitys are mostly focus in the scientific area and completely forgotten about the humanistic side of the career. Yes, I know we are in a science career but we can't forget that we are working for people, for their health, not only sell and make money.

                              

Summer Holidays

Hi everyone, new day, new week and new topic for the blog. Today's topic I will write you about my summer holidays of this year, or at least the few weeks that I have free :(
For this year I have two plans for vacations, the first is go in a travel with my family somewhere out of Santiago, I don't know yet where we are going but a few days ago I talked to my mom to go out to "Los vilos" 'cause a friend of  my mother invited us to her house, or the other options that I have in mind is go out to some valley, anywhere, just go there 'cause the landscapes are so beautiful (and it look so fresh there)
The second plan is go in vacation with my friends, every year we escape at least a weekend to any beach that reach are budget, but I'm not sure about if this years will be possible because my semester end the 15th of january and the most of my friends are already in holidays, so maybe they can leave soon to the beach and I wont be able to go with them 'cause probably I will be on test period.
Anyway, anything could happen and maybe I ended here in Santiago going nowhere, but that's fine for me... The only thing I really wanna do for this summer is rest and sleep 12 hours a day because this semester has been hard and I felt like a long long time I don't have a moment of peace. I only want that the semester ends please :(...
   

Drugs

Hi everyone, today's blog I will write you about drugs and addction in my particular case. No, I'm not a drug addict or something, its just the topic of today.
But... but  I  have to be honest, I can't deny that I have my bad habit about it. For example I don't smoke or inhale anything, but I admit that in every party that I go or an occasionally friday at the university, I drink alcohol until to get drunk, not like stranded in the floor throwing up, but until here in Chile we know as "Quedar arriba de la pelota".
I have try other drugs like cigar and marihuana, but I don't like it and never really call my attention this type of drugs, also I have to say that I like running, so smoking it's totally out of the picture. (Yes, I know its a little cynical take care of your lung and not your liver...but it is what it is)
I don't think alcohol have any benefits, it's just for fun and having a good time... or a bad time if you abuse it.
Like any other thing, all depend of the quantity, if you have an addiction to alcohol like drink until get black out and don't remember anything, you have a problem 'cause it can bring you liver problems, cancer, neurological damage, depression and many other terrible things that you can avoid only taking control of the alcohol that you drink.

Here is a picture of the guilty from my drunkness
                                         

Post Graduate studies

Hi everyone ! today's blog will be about the post graduate studies. First of all I really don't know if I wanna do post graduate studies, of course I had thought the option, but it seem so far because I'm only in the first year of my career (pharmacy) that I never take seriously this idea, for the other part do any post graduate studies takes a lot of time, effort and money that I'm not sure if I wanna spend it, don't take it wrong I like my career and all about it but I don't wanna be studying all my life.

The times that I had think this possibility its seem like a good option do a PhD over a Master degree 'cause I would like to work in the investigation field, descovering new compounds and creating new medication for a weird disease, and you can only do this with a PhD.

The courses that I will take if I do the PhD will be pharmacological science or pharmacology, both given here at the university of Chile or maybe if the opportunity appears do the PhD out side Chile, like I say before I had never really thought about it. 

Maybe in a few years forward I don't think the same, maybe I will be eventually do a PhD or at least a Master degrees 'cause the world moves too fast and every day it's more exigent, so I really don't know.  For now I'm only focus in finish my first year of career. 

                       

My future Job

Hi everyone, today I'm going to talk you about my future job, or at least the job that I want.
Well, today's I'm only in the first year of university, studying Chesmistry and Pharmacy, so you understand that the job that I expect have to be related with the career that I'm studying. Thanks to the career has many areas of study, I have the possibility of work in many differents fields, for example I can simply work in a drugstore (the most comun thing), passing to a laboratory in the all indrustial thing about drugs or even work in PDI ( the chilean version of FBI), there is so many options to chose and I'm not sure yet about the area that I wanna work, but I have some ideas.
The first thing that it come to mind when I think in my laboral future is me working in a laboratory creating new compounds for a very terrible disease, I will love that ! but it is a little difficult because you have to do a PhD and here in Chile there is not work field. My second option is working in some field directly related with health area like Hospital Pharmacy (where your are management all the drugs of the hospital) or Clinical Pharmacy (where you participate in the diagnostic of a patient with the doctors).
I don't really know about the salary, but I think it will be a good one. Also I already have a experience in this fields 'cause the last semester in one of the courses took me to visit this areas, so I already have a little idea of what will be work in this fields so I'm only hopping the better for the future.

            

Music in my life

Hi everyone, in this cold day I'm going to talk about one of the most worderful things in life, music.

If you ask me what is my favorite kind of music, I really don't no what to say 'cause I like it all, yes I know it's sound weird that I don't have a favorite gender, but it's truth, I like it all, since metal music until reggeaton music, all depends of my emotional state. For example when I'm in the mood I like to listen electro music (specially Martin Garrix) or reggeaton; when I'm more like power I like to hear bands more heavy like a Day to Remember or Disturbed. Like a I say, it'r really depend of the day and how I feel.
Also I have to say that I specially enjoy some of the chilean music like Los Bunkers, Ana Tijoux, Camila Morena, Inti Illimani, Villa Cariño, De Saloon, and some others band. I mention this because I think that are really good chilean bands or singers that don't have credit enough.
Nowdays I'm really into Ana Tijoux, she have really goods songs and the letter of her songs are even better 'cause they have social content like the repression of minority, the empower of the woman and things like that.

Our amazing human body

Hi everyone, in today's blog I'm going to talk about how amazing is our body, better say how amazing are ours eyes. 

If you think better, it's really surprising the capacity that our eyes have, for example they have the ability to differentiate about one million of chromatic variation... That means one million of different colors! also the eyes can see images in a resolution about 250 megapixels,  if we compare to the best cameras that now exist, they only have a resolution of 50 megapixels top, so that's a lot of HD quality that we have on are heads, and if we wonder how humans eyes work, it's like a really photographic machine 'cause they receive the lightning and inside of them, they invert the image and the brains turns right again so we can see the clearly objects.

All of this ability are possible because in our eyes we have about 90-132 millions of cells that are sensitive to the high and low lights, where each cell its like a spot of information of the pictures.

That's really amazing for two piece of meatball that are not longer that 2,5 cm of diameter each!

Holidays with friends

Today, I'm going to write you about holidays (one of the greatest things in the world), but specially about holidays with my friends, actually I'm going to tell you the first vacations that I had only with friends, zero supervision adults.
I was 15 years old when me and four of my closes friends went on a trip to "El yeco" beach. It was our first trip without any parents, so we were so excited. We went by bus until the Algarrobo beach and then take a "micro" to El yeco. One of my friends have a house there, so we stayed on her house.
We went for four days. The first day we didn't do anything in the house, only went to beach and enjoy our freedom. The rest of the days we spend at diferents beach and in the nights we were at home shering, making food like barbecue, french fried, "completos" and having some drinks (only juice and soda of course) or going to a place where were games and played "taca-taca", bingo, etc.
Definitely were one of my most memorable vacations because I went with my friends and we were totally freedom but I don't know if it is the best holidays 'cause still left a lots.



(I don't have photos in this moment to show but here it is a picture of "El Yeco")

The place I would like to go

There are too many places that I would like to go, like Europe, India, Canada, Mexico and so many others, but I'm tell you about two specially countrys that I would like to visit.
First there is Spain (olé !), I have always dream about going to Spain because since I was a little girl, I think it's so a magical place, maybe for their culture, food, traditions; maybe for their beautiful landscapes or maybe just their accent, I don't know but I feel these weird sensation to go there. For a while I even cosider live there, going to study and make my life there. Nowdays I don't know if I still wanna stay for ever there but I will definitely go to Spain for some vacations.
The second place is India because I find so intersting the Buddhism culture, so I will like to go there for learn all about it and make a source off a "spiritual retirement" making meditation and all of the stuff.
At the moment I don't really have the money or the time to go any of this places, but when I finish my study, and have work for time to save cash, I will definitely visit all of them.


                  (Sevilla's plaza)

Blog Experience

Hi everyone

Today's topic is my experience about blogging this semester for english class. Well I will start saying that had never wrotten a blog before, so this will be my first experience. I think this is kind a "social network" like facebook or twitter, because you can share anything that you want, express your opinion, update your state, upload pictures, etc. but with the difference that the blogs allowed to go so much deeper in the "thing" that you want to share. For example, if you share a picture in a blog, you probably will explain why you upload the photo because it have one meaning.
Saying that, the blog's never called my attention, but for a class, I think is a very interesting and new way to get close to the students 'cause our generation is a technologycal generation, also a I think, in this special class, its a very good thing to leave us express our opinion on different topics,
I don't really know if my skills have improved or getting worse, 'cause if they have developed, probably I already missed because of the paro (...)
For english 4 I will like to continue with this shape of work 'cause it's kind a easy, but I wish the classes were more early or not have to wait 6 hours between this class and the previous one.

(My actual schedule with english) 

 

My dream vacation

Hi everyone !
This week I'm going to talk about travels, but specially where I will like to go in my dream vacations. To be honest, I have never been on a trip out of Chile, so as you can imagine my dream vacations will take place in another country... I think maybe I already talked about this place in another blog but it's only because I really want to know this magnificent phenomenon.
My favorite vacations would know the boreal auroras, they are near to north pole, so I will have to go to some place near to that, no directly to the north pole 'cause it's too cold and I don't even know if it is allowed to go there.
The countries that are near to north pole are Canada, U.S (Alaska state), Norway, Greenland, Philippines, and some others. I will choose Norway 'cause I heard that they have a very high quality of life, so I think I will be comfortable and safe there, also I have seen pictures on Internet and looks like a very nice place.
When I'm done to study and have some money save, I will definitely go to Norway to see boreal auroras.
 

My favorite subject this semester

Hi everyone
Today's blog is about my favorite subject this semester. Well this is my first semester at the university so the courses that I have are most of all for general formation, the basic things that you should know for a chemistry career, but nothing very deeply related to the pharmacy career, even so I like the subjects that I have. I think one of the most that I like is  General Chemistry 1  'cause I really like chemist, always have been my favorite subject and is one of the reasons why I'm here studying Chemistry and Pharmacy, it's a theoretical class but the beautiful side of the chemistry is that you can bring this knowledge to a practical way into a laboratory, and this take us to my second favorite course called Laboratory Techniques.
For me this is the most fun course in a certain way, because is the only practical course that we have in the career and we can work in the lab like a real scientific. We only do basic stuff like filtrations or preparing solutions, but nothing very complicated yet. The truth is I don't like much some of the teachers 'cause I think they don't explain well the classes, so if I could, I will change some of the professors... but anyway I still love the course

 Doing a distillation

Studying Chemistry 

Rosalind Franklin

Hi everyone !

When you think women in chemestry the first that you tought it's Marie Curi, I bet you. But not, today I'm not going to talk about her, instead of, I will present you Rosalind Franklin, who was a very smart person, even considerate the most importat woman to the modern sciencie, but never given enough credit.
Rosalind Franklin was born in 1920 in London, England. At the edge of 15 she already demonstrated a lot of talent in chemistry, biology and physics, but she was very criticize for the society only for the fact that she was a woman. Even so, she studied chesmistry and physics in Cambridge University. A couple of years later, she began to work as investigator in King's College from London, here Franklin was part of a DNA proyect where she discovered the structure of DNA, but the sad part is that this descoverd was stolen from her, 'cause her work partner tooked the photo that tested the DNA structure and showed to another scientist who used her photo to publish the discovered without given credits to Rosalind (even they won a noble prize because of her)  5 years more latter, she died from cancer without recognition.
I choose her 'cause a few years ago I readed her history and make me feel very angry and sad 'cause she did a big discovered and was stolen from her, like a said it before, she died ingloriously, without the recognitions that she deserved, so this post goes in memory of her and all of the science women that don't recive enough credit for their work.

    

Animations or Cartoons

I honestly prefer series with real people than animations or cartoons, but in this case I'm gonna write about anime, not 'cause it's my favorite between these two, it's only because I have to admit that I have a weird relationship with the anime.
I really don't like anime, 'cause I don't know I simple don't like it, but exist a couple an exceptions that I have been obsessioned and I saw all of the season or in some case I even bought it. Some examples are Dragon Ball ( original, Z and GT), Ranmma 1/2, Inuyasha, Slam Dunk, Fullmetal Alchemist, School Days, Clannad (original and after story) and some other more. This last one called Clannad from the Key company it make me cry like a river (and I don't cry with this kind of things) specially the second season, the first it's not very good but you have to see it to understand the second, so it's kind my favorite anime.
I'm not gonna tell the story 'cause really get me emocional, but if you wanna see it in youtube are the two season complete
Here I left you the ending of  the anime, it's not very related with it but I left you any way 'cause I love it, it's so cute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I6YfDGDOc4

(Here is some images from the anime)