English Language Challenges

  Helloo, this blog's gonna be about English and my experience with it.

  At university I started the classes this semester, and I must be honest, I've just learnt useful tips, and some new words too. This started with useful classes about locations and how to reach them, which was a very entertaining challenge. Honestly, I've liked the classes with computers, filling the gaps of songs, giving directions, crosswords, and the freedom of listening to music while you're doing your classwork, and, in the other hand, we have the normal classes which are very normal for every english class, the teacher comes with a radio and a guide, then you do what every student has to do, I neither like them or dislike them, they are just normal.

   As mentioned before, I enjoy classes here in CIQ, and the blogging experience's been very funny and different to any english class from before. I have to say that it is different and challenging at some point, because I have to think in english and write my thoughts down, which seems very funny to me, I really enjoy english thinking, it's a thing that I usually do when I'm alone and bored, and that might be the thing in which I use english apart from university, because I don't have any practical use for my knowledge of english, just understand some things, some song lyrics maybe...

   Finally, I have to tell that my english is just getting worse as time passes and I don't use it, well, is not that I'm becoming really bad at english, is just that I'm not writing properly, sometimes I star to twist everything in my mind, and I finish saying something completely different just to avoid some sentences, I have to say that I can accomplish communication, but sometimes I get really frustrated because I couldn't say something in the way I first started to think it, so I guess I need more practice with people.

Changes To Your Study Programme

  

  Hi, as you might know I'm studying Biochemistry, and now I'm being asked to talk about the program of my career. Starting with the curriculum, when I think about the curriculum of a scientist I just can't help to think that a scientist has to know a lot (like very lots) of Maths, Chemistry, Biology and Physics, or know a lot of a very specific topic, and become a specialist in an area of the science... Then I check the curriculum of my career and notice that I'll have a lot of chemistry an biology, so I think that is fine. Perhaps it starts with no many hard things, like Odontology or Medicine, where you start your studies with Human Anatomy, but that's not my business. Short story long, I like the program, it looks interesting as the time passes.

(Me as a Scientis) 

  But not everything is so beauty, yeah the classes might be interesting and funny, but they are also very hard, and this just will go worse, I've seen how people gets stressed with the topics that comes with my career (And also other careers), so I'm well aware that I will have to work harder and harder to achieve the degree... perhaps I had to learn this by the bad way, but I really want to succeed, I see this as a personal challenge so I'm trying my best... well not yet, being honest I think that I could work even harder, but as the time passes I want to improve as a student so I want to effort more as the career gets more difficult (And that will happen for sure).

  Whoooa with the faculty I had some complains (jeje), because I have gone to another faculties like FEN and Medicine, and they have a very awesome library, where I could study more than well, and everything is so clean and beauty, and they have a casino... yeah their own place to eat (never thought about betting for sure). And here in this faculty we barely have a library and some places to be quiet and study well, and not vey comfortable classrooms, they are functional, and I know that there were worst, but man... we have some seats for kindergarden children.

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 Going on with asked topics, I have to say that I don't really mind about the use of technology in classes, In maths we sometimes use our cellphones, and the projector works well, sometimes we use computers and the classes go very well, but I'm more romantic (xD) and rather a good teacher explanation with the whiteboard. Perhaps in the laboratory would be awesome to have the most modern implements, but that might not be the same technology that the place where I finish working, so I'm fine with that too.

 Finally about teaching methods, this might not be my favorite part of university, because sometimes the classes are just... no. "This things that the teacher says are not helping me a single bit", or "Why is he/she saying that", sometimes teachers explain thing that doesn't helps us, yeah I know that we are not here for the grades, but that's the thing that matters to stay learning, so why can't the teachers prepare us better for their tests, and we finish learning everything by books... That bothers my in some way, because I've always been a student that learns in the classroom, and I'm not paying here to read some books, I guess that that's my main complain about teaching methods.

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Summer Holidays

   Hello there, I've just been requested to write about summer holidays, and I feel very strange about them, they look so close yet so far away, these days ain't sure what I will be doing on holidays, I have to finish this semester at first, and finish it well, and so I could have a relaxed holidays, without thinking in any class. And by been thinking in that I just haven't thought about my holidays, that sounds kinda sad... but I have no choice, I guess.

   Now that I have to talk about holidays I can think a little about what can I do. Well I'm not too fond of going out my city by holidays, I guess it's because I use to work, so I guess that my holidays this year will be a little different, because I'm finishing university on January, so there's less time to find something, anyway I want to work in whatever the thing I found, and so make money to enjoy February and save some for the year and the things that I could need.

  So my January (and part of February maybe) will be a working month and I plan to rest February, perhaps two or three weeks of it, and in that time I'm not very sure if I would like lo visit somewhere in special, perhaps go to Calera, or Zapallar, where I have some family that I could visit and stay with, but I think that I will finish staying at my city and hanging out with my friends, that will happen for sure, I guess that that is the thing that will most certainly happen.   

Addiction: From coffee and tea to drug abuse

  Now I'm gonna write about a very interesting topic... drugs, and is very interesting to me just because I'm a potencial addict to everything, I know this might sound bad, but I have a very addictive personality. It's because when I like something I got more and more into the thing, this not happens just with drugs, happens with most of the things I enjoy. And as I know that fact about me I control myself and I have said "No" to most of the hard drugs. It is fun when I'm talking with someone and I say that I don't drink coffee, (I know this is not a hard drug) people just lose their minds, about marijuana they turn more comprehensive... but many people just don't accept that I don't drink coffee. But being completely honest I just drink alcohol, but a level where I'm not an addict, I drink just for recreational time with friends, if there is a way to say that I would pick this one.

   I'm not actually in any drug, I guess, because being some kind of addict to music it's not an actually drug (jeje), I have kinda tried marijuana, just as a passive smoker (Because I haven't realised where I was till it was too late and I was already "high"... my bad) and felt the dizzy effect in my mind, under the context where I was, this was not a very good experience with the popular plant, and I haven't smoked ever again. Another drug that I could be into is the alcohol, but as I said before I'm not an addict, and my experience with alcohol is very normal, a dizziness and hapinness mixed, have to mention that I have never got really really drunk, I just drink some glasses of beer, or whatever the drink that there were, and got happy or more enthusiastic (maybe is not the best description but is the most honest one) so I have never lost my consciousness, I'm kinda proud about it.

  Well, one funny thing about my friends is that all of my friends, at least, smoke marijuana, so I have seen the effects that the plant produces in my friends being completely sober myself, and it's a funny experience, to see my friends getting more wasted and happy at the same time. I've seen how the marijuana produces a dizziness and a silliness in my friends, sometime this is mixed with alcohol and the effects are not very different, in their behavior I mean, is the only thing that I can see. The most funny thing comes at the next morning when I have seen my friends completely wasted, with headaches and hungry, also in a very drowsy status, perhaps they don't enjoy that part as much as I do when I'm the sober, but I have never been that bad... perhaps just a little.

  The next part got me really astonished, it turns out that some drugs have some benefits that were used in old medicine. It was a surprise to me the fact that cocaine was used as a coagulant, and also to fight vasoconstrictions. And I guess that everybody these days know the benefits of marijuana, that doesn't mean that it has just benefits, but is not 100% bad as many people see it.

  I mentioned before that I don't do most of the drugs because of my personality, and is beacuse I know some risks of the drugs, many influenced by the addiction that could create in my person, and the addiction generates more problems, such as mental disorders, paranoia, mood swings and the bad status that you can reach by abstinence of your drug, which also implicates a money problem because you spend all of it in that subtance that has got you in their strings, and that abstinence can produce even more problems to your health, such as lose of weight, of money, of mind and people you love, and maybe lose everything. I have to say that I hate the dependence to things, another reason to not do any drug.

  I actually don't know anybody who is in a very important drug situation, just some tramps that I see wasted by alcohol, they don't look very well, and are in extreme poverty, that's the thing that I can describe about them. But is a very important thing for our society, we have a lot of people who has lost everything for drugs, or that starts to commit crimes to get the drug... or at university where students start to consume some drugs to stay awake and be able to study the whole night, which is not a very sane thing to do. 

   

     

   

Post-graduate Studies

   It looks like I will have to talk about my future again, not my favourite topic but well.

  As you might know I'm studying Biochemistry, and the plan remains the same, stay in the same career I mean, so this time it´s the turn to know which will be my plan for the  future, I guess. Well let's suposse a little bit for some time, let's suposse I'm in the 7th semester of biochemistry and the university gave me the chance of take a PhD, and I have one day to chose which one will be, so I have this day to take a very important decision... well even then looks hard, because I don´t have a single idea of what it´s the thing that I enjoy the most of the career, but I know that taking a PhD it´s a very wise decision, if I'm a PhD. in anything my value will increase and so I could achieve a job where I will be well paid and doing something that I like, so they are perfect, and so I would love to take a PhD, but I just don't know which one, being completely honest just for their names I like the Toxicologic and the Enviromental ones, but the Clinic PhD. has something very attractive, perhaps is the money, the stability, I don't know, when I listen about the clinical PhD. I think about those two things, which are very important.

   Well, let´s still playing the supossing game, and I'm already in a PhD, so I met the new subjects that I will study. And let´s imagine some time what subjects I would like to have. As I like the Chemistry I would like to have a very good class of advanced chemistry, know more about it I guess, also have a class in a laboratory where I could apply the things that I'm learning in classes, which would be a very difficult lab, but funny at the same time. Am I wrong?

  About doing the PhD here or everywhere I would chose here, for a very simple reason... well, two simple reasons, the first one is that I would like to take the PhD along with the professional degree, and the second one is that I think it will be easier to learn in spanish than any other language, it is not that I'm completely bad at other languages, is just the fact that it will be easier, as simple as that. 

  And we can finaly stop supossing things about my uncertain future. 

  

    

Your Future Job

  Yeeee, I have to write a little bit about my uncertain future... And as I'm studyng Biochemistry I guess that my future will be there, in some area inside the biochemistry. Thinking this for a while I guess that I can picture myself inside a lab studying some molecules, or watching the behavior of some proteins, maybe in a clinical lab studying some viruses and the possible cures of the illness that they produce, I don't know, it's kinda early to picture this clearly, but I'd be happy in a lab doing some chemical reactions, or finding some things in some materials, and becoming smarter, I guess that the thing that I want the most it's to have more knowledge in my brain, I really enjoy the knowledge, and try to use that knowledge in a research would  be awesome.

  As I will become a real scientist, I'd like to travel somewhere else and meet another scientists and their works, I'd really enjoy that, so I guess that traveling it's a thing that I want to do, and so I can learn more things, and very interesting and useful things... And with that become a more complete scientist, and I guess that a complete scientist would be better paid (Am I so wrong?) and then be able to live thanks to my job, I don't need a fancy car or a fancy house, if I'm travelling and doing what I like, and also be independent I'll be fine, more than fine... That would be superb.

  About a major?... yeah, give me ten.

  I'm not really sure about which one I'll do... I really want to do one, that would make me a better professional, so why not. But in this very moment I don't know, I want to have more experience as a student and so be able to know what part of the chemical sciences I enjoy the most, and then look out for the major I want.    

Digressing about music: songs, dances, melodies, groups, films...

  Hi not my students, today I´m gonna write about music, because I wanted to do it and nobody else asked me...

  Since, I don´t know, 4 to 5 years maybe I started to find my music taste, this can sound very late, but I never enjoyed completely the music that my family used to play on their radios or computers or I don´t know, Tv maybe? Well, the thing here it´s that because I never liked family´s music I look out for my musical taste, and I started with some bands that I barely knew, like Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Beatles, Queen and Elvis Presley, and little bit of La Ley.

But that was just a start, when time passed I thought that those bands where good but they were old, at the same time, so I started to think that I should look from bands of my generation and live the present, not because the new bands were better, it was because I just thought that the old bands have already marked one generation and they also inspired another generation of musicians, so I looked for new bands (But not replacing completely my old music library).

In my new search I found some good bands, which like The Strokes and The Killers, and with a little help from a friend I also discovered Arctic Monkeys, and from then on on I found a lot of another musicians from the same gender, which will become my favourite one and it´s called Indie Rock... I have to say that it´s not the only thing that I listen to, I actually listen to a lot of different music, which make my actual music library very funny.

  Well, since I like Indie Rock I found a preference for two not very different instruments, which are Electric guitar and Bass Guitar ( I also like tambourine, I think it produces a funny sound). I also started to play Acoustic guitar!

Electric Bass Guitar

  

 It turned out that The Strokes became my favourite band, it´s like they completely catch me with their sound and lyrics, so I started to dig out a little bit about them. Then I discovered that the main composer and lyricist of the band was Julian Casablancas, he is just a New Yorker who used to drank a lot and write songs... that doesn´t sounds very admirable, but he has left the alcohol behind and turned in a very serious person, he has now a music label that has a very active political critic. But that it´s not why I admire him, it´s because I love the lyrics that he writes, it´s awesome, I like close to 95% of the songs that he has written, and the sounds and rythms that he creates are awesome for me as well.

  Have to mention that there is always a dark side of music, and that side it´s made with music that I don´t enjoy. But there´s a funny thing, inside this dark side I can actually find music that I used to like... entrancing, in some way I think. In this "Dark side" I can find some music that used to listen my mother, I sometimes remember those songs with nostalgia and sometimes I even enjoy them, it´s not that I actually hate the dark side, and the singers that I could name would be: José Luis Perales, Alejandro Fernández, and Leo Dan or José José, I don´t know, there are not bad at all, it´s just that I don´t enjoy them so much these days.

  To finish this post I have to tell you guys that lately I´ve been very interested in the soundtrack of Tv series and movies, and there are movies in which I really enjoyed their soundtrack, I can easily remember "Río", with all the brazilian joy and party, also the movie "Submarine" which has an EP very soft and beauty, and some songs that I found in some Tv series, but they are just instrumentals so I don´t know their names (My bad). 

       

Our Amazing Human Body: The Skin

 There is an organ in our bodies that I´ve always found interesting for the simple fact that we don´t sweat in the water... yeah, that simple nothing makes me admire our skin.

  The largest organ of us, the one that protect us from everything, at first instance I mean, at the point where doesn´t let pass everything to inside our body. And also helps us to regulate the temperature of our bodies. For example, when we are doing some exercise our temperature starts to increase, and increases and increases, but there´s a point where we can´t let the temperature to raise more, so our skin starts the sweating process, which consists in the process where we begin to exhale water (sweat) from our pores, and the thermal capacity of the water makes the temperature of the body go down, and so we can keep the heat at standard levels and stay on our exercise without problems.

 

   

  The human skin has a large of close to 2 meters, and it´s from 0.5 mm wide in our eyelids to 4 mm wide in our heels. I don´t know if you know it, but the skin is located in our whole body, externally, it is like our last natural coat, but it has 3 according to how deep they are, their names are: Epidermis, Dermis, and Hipodermis, from the one that is most external to most internal one. 

                 

  There are some illness that can actually attack our skin, sad but true, there are lots actually, one example can be the cancer, which can be in our skin, and from there on on it can possible kill us, but we can manage to escape from it by taking good care of our skin, avoiding the most dangerous time of  UV rays from the sun, or use sun bloc lotions. Another illness is called seborrheic dermatitis which is a very common one that consists in inflammation and the formation of yellow and white scales in the fat areas of the skin, like our scalp, face or inside the ears. This last illness can be cured with normal shampoo and some very normal drugs, that you can easily get in a drugstore.

  There´s very easy to have a good skin, you just have to use sun bloc and avoid the most dangerous UV rays, which is present at a couple of hours everyday, you can also have to take care of some parts that are weaker than others, or maybe they are just at wrong places, like our feet, they can be easily infected by micro-organisms that can enter by some cuts, or even infect the foot by itself, so you have to use some foot powder and keep your feet as most clean as possible. Those recommendations helps you a little bit, now, if you want to have a very wealth and shiny skin you should have some another products, like skin lotions and drink 2L of water everyday, and... I don´t know... I´m not a dermatologist.    

 

Best Holidays Ever

   It happened almost 2 years ago, in January the 3rd of 2015, when me and my schoolmates went on tour to southern Chile. That was a travel we have been plannig since our first year of high school, that "tour" began with a 3 straight hour bus drive from our school to a restaurant in which we stopped for breakfast, from then on on we started to travel and meet some beautiful places.

Frutillar, Chile

   The tour included very different cities from the area like Pucón, Frutillar, Villarica, Puerto Montt, Ancud (which is at Chiloé's Island) and some other cities. It was fun at the beginning of the tour, it was like a party inside a bus, with almost 40 people, all schoolmates, and everyone there was having full with their life-long friends, because most of people in the grade were from the very beginnig of school, so we knew almost every schoolmate since years and years, which made the experience very funny.


  The tour lasted almost a week, it was six days if I'm not wrong, but the shortest doesn't mean the bad, that week we barely sleep, leaving the sleep hours for the long road travels, and tried to enjoy the most of our awake time by meeting some natural landscapes, eating lunch at the hotel, and having fun all together at parties or conversations in the nature with some guitar playing, or whatever we thought at the moment, we also had an sport activity on Pucón.

  This holidays were the best for my beacause was an awesome travel with friends, and just us together in an unknown place having a good time, with conversations, parties and good places with them.
 

A country you would like to visit

About five years ago I read "The Lord of The Rings", which became one of my favorites stories, according to that, I´ve found that the movie, based on the before mentioned book, was filmed somewhere in New Zealand. Then I decided that, one day, I will travel to New Zealand to see Hobbiton, the place where lived the main character of the story. The interesting thing about this place is that there are houses, where the characters of the story lives, that are inside mountains... yeah mountains, it´s like a hole inside a mountain that gets completely empty in the inside, so it can be filled with furniture and house stuff.    

Hobbiton, New Zealand  

Being completely honest, I don´t know a thing about New Zealand, except for the before mentioned place... but for this blog I learnt that Rugby it´s a great sport to watch in the country, because it´s one of their most popular sports, then maybe it´s a good idea to buy a ticket and feel like one more in the New Zealand group. 

Another thing that I´d like to do there it´s trying the local  food, i mean why not, if I have a chance to try new food then why not take it.

New Zealand´s Flag

There is another place that I would like to visit after Hobbiton, that it´s called Queenstown, the funny thing about this place is that it´s... A town for adventures!! There are mountain travels, water ski, strolls on beautiful natural landscapes, and that´s just in summer, but that doesn´t mean that ends there, oh no, in winter Queenstown it´s a perfect place for snowbording and ski.

Queenstown, New Zealand

I don´t actually picture myself living in New Zealand, perhaps study something maybe. For me this place it´s just met and enjoy... as a tourist, it´s not that i dislike it, but I don´t actually know the country situation, political, economical and all that stuff, so just a beauty place to visit someday.

So New Zealand has funny things the whole year, offering different things for both the cold and the hot part of the year, then... why not to try New Zealand?