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.