Your blogging experience

To be honest, when I knew that I have to write a blog for the English class I thought: “Ugh, such a boring job, what I would write about?” I think that was my opinion because first, I didn't know how it worked, then I didn't like the idea of talk about myself in a public place, and finally, my ideas aren’t always in order. So that hadn’t me very excited.

But then, when we started to write about more and more subjects, I realized that it was a very funny job! We wrote about ourselves, the career that we chose and the music in our lives. And I think that my favorite one was the blog when we wrote about the photograph that we like.

Write every Friday on the blog let me knew new things about myself, what I do really like and what I don't. I learnt how to explain my ideas by writing, like put them in order, because that always (always) was very difficult for me. I remember that I suffered a lot when in high school I had to write an essay about a theme that was important and contingent to me haha.

Now I think it helped me to have better skills to write (in English), put my ideas in order, and talk about myself.

From the invisible to the visible world and back...

In Pharmacy, you learn how the disease works and how you prevent or attack it through a drug. That drugs came into a pharmaceutical form (for example: pills or syrup). 

But recently I learnt about pharmacogenomics. This is the name of a new technique that study how the gens of a person respond to the medication, and the variability that it has. I found interesting how you can mix pharmacy and gens stuff with the purpose of find better results for people whom doesn't respond to the treatment.

It look for create new medication adapted for each person, based on the behavior of its gens and the hereditary characteristics. In that way you know exactly which medicament and in which dose use. In order to maximize the safety (make sure it has the minimum adverse effects) and efficacy of the treatment.

Besides, it is still on the phase of clinical trials, so by now people can not access to rial treatment. I think in twenty years we all could use it successfully.

The most enjoyable subject...

The subject that I like the most is chemistry! Because is easy to learn and the exercises keep me entertain. 

The classes are mostly theoretical. It may be not so amusing, but I understand that it is in that way because first we have to learn all about basic chemistry before we start to learn chemistry related to pharmacy. I think the most important contents that are we seeing in class is energy, chemical bond, stoichiometry and dissolution. I like the last two ones because we always have to find some lost datum and use (easy) maths!  

Also apply basic knowledge in lab, so this make it not-so-theoretical, for example calculate concentrations (calculate everything is based on the basic chemistry that are we learning) or make dissolutions.

I knew on high school that I wanted to study in university something related to chemistry. I wanted a career that had too much chemistry and also work with health of people. After searching a looot of information I finally chose pharmacy.

I also like to teach chemistry to girls from my school, I don't want them get disappointed about this subject just because of the teacher or they don't understand.

Maybe I dedicate my life to chemistry :) maybe not, but I know that in that moment I like it so much and it will be the same for a long time, and to me that is the most important thing.

Person/Expert you admire

Marie Curie.

Marie Curie

This is the name of the scientist that I admire the most, because she was such a strong woman. She faced with all the obstacles that being a woman in that time could cause, like have a bad status just for want to learn more. Besides the problems that her country has on that time (Poland was invaded from Russia).

She born in Poland, on 1867. Her mother died when she was eleven years old and her father was a physics teacher. When she was 24 years old, she lived in Paris, working hard on her scientific career, while she was there, her sister helped her with money because the savings that she had doesn't was enough. She was very interested in new types of radiation that Roentgen and Becquerel found before. 

In 1895 she married with Pierre Curie. He left her investigations in order to support Marie and started working together. This leads in finding the elements polonium and radium, that's why they won them first Nobel Prize. She was the first woman receive a Physics Nobel Prize, the first person having two of them and the first mother Nobel who has a daughter Nobel.

Marie was very intelligent and persistent along her life, and nothing let her down.

My favourite book and film

I'm not sure which is my favourite book because all that I have read have something special on it, like its message or the meaning to me.

Gregor Samsa from "La Metamorfosis"
(You probably have seen this picture before.)

If I had to do tell some of my favourites ones, I think I would choose "El Túnel" from Ernesto Sabato (an Argentine writer), "La Metamorfosis" from Franz Kafka, and "Fahrenheit 451" from Ray Bradbury. All of them I read on school.

I like them because of all the main characters have something to say, an emotional problem that they couldn't resolve at the beginning of the story. In "El Túnel" Juan Pablo Castel have killed a woman and he tells along the book the reasons why he did that (he was a little psycho). Then, in "La Metamorfosis" Gregor Samsa woke up transformed as a giant insect, like a coackrach and along the story he tells his feelings. Finally, on the dystopia "Fahrenheit 451" Montag realized that he didn't want to burn more books and broke the paradigm of perfect world that some people made him believe. 

You can read it so fast because of the story move fast, that could make you lose the notion of time!

Besides, my favourite film is Shrek. The story begins with a ogre who will fight for his swamp and then finished finding the love.

Shrek and his friend Donkey

I watched it when I was 6 years old, and I like since then, because I empathize with his anger about the prejudices that people have of him.

All the adventures and dismisses that he has along the movie makes it so funny! The music is so great and the characters has its own strong personality.

And just because it is made of cartoon, doesn't mean that grown up people can't watch it!

A photograph you like

I think that a photograph is a picture full of memories, and because I like to remember past times, take photographs let me have things to think about.

I like to take photos all the time, to the sky, my plant (a peach tree jeje), the hill behind my house, flowers, and everything that could symbolize important moments to me.

I think this is one of my favourites, I took it the last summer on vacations with my best friend. We finished school and finally we were free from all the study stuff so we was very relaxed. She invited me to the house of her family in Viña del Mar and we shared such a great time together and with her funny cousins.

The sunset the last day we were there.

It was taken on December 13th. 2016, the last evening we were there. I like how shine the lights form the buildings in black, the blue colors from the sky and the seems calm ocean, and the small line yellow from the sun that was hiding. For me it shows the ending of a great one-week-long-holiday, and a big step on our friendship.

I will always be thankful for receiving me and being so kind all the time I was there. And I would like to repeat at least one-week-long-holiday with her again this summer! This time I could invite her :)

Music in My Life

I think all people has its own Soundtrack of Life. What does it mean? Well, it's like in every moment of your life (childhood or youth, for example) you have one song which its melody and letter fits with your feelings or the situation, or just maybe you like it because it was “the hit” of that season and it gets into your soundtrack.

For me, music has been present along all my life. When I was a child my mom turned every day the radio on, she listened romantic songs (in Spanish) from the 70's to 00’s so as you can suppose I know all that old and classic songs. Sometimes the radio was on at any dial, so that’s why one of the first song that I can remember when I was 3yo is Objection (Tango) from Shakira.

Then, when I was growing up I listened to pop music because of the influence of my oldest sister and I liked because the melody was so happy. I still like 90’s-00’s pop bands: Backstreet boys, N’Sync, Spice Girls.

Finally, when I was 13 or 14 I started to search new music to play on my mp4. At that age, I realized that I liked Rock music (specifically the Alternative and Punk one) for example: Franz Ferdinand and The Offspring, I liked the combination of the guitar, bass and drums, and the letter of the songs. I remember that I wanted to play the electric guitar then I realized that I prefer look and listen to people playing it than me trying to learn. But back then I didn't found all the music on my own, I had the influence of my best friend, who showed me one of the first bands that I like the most: Foo Fighters (on the video one of my favourite songs).

Now I still like that music, but also, I listen to songs from different musicians, for example: this week I have sticked on my mind Stolen Dance from a German band called Milky Chance, and the last week I listened a lot an 80's song called Brother Louie from Modern Talking. And I like 70's and 80's music because the rhythms are so cheerful and swinging, that’s why I play one playlist from Spotify called "Retrovisor" which has a lot of classics from that years (YMCA, In the Navy, I Will Survive, Karma Chameleon). Also, I like every song that let me dance, sing or just appreciate every instrument (such as Brahms, Wagner, Rossini, Chopin). Except for bachata, I hate of what it sing about.

Through the time, I always had songs (from every and more bands and singers that I said before) that has a special meaning and I hope to have more for the rest of my life.