Summer Holidays

Summer Holidays are something necessary, we all need some time to relax and connect with ourselves.

In this Summer Holidays I pretend to go to El Bolsón, it's located in the Patagonia Argentina. I've seen some images from internet and i can't wait to go there, it looks just amazing!

I'm going with my family (like all years), my mom, my brother and my stepfather. Actually, we are making the route with my stepfahter, so we don't know exactly what places the we are going to visit yet, but we're trying to make the more faster and economic route, because you know, In holidays, the money go away, just like that hahahaha.

Some of the places we pretend to go as we travel to El Bolsón are: Buenos Aires and Villa Angosturas. In B.A we are thinking to go just for the day, so can buy some chocolates and some books, I have been in Buenos Aires before, and I have to admit that the chocolates are great, but they are expensive, not as the books, the are very cheap, so it's going to be a great chance to renovate the bookshelf.

One of my favorite things to do in holidays is kayak, so i pretend to rent a kayak when i get there, I'm thinking to use it in the Nahuelhuapi Lake, because is one of the most beautiful lakes that i've ever seen, so i'm thinking it would be a nice crossing.

Also i'm pretending to work on vacations, to save so money because me and my school's friends are planning to go to the north of Chile, we don't know where, but i know it's going to be cool  wherever we go!

Addiction: From Tea and Coffee to Drugs of Abuse

Drugs are something very powerful, and if we aren't careful with these, they could become a problem more than a solution, i mean, medication drugs, drugs of abuse,etc.

I'm not very attached with these last kind of drugs, but a few years ago i decided to try one of them, just because i wanted to have my own experience with it, and by consequence, have my own opinion about it.

I tried Marijuana, i remember that i was scared the first time, because you know, i just heard about it, but that was going to be my first time, i thought, but i was psicologically prepared in that moment, I felt mature, so i moved on and tried it (I have to say that i was avoiding to think about what I was doing, i just wanted to know how it was going to feel and nothing more).

I started to smoke, but i felt nothing, it was like smoking a normal cigarette with a strange flavor, but nothing special. After 20 minutes app.  i started to feel lazy, with a very relaxing sensation on my body. My eyes started to feel tired, like if they don't wanna watch anymore. It was a great sensation, so i don't remember any bad experience of that moment.

Honestly I don't know much about their benefits, but i kow that marijuana it's used in medicine, because it's a great analgesic, it's used to treat glaucoma, and also helps to decrease anxiety.

Drug addiction it's a very serious problem, the people with this condition are very hard to treat. In my opinion, one of the most relevant consequences of this is the damage to the family of the affected, because i think it should be hard to see how someone of you family is dying slowly, and they can't do anything to help, because they don't have money to pay the treatment, etc...

After a long term consumption of drugs, some consequences to the affected are appearing, like depression, changes in attitude/personality, brain degeneration, etc.

I fortunately don't know anyone addicted to drugs of abuse, but if i knew someone, i would try to help him/her.

I think the abuse of drugs is something that has no end, we try to fight everyday against it, but everyday becomes harder to erradicate. Everyday new scientist are creating new substances, and i don't know how, but they end in the wrong hands, i mean, the world of these kind of drugs is always moving on with a new kind of drug, an endless cycle.

Post Graduate Studies

In the future, I would like to do a PhD in Biochemistry, because i think it's a very interesting part of science. I'm studying Pharmacy, but i think it would be a very good complement if i want to be a complete professional ( but first i need to graduate from Pharmacy)

I would like to use that knowledge to discover new things, maybe create a new kind of medication to help people or something like that. But also i like ecology, and i´d like to study the enviroment and the things associated to it, make my own investigations, traveling and basically that kind of things.

I'd  like to study here in Chile, maybe in this own university or the PUC, that's something that i need to think about, but if i have the chance to study abroad, i'll definitely accept. (study in Harvad would be a dream hahaha). I'm thinking about how hard it could be, because i know so many people that works and pay their own course, i mean, it has to be very exhausting.

To me, it would be comfortable to take a part-time course, because I learn better in person, and also, i would meet new people, with the same interest in science, so that would be cool.

It was a hard decision to choose what to study, i was between Pharmacy and Biochemistry, but i decided to study Pharmacy, so, my motivation to learn  about Biochemistry stills there, so that's my plan.

Old and New Hobbies: From Collecting Stamps to Mountain Climbing

I like to learn new things , but one of the things that i keep doing since i learned it is play musical instruments like bass, drums, guitar...

I love music, i can't imagine my life without it, it's a very important aspect to make you understand your feelings, so i wanted to go deeper and explore that fascinating thing, so i decided to play guitar, that was the first instrument that i played in my life. That was at the age of 10-12 years (i'm not sure), in fact, it was my first experience playing music, with the pass of time, i learned how to play more instruments like i said before.

But that's not all, when i was a kid, i used to collect Sponge Bob stickers, because it was my favorite TV cartoon, so i asked my mom some of them, and when she arrived from work, she helped me to stick them in my wall (actually, I still have some of them)

In the other side, a hobby i would never have is collecting insects, like snails, spiders, etc. Because i think it's cruel to collect them, because it's hard to imitate the real life conditions, moreover, i don't like insects at all (but i least i defend them).

In the future i would like to do extreme sports, like skydiving and stuff, obviously I don't have the money to do that kind of things at this moment, but i pretend to do that kind of things when i grow up.

Our Amazing Human Body: Our Smart Brain et al.

The human body it's a very interesting concept for scientists, there are many things that we don't know about it. One of the most studied systems of the body it's the Limbic System and it's directly related to the brain.

The limbic system is a set of brain structures located in the brain. The function of this system consist of the physiological response to specific stimulus. It's in charge of emotions, behavior, motivation, long-term memory, the sense of smell and instinct . The emotional life resides in the limbic system, and it has a great deal to do with the formation of memories.

This system is located in the brain, on both sides of the thalamus, immediately beneath the cerebrum. It isn't very big, obviously smaller than the brain itself, it's a small part of it, but like i said before, it's very important physiologically speaking.

The lymbic sistem may present alterations like any other system. Some illness associated to it are: schizophrenia, limbic epilepsy, autism and dementia. This illness affects different parts of this system, causing certain effects and atypical behaviors.

It's a very hard job to keep the limbic system healthy, because there are so many things that may affect it and we don't know about it. But in the other side, there are a some things that we can do to keep it healthy like: do exercise, eat healthy food; but mainly do things we like and enjoy to stay away from stress and depression, and make grow up our mind.

The Best Concert Ever

My favourite thing in life is music. It makes you feel a lot of different emotions, depending on your mood.

One of my favourites bands is Muse, considered one of the best bands of alternative rock, because of their original style and their contribution in this musical genre.  they came to Chile in 2015, it was one of the most exciting days ever, they player in Movistar Arena. I clearly remember an amazing experience.

That day I woke up early I remember, to be one of the first people to enter to the show, When I got there, I met up with five friends of school, Muse was our favourite band so we wanted to be in first place. We have to wait a lot of time to see them play, we arrived there at 7 a.m. and the show was programmed to 8 p.m., so we bring some playing cards and food to survive that loooong hours.

Muse has been awarded for being the band with the best musical performance on stage, so we actually had a lot of expectations.

The show was amazing, it was more than our expectations, the show lasted 3 hours approx. and we didn't realize. They played their best songs with an amazing performance, they inflated giant black balloons! And they were bouncing in people's head and hands, and when the balloons exploded, they released a kind of serpentine with beautiful colours.The people there were completely crazy! all of them enjoying their songs, some of they were crying, others were screaming, etc. And for the show's end, nothing less than a "mosh pit".

It was definitively the best show I've ever assisted, the sound was great, the people I met there were amazing too, and all that things I mentioned before. I wasn't expecting anything less. Just amazing!

 

Your blogging experience

Well my blogging experience has been great, i feel comfortable with the result of the blogs, and also i have to say that the topics are very interesting! i mean, it's nice to do the blogs because, in my opinion, you keep entertained while you're doing them, some topics are more interesting than others, but that's something subjective.

I feel that my writing skills are more advanced now, because the fact that you have to write a blog once a week makes your English skills to increase. That's all about to be constant, so in my opinion, it has been a nice experience to work this way, if i had to recommend this method to learn English, i would definitely do that.

In the future, i'd like to work more with spoken English; i think the best way to learn a language is speaking it, with my classmates or Britain/American people, in that case, after learning English, they could teach us they slang and stuff, i think that would be interesting. But also I have to say that the teacher's activities should stay, they are very useful and make you learn new things, at least in my case.

Honestly, I’d like to write about conspiracies, futurism, music and stuff, I find interesting to write/talk about that topics , they have so many ideas to express, you can spend hours and hours talking/writing about that…