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.