My blogging experience

On my first year of university, I took english as a subject.

One of the marks on both terms were about writing a blog. Being honest, on the beginning it seemed really boring for me, and I thought to just do the minimum of effort on writing it.
But after the first blog, I get in love of writing on english. I was used to write a lot on spanish, but on english it like a challenge so it is more attractive for me. It has been a nice experience, and it has helped to me to reinforce my grammar, the poorest stuff on my experience with english.
But also, my experience learning english on university has been beautiful.
On my school, I had a bad experience with my english teacher, and I really hated him. I used to scape of my english class, because I hated even being in the same room with him. And if I was on the same room of him, we always ended fighting.
The worst thing about it, was that he was my english teacher from 7 grade till the end of my school studies! So I just learned english watching movies, reading papers, or listening music on english during that time.
But when I get into university, my first impression of english classes, were about the teacher. He was really happy and kind, and I really enjoyed his classes. It maked me feel passion for english again, and I went back to the idea of learn something more of this language. After all, if I wanna go to abroad, I have to speak english easily.

Universities of USA, were I would like to work.

So during this year, I have learned a lot of english, especially grammar.
But I would like to learn much more, because I would like to work on USA on a pair of years, so I probably continue on english classes till I learn to speak fluent English. All that because I need to improve my pronunciation, my grammar, and also learn more words, because I speak with simple phrases, but I would like to be more specific with my speaking.
During the day, I try to being in touch with english most part of the day. I read books on english, listen music on english, watch movies, videos and tv on english and also I had turned my cell phone language to english, so with this, I can be more close to this language and familiarize myself with it, so I feel it easier for me to speak it or write it.

Hobbies

Lecture World.

Since I was 7 years old, I discovered my two hobbies that until this day continue fulling my heart. They are reading, and Rhythmic Gymnastic. 

Reading it's wonderful. I love how you can experiment a universe full of adventures where you are the protagonist. You can imagine and live in new worlds, you can be one day a crazy pirate, and another you can be the president of united states. You can live and learn of many experiences, you can find yourself reading, just following letter by letter with your eyes and imagining that it's your feelings and your suffering. There is no more beautiful way to grow up, than reading books.

Me the last month on a Rhythmic presentation.

On the other hand, Rhythmic Gymnastic it's a sport that requires perseverance and learn to work in group. It's a difficult sport that combines music, colour, dance and flexibility. Also its an anaerobic sport so you have to train hard yourself to use your breath system the best way possible to put the best of you on the scene just in 90 or 150 seconds. In this sport you are evaluated by judges.  

University of Chile team.

My school team.

They both are important to me, because they have helped me to grow up and maturate. They are important in my personal stability because remains me all what I am. Make an sport give me friends, experiences, but more important of that, gave me values. As the same way I learn values with the protagonist and experiences of the books, so I can say that this 2 hobbies make me the girl that today I am.

When I was a Child I had this two hobbies, but also, I used to dance and act. In fact, when I was a child I used to register myself in all off the extra activities that my school had. I was a really active girl.

To me hobbies represent a way to express and liberate yourself. It's the best way to forget the bad things that can be on your life, and full your heart with new energies to keep going. 

But as the same way that I have favourite hobbies, I have one that I could never do, and that it's play football. I really don't like that sport, not because of the rules, but because of the people who play it, and they egos. On this country people gives more importance to football players than the real problems that this society has, It's like football where the most important thing, and the other things can wait. I really don't get it and gets me mad.

Drawing tools.

On the future I would like to continue a hobby that I started but put on pause for years, as its drawing. I wasn't really good, but wasn't bad neither. Drawing used to relax me and I really liked it. Also my sister has an artist side, so drawing has always called my attention. 

Hobbies are an important part of all of us, and if it wasn't for them, we probably hadn't live a lot of experiences and hadn't make a lot of friends that shares the same hobbies like us. All the child should have a lot of hobbies and find by them selves they favourites without a parent pressure. 

Pd: here goes a link video to see a group presentation of my school on 2014. We win the second place. I'm the one who has 2 hoops at the beginning. Enjoy it from 2.00.57 to 2.04.20 :) Juegos Nacionales Maristas 2014

Immune System

I don't know why, but when I was a Child I was the healthiest girl in the school. I was never sick, and I hatted those kids whose lost classes because they where cooled. I wanted to do it too, but I never could miss school.

But something weird happened when I turned 18... I started to get sick every week. My last year of school I miss a lot of classes because of it. And now I have been sick this year about 7 times. It's like I can never recover from colds, It's like my normal state it's being sick.

That's why Immune System is so amazing to me.

Immune cells cartoon.

This system is a host defense system comprising many biological structures and processes within an organism that protects against disease. It is localized on all our body and all of the cells that make up it habit different organs lymphoid. The size of it it's uncountable because it uses the blood to travel across all of our organs and detect illness, and because there are a lot of differentiated cells that works together for this system.
Every sickness start with pain, that means that immune system it's working and protecting you. Fever, for example, it's a reaction of the immune system to put microorganism that shouldn't be on your body, in a habitat that it's difficult to them to live, so they are more "stupids" and immune system it's more available to attack and kill them.
But sometimes, immune system loose the battle and microorganisms seize of your body. That's when you must to visit to your doctor.

There are some illness that attack directly this system, as leukemia and HIV. 

HIV, it's the most complicated one, because it has no cure and because you can be with this virus attacking your system a lot of years without noting it . If you want to learn more about this illness click here.

To keep your system healthy you must to follow this 4 simple instructions.

1. Promote a healthy body (make some exercise, take sun, sleep 7-8 hours per day and avoid consumption of cigarettes, alcohol and caffeine).
2. Promote a healthy mind (avoid the stress, laugh a lot, spend time with your friends and get a pet).
3. Improve your eating habits (drink a lot of water, avoid sugar, eat a lot of fruits and vegetables and improve your consume of garlic and proteins).
4. Finally use dietary supplements (such as probiotics and multivitamins). 

I hope that you follow these instructions, probably I will start to follow them soon, because now, i'm with a cold that is killing me! :(

India

Indian Flag

If I had the opportunity to travel to some country in the world, I would probably visit India.
There's something magic in this place that attracts me... something spiritual.
Years ago, when I was 15, I started to feel more comfortable with Hinduism and Buddhism than Catholicism that was my family religion.
Because of that, I started to look for information and read about some places where Buddhism it's more popular.
Then, I found India.

Buddhist monks 

This country it's on the south of Asia and it is the second country with the biggest population in the world. In addition to a pluralistic religious, multilingual and multiethnic society, India also hosts a diverse flora and fauna in different protected habitats.

I would visit this country probably because, in this place, I could experiment my believes by other ways. I would like to visit Buddhist monks, and maybe they can teach me how they meditate. Also I would like to eat some typical food and practice some typical dances.
Architecture doesn't lay back. There are some beautiful palaces that impact everyone. They are called "Mosques" and are Moslem temples.
And of course, I would like to go to some parties to make some new friends and dance a lot as I always do when I visit new places.

Indian Party

Indian Mosque

Maybe I would like to pass some vacations here. It would help me to relax myself and find some new perspectives of how confront life with better tools.Travels always help people to maturate and take better decisions in their lives.

I hope to be on India in the near future, and enjoy all of this magic.

My Blogging Experience

My blog looks this semester 

This blog was created because my English teacher evaluates our writing through this.
At the beginning, it was really difficult, and I didn't know how to explain my ideas about a common topic that was chosen by the class. I was nervous about my typing and I used to think a lot before write.
But, as days go by, I started to feel more comfortable with writing my ideas and emotions. I stopped thinking about the mark that my teacher would put to me for the blogs and I started to enjoy them.

Writing it's something that I love to do. But always I had written just in Spanish. Now I have learned that languages are not a limit to express myself, and it's just a thing of confidence and relax.
Also, you can increase your English (or any type of language) level, while you write.

Mine, for example, has improved, but more important than that it's the fact that I learned to let myself go at writing, thing that helps me to feel English as my original language and also improved the way to get the words out of my mind.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   This site will be probably better if we could add some optional posts extra after the class, because sometimes when I go back to home I continue reading about the topic chosen in class, and find things more interesting than I had written in the blog, and will be probably interesting to complement our posts and add some new information.

In the future, I would like to write about me, like if the blog were a diary and we could spell out all of our feelings, and while we learn English we also clear our minds of the evaluations. It will be really interesting to read my classmates' blogs about their feelings and experiences of the week.

It's really sad but this is the last blog, but this is not a goodbye it is just a see you later <3 Hope that you have enjoyed as me this experience, and see you next semester! Best wishes for you :)

Ps: here a link to funniest cats of the world, enjoy!

Silver Nanoparticles

Silver Nanoparticles

Silver Nanoparticles are incorporated in apparel, footwear, paints, wound dressings, appliances, cosmetics, and plastics for their antibacterial properties. This has been really succesfull and helpfull.
One of the things that you can do on my career it's about investigate new forms to help people to have a better life or find a solution to several desseases.
As you can see nanoparticles can be the solution as antibacterial on our common day. But also this ones can help on cancer or other desseases, but silver ones aren't the only ones finded to help people, gold and cupper nanoparticles are on prove now as well.
I chose this ones because they have been involve on breast cancer treatment and ha have a lot of success.

Breast Cancer Symbol

There's some new investigations that involve Silver Nanoparticles on Breast Cancer. This ones in the future can decrease the proliferation of cancer cells. Soon as a sphere that releases control keys silver in the middle, which are those that have the action, the proliferation start to stop.
This could be complementary to the treatments that already exist (radiations and chemotherapies), to diminish the side effects in the patients.
The results are encouraging, as the treatment with silver nanoparticles has achieved up to 80% of the cancer cells disappear.
Two years ago I learned about gold nanoparticles on a biology homework, and I got so interested that I started to look about all the nanoparticles involve on cancer treatments. That was the first time that I heard about Silver Nanoparticles.

As I had mentionated they will help to increase welfare of mans and womans hoose suffer breast cancer, making they treatment short and more succesful.

One of the advantages of using this type of nanoparticles lies in the low cost and high results. So far the tests have only been done in vitro (without living organisms) and have not yet been tested in animals. But the disadventages of using silver nanoparticles resides in the possible toxicidade of the acumulation of it, anywhere has been prove that the number of nanoparticules acumulated its little and can't damage people.

The future it's on micro and nano technology, and the future it's now. 

The Most Enjoyable Subject

One of the things that I enjoy the most it's being on the lab. This term we course the subject: " Chemical Laboratory Techniques" but I can't say this one it's my favorite subject because my favorite it's probably Molecular Genetic.

But for now, Chemical Laboratory Techniques it's going right and I like it a lot.

On this subject we learn about some basic techniques and experiments that will help us in the future to feel more confortable on the lab.

Drop by Drop we learn the precision necesary on the lab.

On the week we have lessons just one day, in my case all the thursdays. The class has a duration of 4 hours and it is divided on 2 parts. The first one it's a theory class ant it has a duration of 1 hour. The the other 3 hours are on the lab and it is a practical lesson.

Being so close to the reality of my future profession it's the reason why I like this subject so much, and the complications that can have some process that you see so short and easy makes interesting this subject, because you learn that nothing it's so fast and easy on an investigation.

The teacher in charge of the course it's Inés Ahumada, but lessons and practicals had a lot of teachers because they turn the contents and the groups to teach. 

If no one teach us it´s impossible to us know the correct way to take the instruments or the exactly precition of an experiment. Chemestry it's an exact science, so if we fail just in one drop it can be letal. We need teachers to soport and guide us to learn the correct manage of the laboratory stuff.

Biochemestry it's a career that works on the laboratory, so this subject were implicit on my desition to study a cientific investigtion career.

All students of first year has to take this subject. We are approximately 300 students, divided on groups of day and lab table.

On this term we have learn about safety rules, extraction methods,titration and about 10 contents more.

This subject it's really amazing.

Me and my partener lab Joaquín

Website that I enjoy visiting

A website that I use to visit frecuently it's "Investigación y Ciencia" .

Here you can find "news" about all the ciencies, so it's like read the paper news and it feels more closly to the people.

Cover done back in 2005
for Scientific American Magazine
on DNA Computing.
 

This website is the Spain edition of the Scientific American, a magazine founded in 1845 wich deliver science and technology information in a way understandable for every people, no matter the level of science background on them.

The website it's organizated by cronological news. Also has sections of magazines, news, Scilog, Subjects, and much more. It's really useful when you want to read some new information, but not with complicated words.

I used to visit this website 4 times at week when I was on school, but now I only visit it 1 or 2 times at week because I really have to study a lot.

I really like this site, because it is closly to the people, and because you can learn really too much about what is the "new" discovering of the science, but on simple words. Actually I introduced this site to my mom to read it, and she (without a good level of science background) love it, and now can understand some things that I talk on the car when I visit her. It's amazing.

My favorite Book and Film are...

I have always preferred books than other things. I love literature. I love to read and write short histories, and I also can spend a big part of my summer reading books because later they turn part of me.

The Catcher in the Rye -
J. D. Salinger

On 2015, on my school list of books for the year appeared "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D Salinger. We read it on June. I got in love with the story and the kind of writing. This book drives me to another planet, and also makes me think about some situations of my life, turning on a spirit of auto conscient of my growing up.
What makes it attractive is that the story illustrates a teenager's dramatic struggle against death and growing up. Holden (the protagonist) tell's his own history, in his words like if he was speaking aloud to you. Holden resists to maturation.

Mark David Chapman
(If you take a look you can see
The Catcher in the Rye
between his hands)

Although, the book has something that makes some people turn on they murder spirit. The most contended case of it is the John Lennon's death by Mark David Chapman. The story says that Chapman read the book and when he ended it, he decided to kill Jhon. There's a lot of histories like this, but no one can explain what thing of this book makes some people a killer.

It's weird but I prefer books than movies, so it's difficult to me chose one movie as my favorite.
On the summer of 2016, my sister recommended me a movie. She said to me: "You will love it! It`s about a scientist". Some days later I watched it, and from this day I have watched this movie a thousand of times. It's fantastic!.
The movie is called "I Origins", and it's about a molecular biologist doctor that studies the eye. Then he falls in love with a spiritual woman that change his world.
What makes this movie fascinating its that after the death of the girl, Ian (the protagonist) uncover the possibility of the reincarnation of the souls.

Definitely, if you are a scientist, you have to watch this movie.

I recommend this ones because they connect with the soul of one of us. This book and this movie can change the way we think about the world and of our existence. Sometimes it's good to stop our hurry life and think about ourselves.

My Favorite Photograph

Me and Agustín (5 years old)

On winter of 2016, I started a new step of my life. I decided to enter on Gesta, Foundation destined to children who has not guaranteed their rights.
On winter and summer vacations, people on this foundation, is grouped around of schools with lows resources, and for a week do activities for make explicit the children rights to the boys and girls who came to find a place to play, talk, draw, run or everything they want with us.
It's beautiful to see how much love they can give to you and how much you can learn about them.

Photos of this times are my favorites, but the favorite one is a picture toked on January of 2017 by my friend Diego. I was playing with Amalia, a girl of 6 years old, to find the missed treasure. As you can see, she was with a costume of a pirate for make it more real. She was really exited and happy with the game. At the end, she finalized saying to me "I love you to much, "tía" Andrea". Those memories fills my heart and brings me energy for every difficulty of my day, and thats why I like this picture so much.

Me and Amalia (6 years old)

Escuela Monseñor Enrique Cornejo
Sagrada Familia, Región del Maule - Jenuary Team 2017

The love of the kids its amazing, but there's other thing wonderful too. As a team, we understand each other as a family. We are really close friends, and if something is wrong with one of us, we work on group to help the one whose sad, or stressed. Also we make parties and we have fun together. I don't know what i would do without this team, I love them too much.

If you are interested on the foundation, here is a link of it:
http://www.fundaciongesta.cl/

Thanks :)

Music in my life


It's simple. Music is part of us.
Every situation has a song, and if there's not, we can creat it.
Music it's literature and melody combinated in perfect sincronization to express the deeper feelings of our hearts.

I really don't remember the music I used to like when I was a child. I just remeber that I used to like everything that my sister used to listen, so that includes music of groups like "La oreja de Van Gogh" , "Kudai" and "Belinda".

Years later I got fanatic (and when I say fanatic, i really mean that I got crazy) of Avril Lavigne. I used to hear her music ALL the day. My family was bored of the same songs all the day, all the week, all the month and all the year. So after 3 years of torture they decided to give me for birthday gift a ticket for one of her shows. IT WAS AMAZING. But after that, I don't know why, i stoped to listen her. Actually now I dont like it.

After that, I traveled to Finland as an Exchange student, and probably for the distance, I started to listen chilean music. Untill now, Chilean music is my favorite.
It's weird but my favorite Singer it's Violeta Parra. She is ART.
But also I like others chilean singers and bands, like Victor Jara, Chancho en Piedra, Los Prisioneros, Francisca Valenzuela, Mon Laferte, Villa Cariño and Los Tetas.
This ones are my favourite songs of this singers and bands, if you want to hear one.

Violeta Parra - Run Run Se Fue Pal Norte
Victor Jara - Deja La Vida Volar
Chancho En Piedra - Animales Disfrazados
Los Prisioners - Quien mató a Marilyn?
Francisca Valenzuela - Prenderemos Fuego Al Cielo
Mon Laferte - Soy
Villa Cariño - Serenata Cruel
Los Tetas - La Medicina

As you can see, I like all types of music, but Chilean.

It's dificult to define an instrument that I like the most. But I love the guitar played as Violeta does. I think that guitar is the instrument more esential for bands now.
I'm really a mess in music. I never learnd to play an instrument, but almost all my friends play one.
I have friends who plays the bajo, others who plays the viola, and others who play the drums.
I just dance.

When I was younger, I was on a dance Company. We used to dance movies songs, so the ones who I remember the most are the introduce songs of The aristocats, Spirit, Alice in the  wonderland, Footlose and Saturday night fever.
In resume, music has been always part of my life, for listening or for dancing.
Thanks.

My favourite pice of technology

My generation, luckily born in the boom of technology. Things started to change dramatically, and in one year the same object were 100 times better than it was before. Also things started to be more chipper and accesible, so almost of population had something technologic in their houses.

Old telephone of my house.

Definitely for me the most important pice of technology is the telephone. When I was a child, the most exciting thing were call your friends and talk for hours after school. Also were really exciting call my uncle that lived in Santiago. Telephones makes distance shorter.
So practically I always had a telephone in my home, but my own cellphone arrived on the 2008 Christmas. I were really happy and I get crazy downloading ringtones for it.
After that, I had 7 different models of cellphones. In the beginnings I used it for call people, but after some years cellphones get more usefully for text people, do some maths problems, search on the internet, and now it's practically for everything. So that's why I use it almost all the day.
I like it because makes my day easier and also because makes me be on contact with people who I love. I think that my life without it will be a completely mess. I probably get late to all my meetings, and I will miss my mum and family so much that I will search a place closer to them for study.
" The important thing is not to know, but to have the number of the one that knows"

Why did I choose Bio-Chemistry? 

One of my first Christmas, about 15 years ago, I recived a toy pack with doctors implements. I was fascinated with them, and everyone in my family started to say that I should be a doctor. So I close my mind to this career, and started to gather info about it. Actually, since I was a good student, all of my teachers approved the idea and push me to keep that career like the best one for me. I was 13 when I started to love biology more than other subjects. And also at this age I discovered my talent for chemistry. It was in perfect concordance with medicine, so nothing make me doubt.

Later, when I was 15, I started to work in foundations that helped child on social risk, and I realized that I have to do something to help them. So I believed that give them a good system of health was the only way to help, probably because I was mentalizaded with medicine as my only career. As you can see, I related all of my stuff with medicine. But my only problem with study it started when I realized that if I become a doctor I will not investigate. I wanted to find new deseases, or find the cure for deseases that hadn't one, and doctors don't work on that. So there's when Bio-Chemistry appeared in my life. This new career revolutionized my perfect and paute world. I started to doubt, and unfortunately on my last year of school i got really sick, so I decided to give me one year to get better and decide what career will make me happy. But my mom, convinced me for take the PSU, even without study for it. When I get the results I could have enter in both careers, so I had to toke a decision. I was really confused, and I really search on everywhere and talk with everyone. But nothing happens utill I talk with my chemistry teacher. She says me that with my mind I could help really much people being a bio-chemistry and finding new information than being a doctor on a permanent hospital.
And that's why I'm here, because I just wanna help people and use all of my talents for it. Being here has been the best experience of my life, and defiantly its the career of my life. I have found new friends and new hobbies. At this moment I don´t know what kind of job I wanna have, but it´s between genetic or neuro-biology. I really LOVE bio-chemistry.

About Me

My name is Andrea Flores, second child of my parents and the youngest of all my family. I'm catalogued as the "baby" and everyone's always worried about me. Now, as revenge, i'm always laughing about them because their getting too old.

Mom's a book-keeper. She works many hours at day and probably is always tired, but she never stop smiling. 

Dad is the boss on a fruit company. He's a crazy man, is always making jokes and laughing. 

Perhaps thats why they get in love.  They are always having a good time together.

My sister is older than me. She studies engineering at Universidad de Chile. We are really close and we spend a lot of  time talking and shopping together.

I have a really nice family, and thats makes me the person who I become.

I grow up on Curicó, a small town on the 7th region of Chile. I studied in Instituto San Martín, place where i found friends, love and my passion, rhythmic gymnastic. 

I have practiced it for 11 years , and I wont stop. It really fulls me and makes me happy. On 2015 me and my group get the second place on the nationals, we are getting better every year.
Also i'm volunteer on the hospital and on my school, helping children to get relax and forget their problems. I love their smilies faces after an evening work, it makes me feel that I'm making something wonderful. 

Now i'm studying bio-chemistry in Universidad de Chile. I'm living alone and I see my friends and family just 2 days on the month. Also my boyfriend is studying too, so we can't meet periodically.  It has been difficult, but strange as it hears, I'm really happy. I'm making my dream come true and I hope everything ends well. I will still searching for new challenges and if it gets hard, I will fight for my dream again. As the typical phrase says " The middle of adventure such a perfect place to start...".

Ps: here goes a pick of me and my team when we get the 3rd place on the nationals.
Also goes a link of a video that shows my hospital volunteer. Enjoy. "Proyecto Repartiendo Sonrisas"