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"