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.
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
Wednesday, 24 May 2017
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.
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
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.
