MY BLOGGING EXPERIENCE

As a new experience, writing a blog in English went from a hard assignment to a good way to learn how to communicate myself, not just for this subject. I have noted that not only my writing skills have been improved, but also my vocabulary which is one of my weakest points. Well, my grammar is not that good, but is getting better; maybe, I will be more confident when I got to talk in english (I hope). I do not know what can be included in future activities like this, because this was a novelty for me, far ahead from filling boring homework and other assignments that usually involves an english class. However, I did like some aspects of writing a blog, such as the subjects; for example, I usually do not write about what I like (Glee!) or writing about my pet in that entry about a photo that I like. Maybe giving a subject choice for every blog entry would be great, because sometimes I found myself with nothing to write about. I would like to write more about music, not just what I like but going deeper, about lyric techniques, genres, singers that influenced me. Overall I found this was a good experience and a good way to learn a little bit more about expressing myself in english.

 MY FAVOURITE SERIE: Glee

My favorite series is Glee, directed by Eric Stoltz and produced by FOX. It is about a school locate in Ohio, with its typical popular guys groups (the cheerleaders or “cheerios” and the football players), and their least popular in-the-bottom group, the glee club. This club is the school choir, directed by teacher William Schuster, a former choir singer in his school days (back in the day when glee club was popular) and in his mission to keep the club alive he started to recruit more people; as an extracurricular activity he needs at least 12 members. At first, he enlists 3 cheerios (Santana, Britany and Quinn), which are covertly sent by their coach Sue Silvester to destroy the glee club, and three football players with some singing talent (Finn, Noah and Mike).

 The story revolves around the growing of Glee, how the cheerleaders and football players found a new passion in music and the love story of Rachel, an unpopular singer, and Finn, the most popular guy in school. I like this series because first, I like music a lot, I like the vocal arrangements and how other voice nuances can give a new life to older, classic songs from Queen and other great bands and singers. And secondly but no less important, because one of the chapters are based from Journey songs, one of my favorite bands.

A subject that i enjoy studying this semester

This semester I have several subjects, but my favorite by far is Instrumental Analysis Laboratory. In

this lab we put in practice what we learned before in the classroom, like measuring pH or the

concentration of an analyte using a gas chromatograph, among other techniques and methods.

We see everything covered by the previous subject, such as chromatography (both gas and high-

performance liquid or HPLC), potentiometry, elemental analysis and UV-visible spectroscopy. I like

this subject because I love to learn in a practical way; I usually get bored in other more theoretical

classes, but in this one I got to use the equipment and I learn better this way. In the laboratory I

often do a lot of things: from weighting and preparing samples, to measuring it, collecting data

and analyzing, but what I like the most is crafting the report, as I have a natural talent to do this.

Even with all of this, the only thing I do not like about this subject is the class time: is too early in

the morning (8:30 am) and I like to sleep!

CARRER-RELATED WEBSIDE

I often visit prvademecum.com because it is the most comprehensive pharmacological online database. It has a very easy to browse layout, and even in its mobile version is easy to find anything pharmacological related. Both desktop and mobile versions share the same basic layout, with 5 different search bars, which simplifies its use; however, the app versions (for both iOS and Android) are just the same as the browser version, and you even must pay for them (20 dollars, which is outrageous), so I will stick with browser. As for the site itself, you can search extensively about active principles, commercial names, laboratories or manufacturers, pathologies and even interactions between drugs and other adverse reactions; you can even personalize your search to your country, helping greatly when I do not know about a “mysterious pill box my mom found in her drawer”. I visit it maybe a couple times a month, and I presume it will be of great help when I graduate and eventually work in some pharmacy related work.

MEMORABLE HOLIDAYS

I remember going to Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, two years ago. I was starting a relationship with my boyfriend and one day he said “why we don’t go to Valpo?”. Best idea ever. We went with just a backpack and a few pesos to the terminal, just after looking for a place in booking.com. The days were awesome, we cannot ask for a better weather in July. Sunny days, few people in the streets. We stayed in Viña, which was better than Valparaíso because it is less dirty. We discovered a nice bar near the hostel, they serve some delicious empanadas filled with cream cheese and shrimp tail, with a touch of ciboulette. We even met a guy from Pakistan, Ishmael, he was selling incense for a living (two years later we found him in Santiago begging for money, he was not doing very well). We went to Valparaíso, looking for a good place to eat seafood. The city is nice albeit a little dirty, but the worst part was going uphill to see the bay, it was too tall and I was too scared. You can see my scared face in the photos! Anyway, it was just a weekend, but it was one of the best weekends in my life.

  

FAVOURITE PICTURE

This photo was taken by my boyfriend Braulio and it shows my beautiful baby dog Rabito, which means "short tail" in spanish. This photo was taken in 2016, when me, my family, my boyfriend and my Rabito lived in Ñuñoa, near Estadio Nacional (this was taken in that house too, in the backyard). I remember we just finished washing him, you can see how wet he was. I have Rabito for at least 14 years, when my father gave him to my mother. He had a partner, Floppy, who sadly passed away that same year. I like this photo because it represents how happy we were there with my family, how much I love my dog (even if he is living with my in-laws, which take care of him because neither me and my boyfriend cannot have dogs in our houses), and just look at him and his smile, always happy and fat. I hope you like it too. Now Rabito is old, he is getting blind, but even that, when I visit him he always recognize my voice and start barking and jumping over my legs.

  

MUSIC - FAVOURITE GENRE/MUSICIAN

Hi class, today i will post about the music in my life. I think is an interesting topic, because… What is life without music?

When i was in the college, i started to play guitar, because i had music class. Whit the pass of the time i started to sing and play another instrumets.

When i had fifteen years old i loved “Nightwish”, but later, the band changed Singer and my fanaticism for the bands changed too.

Today, my favorite genre of music is the rock. And particularly i love “Journey” and all their songs, especially “faithfully” (son romantic!). I also consider a great artista to Eric Clapton, is a very good singer and songwriter. Some other bands that i like are: Queen, The police, The Beatles, Pearl jam, etc. I think that i love rock because this gender have a great exponents of music, more than other music genres.

This is a pictured with their first singer 

And in this pictured they are with their last and current singer.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMD8hBsA-RI