The best babies in the world

Is no secret that I love dogs. For me all of them are babies, even the streets dogs (especially the street dogs). In my life I had two dogs: Floppy, a lady dog, and Rabito (because he has no tail), both cocker spaniels. But I regret being so young that I did not realize how much care they needed.

My dad brought Floppy in 2003, and the next year he also brought Rabito to our home, in that time a small apartment. Floppy was calm; Rabito was a disaster. Both had a lot of babies, which we sadly gave away. We took them to our new home in Ñuñoa, and they were happy with the new backyard.

Rabito is proud of that hole in the ground

But time passed, and Floppy died in 2016. She was old, and I did not take enough care of her. Rabito is now living with the family of my boyfriend and is an old dog but with a soul of a puppy. I loved my dogs because they are so pure, they only need love, food and someone who picks up their poop.

The best holiday 

The last holidays that I liked where in Temuco this past september 18th. I stayed for like ten days and I stayed with my boyfriend at his house. We went to the "fondas" (a kind of chilean makeshift parties) twice, at the begining and when they closed it. The atmosphere was festive, a lot of alcohol (terremotos and craft beer) and food. We ate empanadas and we met some strange people. Because it was rainy we stayed most of the time in the house, making barbecue and stuff. Also, we went to Puerto Saavedra, a small fishing town near Temuco, and the place was beautiful.

We ate fried fish with fries, some white wine and the coastal boulevard offered a nice walk. We even saw some cows and pelicans. The best thing of this holidays is that I have lots of fun, I chilled out, which I needed after the last semester, and spend some quality time with my boyfriend. I wished I stayed longer but classes started right after that week.

A country a would like to visit

I always wanted to go to Japan. If you ask me why, I cannot give you a straight answer. Maybe it is the distance, I think it is the most far away you can get from Chile, the exact opposite in this planet. It is definitely not because anime, I do not even watch anything related, I just do not like it. From Japan I know next to nothing, even if my boyfriend told me about his trip to Tokyo and Hokkaido. Maybe it is because I do not want to hear or read about Japan but live it, in person. To know if they really live in the future as it seems.

 I want to go to the statue of Hachiko, because I love dogs and that dog made me cry. I do not want to live there, or work, or even study, I want to go, see how it is there and go back, the fastest I can (I hate to fly, it scares me).

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.