English in my life

When I was six or seven years old, all of my classes at school were in English. At least the half of the classes the teacher did it in English. Except for math and Spanish (of course). I hated it. I couldn't understand many words than cat or dog. Imagine how hard it was to go to the bathroom. Everytime that I wanted to go I had to ask my teacher "may I go to the bathroom, please?" but I always forgot that sentence so I ask her in Spanish and she reminds me again. It was a torture, a cruel torture to a kid who wanted to pee. That was how my first grade was like. 

Then I went to another school where my classes were in Spanish (finally). There I started to understand better the language. The time passed and when I was sixteen years old I felt like I could understand almost every sentence in English (at least at an intermediate level). But, speaking in English? Never. I'm a noob pronouncing and speaking at the regular English speed.

So I reached university and I noticed that I have more English classes. I was tired of that kind of classes at school. I thought if I can read science posts in English and understand them so I can have a better source of information I was ok. But here in university, the teacher centres more in the pronouncing of British English, a topic which I was bad at. So I've been learning how to not be misunderstood by English people. Like have which pronounces like "haav" and hub which pronounces like "hav". 

Also, I have improved my writing by making blogs. I'm learning more synonyms and phrases. It'll be very useful in the future. I think I need to improve the way I speak English, improve my British accent. However, I only use my English knowledge when I'm reading some science post, playing a video game or when I'm listening a movie in English and I don't want to read the subtitles.  

Changes to my study programme

When I started my career, I tought that there'll be no subject which could make hate the class but it always depends of the teacher. I mean, at this point you realise that everything's on the teacher. In highschool I've always said that in college I'll be studying what I like and there won't be any class about history or languaje. However, there's history everywhere. Yesterday I had a class where my teacher taught us about the evolution of the Public Health System and it was the most boring class I've ever had since history in highschool. I know that theese kind of classes are important for my future job but the way that the teacher did the class was annoying. He was literally reading the power point all the class. The thing is that the power point had about 70 slides. It took almost three hours to finish the class. My point is that teachers in college have to have the desire to teach. In other way, they'll be just annoying their students with boring classes.

Other thing I don't like about the system in my career is that...

to be continued.

The best thing to do in holiday? here's a clue: WHOOPERS

There’re two type of people; people who plan their holidays like since august and have everything paid out, with their baggage ready inside the closet and there are people who doesn’t care about it and if they go anywhere on holidays is because someone invited them or they just thought about the idea the same day that they went out. I’m the second type. There’s no moment in my whole year where I think about holidays. I mean, I like holidays but I hate travelling elsewhere than Burger King, so I stay at home the most of the holidays. Maybe eating a whooper.

However, everything in life has an exception. Last summer I was sitting on the couch watching Netflix and my phone rang. It was my neighbour asking me if I would like to go to Algarrobo with our other neighbours. I was about to say no but before that could happen he told me that there we’ll be just ourselves. No parents all along this holiday. I couldn’t stop thinking “beach, parties and alcohol without supervision”. I said yes and I don’t regret any of what happened out there. It was one of my best holidays ever. I won’t say more. What happens in Algarrobo stays in Algarrobo.

For these holidays I have nothing planned yet. I won’t plan anything. I’ll just let it happen like last summer. But just for you to know (and I’m not saying that I’m planning these holidays) I would like to go to England or Italy. Maybe with some friends. Or maybe with my girlfriend.

I RAN OUT OF IDEAS FOR THE TITLE HALP

Since I was a kid, getting a job was something that I always wanted but never had. At least not a job  with contract, one of those you're sure that you're going to earn money. I wanted it because the only thing that I cared of was playing video games and with the money I could have more games and consoles. That's why the only way that I made money was selling my childhood's toys in sales that my school allowed sometimes. Now that I think about it I had no idea of how to value my items. I sold toys valued in 5.000 Chilean  pesos like in 300. The worst part of it was that I wasted the money in chocolates and other things like that. Then, when I was sixteen I started working with my rock band washing cars in the street so we could afford our songs "professional" recording. It was better than our homemade recordings but it was still an amateur work compared to really professional recordings. I remember that I uploaded to Instagram a photo of me and my band holding our first 5.000 earned for washing a van. That's how we paid two recordings (it was like 40.000 per song). I liked being outdoors washing cars. It was in the summer so the weather was very nice. 

Nowadays I just want to finish my career so I can work in a well paid-job. Having a major in pharmacy can open you lots of doors to new jobs, like working as the man in charge inside a drug store, in the clinic ambit following  patients which have to take like six or more medicaments at the  same time. Both are well paid jobs and have a lot of employment in these years. And for well paid I mean that they're clearly up from the minimal salary, as far as I know, like 1.300.000 average. 

If I got the job that I want, I wouldn't like to travel to another countries or things like that, I just want a routinary job that provides me with enough money to invest in my musician's whims. Since the man invented sedentarism (which I have to admit it was one of the best inventions of humanity) civilisation was developed and being such a lazy evolved monkey has become part of our DNA, or my DNA at least. Come on! it's the principle of minimum energy. God is telling us to being lazy, but as I don't believe in any god I'll say that the universe want's us to be lazy. I'm not saying it, science does.

Just a science post

Have you ever thought about what thing makes you be what you're? That thing that makes you different from everyone else? Where are you, as an elemental being? Where are all those information which told your body to be just like it is? Well, I just had a biology class with a nerdy-vegan-lesbian-feminist looking woman (no offence) with a doctorate in biochemistry who remembered me how stupid I'm so when I got home I started to study a little deeper from what I knew and I'm gonna tell you about what I learned yesterday. 

The amazing DNA. A polymer about thousands of nucleic acids placed one beside another forming a thread which links to another thread of nucleic acids. The difference between the four nucleic acids that compose the DNA lies on their nitrogenous base. That base could be Adenine, Guanine, Thymine and cytosine.  It's just some carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus in the right place. Four elements that contains all the information about your body. Those nucleic acids are the elemental you and that's because the DNA is the base for transcription and translation, which is the essential process that does your cells to build proteins since the beginning of being you. And those proteins interact with the rest of your cell's molecules, forming an important part of the majority of all the chemical reactions inside your cells working as enzymes. In conclusion, depending of the order of the nitrogenous bases that conforms your DNA, your cells will produce certain proteins which will interact into some chemical reactions inside you. That makes you be what you're. All living things are just a high level pattern of chemical reactions inside a vesicle composed of phospholipids which can react with external agents. 

But hey, how does the DNA tell your cells about what proteins do it have to do? Well, the answer is simple and also it's complex. The simple thing is that a protein is just a chain of different amino acids (polypeptide) placed in a certain order. The amino acids are linked among themselves inside the ribosome. It has two concavities; in one of them is the incoming messenger RNA and in the other one is the in-process polypeptide. Each amino acid has specific anticodons (which is an unit made of three nucleotides) which reaction with an unique triplet of nucleotide inside the messenger RNA with the help of the Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetases. So, depending of the order of the nucleotides inside the mRNA, your cells will make a certain protein. But what's mRNA? It's a sequence of nucleic acids but with a different carbohidrated bases (with an hydroxide in the carbon number two) which's produced from the DNA (without that hydroxide in the carbon number two) using some enzymes. The way those enzymes do this work is by using the fact that some nitrogenous bases attract themselves (adenine with thymine or uracil (this one is for the RNA) and guanine with cytosine) so you can copy a DNA chain with it's contrary nitrogenous base in the RNA. The anticodons of the amino acids works in the same way, so they will be attracted by the contrary of the nitrogenous bases of the RNA, being themselves identical with the DNA. That's why the DNA is where all of your information is locked-up. 

DNA's size is about 20 Å in diameter and 34 Å in length. It's located inside the cell nucleus. There're some grievous illnesses with a bad self-replication of the DNA like cancer, where some nucleotides are poorly replicated so it's mRNA makes ribosomes build other proteins that you don't need and sometimes they could be harmful to your body. There're a lot of things that can produce cancer so I recommend not to worry about it and live your life. Smoke, eat some transgenic fruits and jump inside an x-rays room, what does it matter? You and me, we both're gonna die someday. Try to do something interesting with your life, make it worth. Otherwise you can listen to this wise advice from Morty: "Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV." 

Live long and prosper. 

Just an Innocent Study Tour

Being in high school has its advantages and disadvantages, like all things in life. Some clearly disadvantages are waking up early in the morning, study some subjects that you don't like (in my case it was history) and deal with all these stupid rumors that circulates around every corner of the school. Also there're some nice advantages, like study a little and even so have good grades, sleep in class, throw jokes to your friends and laugh all day but the best of these is that your whole class has the opportunity to go on holidays with two teachers to wherever wants the majority. Well, this post is about that holiday, because it was the best that I ever had. 

We went to Praia Resort in Porto Seguro, Brazil on December of 2015 for like a week. We went with our math teacher and our physics teacher. One of our classmates was about to staying in Santiago because he couldn't afford the trip after his father died, but we all as a class financed his part. It was the first time that I was going to another country and the first thing that I realized when I got out of the plane was the air. It was so different, so heavy and dump compared to the air in Santiago. I felt nice. My dad gave me a lot of reales before going inside the plane in Santiago. In that time one real was the same as 250 chilean pesos and I knew it but I didn't have a low valor bill to pay the guys who took my suitcase so I paid him like 4000 chilean pesos for just taking my suitcase. He was looking at me with that face of "pls gimme somthin' I need it" (grammar errors purposely) so I couldn't resist.

Once we got to our respective rooms, there was a mistake by the receptionist about what we wanted and they gave us two rooms for all the boys instead of three. And as expected I was there. We had no space to walk between all those beds which were pretty close one with another but we took advantage from that and played to the fights. It was very fun. However, it wasn't like that because our teachers talked to the receptionist and they gave us another room for me and two friends so we were comfortable.

In the resort we had open bar from eleven in the morning until midnight so we were drunk all day. Also we had buffet with different kind of foods. We ate as much as we can. There was a big swimming pool which was tempered by the sun. It was warm up to midnight. We were to like three or four parties in that week, we went to an aquatic park and also go diving in the Atlantic Ocean. This has been the best holiday I ever had because I had everything; food, friends, alcohol, parties, ocean, sun, I mean, I felt like being part of Jersey Shore.

Here's a picture of the resort:
 

Just a Travelling Post

I just realized that I'd never thought about travelling along different countries because it's a topic that doesn't really matter to me. I hate traveling, the waste of time waiting in the airport or inside the car with my knees hurting for having them in the same position for more than three hours complaining about how it would be if I stayed at home watching Netflix. However my english professor made me do a blog about travelling so as an old man in the dental clinic once told  me: "Do it now and you won't have to worry anymore". 

I'd like to visit england just because their music is awesome. I mean, a lot of the greatest rock bands of all time came from there; Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie... and other bands more current like Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead, Muse or Blur. 

I'd like to go on winter just because in that case I could wear the same suit as Sherlock Holmes and go visit The Sherlock's Holmes Museum. I'm not a big fan, but it would be fun. I've never read a single Sherlock Holmes book but I saw the T.V. show and I liked that. Still, that doesn't mean that I'm reading one of his books in a near future, I just liked the showfinal.

Also I'd like to have some photos of me inside a typical british phone booth like David Bowie in his album "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars", other photos of me annoying those soldiers with the Marge Simpson's hair only because I can and they can't do anything against tourists and another photo eating the classical apple pie from england with that typical lattice upper crust in front of the Bodiam Castle. 

If I had the chance to live or work there, I wouldn't take it because the rest of my insignificant life is here in Chile and I wouldn't change it for anything, I mean, I miss my home and my cat after one single day out on the beach or whatever.