My Favourite Book and Film

Hello people, today I going to write you about my favourite book and film.

When I was 13 years old I read my first book for pleasure which was Harry Potter and Philosopher´s Stone, then continue with the all saga, and of course I saw all the movies, even I have my collection of Harry Potter objects…yes! I´m a Potterhead! But although I´m a fan of this saga, my favourite book is pride and prejudice and my favourite film is Belle.

The first time I read Pride and Prejudice (written by wonderful Jane Austen) I was 15 years old, and I read it because it is almost a family tradition…only of women obviously since it is romantic novel, which tells the story of Elizabeth Bennet who learns the error of making hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential, all this he learns when he realizes that he is in love with the perfect Mr.Darcy, who was a rich and powerful man with a lot of pride , who did not want to fall in love with a poor woman like Elizabeth and less to have a kinship with her family. This book is not just a romantic story, but it tells you about an empowered woman in a time where women were despised.

On the other hand , my favourite film is Belle (yes! I really like the stories of another time) tells the story of Dido Belle who was born in the West Indies and was the illegitimate mixed race daughter of Sir Jhon Lindsay who leaves her to the care of her uncles.

The fictional film centres on Dido relationship whit and aspiring lawyer the Sir Davinier it is set at a time of legal significance, as a court case is heard on what became know as the Zong Massacre, when slaves were thrown overboard from a slave ship. You have to see this film because it shows you how a woman mixed race must face the discrimination of society, a strong woman who learned to accept her origins even when everyone told her that it was as abomination. 

My Concerts

Throughout my life I have been to many concerts the first was the Jonas Brothers when I was 13 years old, then I went to see one of my favourite bands paramore in 2011 in the "espacio riesco" and 2013 in the "movistar arena" they were one of the best concerts I´ve ever been in my life!...I remember being left speechless for shouting so much!
I also went to see Bruno Mars and Imagine Dragons with my best friend both in the "movistar arena" and Ed Sheeran in the "pista atletica" with another friend.

However, my best concerts have been Tears For Fears in 2011 and Silvio Rodriguez in 2018, to which I have gone with my mom in the “movistar arena”. The atmosphere of both concerts was very quiet, the music spectacular and the best thing is that nobody pushed us.

My best memory is with the British rock band of the 80s Tears For Fears, we had waited all the concert with my mom for the group to sing "Woman in Chains", and in the end they did it, I remember we held hands and sang to all lungs that beautiful song.

Even though I have gone to many concerts throughout my life, I still have many more to go! it is something that is enjoyed too much since the music is simply magical.

A country I would like to visit

Hi people! In the first post of 2019 I will talk about a country/city that I would like to visit ... the place of my dreams.

It all started when I saw the movie "letters to Juliet" at 14 years old, this film takes place in the city of Verona and its surroundings and I fell in love with the landscapes, so I dedicated myself to find out more about this beautiful city. So yes! the city of Verona is my dream place and therefore the place I would like to visit.

The city of Verona has a lot history and culture to learn, for example, "the house of juliet" is a stately palace that was converted into a museum to represent the great love story of Romeo and Juliet by the author William Shakespeare. I would also like to visit "the arena of Verona" one of the most famous Roman amphitheatres in the world built in the first century and many other places such as the cathedral of Verona and Castelvecchi. 

The house of Juliet

As much as I would like to live in a city beautiful as Verona I could not leave my country chile where my family and friends are, but Who knows? after all, who does not like Italian food? 

From the invisible to the visible world and back...

Today I will speak about of a very interesting subject in the field of sciences especially in pharmacology...the Liposomes. 
The liposomes are nanoparticles, which are used as a vehicle for administration of nutrients and pharmaceutical drugs. 
I studied this issue for the subject "Research for the pharmaceutical sciences", where we specifically focus on the action of liposomes on skin cancer. 
This topic is very important in the pharmacological world because the liposome acts as a vehicle for anticancer agents , targeting cancer cells specifically without side effects as in common therapies (For example chemotherapy, which has cytotoxic agents that attack both good and bad cell, causing secondary affections such as hair loss).
One of the advantages of liposomes is that various modifications can be made to improve their specificity, such as adding proteins to the surface of their membrane, which will make a better recognition of the cancer cells, releasing the anticancer agent(drug) only in those "bad cells ". On the other hand, this treatment is so new and innovative, that even the scientists continue making various modifications to the liposomes, which are very expensive, which is a great disadvantage if you want to generate a cure in the skin cancer.
This topic we exposed with my friends a week ago, and clearly if the scientists continue with the studies of liposomes and their various modifications to treat not only skin cancer if not any other type, you could reach a cure, which Is a necessity nowadays in many people.

The most enjoyable subject ...

Hi people! Today I will speak about to my favorite subject Organic Chemistry.

Organic chemistry is a subject which combines the theoretical with the practical in equal parts since I have organic chemistry and organic chemistry lab; both subjects are a challenge, because it is the basis of everything that I can learn in the future.

 For me, the organic chemistry is very interesting because this subject studies all those compounds that contain carbon, and almost everything that one eats, drinks or simply what makes the body work is produced thanks to carbon (for this reason the carbon is called the basis of life ).

My classes of organic chemistry are divided into two parts, one of theoretical class, and another called seminary, where you practice what is seen in the theoretical class and everything that I learn in this subject, I apply it in organic chemistry lab, and that I just love it! Here we can synthesize so many things, and see so many reactions that it just makes me wonderful to go to the laboratory.

Well...learning organic chemistry will help me in the future to be able to synthesize drugs in order to help people, and that is the most important thing for me.

Person/Expert you admire

The greatest contributors to science have always been men and they have always been rewarded for their discoveries since ancient times, but women have also contributed a lot to science, for example, Maria Curie, Jane Goodall, Emmy Noether, or Barbara McClintock, she discovered the transposition – genes moving about within chromosomes – often described as jumping genes, and showed that genes are responsible for switching the physical traits of an organism on or off, but for a long time his works were not taken into account, 30 years later he was awarded the Nobel Prize...30 years!! is something I still can not believe!

But the most emblematic and admirable case for me is the Rosalind Franklin. She was born on July 25, 1920 in London, the second of five brothers, three of them men, in a Jewish family that had four generations dedicated to the banking. At age 18 she passed the entrance exam at Newnham College in Cambridge to study experimental sciences and, in particular, chemistry.  Her father did not accept Rosalind's decision and took away her support of money, however, but his aunt paid his studies, and so she graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1941. She learned crystallography and X-ray diffraction, techniques that she applied to DNA fibers. One of her photographs (Known as photograph 51) provided key insights into DNA structure. But, Other scientists (Watson and Crick) used it as evidence to support their DNA model and took credit for the discovery, who were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1962. 
Rosalind Franklin never received any recognition in life, on the contrary, Watson and Crick almost never mentioned it, but that was not an impediment to continue looking for the answer to questions that were unimaginable, teither was her father an impediment for her to study! For these and many other reasons as her discoveries is that she is a woman to admire ... we must always look for ways to produce knowledge regardless of the difficulties that are put in the way or the prizes that one can receive for it .

A Photograph You Like

The photograph is something very important in my life, because it immortalizes unforgettable moments, and unique and very important people in my life. I usually take selfies with my family and friends and I print them and after that I stick them on the wall of my room, so I can remember every day how lucky I am.
One of the most important photographs for me it's with my cousin Paolo when we were kids. This photo was taken by my mother in my house when we were 4 years old
My cousin was born six months before me, and from the moment I was born, we have been together, he is more than my cousin, he is my brother and my best friend, And this photograph I like it because it represents all the affection and complicity that we have always had until today.
Paolo is the person with whom I have more photos,, because we have spent together all important processes, and we share the same friends and family, I think that makes us have many photos together...dont you think?