The best subject... (for me)

In my school life, I love many subjects, like chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics…  And I hate others like sport and history… But I think that the most important in my life was mathematics. I have an especial connection with this.

When I was 8 or 9 years old I really bored in the mathematics class because I understand faster and I thought that the class was very slow... So my teacher helped me to learn more and I started to love this. I loved mathematics because I thought that they are easy and I had excellent marks.  

However when I started studying in Liceo Bicentenario Talagante, I undercover the world of the Olympics of Mathematics and I really love it. In almost all Olympics the test consists of two or three questions of logic, geometry and specials applications of the math. And sometimes the questions have a very funny context…

I participate in many types of Olympics, like CMAT, the National Olympic of Mathematics, the Olympics of Liceo de Aplicación, Olympics of Liceos Bicentenarios, Olympics of Instituto Talagante and the Olympics of my college.

Many times I won medals and trophies in the Olympics but this never was very important for me, because I always saw these things like entertainment and not like a real competition.

All Fridays I stayed until four or five o’clock in the college studying or practicing for de next competition whit my best friend of competition Valentina and a teacher.  I think that these moments were the best in the school because we were few people in the course; we are usually three and sometimes ten… That was perfect because we can do the class as we wanted. Sometimes we eat many things or we only talk all the class… That was so funny.

However, I don’t study something like Mathematics, statistics or something about this, because I always think that mathematics is an entertainment and if I study something with this I would hate it... 

An important person...

I think that everybody has a person who inspired him or a person that they can admired.
In my case, this person is Maria Griselda Hinojosa, the first woman who studied pharmacy in the Universidad de Chile.

I think that she is a great example because before her all pharmacists were men and she marks a difference in the time.

She was born in Copiapó in 1875 and she studied with many men in the university, but she graduated after them because she failed in her practice exam. So she graduated in December of 1899, making history in Chile and the education in this country.

She worked in an association with Percival Rojas and she was the leader of “Botica y droguería” in Copiapó, Chile.

I really love this girl because she is an example of beginning of the women in the real education in Chile. She was the first women who studied my career and I think that this is very important not only for me, is very important to the society.

Probably she had many problems when she studied because all her classmates were men and they had a bad mentalist about the school (and university) and the women.

I think that we, in this moment, are very fortunate because every year more women enter to study in the university, but we have to improve with the equality at work. We can be better. We need to be better.

If you want to know more about Maria Griselda Hinojosa, you can read the book “Griselda… la olvidada"

Pretty animals

All people say that dogs and cats can’t live together. But I am sure that they never have cats and dogs.

All my life I have been with different types of pets, like dogs, cats, parrots, rabbits, dunks, chickens, geese and fishes. This was because I lived in a plot so we had many space for the pets.

But now I don’t live in a plot, so I can’t have all the pets that I want. However I have a dog called Daniela, four cats and maybe five (there is a cat that comes to eat at my house) and a lot of fishes.

But I think that the pet that I really love was my dog “Guille”, who died three years ago. He came to my life when I was three or four years old and we grew up together. The name of this dog was a game, because the person who gave us the dog is called “Guillermo Ramirez”, so the dog was called “Guillerdo Ramirez”. But my neighbour likes the Venezuelan comedies and the protagonist was called Guillermo Alfredo and she said that my dog looked like them. So the real name of my dog was Guillermo Alfredo Ramirez Vivanco (Vivanco because originally it was from my aunt and her last name is Vivanco).

He died for a bone cancer and I know that in his last days he suffered a lot, so we decide to sleep forever.

However I always remember him, because we grow up together and play together all the time and I really love him.

Another pet that a really love is my cat called “Momo”, I know that he is the most stupid cat of the world. He doesn’t know hunt and he shout like a little cat (and he is not a little cat). Sometime he really love chase his tail, like cats do in the movies. He always does mischief and he doesn’t like that I touch another cats or animals. He is so cut but is so stupid too.

←The cat in the image is Momo and he like to sleep with the tongue out.

The photographs

With the actually technology many people thinks that they are professionals photographers because they have a cell phone with a so pretty camera. However maybe they don’t know that another people are dedicated to photography professional and they many times studied for this.

The last Christmas my mother gave me a semi-professional camera that I used in the summer vacations. We went to Algarrobo and we walked to the “Humedal San Gerónimo”. In this place I used my camera for the first one. I do photographs of many types of dunks and a coipo (very similar to beavers). This pictures are significates for me because then I do a curse of techniques of photography and now I think that this is not easy hobby and you need to be very precise and you to have a very good pulse.

Although I like the photography, my favorite picture is not mine, it is a very famous image for the Vietnam War. In the image you can see how an innocent girl run away without clothing because her city was attacked with napalm and she was burned. Actually she is mother and she lives like everyone, but when she was a girl, she hated the photography because it was a very traumatic moment.

Sometimes I try to make a picture but my picture is not so beautiful like the professionals, because they really studied photography or cinema and now they are professionals in this area. I think that photographers need more attention and need to be more valued because they capture little moments that marks the story.

Books or films?

Many people say that you have to choose if you like books or movies, but I think that it is wrong. I really love Harry Potter’s books but I love Marvel movies to. So yes, you can love both things at the same time.

At first, we will talk about books. The first book that I read was “The adventures of Pepita Canela”. This is a book written with little poems that you can read in a short time. I always remember this book.

Then, I read all Harry Potter’s books and I love it. I love that a child has the power to save the world and he decided do this with his friends. In this book we always see how one person sacrifice her life to save the rest people and I think that this is a so important message for the kids that can read it now.

In the other side, I am a fan of Marvel Cinematic Universe. I know which movie of this world is my favourite because I love all of them. But I can say that my favourite superhero of Marvel     Universe is Iron man, because he was the first that I knew when I was a girl. Also he always criticizes other people but he always sacrifices his life. So he can be I good example for the kids that watch his movies.

Now you can see that you can love books and movies at the same time and you can be very happy with this.

We love technology

Probably many people would say that their cellphones are the most important piece of technology. However, I think that we have some objects that are most important or sentimental. 

I like many pieces of technology, I like the television, the computer, my cellphone, but I really love the electric oven. I think that it is a so fantastic invent because you can make many things in it. You can cook many kinds of sweets (like cakes and cupcakes), bread and also you can cook meats, chicken and fish. So it is a very practice object because you can leave the meat cooking in the electric oven and you can go to the shop or you can do another things in the house. 

I knew the electrics ovens when I was 10 years old when my uncle gave to my mother a electric oven because in winter she couldn't cook bread in the tin oven. 

I start to used this object about two years ago, because I was  very interested in the cook of sweets, so now sometimes I cook cakes, cupcakes and another things. I really like to do that, it's a very good distraction. 

A very important question about the electric oven is how do you used it? And the answer is so simple: it's depends... Because the use can changes according to what you want to do. If you want to do a cake, you would have to preheat and then you can put your cake in it. If you can cook meat or chicken, you can put in it without preheat the oven.

If I don't have the electric oven, probably I can't do cakes in winter because the rain extinguishes the fire in the tin oven, so we only can eat this type of things in summer and I like eat it all the year. 

So yes, I like my cellphone, but I love my electric oven. 

My future...

People always say that you must decide your future when you are just a kid. Nevertheless, I think that when we are children we only big dream and we don’t know how is the real world.

When I was a girl, I wanted to be a hairdresser because I really loved my hair. But then I knew that my uncle is a doctor and he has everything that he wants. Then since I was eight years old I really wanted to be a doctor and this was my only goal in the school.

However, when I was sixteen years old I started to think that medicine was not a really possible career because is so difficult enter it. So I started to look for another career that interest me and I found Chemistry and Pharmacy and I love it.

I always wanted to enter to the Universidad de Chile and when I applied to the university I put first medicine and then chemistry and pharmacy but I know that I couldn’t enter to medicine because my score was not enough. So now I’m studying chemistry and pharmacy in Universidad de Chile and I really like it.

Finally, I always wanted to work for the people, I want to help people in some way and chemistry and pharmacy help me to do that, so I’m very happy with this career.