The world of dance...

Dance like it is the last time

 People has many different hobbies, someone likes play football, sing, read or play guitar. In my case, I really like to do many things: I like to read, sing in my house, riding a bike… But the thing that I really really love is dance.

 The dance is an experience so interesting, because you can talk without words, and the people can understand you. When you dance, you connect with the public, they can feel your feelings.

 When you are in a stage, you forget everything, you forget all the problems, the preoccupations, the bad moments, because in this moment the only thing that is important, is that you are there and the bit is your body.

 Many persons think that they can’t dance because they are ugly, fat, stiff or stupid. But now I tell you: it doesn’t matter if you are “ugly”, fat, stiff or if you don’t know which the left is and which the right is. Everyone can dance. The only condition to dance is to want to do it. And obviously, you must to be committed.

I started to dance when I was 8 or 9 years old and I never stop. I dance everything, every bit, every song… I dance national and international folklore, contemporary, jazz, dance show, lyrical, ballet, children’s songs, everything… And I really love it.

I’m part of a dance group called “Ballet Folklórico Aÿen del Bicentenario” and I’m part of a ballet group in the cultural center of my province. I want to dance all my life... 

Why I study my career?

Why we select the career that we are studying?

I think that every career has an important aspect that makes us select them. Sometimes people wants to teach to other people, so they study pedagogy… Other persons want to have a company, so they study administration… Another person wants to help to the animals, so he studies veterinary... And we have many other examples…

In my case, I want to help people, so I am in a career about health, specifically I am studying chemistry and pharmacy.

I like this career because it doesn’t matter in what area you work; you always can help the people. Many persons believe that if you study chemistry and pharmacy, you only can work in a pharmacy, but this is not true, you can work in many areas.

For example, if you work in a pharmacy, you can help people give them the correct medicine and tell him how he has to consume. Or if you work in a laboratory, you can make the medicine to the people who need it or you can create a new medicine. So, wherever you work, you can help.

I think that this is a so important characteristic of chemistry and pharmacy, because I think that the “common benefit” is very important not only for me like a person, is very important for the humanity and the world.

When I say that I want to help people, I want to help to my own too. Because I have many medical problems and I think that this career can help with them or at least can help me to understand them. I think that this is very important for me. I think that I want to help people who have the same problems that I have.

An extra reason that makes me select this career is that I love chemistry and I think that is a very funny subject. So I think that I will be happy here.

Travels...

A trip can change the way you see the things

  I want to travel to many places in the future, but an especial place is London. I really want to go to England and walk in the London’s streets. 

  I love this country for many reasons. The first one is that I am fan of Harry Potter’s books and these books are set in England. Another reason is that many museums and parks of these books and movies are in London and I really want to meet them. Apart of this, I really like to go to the Buckingham Palace and visit many types of museums, gardens, parks... I think that I want to know all the cultural places of this country... 

  This country has a winter so cold with many snow and I really like that because I don’t know how is live in a place with snow.

  In London, is so easy going to anywhere because the subway connects the entire city and with a good map you can travel easily. But maybe this could be a complication because the subway is so biggest and the organisation can be confusing...

I think that I would like to live there but only for a few years. I think that I would visit many places and then I will go to another country and live a few years there and go again. I want to travel and met many places of the world, not only England.

My experience...

The communication is a very important part of the humanity. Every day we talk with many people, we see many people and we live with people, so we can’t ignore that the communication is important. If we don’t communicate, we can’t know how the other feel is, or we don’t know that something is happen or what are people think… So we have to communicate, we really have to do that.

My experience with the blogs was very important for me, because it is very difficult for me to communicate in person and this was an opportunity for says all the things that I can’t say in a normal day.

At first blogs I didn't can write easily because I never did that in my life so I think that I was scare, but now I can write and publish in English and it is not so difficult like in the past. I never thought that one day I would write a blog and it would be publish… Now, I do that every week.

We write about many things and I think that it was cool because sometimes we had to think a lot to find the words corrects for the day. I would like to continue writing blogs because now I know that it is a good form to say things that normally we don’t say to the people. Maybe I would like to write about cook, some things that we want, or maybe about love.

I don't know what things we can include in the future, I really like everything as it already is.

I think that everything was a beautiful experience...

The panic disorder...

Today I will talk to you about an especial condition that many people has in the world but only a little bit of them speak about this… Panic disorder.

I selected this topic because I know what is to live with this disorder. I have panic disorder since I was about four or five years old and I had to learn to live with him and it is not easy.

This disorder is a type of anxiety disorder that produce panic attacks in the less desired moment. The panic attacks are sudden sensations of deep terror, which sometimes doesn’t have a true reason why… Sometimes the people who have this disorder think that they are crazy because they are scare but they don’t know…

It is a very difficult problem because doesn’t have an official cause and can happen in any moment, in any place with anyone close… And sometimes the people, who stay in the moment with a person who has a panic attack, don’t know how to act or what to do to help the person who suffers…

According a global ranking of anxiety, Spain is the country with more people with panic disorder (90%). In Latin America, Argentina is the first country in the ranking, with an 84% of persons with the disorder. On the other hand, in Chile more of one million people has a panic disorder, this is a 6.5% of the total population. Also, the disorder affects two or three time more women than men!

If we are going to talk about how the disorder affects the rest of our body, we must bear in mind that anxiety and panic attacks don’t always generate the same symptoms in people. However, the most common symptoms are sweating, chest discomfort, palpitations, shortness of breath, afraid to die and many negative thoughts…

The panic disorder can be very limiting because sometimes you don’t want to leave your house or you don’t want to go to school or any place… Sometimes you don’t want to talk to anyone or even, you don’t want to see any person… 

I just want to ask you, who are reading this, that if one day you see a person who has a panic attack, don’t laugh at her, don’t scare her anymore and don’t tell her that she/he is crazy… Just tell him that everything will be fine and that nothing bad will happen…

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"