My Faculty

When I joined to the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad of Chile, the best university in my country, to study obstetrics this year, really I loved this place. It´s located in Independencia # 1027 Avenue, and by his halls and auditoriums have passed many generations of health professionals and famous people, like Salvador Allende and Michelle Bachelet.

In spite of the beauty of this place, has some aspects to improve, like it´s infrastructure, e.g. : the bathrooms, wich sometimes are nasty, and improve in the green areas, to make more nice the free time, and to study with a better disposition.

Also, we need more activities to relax when we are here in the faculty, like better infrastructure to practice sports or a place dedicated to the culture and the art ( in special the music, in my opinion). Also to make more nice our stay here improve in the calefaction, because the faculty is very cold in winter. Also, is necessary eject the dogs that are in the halls of the university and even enter to the auditoriums.

I think that if this aspects are improved, the students would be better in the disposition to study, and would improve the academic performance, because the faculty would be a place more nice to be.

In general, that are the needs more urgent in this moment. If this aspects are improved, the only need of the Universidad de Chile will be keep it academic excellence of ever, to follow being the best university in Chile and one of the best in the world.

My Hobbies

In my bit of free time, now in the university, when I´m not studying or doing whatever other work in my house, I practice my main hobbies, like ride bicycle, play piano, read some books or go out with my friends to play football.

I like playing the piano very much. I play it since I was 13 years old, and in a start, when I was learning, it was very hard to play it, because I needed a great concentration to perform correctly the notes so that the song sounded nice. This is my favourite hobby, because the music is very good to relax, to develop the concentration and I can play my favourites songs.

Also, when the weather is nice, I like go out to ride in my bicycle, and generally I go to the Parque Padre Hurtado, in La Reina, because is a incredible place to practice that sport, or also walk and enjoy of a beautiful day with the family or also alone.

Also in my free time I do others activities, like playing football with some friends who were my partners in the high school. We meet and rent a baby-football court and we play about 2 hours there.

Also I like reading very much. My favourite books are ''Cien años de soledad'', written by Gabriel García Márquez, ''Crimen y Castigo'', by Fiodor Dostoievsky and ''El túnel'', by Ernesto Sábato. This is a very recommendable hobby because is very good for the intelectual develop and to improve our language.

In summary, the hobbies not only are usefull to spend the time when we haven´t nothing to do, but also some hobbies helps us to develop skills incredibles and it´s good for our self-steem when we overcome that challenges. Also the practice of some hobbies are beneficial fot our health, like the sport.

The Summer

The summer is for me, the best season because I can have a funny time with my family, I can recovery the energy lost in the year and I like very much the weather, it´s very nice to walk, to practice water sports and go out in general.

My place favourite to go in summer is the beach, and if is a quiet beach it´s better.

Since I was a baby of 3 months of life, I have visited my grandfather´s house in Isla Negra. I go often with my parents and others relatives, and sometimes I have gone with some friends.

Isla Negra it´s a little but very visited spa in the fifth zone in Chile. It´s very famous because is the spa where Pablo Neruda lived the most time of his life.

In general, I go with my parents to Isla Negra, the lastweek of january every year, and we stay there for three weeks or more.

I remember one summer in special, the summer of 2008. I invited to a friend and we had a great time. In the day we went to the seaside to swim, and the night we go out to parties and electronics game with more friends that que have there. I believe that was the best summer in my life.

But not only in my summers is beach. I like very much also the country. My grandfather also have a house in Molina, a little city near to Curico. I like very much that place beause is very quiet, but I can have a great time there because I can go with my friends to the river, to explore the hill, watch the beautifulness of the place, and also the food in the South of Chile is great!

My idea for this summer are go to Isla Negra about two weeks, but also go to Molina other two weeks more, because has passed much time from the last time of I went there, and I miss have nice moments with my relatives who life there.

So I want that the summer comes soon to back to have very beautiful moments with my family...

''Scientists prove cancer can be passed on in the womb''

Scientists of the university of London have proved that some cancer cells of a woman in pregnancy, can be transmitted, in rare cases, to the baby before the birth, in the womb.

Through out of the history, has been detected seventeen cases, generally of Leukaemia or melanoma, but aren´t clear the causes and the mechanisms of why this occurs.

So was watched in a case of a Japanese woman, who being in pregnancy, research a cancer and later had a normal delivery, giving birth to a girl baby in apparence healthy.

But one month later, the woman began to fell sick and has a great vaginal bleeding. She was diasnosticated and advanced leukaemia and she died.

When the new born already has eleven months of life, was brought to hospital because a sick, and she was diasnosticated with a tumor in her jaw and her lungs.

When the scientists watched this event, they traied of understand the why of the transmisión, and why the child´s imune system didn´t recognized the cancer cells and destroyed them. And they found a mutation in the genes of the cancer cells of the baby, in genes of HLA, a group of genes which make posible the recognition of the inmune system of foreign agents. So, the cancer cells wasn´t recognized by the inmune system and the baby research the cancer.

The scientists which worked in this investigation said that it´s very rare this event, to calm to the women in pregnancy that are diasnosticated whit cancer.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/oct/12/cancer-passed-from-mother-foetus

The Sports

The Sport has always been a priority for me. Since I was a child my parents encouraged to practice by buying soccer balls and tennis racquets. The truth is that they are grateful, because without exaggeration, without sport, my life would not be the same.


The truth is that I have always practiced some form of sport. I play Football since I was a child and also played tennis, I like swimming and sports has always been a way to forget my problems, stress and helped me a lot to have a better quality of life, not only from the point physically, but also the mental standpoint. People believe that sport and physical activity is performed only for a matter of esthetics or physical, both very important, but the sport also allows us to improve our quality of life in relation to the courage that we might have, since to make physical activity releases endorphins and makes us feel wonderful and happy.


That's a good reason to play sports not only individually, but also that physical activity benefits the whole of a country, since people would feel better, have better productivity at work, have fewer people with depression and our country would benefit because it would encourage more sports champions and we should leave it standing the name of Chile in other countries.For all this, added to the undoubted physical benefits (level respiratory and cardiac) that gives us the practice of physical activity, I recommend to play sports and have a nice time!

If you go to Santiago...

If you travel to Chile, and you visit Santiago, you will have many options to get fun and have a nice stay in this beautiful city. Whichever it is your intention to travel to Santiago (business, holidays, studies) you must to know this places:

1.- Forestal Park: If you want a beautiful and quite place to walking, reading, or just distracted for a moment, you should visit this beautiful park located near the center of Santiago.

2.- Quinta Normal Park: If you are searching other park, but mixed with art and culture, you must go to this beatiful place. Quinta Normal Park is a public park located in the commune of Santiago. It covers an area of about 40 hectares and its interior has an artificial lagoon. Inside there are many interesting places to visit:

- Botanic Garden and the Greenhouse, founded in 1853.
- The Museum of Contemporary Art.
- The Railroad Museum of Chile.
- The National Museum of Natural History.
- The Museum of Science and Technology.

And many others places and acitivities which will do unforgettable your visit to Santiago.

3.- The San Cristobal hill: Located between the comunnes of Providence and Recoleta, this hill is the second greater height of the city of Santiago. In this place we can found the Tupahue pool, and in its top, is the Shrine of the Immaculate Concepcion, where is the Statue of the Virgen Maria, which can be see it from all Santiago, because its great lenght.

If you don´t want to walk to the top of this hill, you may do it trought the pick tramp.

Also in this hill is the Metropolitan Zoo, with a great variety of especies.

Because this and another reasons, I recommend you visit this beautiful city...

Transantiago, before and after

The new public transport system in Santiago, called ''Transantiago'', began its operation on 10th February 2007.

In a start, had a very bad aceptation by the people. Santiago was in chaos. The people had to wait too time an even hours to take a bus to arrive to their works places in the morning, and to back to home, in the evening. Thats way, many people were unhappy with this new system of the public transport and they demanded the resignation of transport minister, because all the problems caused.

But in my opinion, not all of this change has been negative. For example, before of transantiago I did must pay my ticket with cash money, which was very uncomfortable. In this new system, I have to pay with a card rechargeable, called ''Bip'' Card, a way very much easy and comfortable to pay, and more secure for the bus driver because they haven money, and they not suffer many assaults than before the transantiago.

Other positive aspect of this change has been the reduction of environmental pollution, and acustic pollution, because the the buses are more news and modern than the another buses before of the implementation of transantiago.

The negative aspects I think is the long time that I must to wait some buses, but this problem has improved trought of the time.

In summary, I think that this change has been a good idea, and in spite of had several problems in its start, this problems has been solved step by step...