The year of the trips

Hi readers! Today’s topic is about the trips, and I decided to tell you about a trip that I made in 2014.

To be honest everything started in 2013, my uncles invited me to participate of their vacations to Arica. I didn´t know if I must accept it or not, until my mom told me that I should take the opportunities the life give me, because they don’t always repeat. Then, the last days of 2013 I was with my uncles and my cousins at the airport about to flight to the fifteenth region of Chile.

I was so nervous because it was the first time that I took a flight but I realized that is so cool and I loved it. We arrived to Arica in a couple of hours, I remember that when we arrived to the hotel we had lunch and we slept all afternoon because we had been awake since early in the morning and we were so tired, then, at the night we started our walking around the city. I won’t tell you every detail because is too much, but I will tell you that we were there about a week. We spent the most of the time knowing Arica, The Azapa Valley, Tacna, Huara and Iquique. I fell in love with the Arica’s city, with its weather (the endless spring), its people, its beaches and its gastronomy.

We spent the New Year’s Eve watching the fireworks at the “morro de Arica”. It was different because of the place and because I wasn’t with my parents. I think that I traveled all this year because I started the year traveling. In the middle of the year my school won a study tour of SERNATUR around the sixth region of Chile (for one week) and at the end of the year with my classmates school traveled to Bariloche as a study tour, beside all the little holidays with my family. I think it was the most traveled year Hahaha.

My cousin and me in the airport

 

The "Morro de Arica"

Chinchorro beach

When the sky mixes with the sea

Arica from "el morro"

It's not the best picture,
 but I am in Perú

Animals of flowers in Tacna

Back in Chile

New Year's Eve

Fireworks

"Flor de Huara"(restaurant of Huara)

Salitrera Santiago Humberstone
(Iquique)

looks very small in the picture,
 but the buoy that indicates where
 "la esmeralda" capsized (Iquique)

Top 3 Subjects of first semester

Hi readers! Today I will talk about my fovourites subjects of my first semester at the university.

Of my 7 courses that I have, I love 3 of them. In order of preference: introducing to calculus, chemical laboratory techniques and handball.

Introducing to calculus is basically mathematics, and I love this subject from school. It always have been my favourite subject and I don’t think it changes. The classes are theoretical and practical because the professor teaches us the “rules”, and we have to use them to do exercises. It is my first year so; I didn’t choose neither the time class nor the professor, by the way, I´m very happy with what I was assigned. The professor Gallardo explains very well or at least, I understand him easily, besides his classes are so entertaining.

In second place, chemical laboratory technique is a theoretical practical subject. First we have a class where the professor explains us what we are going to do the next week and then we have a practical class in the laboratory. The purpose of the course is to learn the basics things, that’s  the reason why we do very simple things (filtrations, distillations, extractions, crystallizations and other things). I like it so much, it’s very entertaining because we put our hands to work, we use the laboratory instruments and we are aprons like the scientist.

In the third place is handball. The truth is that when I left the school never thought I would make any sport, but I must take a course of general education. The quotas were filled quickly to the others courses and I wasn’t accept it, until a classmate told me that there free quotas for handball and I had free time to take it, so I decided to go to enter. Gradually, the subject was conquering me and I noticed how everyone was progressing. If I have the chance to take this course again, I will take it; because it’s really funny. 

My favourite website (related to my career)

Hi readers! Today I will talk about a website that it helps me a lot lately to understand some subjects of university, especially chemistry.

This website is a youtube channel, everyone know youtube, right? The website where is possible to watch videos. There´s a channel called UNICOOS (this is the link: https://www.youtube.com/user/davidcpv), in which you can play videos of chemistry, physics, math and technology.

What I like about the videos from this channel is that they are classified (for what they talk about) by content, so, you can see a play list, for example, about stoichiometry, and every video complements the next. It helps me a lot to study for the chemistry test A1, also for the controls in the same subjects, to understand physics concepts too, and I think that I will use it for the tests that are coming.

Who explain the videos is this guy…

He calls David Calle, he speak “españolisimo”, he’s a really good professor, do exercises and give us tips to learn that he explain.

Unicoos is not only a youtube channel, is a website too (http://www.unicoos.com), I not use it, I left you the page in case you want to check it. I prefer to search the videos in the youtube channel

P.S: Although Unicoos  is my favoutrite website related to the career, there’s another one that I use every day, many times a day, this is U-cursos, de virtual platform of the University of Chile, but it’s not funny…especially when the professors post the marks of the tests.