BLOG 6: "Social Issue"

One of the more important social issue for me is political corruption because is the basement for another issue. If politicians did their job well, fighting for social causes, many problems would not exist, but money always wins.

Politic corruption is based on the governors making decisions benefiting private companies or people with a lot of economic power.

It can affect the health, economy, politics, education, and even the culture of a country, generating benefits for a certain part of the population. Currently, the greatest corruption is concentrated in countries of Africa, South America and Asia.

In Chile things are not the best, we can see political corruption in emblematic cases such as “Pinocheques”, “Caso Penta”, Caso MOP-GATE”, “Pacogate”, “Milicogate”, and laws benefiting fisheries and foresters.

At this moment you may be wondering why political corruption is a social problem but is very easy to see the answer, in addition to not seeing the social benefit, the people chosen by the citizens seem to be governing only a sector of the population, forgetting the real ones problems and not creating laws to protect those most in need, it even makes one wonder if some social problems benefit certain people with greater power.

I hope that in the future corruption is punished with jail and things really start to change in the country.

BLOG 5:"My Future Job"

 Hi! I was thinking about the future and I realize that my future depends of my future job. This is like a dream blog. 

As you may know, I’m studying chemistry, so I hope that my future job is relate to my career. I hope to work in a lab trying to avoid the animal test in the cosmetic industry. Now as a student I don’t buy products that make animal test and with this try to make a little change but help the industry to replace the animal tests with new technologies will be a dream came true.

I would love to travel for job, I think that you can learn so much from other people from another country with different laws and cultures. For example, New Zealand and Canada are countries where animal test is a crime.

 I don’t think that the salary is a problem, I try to make the things because I like it.

In the future, before I start the cruel life of a worker I hope to study a major in chemistry in another country, I think that study and live in a place totally different will make you grown and being more mature. Also is important to know a lot of information to be the best chemistry that you can be. 

BLOG 4: " My Weird Collection"

Hi! Today I'm going to show you the most amazing collection that you ever see.

Like a little intro to the topic, I should tell you that I enjoy animated series, movies and I love the geek culture. I also like the Collectable Figures so, as may you expect, when I met the Funko Pop brand I felt in loveee.

They make figures inspired in the bobbleheads but cutest and they have a long catalog of characters.

Before I start, I should add that this hobby is with my brother who also contributed to this collection.

Our first figure of the collection was a FAKE FUNKO, yes, as you read, we got a fake funko. It was a gift for my brother for his birthday and now, seeing it, you can definitely see that this funko is different.

Since this moment the memories are distorted and I don't remember what funko came next so I will show you the collection that my brother made.

And this is my collection! which is a smaller collection but together is everything that we want.

Summer Stitch is my lastest funko and it was a gift for my birthday. It's my favorite and has a sweet smell, like strawberry

I also have two more little figures; they're cute keychains and they're put in my littles backpacks. 

I hope you enjoyed reading this blog and let me know which funko pop is your favorite. Bye!

BLOG 3: "The Chemistry Against Cruelty"

 

Hi! As may you know I study chemistry and I´m in my fourth semester. Chemistry is the science that studies the composition of matter and the proprieties in its interaction, the resulting products, and the application of these properties in the life of man as such.

Of interest for chemists are the properties of the compounds, their reactivity and their use in fields such as biochemistry, pharmacology, the cosmetics industry, the food industry, materials chemistry, petrochemicals, engineering, among others.

One of the reasons why I study chemistry is for try to make a change in the cosmetics industry and avoid animal experimentation.

Animal experimentation as the name says consists of testing the products on the animals alive to see their reactions.

Animal tests are being replaced in areas such as toxicity tests, neuroscience and drug development: in exchange for torturing animals, it can be tested with human cells. In this sense, human cells have begun to be used to create innovatively devices called "organs in chips", these can be used in place of animals to study possible human reactions.

I believe that one day the change will be made, and I hope that I could help in that change.

BLOG 2: "The Best Concert I've Ever Been To"

 

Hi! I have always enjoyed the music and been a fan of a lot of artist and bands, my favorite band is Linkin Park.

Linkin Park is a rock band formed in 1996 in California. Their most famous songs are “In The End”, “Numb”, “New Divide”, “What I’ve Done” and “Crawling”.

I have been fan for fourteen years -I’m twenty-two now- and my dream was see them live. When I was eleven, they came to Chile, but my parents didn’t give my permission to go to the concert cause I was little. In 2016 they announced a new world tour and they visited Chile for the second time. This was my moment and I bought the tickets exactly in the moment that they released them.

The concert was the 21^ts May of 2017 and it was all that I was dream. I went with my brother, who is a fan of the band too and we cry at the begging of the concert. We sang every song and enjoyed every minute.

I remember that when they sang my favorite song called “Waiting for the end” I cried cause I always dreamed to listened in live and in the concert before of Chile, they didn’t sang it so it was a surprised

In 2017, a month after the concert in Chile, Chester Bennington, the vocalist, committed suicide.

I hope you give it a chance to the band and listen a few songs, they´re really good.

Chester with the Chilean Flag

BLOG 1:"My Favorite Country"

Hi! In this blog, I´m going to tell you about my favorite country. 

My favorite country is Iceland, it's an island located in the North Atlantic Ocean. The capital named Reykjavik is also the largest city in the country. It has a polar climate and it's cold almost all year. Iceland is one of the safest countries in the world. 

One of the reasons why I would visit Iceland is the polar lights that you can see with no-problem from August to April, it’s a fabulous scene of nature. I think is a show that you must see before you died.  

Another attractive that I would like to see is the geology of the land, Iceland has a lot of volcanos and geyser, in fact, there is located the oldest known geyser in the world! Imagine that! 

I would love to live there! either studying or working, live in Europe is one of my dreams and I hope one day write this blog from there.

BLOG 10: "Evaluation of Your Blogging Experience"

Hi classmates and teacher! Today is the last blog and I'm going to evaluate what this process meant.

I generally like English a lot and how it can help you create new skills to develop personally and professionally, but also, I’m not really good writing in English I prefer to speak. That’s why I like the activity to write a blog.

I enjoy written about a new topic every class I feel that now I can write better in this language, but I think that sometimes the topic was boring and not interesting, so it was very difficult to write about it.

I would like that for the next semester the teachers consider the opinion of the students to select the topics of the blogs. The other thing that I would like it’s created a vlog (a blog but in a video) but with the topic of our careers!

I would have loved to write about my favorite games, books, food, and cities! Also, I remember a class that we discuss a national problem and that would very interesting for a blog and it would help to be more aware of what is happening in the country.

This is the end of the blog, bye!