La vita è bella

    This movie is about a jewish man named Guido who falls in love with a girl named Dora, later they get married and have a son named Giosuè (Joshua). But they are in Italy and the World War II breaks out, so Guido and his son and many other Jews are forced onto a train and taken to a concentration camp. Dora volunteers to get on the train in order to be close to her family. However, as men and women are separated in the camp, Dora and Guido never see each other during the internment. Here is the part when Guido becomes a hero: he hides their true situation from his son. Guido explains to Giosuè that the camp is a complicated game in which he must perform some tasks. Each of the tasks will earn them points and whoever gets to one thousand points first will win a tank. He tells him that quiet boys who hide from the camp guards earn extra points. Guido maintains this story right until the end when, in the chaos of shutting down the camp as the Allied forces approach, he tells his son to stay in a box until everybody has left, this being the final task in the competition before the promised tank is his. Guido goes to find Dora, but he is caught by a German soldier that makes the decision to execute him. While he is walking to his death, Guido passes near Giosuè one last time and winks, still in character and playing the game. Then in an alleyway Guido is shot. The next morning, Giosuè emerges from the box, just as a US Army unit led by a Sherman tank arrives and the camp is liberated. Giosuè is overjoyed about winning the game (unaware that his father is dead), thinking that he won the tank, and an American soldier allows Giosuè to ride on the tank. While travelling to safety, Giosuè spots Dora in the procession leaving the camp and reunites with his mother. He tells his mother that he had won a tank, just as his father had promised. Then is overheard a voice that say "This is my story. This is the sacrifice my father did. That was the present that he had for me"

    I think that Guido is a hero because he was an ordinary person that had much love for his family and he made life better for them with the little he had in a hard situation, that was very clever and amazing.

Anato will come back, in token form

    Well, I think I cannot just talk about one subject because I liked many of them. For example Embryology and Histology, it's about the development and structure of the animal tissue. The lessons are clear and we have to study every week, and the laboratory class is fun. I like Anatomy lessons too, but I wanted to see more animals like cats, birds, frogs, etc. also I think they need to renew some samples, it's difficult to differentiate the structures. This semester I chose choral singing as an elective, is good because you don't need to be a good singer to be there and the lessons are simple, it's like a relaxing class. Finally, English class because I thought that it will be a boring and difficult class, but it wasn't, especially the blog part. I never was good at writing things or expressing my opinions, even in Spanish,  but it was because I didn't try before, maybe after the class end, I will continue posting about... I don't know yet, even if no one reads someday I'll put something interesting here, maybe in other languages.

Hugo K. Sievers

    He was veterinarian from the University of Chile and the founder of the Chilean Veterinary College. He was born in Rengo 23 October 1903, where he studied in the German School. In 1925 he graduated as veterinary from the University of Chile. After further research in Argentina, Brazil, at the Institut Pasteur in Paris and at the Institute for tropical diseases in Hamburg, he received his Ph.D. in 1929 in Hamburg.

    He was sent by the Chilean Government and the University of Chile on missions to Peru, Mexico, the United States, Japan, China, Korea, Indochina, India, Egypt and Italy.

    Also was President of the Scientific Society of Chile, member of the Chilean Academy of Natural Sciences, Chilean Society of Microbiology, Chilean Society of Natural History, Scientific Society of Chile, Society of Biology and Veterinary Medicine Society, minister of agriculture in 1955. He appears in respective acts like cofounder of the Academy of Students of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Medicine Society, Chilean Natural Medicine Society, Society of Normal and Pathological Anatomy.

    Also he writed some books like "Chileans in the Amazony", "Chile: development of the Veterinary Medicine during the Republic", "Around the world with ten students".

    Well I didn't know about him until this year, and after searching I find that he did so much for the country, this career and divulgation of the sciences. I wouldn't be here if Hugo have never existed :O

    Well, maybe some other person would have found the career in Chile.

Worms

    In general I like all the animals, except the worms. I never liked it's shape or the way they move, when I see them it gives me "something". There are a lot of types of worms: leeches, earthworms, taenias, maggots, riftias, grubs, flatworms, etc.

Slimy yet satisfying

    I don't eat raw meat because I don't want to have parasitic worms. Other of my fears is that one day we will have to survive eating worms, I have heard that its taste is like chicken (and I like chicken).

    Once I asked for a caesar salad in a restaurant, and while I was eating I found a caterpillar moving between the lettuce, so they served me again and they gave me a dessert as a gift.

    While I was studying in the first semester I read a lot about worms, and now I have more respect for them, because they are very successful animals, they just need to move a little (some are sessile) and eat what they find, all the waste and bodies they can eat it, they are really necessary for this world.

It's high in proteins

Endoplanet

    I took this photo in the histology lab a few weeks ago, in those labs I take a lot of photos because is difficult to focus the camera on the ocular of the microscope. My phone doesn't have much resolution, but my classmates will know that it is a pseudostratified columnar ciliated epithelium that is placed in the respiratory tract. I like it because it seems like an undiscovered planet, but is just cells in an animal body, that shadow in the edge makes it look like a tridimensional form. I like that all in the universe has similarities in the forms and organization of the elements that are in, but in different scales, for example I have seen big stellar clusters that seems nervous cells, I believe that is wonderful and beautiful these similarities, like if all the universe was an unique form of life. Well, that was too much rambling for today.

My beloved pets

    Today I'm going to talk about my pets, some of them live, some of them have passed away, but all of them are important for me. Well, first we had a dog named Jetro, I was like two years old, so I don't remember him much, my mom says that we played a lot. He had a tick infestation, so my parents decided to sacrifice him. Later we had Falco, I remember that sometimes we went for a walk in the hill near the house, he died from distemper.

Falco 1994

    Cutuno was a cat that always climbs up the table and sits in the center, even when we were having lunch, we think that he thought he was a flower vase.

Cutuno 1995

    Then we had two brothers, they were full of energy and they followed each other across the house.

Rucio and Fran 1998

    Later we had two fishes (Characidae, I don't know the species name) the first is Juan, when he was hungry he went to the surface and make noise (glu glu or something like that). The second was Seba. Actually, we didn't know their genre, and I put those names without investigating.

Juan 2007

    These both cats were born in Calama (at my sister's house) my mom bring it to Arica, first Katiuska arrived in 2008 and she is very friendly to me, but in general, she is a bit unsociable, so she wasn't happy when Clay arrived, like two years ago. There aren't many pictures like this with both kitties in peace.

Clay and Katiuska 2018

    When I met my boyfriend he had these cats, and I have to admit that I fell in love at first sight with them and later with my boyfriend.

Clemencia and Tomás 2018

Tv

    Every day I watch tv. This object shows audiovisual content on direct or pre-recorded, it was invented in the twentieth century, it became a massive medium of communication.

A very old tv from 1950

    In the house of my parents there was one in the living room, when I was like 15 years old they gave me one for my bedroom, and is still in their house working.

    In general, I use it in the evenings and at night, because in the morning I have to go out. Sometimes I don't turn on, because it would distract me from my study.

    I like it because I see many different content like news, cartoons, sport events, soap operas, series, contest programs, documentaries, etc. Sometimes is a bit boring, but I always find something althought I don't have cable tv. Also it can connect with videogames, internet or other devices. Nowadays the internet and smartphones exist, so the life without tv wouldn't do much impact, but I prefer it anyway.

Veterinary Medicine

    I decided to study this career because it was my dream since I was a child. In that time I wanted to work in a zoological center, because there are many different animals. But too many girls (I was in a school of girls) wanted the same, and I started to think that veterinary medicine was too common. I have always read about different things, and then I started to get interested of astronomy, a very ancient and beautiful science. So, I started to study astronomy in the university, it had too many maths and I didn't like it and it was too difficult for me. A couple of years later I started the career nutrition and dietetics, I liked the sciences of health, but I still was unsure. Another couple of years I chose veterinary medicine, this career gives many specialization opportunities, maybe one day I will do some research.

Autobiography

    I was born in Arica in 1990, I have lived almost the entire life there, but we have moved several times. My family was integrated by my mother, father and a sister, sometimes the grandparents came to visit us.

Here in La Lisera beach, 1993

    Since I was a child I liked to read and watch programs about animals, because I wanted to know everything about them, but through the years I started to get interested in other things.

    I studied in Arica until the end of the high school, then I went to university, my first career was astronomy, then I changed to nutrition, but none of those liked me enough. After a few years of disorientation I remembered times of childhood and my love for animals and nature, and decided to study again, now in Favet. 

    Now I live in Santiago with my boyfriend, we have two cats, Clemencia and Tomás. On holidays we go to the north to visit our families and my cats, Katiuska and Clay.

    In the free time I like reading books, watching tv, to go walking and play pokemon go. 

Here in Favet with my sister and niece

First

    This is a photo called "Mars" by Marco Grassi. It's from a region in Italy erosioned by periods of torrential rain and drought, and he says "it looks like a landscape from outer space". I think it's very beautiful, but I disagree with his opinion. Mars, denominated the "red planet" doesn't look like that, it has many mountains and some craters, more like a desert, and recently it has been discovered a little bit of water under the surface of the planet. Besides, in all the history of spatial exploration never has been discovered a place with so much life like in this photo.