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.