English Language Challenges

Hi, finally this is my last post here and that´s mean I´m very close to my desired holidays yaay.

Thinking about my experience during these 2 year since I enter on my career, I think I´m very glad about my English teachers because I´ve learn a lot with different methods and I improved my previous skills. Besides, I think in the university I began to know about English due my school experience, mainly during my secondary period was really bad.

Back in the university, I really liked the activities and personal blogs where I had a los of freedom to write and express myself as I want and can. Anyway, it would have been more entertaining than during the sessions we would have tried to talk about what we were writing, even though I understand we should study other topics.

Now, talking about what I need to improve, I think there are a lot of things jdjdjd. Mainly I must improve the way that I think on English without trying to translate it into Spanish and practice more with conversations. That´s why I want to make a habit of watching series, movies or read books and playing and chatting with English-speaking people, to learn how to play with other other language.

Finally, this last time I have used English a lot because I´ve been reading and translating papers for a project. Besides, recently I started to watch videos in English about different things like science, series, culture, etc. In fact, last night I was watching The Big Bang Theory without subtitles to improve my audition.

So, that´s all folks, ty for read this post and see you later.

Changes To My Study Programme

 This post is not easy at all because from the start we can think it´s very simple to see problems about the faculty and career (Biochemistry) and give answers. However, thinking about how to achieve that change make everything more complicated.

Notwithstanding that, I will share my opinion with you about some points that should be change, in a decreasing order of relevance.

In first place, I think the curriculum should undergo innovations because requirements on the 2^nd and 3^rd year of the career are very dangerous. For example, if you fail a subject like Chemical physics then you must be delayed a complete year of university and the same happens on next years. Another problem is you begin to know about you career during your 3^rd year because at that point you start having courses with closer relationship to your future work.

In second place, teaching methods and the way that classes are made should be reformed because during more than a century the innovation on education are minimum. We need new forms to teach, with more questions, working groups and a closer relationship between students and professors.

A third place is for structure, the truth is in my faculty we haven´t space, every year the room and laboratories are fuller because the student cohort increases.

I think we need to change more things, but my priority at this moment are those 3.

A Music Artist

Actually, I don’t have a favorite artist or band because each band have a particular style or something different in comparison with the others. 

That is why today I'm going to write about Nujabes as one of the artists that I like.

Nujabes is an anagram for the real name of the artist, Jun Seba. He was one of the first Japanese producers to spread his music around the world and he was a very big influence in Lo-Fi Hip Hop music (and a pioneer in this style).

Nujabes worked as a producer on the OST (Original Soundtrack) of the anime Samurai Champloo, written by Shinichiro Watanabe. Besides, you can find all his job on different music apps like Spotify or Soundcloud.

Unfortunately, he died in a car accident in 2010 at 36 years of age.

I really like the Nujabes's music because I love the atmosphere that he makes, a kind of soothing and immersive sound that constantly maintain an harmony that let me to keep thinking without any interruption or help me to feel in a different way a daily commute.

One of the songs that I usually play by Nujabes is Reflection Eternal from the album Modal Soul. I can't explain why I like this song so much; however, I can say this song transports my mind in a place where I can feel a lot of different emotions and perceives them as colors.

Hunter X Hunter, My Favorite Series/Anime

HunterXHunter is my favorite anime by far because all the history and characters develop are incredible, the power system is brilliant, you can sense its world in a very natural way because main or secondaries characters never act as god and all of them have a singular personality and interaction with the rest.

HunterXHunter is a manga (Japanese comic) written by Yoshihiro Togashi since 1998 and has two anime adaptations. This anime shows a human world where you can find Hunters, who are human in search of treasures in uncharted territories, capturing criminals and resolving mysteries. With that context we meet Gon, a boy that dream with travel around the world trying to find his father, Ging Freecss. On his journey, Gon made different friends as Leorio, Killua & Kurapika who helps him during all his adventures, resolving mysteries and goals and fighting against different insane creatures, criminals or even the nature.

Even though I only refer to Gon as a main character, I need to say that here you can find four meaning characters compounds by Gon an His friend (the characters that I mentioned before) and all of them have his story and personal development, but the most important is during the chapter you doesn’t going to see the four characters at the same time because some characters have his only space and “season”, in other words, they don’t depend on each other all the time to makes his goals real. However, during a vast part of the history you are going to see Gon and Killua’s adventure.

In conclusion if you want to see a cartoon (anime… ejem) series with a complex battle system and characters growth against insane and impossible situations I totally recommend it. In addition of that, I counsel you to watch the 2011 anime version and if your really like it I advice you to read the manga.

My Best Holiday Ever

 

Hi there! How are you? I hope you are doing well and keeping the most safely possible since the last post. Well, on this second post I would like to talk about my experience in Brazil five years ago and why this travel was the best that I had. Actually, I have a lot of nice and beautiful remembers from this travel when I was 16 years old as the beaches, city, many different places, and my family contributed to give me the best holiday ever.

I travelled with my parents, my two cousins Amaralina & Gabriel, his parents Daniel & Marisol, and my grandparents (fathers of my mom) Aweli & Tata Colores to Buzios. We stay mainly on Buzios around a week (in a rented house).

I remember everything in Buzios was very nice and colorful; besides, my aunt Marisol lent me his camera and I took pics from the garden until a protected island during a short boat tour (the camera was really cool, but I think I didn’t take good pics because I am not very sure about how to use yet jaja). Besides, every night we did something different, some nights we went out to dinner in front of the beach, in other times we walked with any locations, looking stores, buildings and if we have luck some anecdote and some night we only stayed in home, cooking the dinner and sharing with between us (and drinking constantly jajaja).

I think I lived too much different experiences to share in an only post, swimming on the sea under a warm rain or getting lost in a walk makes this travel incredible. However, the factor that made this journey the best was my family, without them I am sure it would have been different. Now, remembering my grandmother through this short journey I can say that it doesn’t matter where you are, you just need one person you love to feel at home and that to me is the main factor to have the best travel.

I want to finish with a special thanks for my Aweli, who no matter where she is or what she does in their eternity, she will always have a space within my best memories.

Thank you for read this post, I appreciate it.

PD: Spiders in Brazil are... maybe a little giants (and bugs in general).

A country I would Like To Visit

Hi everione, my name is Gonzalo Quiñones, i´m on my second year of biochemistry and this blog will be a space to share personal information about me and my opinion on different things as one you can see on the title of this post.

So, if I must choose one country that I´d like to visit, my first option would be Switzerland because that will consider studies, culture and geography. Actually I know this country mainly from CERN laboratory (European Organization for Nuclear Research), the incredible discovers that happens here are amazing (at least for me).

In addition of that, I have two mainly reasons about what I want to do in Switzerland:

In first place, I would like to study and research in some Switzerland university as It's a country with a high I+D (Investigation and Development) more the network of European universities and higher education policy.

In second place, I would like to know different places bound to science like CERN on Geneva or cultural and historical buildings as the University of Geneva or Zurich, different medieval castles or all Berna. Furthermore, stay in a country that is part of European Union will let me travel to different countries, for example, using the famous Eurail system.

I think that's all folks, see you next week.