The 33 miners

When I Knew that the miners were trapped I thought immediately that they were died. Many days went by and I had less hope that the men would be still alive. I was disappointed of the rescuers, saint and religious beliefs. I think in the current time it is difficult to believe in God and in that moment I lost the faith. I was angry with mine’s owner. My opinion changed when I knew the news about they are alive. For me it was a miracle. I hope that the miners will be rescued as soon as possible. I think the miners are men very valiant and they have much strength. When they can be outside the mine, the miners deserve to be happiness with their family and to have a good holiday.
The family of the miners has had an important role from the beginning, because of if the family had not been present, maybe the rescuing would be slower.
I hope that the miners have patience and emotional strength to bear the time underground. Now, they are under medical control, anti-depression and anxiety drugs may be able to help them but hope will be the most important survival tool for the rest. At the US air force survival school in Washington, they teach the so-called Rule of Three. You can live three minutes without oxygen; three days without water; three weeks without food. But you will only last three seconds without hope. This is a good life lesson.

200 years of Independence!!

September is a nice month of the year. Trees bloom, days are longer, temperatures increased, nature wakes up and all that create a happy atmosphere. If we add to that the bicentennial celebrating so we are many reason for feel us well. I like very much to celebrate the Independence Day and this year it is special because of our country will be 200 years old. I like our festivities called Fiestas Patrias, the folklore; music and dance and the food like empanadas and anticuchos. I think the bicentennial celebrating will be great but it is important that we does not forget to be responsible, for example we must not drive under the influence of alcohol.
In 200 years our country has had a important development, however Chile exist still poverty and too much injustice. The new generations and we have many things to do to create a better country.
I hope that the patriot spirit does not finish with Fiestas Patrias and it always remain. We prefer or value many times, products from other countries like clothes, music or culture, etc. and we have to learn to value our culture, traditions, people and respect us.
For this Fiestas Patrias I will be with my family, my parents, my nephews, my brother and sister and my boyfriend. I will try not to eat and drink in excess, but I don't promise anything. Maybe I am a superficial person but those days will be my holidays and I only want to fly a kite and to rest all day.

An Ideal Country

Maybe an ideal country not exist, for example there are countries with tropical climate that could be ideal for living but there are many unpleasant insect and animals. Other countries can be excellent in economy and lifestyle but their climate is awful. So I think the better country for living is our country, CHILE!!. We have beautiful landscapes such mountains, lakes, glaciers, icebergs and many others. However I would like to know other places or countries like Cuba or Galapagos Islands in Ecuador. I would like to visit Cuba because I think the cuban people are very friendly and nice and I would know Havana and Varadero beach. Galapagos islands is very interesting for me because of their rich flora and fauna, which is a mystery; how a large diversity of species could develop in a remote place.
I always have wanted to know New York. In general EEUU I don’t like but New York is different for me, it`s a old city with much history and it has a important influence over culture, entertainment, art, education and fashion. If I will travel to New York I would have to go with a lot of money, because of I am a little bit consumer.

My work

My area of research is Nematology, it is a scientific discipline concerned with the study of plant parasitic nematodes; they are microscopic worms that live in the soil. They are an important crop pest in the world and in our country. The nematodes also can be vectors of other plant pathogens, like viruses.
In my PhD thesis I am studying the interaction between plant parasitic nematodes, plant viruses and plant. Specifically, I want to study the epidemiology of Xiphinema americanum and Tomato ringspot virus on stone fruit crops. These nematodes are difficult for their identification, so I will work with different methods for the nematodes identification, morphology and morphometric characterization and molecular analysis. For the identification of virus strains, I will work with molecular analysis. Later, I will do virus transmission test on indicator plants and I will determinate the transmission efficiency for each virus strains and its vector nematode, on stone fruit crops.
I like much my current research but it represents too much work and the next years it will take me a lot of time. I would like to have more time to enjoy the life, I need days with 34 hours or a little bit more jajaja. That is life of the students!!! :)

Level 4

I think there are many topics to write, they could be for example violence and delinquency in our society, traditions, family conflicts, lifestyle and food.
Violence and delinquency is a real problem in Chile and other countries, I believe it is a theme very important to discuss.
Traditions is an current topic, you could discuss about the real importance of traditions like bullfight in Spain.
Family conflict is a common theme when you live with many people.
Lifestyle, you can write about your activities and you could analyze if it is healthy for you. Another topic that I would like to write is food, I like to cook and taste diferent food, also I like to prepare diferent drinks and enjoy them.

Blogging experience

The blog was something new for me. I think it is a good tool to stablish dialogs between the author and readers to leave comments. My blogging experience was nice, I could combine text, images and I shared information with my classmates. The blogs helped me too much to improve my writting. I learned new vocabulary. I enjoyed to write the blogs but when I had much work, I did not think the same and I did the blogs but it was complicated for me.
I think blogs in general have adventages or benefits, but also some disadvantages. Adventages are that you can have a place in Internet where to say what you think and you have freedom to exploit the creative vein and you can know new people, with whom you can have an excellent feedback. I think disadvantages are that there is not confidentiality of the information, it is a public forum. Another disadvantage for me is that blog takes up a lot of my time, but I know that it is necesary in a english course. Therefore in the English class the blogs were only adventages. I think blogs have benefits relating educational programs and online courses of study. However, I would not like to create a personal blog because I don’t like to write of my life. It is too much tecnology for me and I prefer to visit to my friends or family and to talk with them. I believe our generations are less tecnologicals than currents ones. I think the young people today spend a lot time in the computers and they tend to eat almost constantly while they are playing or chatting. They leave to do others things, for example sports or outdoors activities and it entails to problem like obesity, sendentary people and illness.

Friends

When I look these pictures I feel nostalgia for the happy moment that I lived in Europ with my friends. They were my family and they are always in my mind. Three picture are of my goodbye party, it was in a bar “El Negocito” this is a chilean bar, it is very famous bar in Belgium. In this bar you can find people of different countries and you can eat chilean food like pastel de choclo or empanadas and you can drink pisco sour. It is great. Everyday I went to have dinner to “El Negocito” and later I came back to my home. I sometimes stayed at the bar to listen to concert band. In the first picture I am with a good friend Gerald, he is from Kenia and he is very affectionate and modest person. He was my classmate in the Master. In the second picture I am with my Belgian friends , Koen and Roge, they are propietors of the bar. Koen, bald guy, is a close friend of mine and He helped me too much, for example he gave me his house for two month while he was in another country. The last picture we are in koen’s house. In the third picture I am with my better friend, Yirina and her boyfriend Gio. She is from Cuba, she is a clever, funny and happy person,,,she is dancing all day. I miss too much my friends!!!. Gio is from Brasil, he is a clever guy, he was studying a doctorate. Finally, in the last picture I am with other friends; Douglas, Mariuxi and Valeria, they are from Ecuador. Douglas was like my brother and Mariuxi and Valeria were like my sisters. We lived many good and bad things together. That day, I cooked for them, snails and hot chicken and of course I prepared pisco sour.