Summer Vacations

National Park Conguillio.

Even when I don’t finish my academic year yet, I already have planned my vacations, by going camping to the national park Conguillio,  I will spend like a week there with two of my sisters and a cousin, and since any signal doesn’t reach there I will be totally disconnected, I will go to the Llaima volcano and to the lake that is there, and after going to the park I want to go to my aunt’s house that is near there, well actually not that near, but close, she lives in Valdivia, and I love to go there.

Las Docas Beach.

And obviously I want to visit more places like the national park Tantauco that is absolutely beautiful, or perhaps go to a beach near Valparaiso named “Las Docas” that is quite similar to any Caribbean beach, it’s a little difficult to get there but it’s totally worth the effort, you can also camp there , and make fireplaces and the landscapes are beautiful, I went there once with my family but just for the day because we didn’t know that you could camp there, but  now that we know and we have everything to camp, we can stay there.

National Park Tantauco.

In this vacations I just want to sleep, eat, take my dog for an occasional walk, travel a little bit, watch my favorites TV series and read a lot, specially the books that belongs to sagas, because I can’t stand not knowing the end of a book, I think I might have a problem with the closure of stories, because I really can’t read or watch a TV show without finishing it and I don’t know if it is a good or bad thing, well  it’s not such a big deal, and I might work in the summer too, I get really bored if I’m not busy, and what better way to get busy than work, well at least I can make money out of it.




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Addictions

Everyone has knowledge about drugs of abuse, for several reasons, some knows because they have someone they know that it’s affected, or they consume, or they study the drugs, anyways everyone knows about them even a little bit, and I’m not the exception, honestly I haven’t tried drugs, because I don’t want to, I really think that is a way to avoid problems, and sometimes If you get heavily addicted to any drug or addicted for a long time, you can lose everything, your family, your house, your job, you can also (depending on the drug) end up with sequels on the nervous system, and every time you will need a bigger dose, but not everyone it’s the same and I’m not saying that everyone will pass for the same problems or they will end up with nothing, because not everyone will instantly become an addicted, and not every drug will have the same repercussions on your life, but if you have a problem you should face it, end it, it can be solved easily if you stop avoiding it, also for some people drugs  it’s a way to relax, and to even tolerate what they are passing through that moment, so actually I’m not really against drugs.

Even when I don’t consume drugs I am certainly familiar with some of them, like the nicotine, I’m very familiar with it, the nicotine in the brain can replace a neurotransmitter and produce an abundant release of dopamine, that makes this drugs one of the most consumed and it’s actually legal so it’s easy to get, but the longer you consume it you will need a stronger doses each time to make the same effect.

My mom used to be addicted to it when I was little, she used to smoke 2 packs of cigar in one day, I’m used to the smoke of the cigars now, but in that time I hated it, I don’t even know how she managed her time to smoke that many cigars, now she doesn’t smoke anymore, but she used to have nervous tics when she tried to quit it, and she used to cough a lot.

Well now you are questioning yourself…. where is that related to this girl?... well it’s actually pretty related, at least in some parts with my career, I can actually make experiments with drugs, and see how the drugs affects the well-being of the subject or how does the drug impacts in a cellular level, and it’s a pretty interesting subject.

In general everyone it's addicted to something, whatever it is, music, tv shows, food, drugs, alcohol, money, sex, shopping, etc..., so i give you a little advice, just enjoy your life. 

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Post-graduate studies

Since I started to think in universities, careers and stuff like, I also thought about PhD’s, masters, I couldn’t think of one career without a post-graduate study, I honestly think that without a PhD or a master degree, it would be difficult to find a job, and I want to specialize in clinical or toxicological biochemistry,  i would love to learn and work with diseases, but I’m just in freshmen year, so I still have plenty of time to decide in what I should specialize, or I can even change my mind about it.

I would like to make a master and also a PhD here, but make an internship abroad, because usually, in USA or some countries of Europe (Germany, France, Netherlands, UK, those are the ones that I would prefer to do it, but if I get an scholarship to do it in another country I would totally accept it) they have better implements and you have more opportunities to get a job, with the experience to make an internship abroad than one made here in Chile.

I honestly think that the distance learning program would definitely not work on me, I wouldn’t be able to concentrate, I really prefer the part-time course, because you have time to do things besides studying.

I also love the fact that if I make a PhD I can be called doctor, and I would love to be correct people, and say “No, no, actually it’s Doctor Paloma Navarrete”, like Sheldon Cooper says in the TV show the big bang theory.

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