NATIONAL HOLIDAYS 

This year, 18th September was different because it was the first time that we had holidays in the university, so a free week was very useful to rest and enjoy this celebration.

On September 15th I was in the ''Quimifonda'' of the University. I really enjoyed this, despite I had to go to the analytical lab (It was so frustrating to see all the people having fun, drinking, laughing ,and us walking to the laoratory jaja), the rest of the day I spent a very good time with my friends and classmates.

On September 16th I took a plane to Calama and reunited with my parents and my sister's family. My family ate all day empanadas, anticuchos, sopaipillas and meat. This was a big challenge for me, because it was my first national celebration without eating meat. I learned to cook ''empanadas'' stuffed with lentils, mushrooms, and others. It was very interesting.

Since September 17th to 23th, I traveled to different places: San Pedro de Atacama, The desert Hand, Antofagasta, Chuquicamata and La Serena, and when I was bored I recognize that I studied Organic Chemistry jaja.

I really enjoyed this vacations! I hope next year we could have more national holidays.

       One of my hobbies is watching movies. I like movies of all categories, specially drama, fiction and horror. It's difficult to choose one, but I think ''The Motorcycle Diaries'' by Walter Salles was a movie that I liked very much. This is a biographical movie about Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado and their journey through Latin America by motorcycle, a very tiny and old motorcycle. They made this travel on a break before the last semester of medical school.

There are two things that movies draw my attention: scenography and soundtrack. In my opinion, ''The Motorcycle Diaries'' has the perfect mixture of them. In the first place, the movie expose many landscape of Chilean and Argentinian Patagonia, places of Colombia, Venezuela and Peru like Machu Picchu. Also it shows the inequality and poverty in South America at that time. In the second place, I think Gustavo Santoalalla's music mixed with the beautiful landscape created a perfect combination. Despite I wasn't  interest about the plot when I saw this movie (I recognize that I was interested in the principal actor Gael García Bernal, a mexican actor) it really surprised me.

Here's the route travel by Ernesto and Alberto:

A country I would like to visit

There are many countries that I would like to visit. Countries like Iceland and Ireland because the weather and the landscape reminds me the chilean patagonia and I love that place. I love landscapes full of nature and colours. I also would like to visit sudamerican's countries like Ecuador, Cuba, Perú, etc. So in this case I'm going to talk about Cuba, specially. Cuba is an insular country sitting on an archipielago of the Caribean sea. I would like to visit this place because since I was a baby my father and I have listened cuban music and seen music videos and I realized that Cuba has a interesting history and also a particular landscape and architecture, I think this country has been able to maintain its identity with the architecture and culture's people and I'm very curious about how is life there. However, I would only visit Cuba and not study or working, because I would like to visit many countries before staying in one.

LCH or Large Hadron Collider is a tunnel in the form of a circle a hundred meters underground in the vicinity of Ginebra. Within it scientists can make two subatomic particles reach 99.9% of the speed of light.
Until at one point two particles are made to collide, releasing great energy, very similar to the one that occurred in the Big Bang!

Several technological creations have been made thanks to this great collision of hadrons. I think its importance is very great because it is an instrument that could very soon evolve technology and that favor human well-being, providing new technologies for health.

However, despite its great contributions to science and technology, it has disadvantages as the great investment that means its operation.

On the other hand, different theories point to the possibility that we are "swallowed" by a black hole, but there is nothing to fear, since the LHC makes protons and ions collide at very high energy, but these energies are very small compared to what nature is continuously doing on our planet, on other planets and in the atmosphere.

This is a truly gigantic instrument that paradoxically unravels the mysteries of the smallest and could benefit humanity in many ways.

Person/Expert you admire

Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958) was a very important character who collaborate with science, thanks to her the double helix structure of DNA could be clarified and this was an important fact to understand the life. She graduate of physics, mathematics, and chemist at Cambridge University. In spite of obtaining this colossal information for the science's world, she didn't gain the Nobel Prize, because she died four years before her work was recognized...Instead, they awarded the prize to two scientists, Watson and Crick, and today these names are easily recognized in science books. 

Rosalind Franklin is one of the women forgotten by science, and I consider it very unfair. I like and admired this woman because she achieved many important things despite being inserted in a world of men when the woman was seen like a useless person. Rosalind's history can make us think and realize that woman CAN do things like men. 

Today, I'm proud of all the woman that have gone ahead despite discrimination. Neither man and woman are superior and this thought must be maintained. 

My favourite book and film

I'm not a person of many books and films. In fact, I like some movies because of the soundtracks and I only read books in vacations.  But in summer I went to the cinema with my cousin, we didn't know what to watch until we see the trailer of ''La La Land'' and we decided to watch it. Both of us cried and though that the movie was one of the best, because it has references of jazz music, art, love and also it was very funny. Personally, one of my favourite actors is Ryan Gosling. 

Another film that I like is ''Mr. Nobody'', I consider that the plot is interesting because it represent the Chaos Theory and it made me think about how life directs you to one direction and not another. The same thing I felt when I watch ''Interestellar'', I watched three times because there was so much to understand of the universe and the time... and the soundtrack was made by Hans Zimmer,  my favourite composer.

If we're talking about books, I prefer the books written by latin american autors. When I was in high school I had to read '' Cien años de soledad'', ''El amor en tiempos de cólera'' y ''Crónica de una muerte anunciada'' by Gabriel García Marquez. I also read ''Sewell: Luces, sombras y abandono'', by M. Eugenia Lorenzini, thanks to this book I knew about Sewell, a beautiful place that I want to visit. 

I think that books and films directs you to another world and disconnect you from the real life. There are books and films that offer so much culture and let you understand and think more about things. Therefore, I recommend watch movies that inspire and let you reflect about life.