NATIONAL HOLIDAYS (SEPTEMBER 18th)

To start I have to say this holidays are my favorites, I love our customs as a country such as: dancing cueca, eating a lot of meat and empanadas, typical games, etc. I always enjoy this holiday very well.

My holidays start on September 15th at 12 hours after an analytical class. This day was the "quimifonda", this is a "fonda" organized by our faculty to celebrate "el 18". With my friends we organized for this day and some of them arrived early to the university to be able to have tables in the afternoon, we bought pipeño and ice cream and I was in the university until 23 hours approximately, it was a good quimifonda.

The following days were very entertaining, I spent time with families and friends, I ate too much and danced "cueca". I went to fondas and on September 17th I spent time just with my family because they made a family barbecue, later we went back to a fonda.

On September 18th I was with my family in the day, had a great time and in the night I was with friends.

On September 19th I was all day at the National Stadium fonda with friends and I ate the best empanada of the 18, it was very delicious.

September 20th: I noticed that I had much to study, The end.

FAVOURITE MOVIE

Well, I have to say my favourite movie is Breaking Dawn 1 of Twilight saga. I love this film and I can't say why, maybe it marked a time of my life or I like the mixture of the real and the fictional, because I have never liked the fictional films but I love this movie that also has a great cast.

To this day, I love Edward Cullen, he is the character starring Robert Pattinson, my platonic love.

In this part of the saga Edward and Bella (his girlfriend) have a baby and there is a mix of action, romance and blood. The outcome is very good, because everything happens at the time of birth and becomes very interesting and the end is very unexpected.

I recommend this movie because its based on a well-known book of Stephenie Meyer and is very well directed by Bill Condon, he is an american screenwriter and director. 

Finally I think this film has a very good musical repertoire, which attracts the seers, because to me this factor is very important, I love the song "A Thousand years" of this movie.

THE BEST CONCERT EVER

The best concert was Lady Gaga Born This Way Ball in Chile, I remember it was in November 20 in 2012 when I was still in the school and I remember I went with two friends. Lady Gaga was my favorite artist for a long time, to this day I think her music is very special, but my fanaticism for her is not the same like before

I remember in this concert we slept three nights outside the "Estadio Nacional" in
cardboard because we wanted to enter in the "Monster Pit", this is an area surrounded by the stage and you can see her closer, to enter here you had to buy an entrance on the price of the entrance of "cancha general".

This "circle" is the Monster Pit

We slept in this street with these fans

Well, finally we did it and I remember I started cry like a baby when I entered and I saw the stage with the big curtain. 

In the concert I was really excited and there was a lot of movement and enthusiasm and I separated from my two friends. Practically, I was the whole concert alone, but I had a great time, It was a very good remember, because I enjoyed a lot. 

A COUNTRY I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT

I've never think about this topic, but now that I question myself about it, I consider South Africa, specifically Ciudad del Cabo an interesting pace to visit... Why? because in this country the social and cultural impact allows you to know a very different reality and at the same time you can have the privilege of knowing a lot of landscape and the variety in this fauna.

About this city I know that there are many cultures very different from ours, maybe because they live in a country that has a lot of contact with nature... 

If someday I could travel there, the first thing that I would do would be to visit those beautiful places highlighted by its landscapes and animals that live here. 

Something that fascinates me are their wonderful safaris where animals are free and you can see them without being caged. There is a well-known nature reserve called Iverdoorn and you travel in a 4x4 and you approach the wild animals in freedom.

On the other hand, something I should do before I die is to cage myself and dive into the sea to see sharks face to face. Near this city exists that possibility in a place called Gansbaai. 

After realizing those activities I would like to know the different cultures of this city, because its one of the most multicultural cities, probably because its one of most populous of South Africa.

Maybe, I would like live in this country, but no forever, but if it were an option, i would take it because for me its important to know, beyond a tourism, to a country to enrich mysef in different areas, considering that also in this continent there is much more to know because of its great history and its reality of today as a country.

Your blogging experience

Well... Although I consider myself a bad writer I think it was a good experience because there were a variety of topics to write and a lot of them were very interesting for me and it inspired me and motivated me to do the blog... In other cases it was not like that case, because I didn't accompany my mood or the topic of the blog, also had many tests to render and my concentration was not in writing the blog.

On the other hand, I consider that my writing skills have been improving, but always with help, because there are many words that I don't know and that I need to use, and at that moment a translator is used. This is why I consider that I couldn't carry out a written development in a test or evaluation where I can't have help

I think that in the future making a blog might not be presential in a particular class, I think it could be a system where one has to upload the blog until certain time with the same requirements, since to do it or not in classes doesn't change much the things. I had to mention that I consider that this activity should have a greater weighting in the average of the subject.
Finally, I end up saying that it is an interesting activity and I would like to talk about pets or animal related issues.
                                           

From the invisible to the visible world and back...

The technique that I consider very useful in my career is the compleximetric titulation. I choose that because I consider one of the most important techniques of analytical chemistry. I learned on this topic the current semester in which I am studying and although it's difficult to understand for me I find it very interesting.

To start we must know that the volume of the standard solution necessary to form a complex with a metal cation of the compound to be analyzed is measured in the complexometric volumetrics and this is recurrently used in careers that require chemical analysis. This technique consists in a titulant agent is used which falls from the burette dropwise onto a titulated agent provided in the flask and this last one changes of color due to the presence of an indicator, and in this moment the moles of both agents are equal, which will allow to determine the amount of minerals (hardness) present.

This technique is really important in many laboratories and studies about water hardness and also allows to determine purity of compounds, for example the amount of certain elements in the rice.

This technique gives advantages to the human because water is consumed by all of us and has always been considered fundamental because it has multiple properties, but the hardness of water for human consumption is a constant concern of people, due to the potential effects on health.
Thus, in the future, these harmful minerals from the water could be radiated having this technique as the bases of this studies.

                          

The most enjoyable subject...

If I start to remember the subjects that I have studied to this day in the university, I would say that the one I liked the most was "Laboratorio de Química General II",

I took the last semester and in my section we were about 100 I think, this subject is practical, because its designed to do what is taught in classes of "Química General II",the classes of this subject I liked very much, I found that it was a very interesting and necessary content for professional development, but when we had to apply what was learned in a practical setting (laboratory) I thought it was wonderful, because you can see with your own eyes what happens in the reactions mentioned in classes and understanding why it happens makes it much more fascinating, because it's not the same that someone tells you what happens to be able to experience it personally. 

In this laboratory the teacher give us a little introduction of practical work of the day in the classroom, the class started 8.30 in the morning and if you were late you couldn't enter the lab later, that was the worst of this subject.

I remember that in this laboratory there were many teachers involved, but I really enjoyed being in the section of teacher Gerald Zapata, because he was very funny but he also imposed his rules and he often annoyed us (joking), I say us because my friends and I were in the same workplace. 

I love this subject and I hope to have a similar subject later.. 

Formation of CuSO4 pentahydrate crystals (One of the practical works that I liked the most)