GPOY

Difficulties 

Since I was a child I have been fat, the truth is that I never cared much, for me it didn't matter if I was thin or fat, after all, as long as I was in good health that was the important thing. 

But all that changed when I became a teenager, because I started to notice the opposite sex, and teenagers are not very delicate when it comes to saying things.

I constantly heard how other people criticised me for being fat or said that I would never be with a fat person.

But in 2020 the pandemic started, and with it came a lot of free time, in which I dedicated myself to losing weight and exercising, where I went from 100kg to 80kg in almost 6 months.

Why is this photo so important? 

Because it reflects all the change and all the effort I made to change and to be different, not because of someone else, but because I needed it.

That day I decided to take a picture of me posing like one of the many pictures I saw on pinterest and see how I felt when I took a picture, and I must say that I felt comfortable. 

To tell you the truth I still have a long way to go and I hope I can have many more photos where I can feel amazing or proud of me, so day by day I will strive to make that happen.

Summer Holidays.

My Summer Holidays

When I was a child, I always went on holidays to the south of Chile, I must say that I loved its landscapes and its mild climate where, despite being in summer, you could find rain outside your window.

I must say that Valdivia became a beloved destination for me.

Then a week after the south of Chile, we used to go to the central coast for a week, I didn't like swimming at the beach, but making sand castles was my passion, playing carioca in the sand or soaking my feet in the water very quickly.

Nowadays I don't think I have holidays because of university, but in a way I feel happy, because right now I'm enjoying my time at university. Being able to go to a bar with friends and drink some beer makes me happy.

Although I think I'm going to take a week off work to relax with my family, watch movies or just chill out. 

What I would like to do once I finish my degree and the covid is under control would be to travel the world, maybe Europe for 2 months and enjoy all the money I've been making, meet new cultures, people or just enjoy the wonderful and diverse world. Although that's still a long way off from what you see in the news.

But for the moment, I'm content to watch videos of luisito comunica and imagine myself there enjoying everything that the different countries I could visit have to offer, or maybe enjoy a video of lethal crisis and be able to learn a little more about the cultures of different countries.

Postgraduate Studies

Clinical Pharmacy

When i was accepted into the career and discovered that there was an area of pharmacy which was very similar to the work of a medical doctor, i knew that this was my area.

Clinical pharmacy is an area that is at the forefront of specialties because it is quite new and is developing day by day, the function of the clinical pharmacist is to act as an inspector when prescribing medications and also to implement different medication plans for different patients, making a personalized attention and with a closer approach to the patient. i feel this last one of the reasons why i would like to study it, as i would love to be with patients.

I am not sure where to study the postgraduate course but i would like it to be abroad to be able to get to know the world, and in person because i have already experienced the online classes and i no longer want to continue experiencing them.

What I would like is for it to be a long term postgraduate course, so that i can work while i study, besides being able to enjoy the country where i am.

But to be honest i don't want to do my graduate degree right away, i want to live my life one step at a time.

Your future job

 A diverse job.

Since i was a child i have always thought that i would not like to work all my life in the same thing, but i would like something in which i could work in many things, that is why i chose chemistry and pharmacy, because i could work as a pharmacist, in a laboratory as a chemist, as a teacher in a university, or I could do a pedagogy to teach in schools.

Maybe i will work for a few years in one and then move on to the next, or maybe i would like to start my own pharmacy and then expand into different areas, such as gastronomy, but the only thing that is clear to me is that i would like to have the freedom to choose, to work in an office or maybe in a classroom, but i prefer the interior.

I would like a job that is stable so i would not like to travel a lot for this one, but i would love to be able to travel around the world before starting my work period. With a normal salary, which allows me to live and have some other taste but if it were more it would not be bad haha.

The only thing i have clear regarding my job is that i have 4 years to decide which area i will start, but for now im satisfied working on subway preparing sandwiches while listening to music in the background my weekends.

A Meal or Food You Really Like

My favorite street food

Since I was a child I was anxiously waiting for it to rain, I loved listening to the sound of the raindrops as well as being able to stay at home because of the torrential rains, but undoubtedly my favorite moment was when they prepared sopaipillas.

The sopaipillas is a fried dough which is created by mixing flour and cooked pumpkin, this mixture is created by kneading these two ingredients until obtaining a homogeneous dough, which will be separated into small parts that will be flattened and then fried.

These can be accompanied with many things, such as mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, honey, avocado, tomato, etc., but undoubtedly the best way to serve them is to add a little bit of tomato.

but without a doubt, the best accompaniment is a good pebre.

This is not a food that you can eat every day, because being a fried food has a considerable amount of oil, but eating them occasionally does not cause major problems. It is also a food that you can buy anywhere, from outside the subway to some bakeries. The important thing is to know how much you are eating, more than the calories they have.

The Cringe

My First Kiss

When i was 12 years old i thought that a kiss should be perfect, where birds would sing and glitter would come out everywhere, so when i found out that the girl i liked felt the same way i did, we started the pololeo

For our first kiss i made a plan to make it ideal, i bought a carnation (it was her favorite flower), her favorite chocolate (Trencito) and i made her a letter where I told her everything i liked about her, plus a stuffed animal of mine that she liked. 

So i gave her the letter and told her to meet me outside a room when classes were over, she was hugging me all day and we said nice things to each other, until the moment came when she approached me at the end of the classes, i gave her the flower, the stuffed animal and the chocolate, i told her that i wanted to make her feel the most special person in the whole world and that i would be there, she approached me and closed her eyes and that was my first kiss.

You may wonder why this story is cringe, well, what kind of person does that aaaaaaaaaa, i can't believe i was like that when i was a kid, what was going through my head, today i laugh but it makes me feel ashamed of how i did all that.

The best concert ever

 A night of romance

My mother used to listen to romantic latin music, so all my childhood I listened to artists like Camila, Jesse & Joy, Reik, Pablo Alboran, Ricky Martin, etc....

That's why I will never forget when in 2013 there was a concert that together with Jesse & Joy, Reik, and Pablo Alboran on the movistar arena stage.

It's pretty strange that at 12 years old there is a kid in the middle of all the people at the concert, but stranger was that the kid sang all the songs of the artists. Well, that kid was me.

 I must say that the feeling that the people around me, the artists, the effect of the lights, plus the feeling of meeting the artists that I loved the most at that moment was incredible.

 I also feel that if it hadn't been for how complicated it was to get the money for a ticket it would have made the whole moment worth it, I felt that my effort had paid off.

 Especially when jesse & joy were on stage, their musical set up plus a characteristic sofa that they put in all their shows made it look more organic. They were on their tour "Con quien se queda el perro" (My favorite album).

For all of the above, this became my favorite concert.