The Tuna´s Blog

Hello, my name is Antonia Morales Berríos, I´m 19 years old and I have started studying Biochemistry this year, achieved past English I and II when I did the English test at the start of the first semester. During this year I have started to realize more about what my weaknesses and strengths are in this language, and I think that I can understand very well when I´m listening to someone speaking English, but sometimes when this person is speaking very fast I start to confuse words or I don´t understand completely the ideas that he or she is trying to communicate to me. Also, I think that I have a lot of pet words when I´m talking or writing, especially with the words "also", "well", "even"  and some verbs that I use to express my opinion, even when I try to change it. My expectations for this class are to start to speak more fluently, try to use fewer pet words and get better with writing. I would like to see some texts related to what I study bec...

I always enjoy writing, it´s something that I really love to do, but only what I do it for myself or for the people who I care about. I have notebooks at home full of my writings. A lot of nonsense paragraphs, songs written based on other ones. Stories that sometimes don´t end because of inspiration or time. Write to me it´s emotive and has started to be the next step when discovered worlds in books by reading did not feel sufferer. So yes... I like writing, but sincerely I don´t like the experience of this class. Maybe because of the schedule that has or because it was in the moments that I felt less inspired on the week. Since ever Wednesday afternoons and Friday mornings are my lazy moments in the week. These times where I don´t want to do anything at all. And also, I have written blogs before at school. In English too, and I don´t like it because even when the topics are chosen by the group class, I feel it like an attack for the inspiration. I feel that my writing skills ...

The body is amazing. Complex. Hard to understand. It haves too many functions, cells, and not even talk about the biological molecules. One thing that calls me too much the attention, it´s one of these elementary elements for life, it´s a simple carbohydrate, compound about six carbons, twelve hydrogens, and six oxygen atoms, and makes that our entire body works. I´m talking about the glucose, and especially about its pathway. If a person has their normal blood levels of glucose, there is no problem. A problem could appear when there are complications in the production of a hormone that helps glucose enter our cells to be used as energy: the Insulin. This hormone it's produced by the pancreas, located at the top of the abdomen, back of the stomach and it has a size of fifteen centimeters. The people that have a problem with Insuline it´s because the pancreas does not produce insulin or because it doesn´t produce enough. These conditions are diseases and answer to the n...

Well; when I think about what is being my favourite subject this term I  don´t think that is being only one, because all of them have its advantages and disadvantages. But, if I have to choose between them, my favourites subjects this term will be Calculus Introduction and Basic Computing. In the first one, we have classes and seminaries. It´s a lot of theory and this theory is applied both in classes and seminaries, and also in the homework and the labs the teacher send to do by our own. I like this subject so much, because since I was a child I love mathematics, and even when I stop liking it at third year of high school (because my teacher was very strict and I haven´t got very good marks in the tests), I continue having a like for learn more about this science (actually the last year one of my options to study at university was apply to mathematics career in PUC. For the fact that in the classes are important the theory and exercise it´s kinda obviously that ar...

Before 2010 I had never expected to have some pet. My parents always refused to have animals in our home. It wasn´t because they don´t like cats, dogs or other types of pets. No, it was another problem. My brother, it´s prone to get respiratory diseases. He moved between house, school, and hospitals and one animal in our house it would have meant more colds even when it´s proved that kids that grown up with pets since childhood are fewer prone to had diseases. This situation continued until 2011. My brother had been discharged: he since this moment could attend to the cinema and also we could finally have a pet. I don´t waste time on it. My teacher was just giving away three little puppies. The only thing with what I had to ve careful it was that our pet has to be a quiet one so that he or she does not disturb my grandmother. I bring her home until my parents have an opportunity to get her food, a bed, and space in her new home. We named her Pitufina, and until today she is with us. ...

My closest friends knows very well that I don´t like too much to be photographed, and it´s a fact since I was a child. Over time, I get the habit to be the photographer more than to be photographed, but only when my friends were asking me for one or two photographs, maybe three. If they wanted more I just said to them no, and I said to after that "I have something more important to do" and then I was looking for some place to study or read, because it is very tired take a lot of pictures, specially when all are having fun with something that, I don´t like and I´m still unconfortable with. But even with all that, there is a photo that I like too much, because what the photograph represents. It was the last day of school for the last grade, and in my school the last day the graduates have to walk all around the school and spend the morning with the smallest students. It´s very emotive because we met with our teachers from when we were the smallest ones, and for some of my ...