Summer plans

Hi everybody!, as you know summer time is getting close and most of students are now doing their final exams. But! that's not our situation in our university yet because we had a recess time of about a month during the year, so we are now finishing the semester in december in order to be able to go on vacations by January. 

Some friends and I in our first practice

 In January, me and my class have our second practice. This year we are going to be one week on Pantanillos, and another week in Malleco. So that's another 2 weeks losts on my vacation time, at least that is what any person would think, like my friends who don't study forestry, but not me! I love going to the field to learn more things about my career, so I'm pretty exited for those 2 weeks! :) 

Valley of the Moon

Once I finish the practice, in February, me and my boyfriend are planning to go on a trip that involves going to the north of Chile, some parts of Peru and Bolivia. So far, we haven't planned anything in specific about our route once we start our trip, but we are planning to meet some friends that will be there travelling too. And also we want to know some particular places like Machupichu, the Titicaca lake, Salar de Uyuni and the Valley of the Moon. We estimate that we will be travelling for 3 weeks.

Titicaca Lake

And for the rest of the vacations, I'm planning to sleep a lot and rest. Maybe I'll go with my parents and siblings to a house my parents have on a hill near Llo Lleo. It's very quiet there, so it's perfect to rest. Also, it's near to the mouth of the Maipo river, so we always have a lot of fun going there because we can see a lot of different birds.

So far, that's what I know, I have to prepare for my final exams first! haha :(

What are you planning for this summer?, leave a comment!

My best friend

Hello! Today I'm going to talk about my best friend, Cristóbal. We have been friends since we were little kids, because we were in the same class at school and so were my big sister and his brother, so we know each other since we were around 6 years old. At school there were some times in which we spent all the time together and some times that we didn't, but somehow we have always been very close to each other, in fact we were actually  a couple when we were 10 years old! haha but luckily that ended, we would be a terrible couple! 

He is a very relaxed and cheerful and almost never judges people, I think those things are the ones that makes me more comfortable to be his friend, besides we spent a great time together and laugh a lot!. On some things, we are very different but I think that's what makes us such great friends! I can't think on the best memory I have with him because we have a lot!, I don't know which of them could be the best, but I think that most of them are concentrated in 2013, that year we spent like every day together because it was our last year at school so we did a lot of crazy things together haha :) . Now that we are both at different universities we don't see each other much, but we always talk and usually travel together when we are on vacations, so we always keep in touch. 

That's all! bye

My future job

Hi everybody! Today I will talk to you about my future job. Two years ago, when I had to decide what to study I had no idea of what I wanted to do with my life. I was very lost about it, so I started to think about what kind of job I would like to have, and I thought that I would definitely  hate to work in a traditional office, but I was still very lost. 

The comic strip from Liniers

One day I was seeing a book of Liniers, and I saw a comic strip that kept me thinkinig... And I remembered that when I was little I loved to play on the ground, recolecting flowers and writing on my notebook about my little "expeditions". I thought that if  I studied something like that I would be happy, just as when I was a little girl. And that's how I got to forestry :)

Nothofagus pumilio forest in Tierra del Fuego

Now, I'm really happy with what I am studying, but I have no idea what I'm going to do next, I would like to specialize on something but I don't know on what area yet. I think that my dream job would be me doing research about the ecology of forests, going to recolect data on field and studying the way forests work. Or I would also like to specialize in desert ecosystems and how to preserve them... Now that I think about it, I really don't know on what area I would like to specialize, I only know that I would like to work doing research about the ecosystems of Chile, but I think that I still need some time to really know what I want. 

What about you? do you know what do you want to do in the future?