An important person

As we all know science is important, so we should know about people who contributed in this branch.

I'm going to talk about Gertrude Belle Elion.

"Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t.” – Gertrude B. Elion


Gertrude was born on January 23, 1918, in New york city. Famous as a Biochemist and Farmacologist, who, with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black, won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988. They developed various new drugs that helped million of people around the world.
She recieved other awards for her work.

A brilliant and curios girl, she always wanted to learn and she loved all the subjects in the school.
At the age of 15 years, her beloved grandfather died of cancer. Because of that she wanted to do something could lead to a cure for that terrible disease.

In 1930 her family wasn't financially good so she wondered if she be able to study in a higher education. Fortunatly she had the oportunity to secure a place, which was a free one, in the Hunter College,
She graduated in 1937 with a degree in Chemestry. Then she worked in a laboratoy with Hitching, they did research about the difference in the biochemistry of a normal human cell and those of cancer cells, bacteria and other pathogens.

Elion developed a large amount of drugs in her career which includes mainly; Purinethol the first treatment for leukemia, Azathioprine(Imuran) used for organs transplants, Nelarabine.





For all the contribution and the help to the world  I think Getrude was an important person.
And also I wanted to talk about a scientist woman.

Books and films

I think that reading books it's very good, and a special type of art. To express yourself or imagination in words by writing it's a hard work. Not anyone can do that.

In my house I have a lot of books although I really don't read literature currently. I like reading scientific stuffs.
I don't have a favorite book, but one book that I think is good is "Dracula". Is a gothic horror novel wrote in 1897 by Irish author Bram Stoker.
I liked that novel because it was the first time that I had a feeling instantly reading a book. While I was reading a creepy part of the book, at the living room alone, the window was open and a breeze came in. I was nervous and a little scared. So I realized that the novel describes very good the horror and suspense parts of the book that I felt I was there, the cold of the place and even the noises.
This book it's not my favorite, I like others but it was the first that I remembered.



I love watching movies and I like a lot of movies. Well, I remember two movies now; Forrest Gump and Inception. Twice I like, but I going to talk about Inception.

Inception is a 2010 science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan. The cast includes Leonardo Dicaprio, Joseph Gordon, Ellen Page, Ken watanabe...

The movie is about playing with the subconscious, with the dreams. The idea of exploring the space of dreams, also sharing them.
How in the movie they are able to extract information from somebody's brain and the idea to dream inside a dream, it's very interesting.
Well the movie have much more to tell you, but you can watch the movie and get discover it.

Photograph I like

I like these photographs because they capture special moments in a summer vacation.

A foreigner took the photos and send to me.

It was in 2005, if I not confused. In a lake named "Lago tagua tagua" located in the south of Chile, the city "Puerto Montt", Los lagos Region. Well it's near the "Cordillera de los Andes". It's a little difficult to get there, it takes almost 25 hourss. 

I went there just one time in my life, with my father and some foreigner from Europe, I believe I'm not sure if they were from there. 

My father since I was born , he has been working in a Hostel so that is why we travel sometimes with foreigner.

For me it looked like paradise, so beautiful!... A lot of animals, trees, waterfalls, in general an amazing nature. 

A funny thing that happened there, or not so funny, I got lost into the wood. Because, my father was going to search for something, so he said to me "stay quiet" in the place I was, until he return. But there were a lot of big insects, and that scared me. The thing is, I was so afraid I ran away into the woods searching for my dad. I almost cried:( but fortunately my father found me and then I felt safe. He was so worried, I felt bad for him. 

Anyway, I'm the girl in the photo and without a tooth.










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Music is medicine

I listen almost everyday to music. Music makes me happy or sometimes it intensifies the emotion I have in the moment. It depends sometimes on the humor I have, if I'm thoughtful I listen slow o relax music. Anyway, with almost all the music I have the feeling for dancing.  

I like a lot of styles of music. A little bit of every kind of music like; classical rock, pop, romantic music, blues, soul, salsa, bachata, classical music, etc. Bands and singers like; Bread, Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Aerosmith, Bruno Mars, Alicia Keys, Artic Monkeys, Nina Simone, The Cranberries, The XX and more.

When I was younger I didn't like the music that the singers "screams", like in hardcore. But now I like some songs of that music.

My parents don't play instruments, but they like listening music and dancing. With my father I used to listen soft rock, soul, romantic music, classic rock, disco music. It was very relaxing and nice.

My boyfriend plays the drums very well, but now not so often because he is busier. He taught me a little of playing drums, I found it entertainment. Thanks to him a learned wider varieties of music.

I would like to learn, if I have the chance, to play piano. It's nice the sound of that musical instrument.

The name of this song video is "Maniac", it appears in the film Flashdance.