My experience with the English language began almost 15 or 16 years ago when I was in preschool where I learnt how to say "octopus", what I mean is that I didn't learn anything, where I actually learnt useful things was in video games and in TV watching the WWE (WWF back in that day).

My first challenge with English was the words like "do", "are" and "is" in the question form. After that I have had some trouble with the "mind translation", in other words: thinking something in Spanish and translate it to English, because there were many words I didn't (and still don't) know.

Recently I have been thinking in English when I have to make something in English, so that "mind translation" problem is no longer a problem for me, but a new challenge rose: "spelling problems", because as now I am thinking in English, I am also writing "the way it sounded in my head", in other words I am writing like an American, and they write like shit, that's why they tend to do many "spelling bee" contests.

The blogs in the university I have found them very amusing because we write about the things we like and that is a rather easy task (at least for me) and also help us to know more about each other.

I don't think it is a good activity because is very basic, but it is good for us because we're not studying English.

I would like to improve my accent because as my dream is to get to California, I would not like to get there speaking like Lucho Jara.

This year (because I didn't do it before) I am starting to speak in English in my mind when I am playing a video game or watching something in English, but I don't speak in English when is not necessary because we live in a Spanish speaking country, and speaking in English in Chile for no reason is stupid, the same way I think is disrespectful to speak other language than the native language of the country you are in public, like Chinese people do when you enter in their stores.

Changes to the program

Hi guys and girls, in this blog I'm going to talk about what changes I would like to do in the program.

I guess a lot of you are going to talk about "BAyB" (anatomical and biological basis of face and neck) but I am going to go further.

First of all in the first year there are 3 "biological" subjects: biological basis, anatomical basis and "BAyB" in which the subjects of basic cell biology, general histology and system histology are included in "biological basis" (1st semester), a summary of the whole body anatomy condensed in "anatomical basis" (1st year) and in "BAyB" are included genetics, face and neck anatomy and teeth and oral cavity histology.

Cell biology

Four types of tissue

Complete body muscular anatomy

This is to much for us and also is too condensed that we don't know anything after all.

I propose that in the first semester we have to have a subject called just "biology" that includes the basics of cell biology and genetics like the Bachillerato does, and other subject called anatomy I in which we have to study only the human anatomy of thorax, abdomen, pelvis and limbs so that we leave the whole head and neck (our so called specialty) for just one subject called anatomy II in the second semester.

Head and neck anatomy

Also even though I hate it, we cannot leave histology apart, and as we have a whole subject to fill, we can have a subject called Histology in which we have to see general histology, systems histology and oral cavity histology.

Parotid (salivary) gland histology

With that better order of the subjects I think we can form better professionals because it would be easier to study these subjects separately than all together.

Also I don't like the way how physics is lectured because we use mathematical functions like trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, tangent, etc) in order to solve physics problems, but not every student know them nor how they work.

Trigonometric Functions explained in the unit circle

And the last thing I am going to complain about is "Society and Culture" you all know what I'm talking about because it is extremely shitty and a complete waste of time, I think that it should be replaced with some sort of a "First Aid" subject because we have to know what to do in risk cases and not just take care about mouths.

First aids

Summer Holidays

I don't think in this summer break I will be traveling out of Santiago, because I have to work to have money for the instruments for the second year, so as I'm going to be working here in Santiago I have to have my vacations here. 

So many foreigners come to Chile just to visit Santiago so it has to have some enchantment.

Obviously the beautiful parts of Santiago are the wealthy and also the historic parts of the city, that is to say the downtown (Santiago Centro) and the uptown or Sanhattan (Las Condes, Vitacura, Providencia).

Parque Bicentenario (Vitacura)

Barrio Lastarria (Santiago Centro)

Also as I'm going to work in the summer I also want to buy a Pug dog with the money I'm going to earn.

Lil puggy

When I quit working, because I don't want to work the whole summer, I will be visiting some of the cities that are close to Santiago, like Viña del Mar and Rancagua.

Viña del Mar (I guess because I have never seen that water so bright blue)

Rancagua

Why these cities, because Viña del Mar has beaches and a Casino (municipal Viña's Casino), it's like the chilean version of Las Vegas but in the coast.

Casino de Viña in Av. Perú (the street that always closes because of the swells)

And Rancagua because it also has a Casino (Monticello Casino) and it has the only race track with international standards, the Autódromo Internacional de Codegua, a race track located 18 km northeast from Rancagua and just 72 km from Santiago, not so far.

Casino Monticello (San Francisco de Mostazal)

Autódrimo Internacional de Codegua

Several Supercars often race there

There are some trackdays too, days that ordinary people like me pay to race in their cars. I don't have a race car but the Ford Focus is a very agile car that I would like to drive at 100 miles per hour (safely).

Two Ford Focus RS racing

Nitrous Blue Ford Focus RS drifting

The most difficult part of it is going to get permission for racing my parents car.

Video Game Recommendation

Hi guys and girls, in this blog I'm going to talk about a video game that I have been playing and I would like to recommend it to you, I am talking about South Park The Fractured but Whole.

Actually I have finished the game already but I am playing it again because the dialogs vary depending if your character (the new kid) is either male, female, gender less, transgendered, cisgendered, black, white or other.

Cartman treats you badly if you're black

The game tells the story of the kids in the town pretending that they're superheroes.

The Coon (Eric Cartman) is the leader of a group of superheroes called Coon and Friends, he wants to make a series in Netflix because the superheroes series are very popular in Netflix, but for that he will need money.

The Franchise Plan

In order to get that money, The Coon decides to look for a missing cat for a $100 reward, a money that he thinks will help them get their series and movies.

$100 reward for findind Scrambles

While searching the cat Coon and Friends fight another group of superheroes called Freedom Pals, the new kid has to infiltrate in the other group to retrieve information about the missing cat, but what started as a simple kids game ended up being a real crime operation, some people were kidnaping cats around the town to make drugs that will turn the people of South Park in criminals.

Civil War

South Park The Fractured But Whole is a role-playing video game that gives you the opportunity to play as: The new kid (you), The Coon, Human Kite (Kyle Broflovski), SuperCraig (Craig Tucker), Mosquito (Clyde Donovan), Fastpass (Jimmy Valmer), Captain Diabetes (Scott Malkinson), Call Girl (Wendy Testaburger), Professor Chaos (Leoplold "Butters" Stotch), Mysterion (Kenny McCormick), Toolshed (Stan Marsh), Wonder Tweak (Tweak), Tupperware (Token Black).

From left to right: Fastpass, Wonder Tweak, Doctor Timothy (Timmy Burch (not playable)), SuperCraig, Human Kite (up), Toolshed, Mysterion, Coon, Mosquito (up), Professor Chaos, Call Girl, Tupperware, Captain Diabetes.

* Fun fact: Toolshed means Cobertizo para herramientas, but also means Douchbag.

You also have to choose between 10 superhero types: Brutalist, Blaster, Speedster, Elementalist, Gadgeteer, Plantmancer, Cyborg, Psychic, Assassin, and Martial Artist, each one with their special abilities and superpowers.

The game it self looks exactly like a South Park episode, it also has that South Park humor with excessive cursing, racial and sexual jokes, and some other very disgusting parts so if you are a moralist or politically correct and do not know the South Park humor I do not recommend you to play this game.

The game looks like the tv show even while in combat.

The most disgusting mini-game in history.

(Don't worry your character will fart in their face and kick their asses)

Kicking their asses.

Otherwise if you are used to the South Park tv show this is a game you have to play.

Continuing my studies

Continuing my studies

Hello guys and girls in this blog I'm going to talk about some postgraduate studies options I have considered.

Well I'm in first year yet so I have not decided yet. As you may know by this time I would like to study in California, but getting a visa and finance is a bit difficult so I'll be a bit more realistic.

My first option is to study Maxillofacial Surgery but I have heard it is the most difficult specialty of them all, so in case of not getting to study it, I have thought about other options.

Only maxillofacial surgeons can remove 3rd molar these days

My second option is implantology, because I would like to return the smile to someone who has lost their teeth. I found this specialty a very beautiful area to work in because you make people look like they want or restore their missing teeth. I really wonder why a lot of dentist tend to hate this specialty, maybe because by these days it's a very expensive service and only people like Leonardo Farkas have had their teeth replaced.

Those teeth look pretty fake to me, but I'm pretty sure he will not be getting any tooth decay in his remaining life

My third and last option is a very common one these days but I consider it very beautiful too. I'm talking about orthodontics because you can turn an awful looking smile into a beautiful perfect smile.

I also like this specialty because when I had braces I thought this was very easy, and I'm still thinking it (at least easier than Maxillofacial Surgery).

The magic of orthodontics

Thank God the orthodontic appliances are not like that anymore

Of course I would like study this specialties in the University of Chile because it is the best in dentistry in Chile, buy if I could get to study abroad I would't complain about it.

The other postgraduate study I would take is a Masters Degree on Anatomy because I love that subject although it doesn't love me. I see it like a great challenge I dare to take, because I think that is a very difficult subject that I have to master some day and also I would like to teach anatomy in the university.

Motor branches of the Facial Nerve (VII)

So these are my postgraduate studies options, I hope you liked my blog, see you soon bye :)

In the future

Nobody can know what the future will bring, but what you can do is dream big, be positive, decree and work hard to achieve your dreams.

In this blog I'm going to talk about what I would like to do in the future after I graduate of the dental school.

In the future I'd like to work in two areas of odontology, one is a bit obvious, working at the clinic doing oral surgery. I'd like to work for the public service but I do not discard the posibility on working on my own.

And the other one is teaching, I want to be a Professor of anatomy, physics and/or some other clinic subject. I love anatomy, although it seems anatomy doesn't love me I would like to teach anatomy because is one of the most difficult subjects for any health related career, that's why I would like to make it easier for my students. 

Motor branches of the Facial Nerve

I want to teach physics because it is a bit easy for me so it would be the easiest way to start my theaching career.

Homer: (Wearing glasses) The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side!

Man: (From inside a bathroom stall.) That's a right triangle, you idiot!

Homer: D'oh!

And also I would like to teach some other clinic subject like many others dentist do.

Well in this world you cannot live without money, so talking about salary I would like to have a salary of 8 million CLP or more, you can think "Are you crazy or greedy?" Niether one, that big amount is the average salary of a dentist (without any specialty) in the city of Los Angeles, California  (150.000 USD aprox. in a year), that is the city that I want to live in the future.

City of angels

Besides working as a dentist or a professor I would like to run other businesses like investing in the stock market or in real estate, in other worlds putting my money working for me instead of me working for money.

The wolf of Wall Street

When it's all said and done, and money is not an issue anymore I would like to work in clinic for free for the people who do not have the means to take proper care of their oral health.

Before                                  After

My dreams seems to be a little bit big, but there is nothing impossible in this world. You have to dream big to act big and always be possitive and believe that you can do it, because you can.

Believe in yourself

My favorite animal

Hello guys and girls, my last blog was to extensive so today this is going to be shorter and with more images.

Today I am going to show you my favorite animal, but not my favorite animal that is the jaguar because you cannot own a jaguar, so I thought it would be better to choose an animal that I could live with, and I came up with the Pug.

Jaguars are very cool but I wouldn't have this in my home

Maybe this Jaguar F-Type R 

You may think "what the fuck is a pug?" Well, let Wikipedia explain this for us. "The Pug is a breed of dog with physically distinctive features of a wrinkly, short-muzzled face, and curled tail. The breed has a fine, glossy coat that comes in a variety of colours, most often fawn or black, and a compact square body with well-developed muscles."

"Ahoy-hoy"**

**Ahoy-hoy is the original hello, Alexander Graham Bell defined "Ahoy-hoy" as the salute for the telephone in its first years. It is currently used only by Mr. Burns when answering the phone.

This explanation may be too hard to understand so I'll explain better.

Pugs are dogs with wrinkles in their faces, they have a short muzzle (dog snout or mouth) and a curly tail. They often have this three hair colors: Black, Fawn or Apricot.

Black, Fawn and Apricot pugs

I choose them because they are perfect as pets, they can be your perfect friend because they adapt to their owner lifestyle. Either if you are athletic or lazy your pug will be exactly like you.

Healthly athletic pug

Pugs love to eat so don't overfeed them

But that is a problem because there are many obese pugs thanks to their owners' lifestyle, because owners often overfeed pugs and they end up being fat and having various heath complications because of theire obesity.

"S-pug-etti"

Pugs' eyes can pop out if their head or neck are squeezed

Pugs are very funny to play with because of their different wrinkle pattern fenotypes they have different type of faces. They can look happy, cute, angry, serious, sad, scared or like guity.

This is Frank from Men in Black, he looks serious

Scared pug

Guilty pug

I included a happy black pug to show you that I am not racist

You can also play with their wrinkles

There are so many things to say about how awesome pugs are, but here is a video that explains it better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V661hlImVxg

Some people may say that pugs are ugly but I like to say that they are beautiful in their own way, after all beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Beautiful pug