the person i admire

The researcher Tu Youyou born in Ningbo, Republic of China on December 30, 1930 is a scientist, doctor and Chinese pharmaceutical chemistry almost unknown in her own country, who has become the first Chinese woman to receive a Nobel Prize in any of its fields besides being the first scientist with this nationality who receives the Precious award.

84-year-old student of the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine Tu shared the Nobel Prize with Irishman William Campbell and the Japanese Satoshi Omura for his advances in the fight against parasitic diseases, which in the case of the doctor focused on combat against malaria.

She is known to discover artemisinin (also known as dihydroartemisinin), with ancient medical texts and folk remedies of her land, isolated 2,000 potential drugs and made 380 extracts. Used to treat malaria, with which saved millions of lives.

My admiration for this scientist is because her discovery has been the result of a lifetime of work facing various adverse situations, as her discovery goes back to research in the 60s and 70s, in the middle of the Cultural Revolution, when scientists were considered counterrevolutionary and were not allowed to continue with their investigations, even so Tu did not surrender and persisted. In addition, it marked a milestone to have based their research on traditional Chinese medicine, a discipline that is not always recognized in the West because of its base empirical.

The music in my life

I remember that since I was very little I was a music fan, I liked Disney songs and movies in general, and in the course of my life I have been changing my tastes. In general I do not listen only to a specific musical genre, I like many different musical styles such as Indie pop, R & B, soul, blue, jazz, pop, rock, etc.

Although not everyone likes it, I like to listen to classical music, and appreciate the sound of the musical instruments, the ones I like the most and I think are indispensable are the violin, the cello and the piano (although I do not know how to touch them).How much I am stressed I like to listen to Antonio Vivaldi and Ludwing van Beethoven and I also listen to the modern interpretations of their compositions.

The modern artists that I have liked are Amy winehouse, Adele, Lana del Rey, and old bands like ABBA, Bee Gees, Eagles, among others.

When I was younger I used to listen to pop music a lot, because it had a sticky and moved rhythm, now I do not hear it as much because of the lack of good content in their songs.Therefore, I have chosen to listen to music with more meaning, such as Christian music such as Jesus Culture, Hillsong United, etc.


As I said before I really like the music of the movies, because they give personality to the scenes, particularly the soundtrack that I like most is the saga of Star Wars, whenever I hear it brings back many good memories of my childhood .

Photograph that I like

I like this photograph because it reminds me of a specific day of my life and how good I felt at that moment, I remember it was the beginning of the spring of 2016 and little by little the temperatures started to rise, the sun was warmer and could go for a walk in the field and observe the wild flowers that began to appear in all places, this photo was taken by me, I remember that day I took many pictures of flowers and landscapes in the field that I visited before living in Santiago, that photos like this remind me of the stage of my life in which I lived in the south and still did not have big worries and I could appreciate this kind of scenario every day. Also this photo reminds me that my little cousin liked to make her braids and put these flowers in her hair to make it more beautiful.