Making the herbarium

The making of the hermarium was an unexpected good experience for me. In the beginning I was unwilling to the idea of "wasting" my time collecting and drying up samples of branches and leaves, but with the pass of the time I realized that I could learn a lot from that.
I met several places like the Quebrada de Macul, some coastal hills and valleys on the V region "de Valparaíso", and woodlands on various parts of the V and VI region "del Libertador Bernardo O'higgins".
Also I knew some other areas deeper, like the Parque Forestal, Parque Quinta Normal, Cerro Santa Lucia, Cerro San Cristóbal, and a large etc.
I usually went on my own to these places to be focus on the work, have time to see and enjoy the landscape and the loneliness. Nevertheless, I went accompanied with my brothers Omar and Simon once, twice with my cousin Sebastian, and twice with a friend.
Honestly I spent a lot of time collecting and drying up the samples, but once I got them on the press, I forgot of them at all. That took me like 3 or 4 months. The make of label and stitch phase was the harder part and was the phase that I dedicated less time, nice logic. I had to make that on like 1 week or less, and was a really fun and traumatic challenge, although I got a red mark :(
I enjoyed it a lot, because I learnt many things about the Region Metropolitana in general, and of Santiago, Maipú, and the 68 route in particular. Sincerely I did not learn much about plant names but I was able to acquire other kind of knowledge as I spoke a lot with the people that I was meeting on the course of my night and day walks and travels.

Poooossstgraduate studies

As I was telling last blog post, I would like to continue studying after finish my career. There is so many cool things to study: Climate, Ecology, Genetics, etc. Nevertheless, I will focus my mind and energies on the subject I consider to be the most important for us right now. Hence, maybe I will study a Master in Climate Change or Urban Ecology, those are the areas I think will be important to understand on the future, considering the needs of the millions of people that live together right now, and the unsustainable conditions that underlies all this. In the future, I will consider to make a doctorate, but that is "flour from another sack" paraphrasing an expression that we have here on Chile.
I would like to study abroad, know other lands, other countries and cultures, and hence other realities that seem distant from me, but are as important to understand as mine, and thereby have a more complex formation on my area. The exactly country I don´t know, and I don´t really mind. It should be where the university that I need is. And the study system I don´t really mind either, it just has to give me the sufficient time to know the place.
I think is relevant to say that, even if I study abroad or not, I will come back to my country to give something back, considering that I have make all my studies in the educational public system. Maybe it isn´t the best there is, but it has give me the conditions and tools to be who I am now.