My full name

NataliaC. Hirmas M.

Assignment 4- Summary writing

Artificial skin 'cuts scarring', article written by Pallab Ghosh BBC News, Science correspondent, BBC news.
A prototype artificial skin used to heal wounds has been developed by British researchers. This skin seemed to incorporate itself much better with real tissue than any other skin substitutes tried in the past. Nowadays, the best way of treating wounds is taking skin from other parts of the person's body, but it isn't the ideal way. This alternative might provide an alternative to skin grafts.
The process is the following: The skin is created from a matrix made up of fibrin, a protein found in healing wounds. To this is added human fibroblasts - cells used by the body to synthesise new tissue. In a process that effectively replicates the way the body makes new skin, the cells produce and release another protein, collagen, which makes the matrix more stable.
It is in this form that the "skin" is implanted into a wound.

Assignment 1:English song

This lyric is from a song called " In this together", which is interpretated by Apoptygma Berzerk, a norwegian band which I had never heard before, but the sound is strong and clear, with power transmited both through the lyrics, the musical instruments and sound effects, and the voice and interpretation of the vocalist.
I got to know this song because some parts of it were used in a Warner channel commercial for a serie called "ER" showing some scenes from the latest episodes, which, by the way, are great (if you want to see them, I recommend them). Well, then I googled the song and I found out that many other people on the internet wanted to know about it, and that's why it didn't took from me much effort to find it.
If you want to see the video, you can click on the next link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fq4SxdI_AU




Should I've seen this coming
should I've known this
shouldn't have let it happen
my mistake allright
stuck again
doing my thing
too alike yet far apart

What felt so good once
is breaking me
and tearing us apart again

//Don't you see
we're in this together
you and me
one on one forever//

I know it's self inflicted
we're way to desperate
way too addicted
but I can't help the way I feel
I know it's time to be strong
now when all hope is gone

And when what felt so good once
is breaking me
and tearing us apart again

//Don't you see
we're in this together
you and me
one on one forever//

And in your troubled eyes I see
someone who carried me somehow
like footprints in the sand
you've been behind me all along
we got it wrong from the start
now it's you and me let's hit it on

Don't you see it's you and me
against the world!
cause we're in this together
you and me
one on one forever

Don't you see
we're in this together
you and me
one on one forever

Assignment 3: your weekend

OK. I know that maybe you expect me to tell you about a very fun, exciting, and relevant activity that I've ever done in my life; well, you're wrong, unless you consider that spending you're whole weekend studing as an "exciting" and "super duper fun" one...

This is what I did, well, "we" I must say, because I spent it all with my boyfriend. He was a little sick, so he helped me studying, and I helped him getting better; that was the sort of "deal" we made; but the truth is that no one of us really gave to it more importance than to make a joke and then laugh together.

Well. What we did. Telling you the truth, it was a little (just a little) monotonous. We woke up early, had some breakfast; then we started studying and continued till lunch time. We ate as fast as we could, so we could have a little rest and then continuing studying till tea time, sometimes it was a tea- dinner instance, like the last meal of the day, so we took longer, talking to my family, joking, watching TV, everything at the same time we were eating. After that: studying again, till 2-3 am, when we went to bed only to sleep a few hours to wake up at 9 in the morning (for me they're so few!!!- I expected to sleep more, since last week I've fallen asleep in several classes, and on thursday, I fell asleep in both, morning and afternoon clasess...well, you can't blame me... they both were just a little boring. But yes, I was very tired-)...

- not much to tell, really...

Assignment 2: Recommended Websites in my Area

1) http://www.aota.org/ - The American Occupational Therapy Association web-page.
I selected it because it has very important information about what the carreer is and how the american culture sees it.It's useful to my stuidies because it has news, links, books recomendations, and more.
2) http://www.caot.ca/ - The Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists web-page.
I seleceted it mainly because of the same reasons of why I selected the past one, but here I can get the canadian view of what an Occupational Therapist does and how he develops. This is something that helps to my studies, and it has links, book recomendations, important documents, and a link to the Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy (CJOT), which is a very important scientific journal about Occupatioanl Therapy.
3) http://www.cot.org.uk/ - The Britich Association/ College of Occupational Therapists web-page.
I selected it because it has a different point of view than the other ones (you'll se it once you get into it). It has a link to the British Journal of Occupational Therapy (another important journal), to publications, and useful information for both occupational therapists and people in common, about how can OT help them, for instance.

"Introducing myself in 100 words- a little longer, you'll see..."

My name is Natalia, but my friends call me "h", and I'm christian (that's a very important part of my life, better saying it's all my life and on which it finds support, on Christ). I study Occupational Therapy at Universidad de Chile, here, in Santiago, Chile. I have two older brothers and one little sister; also two pets: one is my dog called Mozart (-I play the piano-), and a cat named "Pancha". Well, as I already said, one of the things I like is playing the piano, but I also like playing guitar and other musical instruments; I like it pretty much. Another thing that I like is going out to see movies, to walk in the park, to have a coffee, or just to have a conversation. With whom? well, lately I haven't had the time for doing it, but I use to do it with my friends, but specially with my boyfriend. He's a very important part of my life; that's why if here I'm talking about myself I can't help not naming him. :P