My sister at London Eye

Hello everyone,

Today's post is about a photo I like so much. It was taken when my sister Veronica was in London, in 2006.

My sister is engineer, she studied at Federico Santa María Technical University in Valparaíso. I remember those years, back then she was almost always stressed.

I personally don't like the environment at Federico Santa María Technical University, because there the people are very individualist and always competing with each other.

I'm very happy studying Physics at University of Chile. Here courses are more difficult (the average score in the last test of Classical Mechanics was 2.5), but you really learn a lot and that is what finally counts.

In 2006 my sister went to France as exchange student. She studied one semester at a University located in Brest, a small city in the west of France. Then she also visited several countries including United Kingdom.

She told me that she had to take a train which travels through a tunnel (known as Channel Tunnel) just over the ocean. That tunnel connects France and England.

This picture was taken from inside the London Eye, the giant wheel placed next to Thames riviera in the heart of London.

In the front of the picture you can see my sister (she appears to be very happy). Behind her there is the Big Ben (it's all illuminated in the night), next to it there is the Parliament House and just behind them Westminster Abbey, a church and the location for Royal coronations and burials.

That's all for now.

See you!

Panic on the streets of London...

Hello everyone,

On next month I will spend one week in London. There are several places I'd like to visit.

MONDAY

I've just bought a £16.74 standard ticket to visit London Eye in the morning of my first day in the UK.
I will get there by tube, Waterloo is the closest station. It's only five minutes by walk from there.

In the afternoon I will visit The Natural History Museum. I will get there by tube, the museum is a just a few steps from the tube from South Kensington station. The entrance to the museum is free.

TUESDAY

I will spend all day in the Royal Botanic Gardens (also known as Kew Gardens). The ticket costs £11.50.
I can't get there by tube, so I will take the train. The nearest railway station is Haywards Heath, approximately 6 miles away, from there I will take a bus.


WEDNESDAY

In the morning I will visit The Tate Modern Art Gallery. I've heard that there are several british works from 1500 to the present day. The nearest underground station to the gallery is Pimlico. The entrance is free.
In the afternoon I'd like to go to The Tower of London and see the world famous Crown Jewels, I will arrive there by tube, the nearest station is Tower Hill, it's only a five minute walk from the entrance. The adult ticket costs £19.80.

THURSDAY

I will spend all thursday visiting the Camden Market. I will get there by tube, I should remember to get off on Camden Town station. There is no entrance fee.

FRIDAY

In the morning I'd like visit The British Museum. I should buy a £52.00 individual membemship. I will get there by tube, the nearest station is Holborn station, the Museum is about 500m from there.
After I get lunch I will take the tube again and will visit Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum, I should get off on Baker Street station, the museum is a two minute walk from there. An adult ticket costs £28.80.

SATURDAY

I'd like to visit the Royal Artillery Museum, one of the world's oldest military museums. The ticket costs only £5.30. I will get there by train.


SUNDAY

I will spend my last day in the London Zoo. I really love birds, so I can't leave London without visit the Zoo. The ticket costs £48.00.


The total cost for visiting all these places is £182.14, but I will spend more money than that because I'd like to bring some gifts for my family and friends.

My favourite piece of technology

Hi there,

Today's post is about a piece of technology I like so much, in one word: computers.

I received my first computer as christmas gift when I was 13 years old, it was a revolution in my life. I use it almost daily to check my email, read the news, and look for resources related with my field of study.

I have a large collection of physics books in pdf format, each one carefully organized in folders corresponding to specific topics in physics.

I like computers because a computer is like a human brain. They are made of a lot of parts, each part with different functions, controlling different aspects, but each one equally important, because every part is needed to create a fully functional unit.

The life is much easy with computers, I hardly can imagine how different life was before they where invented.

Currently, I'm studying the Newton's laws of motion in a course of classical mechanics at university, they where published by Isaac Newton in 1687 (more than three centuries ago!), I think they are quite complicated now and I can't even imagine how Newton and other people made great discoveries and advances with just a pen and a piece of paper.