A story to write the future

Dr. German Valenzuela Basterrica is a Medical Doctor, graduate in Paris with the Dentist title, Director of the first Dental Faculty.

Dr. Valenzuela graduate from medicine en the Universidad de Chile in 1882. He was disciple of one of the mentors of chilean contemporary surgery, Dr. Carvallo Elizalde. Together they excelled attending oral diseases.

He workd in San Juan de Dios Hospital, the most important establisment in the history of public health in our country. In this place he became in a pioneer of the chilean public health, the science and art of protecting and improving the health of comunnities.

His extensive knowlegde about oral diseases took him to France in 1897 with a goberment scholarship, to improve in dental science. In this country the forensic dentistry was already developing. Thank to this discipline, years later, Dr. Valenzuela will set apart with the "Becker case". In 1909, the odontology skill of Dr. German Valenzuela and his work in a burned corpse of the fire in the Legacion Alemana in Chile, makes it possible to resolve the mysterious police case, which put in risk the bilateral relation between Chile and Alemania.

With Dr Valenzuela's help it was possible to achieve to clean the reputation of an innocent men and give to the Justice the real guilty.

The Chilean Republic President of this time, Mr. Pedro Montt, reward Dr Valenzuela in appreciation of all he did. He replied he wanted the construction of a modern Dental School. Because the nation needed it so badly.
This is how it was possible that in 10 of september of 1911 the Dental School was opened.

In 1923, under the Nº1650 Decree, the 5 of july, it gave it the name of "Escuela Dental Dr. German Valenzuela Basterrica", name that remains in our Faculty.

Music, my sixth element

Music… it’s something really powerful, ha?

It makes me change my mood so easily.

If it weren’t for the music, I think that I would know much less English than I know now. Because my first approximation to English was when I began to translate the English songs that I liked.

At the beginning I couldn’t understand a thing, jajaja.. then I listened over and over again, I learned by heart the melody, how to pronounce the words, and most of the time I didn’t know what I was saying, but little by little the words started to sound familiar and it had a meaning to me.

Nowadays I still love to learn English songs, but now I don’t need to translate, I do it in my mind and it becomes so much easier than years ago.

The first song I translated was “Dreams” by Cranberries… I listened to it for the first time in one of my brother’s old cassettes, many many years ago.I looked for more songs by the band, and they really captivated me, they became my favorite band. I think I have a favorite song, too. The decision was very difficult but the winner is….tan tan tan... Linger!!!!!

Jajajaja It’s really beautiful, it starts with a mix of violins and guitars that make me close my eyes and calm all the bad feelings that I could be feeling at the moment.

A little about me

Hello everyone! This is a little post to introduce you to my blog. I want to write about things that I like, journeys that I've made, tell you maybe about my life, lyrics of songs...I don't know, things like that. My name is Javiera but you can call Negrita, I'm 22 years old... I love to see series on television like The big bang Theory, No ordinary family, Friends, Two and a half men, to name a few. I love drawing, and people usually tell me that I'm very good at doing it. Maybe in other time I can post a drawing of mine. In the summers, I usually visit Chile, I love my country, I think it's one of the most beautiful places in the world. With Juan Pablo, we have gone camping and backpacking since we met......... I love him! He's a really nice boy... =) I can show you photos of our trips if you want... That's all for now. See you soon