Bare Necessities (Lucas' Introduction)

"Hola, muchachos". I answer to the name Lucas, I'm 20 years old and I'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
 You know that large country close to Chile, the one with the miners trapped. I'm currently studying
Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires but I'm thinking of changing to Biology (to specialize myself
in Biotechnoly). I love science in general (biology and chemistry in particular). So i knew that
i needed to study something related with living creatures and i always found human anatomy amazing, i remember going to the morgue of the hospital with my uncle (who is a physician) and watching each organ, It was awesome. My problem is that i'm a person who is always interested in EVERYTHING, I think that every career is amazing; luckily, some more than others.
Taking up the issue, I've been reading a lot about bio-tech advances lately and I'm too excited about it.
Also I checked the Biology's program and It's moresuitable for my plans, not because it's easier, because
it's better organized... medicine has a lot of burocratic issue (annual courses, correlativities between
them) and I really want to start working this year, I need to finance some travel plans. On the other hand,
I'm going to miss the anatomy class and touching corpses (Yeah, Creepy guy FTW!)

Things that i like... I truly deeply love traveling. Last summer(Your winter, yeah! I'm talking to you, north hemisphere people),
 I was in the USA (East coast: NYC, Miami,Orlando, Philadelphia and Boston) and the summer before I did a student exchange
in France, after that i backpack through a part of Europe (England, Italy, Holland, Spain, Germany). Well, I don't know why I'm
telling you this, but the point is that i love the freedom and the excitation of knowing new places. My plan for next year is
traveling to either Australia or Canada. And also, i love learning languages.

Hobbies... well, I like to read a lot. I haven't read a John Green's book yet (I know I'm a failure as a nerdfighter, they aren't
published in my country but I ordered Papertowns and TFiOS on Amazon, so I'm going to read those soon). My favourite authors are
Douglas Adams, Jane Austen, Herman Melville, José Saramago, John Steinbeck, Osvaldo Soriano... It's so difficult to choose favourite things...
I'm also a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes stories and Arthurian Mitology (The Vulgate Cycle is an incredible way to see the medieval way of thinking)
And also I have a great affection for Harry Potter because I grew up reading those books, but i'm not into the fan circuit (on the other hand, one
of the "few" things i buy at USA was an replica of Sirius Black's Wound, F-YEAH!).
I love watching movies too, favourite directors... It's probably a tie between Wong Kar-wai, John Ford and Takeshi Kitano. I'm also particulary interested in animation films and classic horror movies.
Favourites Bands: If I have too choose a few... Belle and Sebastian, Jamie T, Streetlight Manifesto, The Rural Alberta Advantage, 65daysofstatic and Rancid.
Shows i like/d: Grey's Anatomy, Misfits, Sherlock, Doctor Who, Star Trek (every series, Benjamin Sisko fan), American Horror Story, Gilmore Girls, Everwood,
The Office and probably a few more i can't remember in this particular moment.
Also I enjoy reading graphic novels (and sometimes comic books but when they have a recopilatory volume), Football (yeah, FOOTBALL, not soccer:P)and time
to time playing some magic the gathering with my highschool friends.


Things i dislike: I can't remember anything i truly dislike in this moment... I don't know what's happening to me right now... I'm in carebear mode?!


And probably that's all i can write for now.

Best Wishes!

Lucas

PS: It's my first post in any blog and my english vocabulary is pretty lame. So let me know if you notice any mistake.
PS2: I noticed that I didn't speak a lot about my academic situation but it's because I'm going through a confusing situation, I promise more information in the future.

PS3: I'm too lazy to take a photo of myself in this moment, next time it will be one. So I put a picture of my favourite animated character, yes i'm that childish... so what.

"Hello world"! (Tangerine's presentation)

Hi, everybody!
Well... Let's get started, shall we?
My name here is Tangerine, (which makes my first name quite obvious, actually), I'm 18 (till March), and I come from France (near Paris)!
(French the llama!) (OMG I found an orange baby llama picture! <== This is me!)

 
I finished high school two years ago; I'm at the moment a student in what is called in France "Classes préparatoires" (2nd year), which means that I will have to go through some competitive exams between April and July in order to become an engineer in geology. (I will get back to that during the presentation of the school system).

I'm currently studying biology, geology, physic and chemistry, plus some maths (of course). That amazing formation allows me to learn more and more about the way the world works, and that is truly amazing, a never ending wonder. In biology, for example, we saw how a cell works, divides and communicates with the body, how a plant grows and goes through the winter, how neurons work, how a tadpole becomes a frog... plus a lot of other things! It is just so interesting, fascinating, overwhelming!

Then... What do I like? My classes, obviously, learning new things, useful or not, philosophy (when I have time), and reaaaaaaaaading (and I no longer have time for that either, sadly), mostly SF and French poetry, I must say. I also love wind surfing. I'll always be in for sports, or a talk, or a dance, or a trip... you can even call me to take me see a sunset, I'll come in a hurry! I also like teaching stuff, and it seems that I can be quite good at it.
About more "nerdy" things, I like Sherlock BBC and Games of Thrones, O.S.Card and Bradbury, the Vlog Brothers and Charlieissocoollike, jmtb02's games, xkcd... and so much more!

There are not a lot of things that I dislike, but I don't like talking about celebrities just because they are known, (I never quite got the point), and I really can't stand the people that won't listen respectfully to what the other side has to say in an argument.

Fun/useless facts: People think I look like a cat, I know the first 50 decimals of pi, I speak English and French fluently, I sing a lot, and I love tickling people. =D

Well... That's it for today, then! See you next time! (And DFTBA!)

PS: I you ever notice a mistake in one of my posts, please tell me.