My favourite subject

Hello everybody! This time I´m going to talk about my favourite subject. First of all, I have to admit that I love my career, and I´m very happy because the subjects I have are related with topics that I like, and that's a big thing that I have to be grateful !!


Well, now being more specific, I think that of all my subjects at university, my favourite is Animal diversity ( or Zoology ) and I have many reasons: 
1.- Is directly related with animals, their classifications and different species...
2.- It's a kind of "introduction" of my future classes ( I mean, starting to learn about animals)
3.- Is new for me, because in the school we dont see this (not like Maths or Chemistry)
4.- I can relate Zoology with the things I do and see in my ordinary life (not just in class), for example when we saw arthropods in class, and a few days later I was able to recognize an insect, which in this case was a ladybird...and if I see an spider, I will know if it is dangerous or not, depending of the specie.
5.- We make dissections for the science! Is very interesting.
6.- I learn a lot, also it's a lot of memory, but...IT'S SO FUNNY!! :)


In this class, we started from the most simple living organism, (for example protozoa ) and now, after two months and a half of classes, we are seeing amphibians, then we are going to see birds, reptiles and mammals...and Im so excited that I can´t wait for see mammals! That is very interesting and it sounds hard, because obviously, when the organism is more evolved, is also more difficult to study !! But I know that I can do it :) and mammal animals are closer to us.
Here a picture of the animal diversity, in the environment:

The other subjects are absolutely  necessary also, for example in English I have learned a lot of new words that I think I would need to use more than once. In Chemistry I have to start with a good base for advance to others subjects, and in Maths, I can open my mind for the problems I will have in the future, and learn how solve it. 
All the subjects are absolutely necessary for be an excelent vet !! :) 

A person who I admire

This time I’m going to talk you about a man, a person who I consider was important in my field, a lot of people know this person and I have respect for him, because he gave his life doing what he likes: working with wild animals. The person I’m talking about is Stephen Robert Irwin, better known as Steve Irwin. 

When I met him, it was for a television program called The Crocodile Hunter, a documental program of wilderness, where Steve was the brave hunter. Talking about his career, he was an Australian environmentalist and television personality, so a lot of people loved him for his work, I mean, not many people (including me) dare to do what he did in his ordinary life, and live for it: risk his life every day for have an educational and entertaining space on television, something that we can enjoy (more if we are vet students) and learn a lot. His work was based on face animal nature, and it was very dangerous (animals like stingrays, sharks, crocodiles), but he continued doing it at the end of his life. 

One day, a September 4, 2006 at 11 o'clock in the morning while filming a documentary for his daughterBindy under the sea in Queensland (Australia) he was interacting with a stingray and something happened, and he had an accident with the animal. The stingray with his tail, make him a hole in his chest...and unfortunately he died before arriving the hospital. His producer John Staiton, said that Irwin "died doing what he loved", and that’s the reason I admire him and I think he was a very good and important contribution to the community.