Do I like Transantiago system?

I think Transatiago system is better than the previous one, because it is quicker (at least for me), cheaper, less contaminating, more silent and safer than the yellow buses. The yellow buses were very fast, but very damaging to the environment and dangerous for the people.

Of course it has bad things, especially at the beginning, but I think the system is getting better. Only in the critical hours (in the early morning or in the afternoon, when all the people are trying to go home or to work) the things get very unpleasant. The lines to get in to the bus are very long, some times you have to travel with to many people, and you can’t sit for houres. All that makes the travel very annoying, of course, but that is not just a problem of Transantiago system, it existed before that.

When it first started, I was coming back from a long trip from Perú and Bolivia. I didn’t have the “bip” card, so I had to ask to the driver for a free ride. I didn’t understand anything. I was very desoriented but I didn’t get lost, because some “yellow guys” helped me out.

I like this system, but I think that the buses should have more sits, because many people are very tired and need to rest…

Something essential to improve the system is to make more “punto-bip” centers, because it is very annoying and not very effective that we have to walk long distances, and make long lines only to put some money in the card, and then (only then!) go to our destiny.

A country I would like to visit: China

A country I would really love to visit is China. Is not something rational, it’s just that I feel very interested on that place, probably because the long distance, and the cultural difference. I like the contrast of big cities (cities that are very modern) with the countryside.

The nature, the big monuments like the Great Wall, the big cities like Hong Kong, the ancient history, the remote places and the estranges cultures, makes me feel very atracted to that country. I now very litlle about China. Only some things of their history (the Chinesse Empire), and some things about their culture and nature (I love panda bear).


I know that I need a lot of money to get there. But some day I will make it. When I get there, I want to travel for a few months. Mabe I would like to work, but I don’t know nothing about their language, and that is an very important obstacule. I don't want to study there, I only want to have a lot of experiences.

Freckles.

Good and bad points of the first term of 2009

I can say that I had a good semester, even thou I worked very hard studyng. I finished very tired. I had too much to do. We hardly had time to study correctly the diferent topics and assignatures. But, we learnd a lot of things, like a computer program very usefull for our carrere.

Apart of studyng, I was in class of "flamenco". I loved it. It made me (and it makes me now, because I am still on clasess) very happy, because it makes me concentrate in something very different for a while. And makes me revitalice my body a lot.

Also I'm part of an educational proyect named "La Escuelita". It's a very interesting proyect because it propose a diferent way to understand the education in the society. I'm very happy to participate.

In the meddle of the semester I made a trip to Europe along three weeks. It was a wonderful travel whith my family. We went to France to see my brother, and I also had the oportunity to see some friends. I loved France, Paris was amazing, but the place I liked the most was the countryside. We visited "Alsacia", a region very close to Germany. The towns where very beautiful, whit a lot of colors and nature. There where middle age castels and very old churchs. The only bad thing was to cacht up the studyes. It was very hard.

It was a good semester. Full of good moments and also full of challenges.
Bye!!
Sofi-Freckles.