jueves, 30 de septiembre de 2010

I LOVE SPAIN

I love going abroad!!! since I was a child girl, my parents taught me that the only legacy they can leave to me is knowledge. There are a lot of types to learn something but for me the most complete and entreteinment is traveling. I´ve been in many differents countries and i've known a lot of differents cultures.  There are beautiful places arround the world  that you have to visit before you die.
In my opinion Spain got everything that im looking for. First of all.. if you like history, you will love Spain.
Spain is cradle of universal history
In deed, most of the income of the country comes from the tourism. You can learn about middle ages time, see the bull racing, visit the casttle of the catholic kings, see scultures or buildings creates by  famous artists. The people that had been in Spain agree that its a huge outdoors museum.
On the other hand Milan and Madrid are fashion capitals. You can found  big varieties of clothes styles in a really great couture. Every different style that a spanish man wears always fits him great. They are never out of style.
The food isnt that great but I can mention the classic CHURROS with hot chocolate ( the perfect winter breakfast ). 
They have greats wines too..It is very common found workers having TAPAS  after work. Tapas is like "picoteo" in Chile.. kind of elaborate gourmet meal.
Another good  point its they speak spanish. There's no language barriers, although sometimes its difficult to understand some colocations in their speaking. 

The only thing that I really don`t like of Spain its they live very near each other with their neighboards. between house to house theres no space. this is made up by the amazing green areas and big parks they have.

My dream in a uncertanly future is living on Barcelona. I would like to study there and then I want to live there.

Chile have beautiful places to hang arround (I recomend the southern cities) but in my opinion we are way too long to have the same good conserve places in compare to Spain

jueves, 23 de septiembre de 2010

COUNTRY'S WOMEN VISION ABOUT TRANSANTIAGO






Transantiago is the "new" way of santiago transportation. It has a lot of achievements and failures in compare to the old way of bus transportation (the yellow "micros").
I didn`t use too many times the old transportation system, and in nowdays I ocassionally use the Transantiago.
There are a few things that I can remember of micros. 
I remember they were dirty and had a lot of graffitis on the back of each seat.
 To get on it you must pay an amount of money in cash and the "micrero" (the bus driver) gave you back a fancy ticket.
To get off the micro you had to pull a rope or just yell to the bus driver to stop
 The bus driver also loved to race against the other micros.
 In the other hand we have the Transantiago. They seems like caterpillars. They're way better than micros in terms of comfort. They`re wider, and larger, with more seats and areas for disable people. The entries are more espacious. The payment is made by the BIP card (you can also pay the underground ticket with your bip). This way is faster than pay with cash, but if you dont have money charged in your bip, you can't use the public transportation.
An another difference is the routes they do. They changed all their schedule and rutes. This made some users upset because them was used to do a very specifc route to get to their houses... but now they have to commute in differents stations and complement this with the underground to get home.
I think that transatiago can impove their service if they implement more busses in each route, so the users don`t have to wait an eternity to get one.
 

jueves, 9 de septiembre de 2010

My last semester in 2010 was a little bit strange..

-first af all, I started to live with my brother (Nacho) and a friend of his (Pablo) in a department in Stgo... you must understad that a girl living with two man it would be a dissaster, so for a HEALTHY AND CLEAN LIVING we have to hire a nanny (katty).
katty its a very patient person because she had to deal with the mess left the last night.. obviously caused by nacho and pablo's party
 but in the other hand we have to be patient with her every morning: it seems that every time that you are late and need to go to classes its the perfect time to her to talk about her things!! GOD! blablablabla and she doesnt stop until you're leaving and she stops talking when you close the principal door... well after all she is a good person.

-the best of the semester was meet my best friend and other really cool guys that make my life happy

-focusing on the university I have to admit that last semester i was a little bit lazy with some exams.. kind of unmotivated with the studies and i dont know why. everytime that i felt that strange feeling i tried to put my mind in blank, and the only way to achieve that was riding horses...
when i realized that i was sinking in my own mess was too late to  mend the problem.
so now im trying to change some things that i dont like about me, to improve myself and become a better person.