What to do/Where to go in Santiago

If you are a tourist you can`t leave to visit some particular places in Santiago. For example you should visit the Bellavista neighborhood. There are many bars and pubs in the Pionono street. Also there are many souvenir stores where you can buy something typical for your friends. You can visit nearly of there the San Cristóbal Hill. There is the metropolitan park, and the metropolitan zoo. If you like the art you should visit the Bellas Artes museum, a great art center of Santiago (and Chile) and sometimes (in the Sundays) the entrance is free. You can travel in the Metro (the subway) of the city, one of the cleanest subways of south America, but you must be careful, in some hours of the day there are many people travel there and this would be a terrible experience. If you are travelling with kids, you could go to Fantasilandia, the most important amusement park in Santiago. There are many games an Roller coasters for the children and for the parents too, there the kids could be the entire day without getting bored.

If you are not travelling with kids you could go with your couple to the Forestal Park and spend time there, it is a quiet place in the middle of the city, and on the weekends there are many artistic events. In general Santiago is a nice city, but the Citizens sometimes are not, so many people are angry, and with a little threat could give you a great “Rosario” (an insult). You must be careful with the taxi drivers too, because sometimes they cuould charge you a lot of money. Anyway.. enjoy Santiago!

Education

My high school experience was good in general. Many times I have thought how I like to come back to live this experience, because I really enjoyed it. In my college the teachers are very close to students, because is not a big college, there are only two courses by level. I have to recognize I was not very studious, but I have good grades. It was not very hard. For this reason I would like to come back to school, because in the university I have learner to study very hard and, if I study like the university in the school I would be a genius. For this reason is important the maturity of every person, because each one is responsible of his own education.

In terms of technology my school is very different to the university; there are not so many instruments like the university. The teachers uses the power point just a little not like the teachers of the university.

Really, the school define your personality and your decisions in the future I think. The personality because you are in your formation like a person. And the decisions because you have to choose, between other things, your professional area, for example.

I would like that the teachers of the university would be closer to the students. Many teachers do not know who are their students, much less their names.

Transantiago: Before and after

I think that the Transantiago system is something that can’t be apply in Chile, like other countries. In the countries that have a similar system the people have a mentality large enough to have a transport system like this. In Chile the people don’t have the patience, the respect, the preoccupation to understand the system, at the beginning at least. This was the problem at the beginning; the people don’t have the preoccupation to study how they have to move in this new system and for this reason happen all the things that we know. But now is different, the people is used to the conglomerations in the mornings, the bad deal to the drivers, and the other people. This is the point. I don’t think that the system is better than the beginning, if the things look better is because the people is used to the system.
Other point is that the transantiago caused a hurt in the image of some people, like Iván Zamorano, who was declared guilty for the failed system.
But the Transantiago has good points too, like the noise and the polution, this system is healthier than the old.