What to do and Where to go in Santiago?

Hello everybody!

Today I’m going to talk about interesting places to visit in Santiago, a city full of life if you search very well.
Well I born, grew and studied during a bit part of my life in the centre of Santiago, then I really know this area and the places where the tourist and foreign people want to visit, like the civic and culture centres, the monuments, relevant buildings and traditional restaurants or freaky places too. In opportunities I ask myself, why they came here and what they do and enjoy of this places? When they visited it, they used the cameras and video cameras for takes photos and record for get good memories of a unknown place called Santiago of Chile. Also when the tourists are lost, they try to ask the people the directions or location where they want to go, but many times the pedestrians don’t know the right way to arrive there and the confuse them.
Some places where the tourist go frequently are:
- The Government Palace, because is the centre of management and civic affairs. It could be interesting if you hope to know about historic an political facts.
- The Cathedral of Santiago and “Plaza de Armas” in general, because you could find a lot of monument that are national and historic patrimony.
- The San Cristóbal and Santa Lucía hills, where you can see all Santiago.
- The Municipal Theatre, if you want listen classical and traditional music, because they presents different styles of its. Also you would visit another music centres.
- The Central market, where you will find a variety of food, specially traditional food with sea products.
- Also the tourists enjoy when they visit the craft markets, because they can buy traditional and handwork products that you won’t find in another place.

If you wish to known the popular culture and try to contact with the common people I suggest you to visit these places and keep conversations with them. If you can spend and pay in expensive places, you would go to the snow/ski centres like “Colorado” or “Farellones”.
Well, I passed a good time talking about Santiago.
See you..

Greetings…

The role of music (8)

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Today I’m going to talk about music! It’s one of my favorite topics, because it has been with me during all my life. Well, I have enjoyed music since I was a little girl. When I was eight years old I went to auditions for a choir of my school and a musical group too, where I learned to play a bit of piano. After that I had to change school, but I continued to participate in activities related with music, I sang “9th Beethoveen’s Symphony”, “Carmina Burana” three times and others too. Thanks to these experiences I acquired knowledge and good memories that I won’t forget.
The music I like to listen to are different styles, I enjoy when I sing and listen to classical or learned music with my friends. I have gone many times to Municipal Theater and University of Chile theater too. Also I like to listen to another type of music like rock ballads and romantic music, all the music which I keep in my mp4, I downloaded from internet or I ask my friends or classmates to get it, some opportunities I buy the CD’s of my favorite bands or singers. My favorite themes are by Bon Jovi, The Beatles, Jason Mraz and Lenny Kravitz too. About music in Spanish I like artists like Jarabe de Palo or Francisca Valenzuela, who talk about situations of common life and near experiences in their songs.

When I must study, I can’t listen to music, because it distracts my attention from the subjects and books. But when I’m feeling happy, excited, sad or melancholic I prefer the appropriate melodies, because I think it is necessary to accompany and seek refuge in it... I believe music complements your life and makes you feel deeply the moments and situations that happen to you.

Music represents for me a fundamental part in the life of everybody, you identify with the rhythms, melodies and lyrics of it.

Well, I really enjoyed writting today...

See you soon, greetings

Transantiago, before and after

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Today I will talk about the famous Transantiago, an interesting and important topic for people who live in Santiago. When the government announced they will change the transport system I believed that was a good and necessary idea. The old system was obsolete, because the yellow buses had a lot of bad points! First if you were a student, the buses didn’t stop and the driver didn’t be kind whit the passengers. Also when a crowded needed to got on a bus the bus driver shouted us to let more people get on the bus, really they were mad. Another problem was the delinquency inside the buses, the passengers were frightened about this.

The first day of Transantiago beginning to operate I decided to go at Santiago’s center and I was useful the passage was free, all it was good until the moment to came back our house… It was a chaos! A lot of people were waiting in the bus stop and we have to wait for more than one hour to get on a bus. At this moment I felt that Transantiago isn’t a good idea and I commented with my parents and friends my worst experience with the public transport, but thanks to good management of transport minister the system has got better during last two years. Now the system has a few details already as the time between the buses don’t make it a reliable transport and the people prefer the subway. In my case I haven’t many problems with the buses and next years I will have a subway station near at my house and different ways to arrive at the university.

About to apply new changes to make it better in the future could be to implement a system of control time or persons whose regulate it. Maybe they would change the structure of the bus stops, the system would get better…

Well this is my opinion….
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The countries I would like to visit.

Hello again! In this opportunity I 'm going to talk about places or countries where I would like to visit.
First, I always have dreamed to visit Italy, i know it is a peninsula and all its mouments like the Coliseum or Appia Way and a lot of culture centers which will let me to learn and extend my knowledge about it. Other interesting place in Italy is The Pisa's tower I think this is an amazing building , because in spite of several centuries old it has never collapsed. Also I would like to sail in the streets of Venice and would enjoy a romantic trip in gondolas later to share this fabulous experience with different people and my family. An important reason of visiting Italy might be the food, I love the pastas and all their variety.

Another place that I believe colud be a fantastic experience is Austria, I can imagine that the sound of Mozart’s music in all the sites that I could know. Also England with the Big Ben and specially Stonehenge has a mysticism that you don't find in anywhere, and Germany has a difficult language and hard history. They have cultures that I am charmed with, attract me and it motivates me to travelling to Europe.
About work or to live in these countries, it would mean to keep me far away from the people I want, but finnaly all depends on the situation in which I am. In case In case of being going to study I wouldn’t hesitate to do it.
Now I'm so happy because I will go with other classmates to Whasington DC and New York next year, thanks to a program of the George Whashington University. I feel excited for this reason and my family too.
I hope that you enjoy this post because I it have written twice! the first time i lost all that I wrote. Well, it was all for today...
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First term, good and bad points.

Hello again! this is my first post after one year
Now i'm going to describe something that happened during the last term.
It was more relaxing than last year, I had five subjects only and I passed all them!. I'm so happy for this, but I really did't enjoy them. Some of them were Science Theory, Administrative Law, Administrative Theory and Microeconomics. I had to study Statistics too, I suffered with them.

In my free time i went to an aerobics class in the university's gym and I tried to keep the contact with my school friends, because i did't see them for around two months. In April my friend Gabriela and I went on a musical trip to the south of Chile, we sang "Carmina Burana" with the school chorus and other people... It was wonderful.
The music is my favourite hobby. Before to enter at the university i dedicated a long time for its, i participated in pair of operas like " 9º Simphony of Beethoven" and competitions like "Crecer Cantando".

About my family, I try to share more time with them, but it's difficult for me because no-one has time to keep a long conversation.
About my friends didn't spend all the time that i wanted, because i had to study a lot.

It's all for today....

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