Friday, August 28, 2009
Hi everyone!
The subject for this week has to do with the public transportation system that works in Santiago named Transantiago.
The subject for this week has to do with the public transportation system that works in Santiago named Transantiago.
First, if we think about the differences between this new system and the older one it’s obvious that there have been some changes, very important changes actually. Some of the positive characteristics are:
• A very well organized order of time and bus stops (honestly it used to be a mess).
• Then, it provided access for all those people who could not use the older public system, specifically disabled people.
Second, comparing both systems again, my opinion have not changed that much. On one side, I travelled in the older system just for one year and I never had so many problems to move from one place to another because there were a lot of buses that i could use to move from my house to the University. But with Transantiago I had a lot of problems at the beginning because I didn’t have a specific bus that I could take to go straight to the University. Sometimes I had to wait almost 30 minutes in the bus stop!!! But now things have changed and everything has improved; in addition, I can take a bus that goes straight to the University and I do not waste my time in the bus stop, totally an advantage.
At last, I would say that if we want to have a better system for the future, it is necessary to plan very well the routes, add more buses to the routes and especially remove the “old buses” to reduce the pollution of Santiago.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Hi everyone!
The country where I would love to live is France. After all, I have to say that I have always had an “idyllic vision” about this country just like we can see it in movies and books. I like the sort of magic that involves that city, especially Paris, very well-known as the city of love and enchantment, so that would be the first reason of why I have dreamed of going there. The second reason is that France has a very strong cultural and intellectual tradition that characterizes our thoughts; besides, many important authors for my career come from that country.
Concerning to another aspect, if I had the chance of going there, I would like to do two things: first, I would love to complement my post career studies for all the reasons I have already mentioned. But it means to start studying the language first in order to have a better performance there, and I'm sure that it is necessary to focus on our Latin-American reality first. On the other hand, I feel that having a different or foreign perspective about ourselves, especially one coming from a country with a powerful socio-economical development would be for sure a contribution. The second thing I would do there is visiting the surrounding villages and small cities, walking through the magical and romantic streets of Paris, exploring their cultural and artistic life, in simple words, finding out the magic of that country… that seducing magic. Friday, August 14, 2009
Hi everyone,
Today, I am going to write about mi experiences during the first part of this year. First of all, I have to say that in general terms it was a very difficult semester academically speaking because I had many classes and some of them were really complex.
During this previous semester I studied different subjects and I learned a lot form each one of them. But if I had to mention specifically one class I would say that Methodology” (Quantitative and Qualitative) was a very remarkable theme especially because I acquired very good useful tools for the analysis of information. Other thing I learned in the class “Anthropology of the Development” has to do with the study of economical development in different social groups.
Then, if I make an analysis of the last semester in terms of my leisure time the results are not very positive because I did not have enough time to do things. I participated in a sport activity called “Power Fitness” twice a week, but as I said before, my time was very restricted and I had a lot of thing to study. Even on weekends I read a lot, prepared assignments and studied for different tests.
Finally, concerning to my family relationship, there were some people sick but nothing to worry about. The biggest change was that my little brother came to live with me, so I had to reorganize my life in order to fulfill the role of “biggest sister”, and to do the household chores.
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