big city, big change

For me, people made a big deal about Transantiago and didn’t think that every change has consequences. It’s true that the change was big and the system has so many problems in the first period, but criticize it all the time wasn’t helpful.

In my case the change brought good things and bad things. For example before Transantiago I only had to take one bus to my college, and now I had to take a bus, then use the subway and then take another bus, although I spend time changing from bus to the subway and from the subway to the bus, the difference in time that I spend in all the way to the university is minimum, in fact I think that I spend less time now than before.

Other thing that I think that is positive of the new system is that people has the possibility to access to more information about the different routs of the buses, you can surf the internet or asking to the people that works for the Transantiago. In that way I can plain my routs and don’t get lost like I used to in the past.

Maybe the biggest problem of the system was that in a beginning the routs wasn’t accord with the requirements of the citizens, so there was many areas that were isolated or there wasn’t enough buses for all the people who needed them. But I think that that has been improving since the start of the system because the government has listened the requirements of citizens.

Personally, I think that Transantiago was a good change...althought I miss "las micros amarillas"

Regards, cotu

A COUNTRY I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT.

There are many countries that I would like to go. I love travelling and It's a priority for me. I'm constantly saving money for doing it and I'm always thinking in which place I could go with my friends.

I think that Brazil is a very interesting country to visit, because although It' s in the same continent that my own country, I think that its culture is very different from the others countries in Latino America. I' ve been two times en Brazil before for vacations, but I believe that is different knowing a country as a tourist from staying there for a long time and really knowing It .

When I went there I got the chance to know a lot of beaches and I really loved them. The water is very warm and the weather is great. I visited Rio de Janeiro too, that it’s one of the most important cities in Brazil, It’s very big and it has a very nice beach too. One of the things that were more attractive for me was the people, they are very relax and happy, they go to the beach after the work and they are always doing sports. Other thing that I love form that country is the dancing and the language I would love to learn them.

Probably If I go to Brazil again I would like to live there for a few years and in that way I could really know its culture.

Regards, Cotu

FIRST TERM: GOOD AND BAD POINTS

For me, the last term was very important in many ways. First of all, I had a really good experience at the University because, althought I had very hard subjets and I had to read so much I learned a lot of things related with the field that I would like to develop when I finish my career. I think that it was so important to me because I could picture my self in the future like an antropologist, and I liked that picture.


Other experience that was very relevant for me was the dancing. Since the last year I've been working with a dance company that works with a centre that take children with Down's syndrome into care calls "Pequeño Cottolengo". That work was a very teaching experience, 'cause when I work with different people and in this case with people who has special needs I realise how lucky I am and maybe how silly I am when I complain about things that doesn't really matters. In other way with this experience we could show to the society that with a little of effort and will you can change many things. I expect that this activity continue and that more people join us to help this center, and to learn and help us to spread our cause.

I really think that the last semester was the beggining of many things that I hope to do all my life.


regards,
Cotu