Transantiago: Before and after

In this moment the public transport in Santiago is called Transantiago. When Transantiago hadn`t started yet the people were frigthened and distrustful because on the news everybody saw that all routes were going to change. When this new system officially started the people were angry because they didn`t know what bus to take.

The Transantiago is not very difficult to me because I live in center of city, so I take the bus when I going to the university. I always use the subway or my boyfriend`s bike.

Two years ago I lived in Pedro Aguirre Cerda and I used this system for first time when just been started. I remember the full buses, anybody paid the fare and only some people had the BIP card. This place of the city is very far of center and far of the university, so I woke up very early and I had wait for many minutes or one hour for take the bus, because it was few and all the people didn`t fit in there.

One of the better things is there are less stils because we don`t need to bring to much money in bags, also is more clean, pleasant and pollute less . The big problem to me now is that the Transantiago is very slow. The pre-transantiago was more fast but there was more delinquency.

One of the changes that I would made is put more buses and more routes because the system useless to so many people.

A country I would like to visit

I would like to visit many Europe`s countries, but my favorite is Italy because its monuments are beautiful but especially because they are very amazing, apart from the gastronomy and the culture.

Italy is famous for its art, culture and numerous monuments, including the tower of Pisa and the Roman Colosseum, as well as for its cuisine (Italian dishes are the famous pizza and pasta), wine, lifestyle, painting , design, film, theater, literature and music, particularly opera.

Italy is a very homogeneous country in religion and language, but is diverse culturally, economically and politically. Italy has the fifth highest population density in Europe, with an average of 198 persons per square kilometer.
If I travel to Italy I would only go as a tourist, because all the famous places and meet many people, practice the language. It would be for a short time and I would not change Chile as a place to live.

First Term: Good and Bad Points

The first term 2009 was very easy to me. Firstly the courses that I took were only the obligatory ones. In the first year I passed one sport that was Pilates, so in the first term I didn’t take any, but now in the second term I´m going to take Aikido.

The relevant things that I learnt in the courses were interesting points about the evaluations in classes for preschool and elementary school children, or in general all the processes involved in the evaluative test and its real importance. Another relevant thing that I could learn is the relation between the education and the area where learning process occurs, so I could prepare the best environment as in the real life. The teachers that I liked were Rodrigo Sanchez and Juan Gonzalez because their courses were about reflection and the education for society and the importance of the context for the education to be possible.

I had to face little bit challenges in the classes because the methodology was the same and I like to study, but in the practice I had some difficulties because I didn´t know how make a good class spontaneously, not yet. So, I and my friends made a plan and then we made the class without important problems. We made two classes and the teacher was happy because she saw everything and she liked it. The children enjoyed it and learnt because we used fingers theatre and then show them a power point with photos of Chile.

SECOND SEMESTER