Criminal Laws

The capital punishment, in my opinion, is not a good solution to reduce criminality for many reasons. Firstly, I think this type of sentence is very drastic and is opposite to human rights. Also I know some crimes are unpardonable for some peoples like murders, rapes or anything crime to childrens, but we don´t have the right to decide who lives and who dies.

Secondly, and for the seem reason, I am against the capital punishment so I have only cons in it because to decide the criterions for to impose this penalty should be difficult and each people should have their reasons in agree with their principles and as I saw before I think capital punishment is complete excessive because don´t gives second oportunity to person that to make crime.

In agree with my principles I shouldn´t impose the capital punishment but the government should implement rehabilitation programs into the jail as well precaution programs in the street and neighbourhoods. I think the origin of the increasing criminality generate by the flexible laws in this country and the punishments are slow, and the criminals to make again and again.

The last week I was victim of a pick pocketing in bus to home, but I didn´t realize.

What to do/where to go in Santiago

In Santiago there are many things to do at nigth and the day, just for adults or all family, but the most important thing is that all you do will be fun!

If you want to go out in the night you could go to Barrio Bellavista for a beer or others drinks with friends or in there to meet people, to dance and to talk a lot.

If you want to go out during the day you could visit some tipical places like San Cristobal hill, Santa Lucía hill , the Cathedral, Presidential House (La Moneda) and to walk down Santiago downtown where you will find many stores and street market.

In the next list you will find a program with five places for all seasons:

1- Yerba Loca camping: this place is a nature reserve of Chile. This place is suitable for the winter and the principal activity is trekking because in all track there are different landscapes, but the best attraction is to come to the glacier area, one of the best places to do climb on ice in Santiago.

2- Municipal Theater of Santiago: in this place you could enjoy of different musical plays, concert and a big theater with a lot of history. There you could watch the best national and international premiere.

3- Fantasilandia: is a big amusing park for the family and you could go the whole year but it is advisable in spring because it is open air and in Chile the summer is very very hot.

4- Santa Lucía Hill: this hill is so famous because it is in the middle of the city and you can to see all the landscapes and the highest buildings. To arrive you have to walk up through a big stone stairway. You can visit the hill whole year.

5- Municipal Cementery: this place can be visited the whole year but the best attraction is at nigths in winter, because a guard to do a tour for the most terrifying passages. Also you can visit the cementery during the day to appreciate the old and famous tombs.

Education

My school is called "Liceo Santa Teresita de Llo-Lleo", its orientation is Catholic and is just for girls I attended this school for all years.

My school was very traditional, even now I realize there are many things that did not work either, because now I see from the perspective that gives me my career to be studying. For example, the most important subjects were math and language were first, then History and English, but as was religious also used many hours a week in prayer, Mary Month, classes in the chapel, we also went to church which was very close, etc. That really was not the problem but it was as if time was lost and should be compensated as there was no time for feedback to teachers, more time to clarify doubts, and so on.

The relationship with teachers was very remote, they were an authority and had to keep aloof. Some teachers were the exception (I remember only one person) and some assistants and inspectors were much more friendly and accessible.

The technology in my school was good as the infrastructure, the rooms were large and had a TV in each classroom with closed circuit, there was datashow in other place and was special.

I think the level of education I received at school was not very level and would have liked more guidance on some things, though good student teachers are not motivated very much and so it took me so long to decide what he wanted to study. I think the good decisions I took my family through. I think that the school affects almost all areas of life, personally affected me so much of my future.

The current educational system is affected mainly by lack of resources and preparation of teachers. Comparing the private system with the public system we see that in the former takes into account various aspects and not just subjects. for example relationships, the environment and the active role of the student. This last point is extremely important because it engages the student with their own education, there is participation and responsibility for results, self-assessments and getting better and better.

I had never heard the phrase "When the student is ready the teacher appears" and I think it is a bit difficult to understand, but I guess that means that the student can master the same skills, if he is guided in a good way .

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