I think that any change is for good, but if you know how to manage it...

We have to be objective, before Transantiago, the buses were not a paradise: We did not have a bus stop, and many times they didn´t stop wwhere we ask to. They didn´t stop to students either, because in that time, we didn´t have to pay the ticket; and also, pay to bus driver while he was driving was very dangerous. But I have to say that the buses covered more area and the travels were most fast and frequency.

And now, after Transantiago, we don´t hear news about armed robbery, to bus driver, because they don´t manage the money now, and I think the covered area is good, it´s all too much organized, not at the beginning, but it had improve. But, the frequency of travels is reduce.

My experience in Transantiago, is not a wonder, because at the beginning I usually was waiting for the bus an hour, and it was always full of people, so I hated it; and routes for my county was very poor, so I didn´t like it at all. Now, when Transantiago had been working for 3 years, I really don´t hate it like before: I have 5 routes now and the frecuency of the travel is not slow as before.

In my opinion, any change needs time, and help of everybody, because we have to remember that at the beginning of the use of Transantiago people didn´t pay the ticket, it´s still happening now; so, how can we ask for a good function if we didn´t help to, nothing is free. This project will improve in the time...

Like everything in my family, my parents support me, because I am studing and I have to focus in that, they do not want to overburden me with duties...

My parents give me a monthly allowance, and I think I am very organized whit it, because when I need some money I have mine, and I do not have borrow them, I really do not like to.

But when I need money, and I had spend every saving, I usually borrow to my brother, he is a really "bussiness man", I really don`t know how he always had money for everything. But I have to be able pay him back quickly, because he charged me about 1 dollar for week, that`s how he does his little fortune.

By other way, I am always lending money to my dad, but he never remember that he has to pay me back, so I really do not like to lend him my money.

I know that I am not good with money, not at all. This is something that I am dread of, and if I can give this duty to anyone else I will do it.

What about the bills? I have to be honest, my parents pay all our bills, because, even if I want to work they do not accept it, so I can`t. They always say me: Till you live in our house you do not need to work.

But, if we start to think about everybody in our society, in my opinion we must help people to manage their money, if we want to grow up as a country. I think this is a Chile`s responsibilty. For example: if Perez`s family don`t know how to manage money in a good way, how will do it their children? That`s why people who really know how to manage it must help who do not know.

Finally, I have to say that my parents use banks to save our money, they think that this is a very save place. I think they are happy with this bank, because they are always receiving their account status, and it`s everything very organized.

What is wrong with us?

Well, I have to be honest, I like my faculty, I think it`s one of the best in our country.
Why can I say so? Because we hav the best library, it`s confortable, big and very nice,. we always can find everything that we need, and also the people who works is always helping us with our troubles. And, all the personal who have to be in contact with us have very kind, and they always have a very good willingness.
But I have to say: nothing is perfect., and in this place we can find some defects, such as:Toilets are in very bad conditions, in my opinion; in the last time, the personal in charge have improved a little of it, but in the most cases we can closed very well doors, so it is a very but situation for us. And in some places everthing is a shambles, for example, the roof near of Salud Pùblico is broken, and thins like that. And, my friend`s sister, who is studing medicine told me that when she had classes in the hospital, every0hing is disaster because they don`t have good chairs and tables, it`s like nobody tale care of it; a very similar situation we can find in this faculty, we have some auditoriums with a very poor infrastructure, they are uncomfortable in classes and in exams. By the way, I don`t like my schedule, because we don`t have time enought to study, even we don`t have time for resting, and that`s not fair.
To improve these situations I will give work to more people who can help to keep everything fine, and also, I will ask for student`s help, to try keep order in the faculty, because everyone lives here, and everybody has to take care of it. But, what can we do with our infrastructure?, I really can`t find a solutions for this, because we need money, and we don`t have it.

My dad

The most important theme for me is my family, so today I going to write about my dad.
I am very proud of him, because he had work so hard everyday in his whole life.But my admiration began when I was just a little girl: My mom always said that my dad talked to me since before my born, and he took care of me when my mom was working, even if he had to get up very early next morning.
Even more, I remember when he suffered a motorcycle´s accident, and he was unable to work for a year, so he took care of me when I was just 3 years, and we were so closed, but when he returned to his work, he didn´t have the same free time, so I missed him so much. Butit was because in that time his work was so hard, he had just start it.
But, while I was growing up, he always had been supporting me, and giving me advices from his own experiencie.
I know that sometimes we argue, because we have been made in the same way, we have the same personality, and he always understand me, because we beliave in the same things.
He is always giving me streight to keep going, and he has been my best friend.
He´s always there for me, in every happy or sad moment, and he isalways there for help me to stand up, again and again... I want to follow his life, in every step, and maybe, in the furure, he would be proud of me, in the same that I am of him.

A colombian friend

Five years ago, I met a very good friend, his name is Sebastian and he is from Bogota, Colombia. I knew him in a travel that I did with my family, because my dad was a friend of Sebastian`s cousin, so we were invited to his home for dinner, and in that time I knew him. Since that time I have been talking with him by mail. And he told me that when he finished college, his parents are going to give him a travel, so he is going to visit Chile.
He have to visit to many beautiful places in Santiago, but my favourite is The Andes mountain range, specially El Colorado, there we can spend at least 2 days, trying to visit all; we can visit the esqui center, and all the restaurants near of it.
But obviusly, we have to visit all the turistic places near Santiago, like the Plaza de Armas and in front of it we can go to the Cathedral. And if we want to see art and culture we can go to the Precolombian Art Museum, La Moneda Palace, the Zoo, and the Casa Colorada, where we can find a complete Chile`s history about colonial period. And to the San Cristobal Hill, where we are going to find a natural view of Santiago.
And finally, we have to go to Sewel, a miner`s town. I fall in love with beause it when I read a Maria Eugenia Lorenzzini`s novel, and it was about the life of people who live there in 1945. This place was called like City of the Stairs, and now it is a cultural patrimony.
These are my favourite places...

My favourite food

I really don´t have a favourite food, I just can say that I like very much all the sweet food, like chocolat and pop corn, they are delicious, in my opinion.
I am going to talk about pop corn: When I was a little girl, I visited my grandparent´s house in the field. And in their house I began to eat it, because people who live in the field usually eat many types of corn, but I have to say that pop corn are the richest.
My grandfather Osvaldo always gave me corn, and when I arrived to my home, my mom prepared it for me and my dad, always watching Mickey Mouse´s movies.
But in the last ten years I haven´t eat it, because my mom forgot how it has to be prepared.
In this summer vacation, I asked to my grandfather´s wife, how I can prepared it, and she told the easy way to do it; so, since august I have been eating again my favourite food, but I don´t want to eat it every day, because, even that it´s delicious it has too many calories, and we are near of summer...
Well, that´s all that I´m going to write about today, because I want to go home to eat pop corn watching a good movie.
Bye...

The Belle Italy

Italy is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, I supposed. It`s a traditional country, I think, and it has so many places to visit.
I wish to visit it because it`s full of histories, it has good food to taste and too many interesting places for be a turist.
I met an italian boy in my school, six years ago, his name is Tommasso Auricchio, he`s from Florencia, and he is so nice, and also his family; he taught me some words in his language and I really liked it, because it`s like Spanish, it`s easy to learn it,. He easily became my friend. And when he left Chile, we were so sad, but he invited me to his home in Italy.
He told me that we should visited Venecia, and "La Torre Pizza"; everything that he described me sounded so pretty, that whay I want to visit it.
If I have the chance to travel to Italy, I would like to visit San Pedro, where is the Vatician: It have to be beautiful, I think, speciallly when I watched it in TV or in some books and magazines.
I would enjoy to live there, because I had a very good experience with an italian family, so I supossed that everybody could be in the same way, I think italian people is very nice and polite. I hope so. But I don`t want to leave in Florencia, I would like to live in Rome even if the life there is too much more expensive, because it`s the capital.
Now, I`m still in touch with him. But he`s studying, so that I, and now we don`t have time enough for a travel, so I have to keep my dream, but no the hope.