santiago ¡¡¡¡¡

Hi again, this week I will annotate places of santiago to visit for foreign tourists. These places represent the Chilean culture and they will can to learn new things about the people of our country.Here a list of some places and activities:
-If you want to know important places for the chilean history, I recommend to visit the plaza de armas(the point zero of santiago), the 'palacio de la moneda' or the templo de maipu (place very important, because here Chile defeated the Spanish people and achieve the independence. All this places are national monuments.
- If you like nature then santiago give you some alternatives: some hills will show you a down town area like the cerro Santa Lucia and cerro San Cristobal (this hill presents great vegetation and is a very beautiful place to make sports like run or running a bike). Also on the outskirts of the city there are other areas like the cajon del maipo or Pomaire. If your you never knew the snow or you like the sports related to the snow, then our mountain range is the perfect place to combine enterteinment, nature and rest, so you can go to la Parva or Farellones.
-If you like know the culture,then you need to visit some museum very interesting in the city like the museun Bellas Artes, el Contemporaneo or the de La Moneda. Also is the Pablo Neruda´s house in the barrio Bellavista or the Parque O´Higgins.
-If You are a fanatic of the food in Stgo there are a lot of restaurant to eat, especially in Bellavista. There are restaurants of domestic food or fast food
I hope this words some day help to the foreing that visit CHILE.

music¡¡¡¡¡

Music hasn´t got an important role in my life. I don´t need music like other people, I prefer to see movies when I am in my home, although sometimes I would like to spend my time to know some singers or groups to speak about more things with people.
The kind of music is very different, I hear CALLE 13, COLDPLAY. BLACK EYED PEAS and some songs of reagguetton. I get the songs of these groups on internet from youtube, so I have my notebook freer from other programs.
I listen to music when I am alone in my home to put up all the volume and when I have nothing to do, moreover I use it when I am happy.
But I like the soundtrack of many movies, because these lyrics are very good, each one has its own style and totally represents the topic that the movie wants to convey, some soundtracks I like are of these movies: dances with wolves, meet joe black, eternal sunshine of a spottles mind, juno or slumdog millionaire.
So I could live without music in my life, although I hope to go to the concert of coldplay in chile maybe in the month of november.
Other thing is that I don´t buy CDs because they are expensive.
Finally I think, many persons are very happy listen to their favourites singers or groups, buy the CDs or go to the concert.
Maybe some day I too have this ´fever´ for music, but now that haven´t passing

TRANSANTIAGO

In Santiago more than six million persons live, is a number very high because this city is very small in comparison to other cities with inhabitants's minor quantity,so a very good system of transport is necessary for the mobilization of thousands of persons around the town every day. Two and a half years ago( summer of two thousand seven) the system of transport revolutionized in the capital, coming the transantiago to our lives: of a great quantity of buses circulating for every part we pass only some crossing the most importants streets; the subway transformed in a fundamental prop to support the ´solvency´ of the system, but the transantiago did the daily collapse of the subway in the peak hours, unleashing the inconvenienceof their passengers; the frequency of buses down drastically especially in the places more perípheral becoming chaotic initially, but now this topic already this almost solve; people late to come to almost all the places, due to the transfers that are needed to travel. Something positive was the implementation of the card bip as mean of payment because there are less assaults to the drivers.
My experience is regular, on one hand for the principal street where I live circulated many different buses, now only two pass doing necessary to have to do transfer to go everywhere; something positive is that now I use much more the subway because before the transantiago I only used the buses.
I think, passing the time transantiago will improve and become a great system for our lives, but before the managers must put more new buses circulating and to control better the problem and to ask the people for his opinion about the topic. I hope some day feel us proud of our system of transport and the problems have been left behind.