Public trabspot and the famous transantiago

In my opinion, one of the most unpleasant aspects of living in a big city is the pollution. A lot of people refuse to use the public transport because they found it not as efficient as driving your own car. In some aspects they are right, but I think you can`t speak of efficiency is you are paying comfort and speed with pollution. At least for me, helping to decrease the pollution level is enough reason to prefer public transport.

Was during the summer of 2007 when the now famous transantiago started to run. At that time I couldn’t experience the adventure of traveling in a crowded bus, because I wasn’t living in Santiago yet. However, wherever you where in the country you would know about the big mess going in here, at that time (and during for a while) it was everyday news. Transantiago was and still is one of the most controversial subjects of the public agenda.

From where I come from (Temuco) there is not such a thing like those big caterpillar busses, instead we got some small busses and a lot of “colectivos”. The distances there are smaller, so walking or riding a bike became good options to move from one point to another.

If I could, I would ride a bike to get to the university, but due to the circumstances(mainly the distance) I take the bus.

When I was in high School I used to be part of the Literature Workshop. Once we read one poem wrote by someone who I cannot remember, but I do remember what was about: it took about all the things that the poet hates. After reading that, the teacher proposed us to do something similar, so I did. It wasn’t a proper poem; actually it was more like a list. I don’t Know if I still keep it, must be somewhere in my room of Temuco.

I think if I make a new list and I compare it with the one that I wrote years ago, I will find lots of differences. For instance, when I was a teenager I hated to wear skirts, but now I really like them.

However, there some things that haven’t changed from that time. For example, I really hate Flies and I will hate them forever! Is repulsive to think that they can lay over everything, like your own lunch! I can’t stand the noise of them flying. If I’m in bed ready to sleep and I hear one flying, I can’t sleep until it gets out of the room. I found that flies are the most disgusting living creature of this world. When I was a little girl I tried to find the reason of why they exist, I mean, the world will be nicer without them. Now I know that they play a important rol in the rotting process, but I still think that they shouldn’t be allowed to exist.

If I write a new list in ten, twenty or fifty years more, I am sure flies will be included.

One of the differences between university and high school is that you don’t have the same class, with the same teacher, at the same time during the whole year (unless you get annual subjects. Every semester the schedule suffers big changes. This fact can be wonderful in some aspects and just annoying in others.

In my opinion the differences between this semester and the last one are actually differences in the schedule. For example, last semester I had classes at 8.30 three times a week, and some of those days I had some spare time between classes, which means that I had to wait more than one hour until the next class started. The good thing about that was that I had enough time to study, and some time to do others activities, like yoga. I must say that what really upset me was the fact that I had to spend most of the day at the university. For instance, a normal Tuesday I had archeology class from 8.30 to 10, and then I had a spare time until 12 o’clock, when yoga class started. That day lunch time was really short (only thirty minutes), and then I had nonstop classes until 19.30.

Unlike the last semester, in this one I don't have to get up early in the morning, except on Fridays. I didn't get any spare time (the classes are quite concentrated), what means not time for an extra activity in the university, because of a schedule conflict. However, I will find a time to do whatever I want. Speaking about academic matters, I think this part of the year will be much easier than the first one, at least is what I hope!

I'm already waiting for summer holidays.

A country I would like to visit...

I would like to visit many different countries, but I don't have enough money to do it!

I'm planning to visit Peru the coming summer. I already save the money to do it, and some of my friends are going with me too. I think will be a nice experience, Peru is a country with lots of historical places and cities that were very important in the colonial time like Lima and Cuzco. One of the things that I want to do there is to eat a Peruvian "tamal", which is made of mashed corn with milk ( one friend who ate one told me that is like a sweet humita").

I'm pretending to reach Arica by plane, and from there jump in to a taxi to Tacna. From there I will take a bus to Arequipa, and then another one to Cuzco. Once in Cuzco I will try to reach my main target: MACHUPICHU!!!Since I was a little girl I wanted to visit Machupichu, I used to imagine myself walking around the ruins, looking at the amazing surroundings (just think on being there in the middle of the Peruvian jungle).

The whole way to get there will be quite an adventure, or at least will be for us, because we don’t want to spend money on the train from Cuzco to Machupichu (apart of expensive we find it quite boring). We are thinking on taking a bus from Cuzco to one Hydroelectric Central, and from there we will walk following the train line until reach"Aguas Calientes", the last town before the ruins. That is our plan, we don't expect problems and we will try to go well equipated (including spray against insects).

I'm sure this is one of the trips that one person have to do before die (at least is what everyone who has been there tell).

Well, I'm a vegetarian girl from one of the smokest cities of Chile : Temuco.

Now I'm studding in Santiago ( not my favorite city I must Say). I'm living in my granpa's house for the moment, wich is really far away from the university(usually I need more than one hour to get there).

Every long weekend I travel (if I can) to temuco to visit my mum, my brother, my dog and my friends. Some others weekends I take a train to rancagua, because there lives my dad and granma.

I really love traveling, and I can't get tired of it. I don't care if is by bus, train, car, plane or foot. I just love to go around differents places, cities and countries.

I enjoy cooking, but at the moment I dont have time to do it. Actually I dont have much time to do a lot of things, wich i would like to do. I think two hours by bus every day is a waste of time! That is the principal point of why I dont really like Santiago. In Temuco, usually you dont need more than twenty minutes to go from one point to ohter.

At the moment, i'm in the second year of college, next year I will be transfer to Antropology (wich is what i want to study).