lunes, 28 de septiembre de 2009

What to do / Where to go in Santiago

The places that a foreign tourist should visit in Santiago to know the idiosyncrasy "santiaguina" are places that they find inthe center of the capital. Touristic places like the neighborhoods of Bellavista and Lastarria, the hills Santa Lucia and the San Cristobal, the Central Market, the Forest Park and the museum of Bellas Artes among others.
In the day the tourist must visit the outdoor places with nature as the Forest park or the hills Santa Lucia and the San Cristobal, where he can enjoy the landscapes of enviroment and to be related by the people of Chile. Before can be going to have lunch products of the sea to the Central Market where he was finding typical figures of the Chilean idiosyncrasy. In the evening he can be going to with more cultural like places as the museum and the neighborhood Lastarria where he will find places to converse, to read and to take a cup of coffee. In the night the tourist must visit places of night entertainment as the neighborhood Bellavista, or more typical Chilean places as "the Piojera", where he can drink and dance.
The top 5 of places you must visit in Santiago are:
  1. Neighborhood Bellavista because it is a very good place of night entertainment where you can drink, dance and related with the people.
  2. Central Market where you can enjoy the Chilean gastronomy.
  3. Neighborhood Lastarria where you can know the intellectual culture of Chile.
  4. The hills San Cristobal where you can ride in cable car and see all Santiago from the sky.
  5. Museum of Bellas Artes where you can see art of Chile.

domingo, 27 de septiembre de 2009

Education

My experience during the high school with respect the subject it was positive in the sense of having had a great quantity of subjects that allowed me to be a more integral person and to know all the professional areas, with elective of specialization with a quality in general positive.
In relation with the teachers of the college, my experience was also positive in terms of learning, but the relation that appears in the classrooms was very asymmetric for what was not leaving space for the creation of debates and a mutual learning.
With respect to the technology that existed in the high school, it was regular because to the fact that the new technologies were implemented but I couldn't to enjoy them.
The education that I received during the college was determinant because the quality of of this one influences my expectations for the future to be a professional. Also it is important the tools and the wide knowledge to be able to decide the area indicated for me.

The authorities must implement policies of improvement of the quality of the education, with a better formation for the teachers, more motivations for the pupils and a system of public education it deigns for the Chilean society.

Every person has a great responsibility with his education according to the motivations of life that has, but also there exists the factor of the possibilities and monetary capacities to obtain a quality education, for it a social inequality exists with respect to the education that receives.

Now, I believe that the saying "when the student is ready the teacher appears" is true and means that while exist people motivated to learning, the teachers take the role of traspasing the knowledge and educating.


Transantiago: Before and after...

Transantiago is the new system of public transport implemented in the government of Michelle Bachelet. Transantiago it consisted of a change of the tours, of the buses and the forms of financing that these had.
In the fist time, the system had many problems with respect the wrong planning of the same system, with wrong and few tours, lack of buses in traffic and with wrong form of financing that left negative balances to the system.
In comparison with the old system of public transport, Transantiago presents improvements with respects to buses wuith better technology, the system of payment is better and the stopbus is more tidy.
The disadvantages that Transantiago presents are the quantity of transfer that it is necessary to realize, the buses are more saturated of people, and present more quantity of evasions of payment for the users.
Now, in comparison of the system since it began with how is now, according to my experience, it has improved substantially with respect to the mentioned points: tours, saturation of people, financing, etc. But many low points stay for improving that the authorities have not taken them measured adapted to overcome the problems.
Finally, the solutions to improve the problems of the Transantiago must pass for an extensive study of the system, with qualified professionals who realize a good diagnosis of the situation, then to realize a correct for a system of worthy transport for the community.