Places you should visit :D

I’m new in the city, but, before we get full of exams and homework, I visited many places in Santiago that I liked, and I think all the foreigner and even inhabitants of Santiago should visit.

First of all, it’s San Cristobal hill. Is the second highest place in the city, and it’s full of trees and nature. You can go to the top of the hill by using the funicular: there you can appreciate a beauuuuutiful view from the city, maybe you can even recognize your house, the principal streets and the “Arena Santiago”, which looks like a big glassed egg. If you stay there ‘till the night, the view turns even beautiful ‘cause you can look a loot of lights shining in the dark for miles and miles *-*

Another place you should visit is the Santa Lucía hill. The view isn’t so amazing but is full of history and colonial buildings. It has a sink with a Neptuno sculpture very interesting, and it’s only one of the lots and lots of sculptures that you can find there :D it’s a really quiet place in the middle of all the noise and the speed of the city.

If you’re interested in to know the Chilean culture, may you should visit “La Piojera”. It’s located at the “Call y Canto” metro station and it’s one of the most important symbols of the “guachaca” Chilean culture. You can order many kinds of Chilean typical food like “empanadas” and “anticuchos”, but one of the most famous is the “terremoto”. It’s a mixture of “pipeño” wine with pineapple ice cream, with a little of fernet if you don’t like the very very sweet flavours. It’s delicious, but you can’t entrust: you can finish very drunk :D

Other places that I’ve likened in the city are the “Quinta Normal”, where you can find the Natural History Museum and a little kind of lakes where you can rent a boat, and the O’Higgins park which is near to Fantasilandia :D

Melomaniac!

Well… through all my life I’ve been addicted many times :D since I was addicted to computer games (like “the sims” and DDR xDDD) now, my addiction it’s a little less “nerd” (or “ñoña”, like I use to say :B) First, I thought that I was addicted to internet and some facebook games, like restaurant city, pet society or happy farm. But, I think there is one bigger addiction in my life: I’m addicted to music, to know a lot of bands, it history and to be every time more actualized about the things that are happening right now. It may look like a hobby, but sometimes seems more like an addiction, when happen things like when my cousin erase my music from my old pc (there were around 4.000 songs) and I wanted to cry, it was so hard to find all that music and even now, I’ve not recovered it completely. That time I had a little fight with all in my house and I was angry for days. It doesn’t affects my life in a loooot of ways, but sometimes I stop doing things that I have to do by downloading new discs, reading news about it or listening radio programs with all my attention.
I think that I can’t beat this “addiction”, ‘cause music it’s everywhere and every time a listen a song that I’ve never listened before, I want to know who sings it, it historical context and what kind of impact it has into the public (that’s why I have a lot of “historically important songs”, like Marsellesa xD)

Between blue and "oruga" buses :D

The same as some of my classmates, I came for other cities of the country and I don’t know how was the pre-transantiago system ‘cause I never used it. But, I can compare it with the Concepción’s transportation system.

I live in Coronel, a little city located at 30 kms approximately next to Concepción. There, some buses are very old and have a very bad smell, they are noisy and many drivers are mistreatment with the students. It is very expensive too: the Coronel –Conepción ticket it’s 700 pesos, and 300 for the students. Like an anecdote, there is ONE bus with spider man draws on it design, and inside it has a LSD screen with 80’s music videos. The Concepción transportation system it’s a little better, some buses are so new and the tours are good distributed. The buses are know like “blue-buses”, and I like their colour :D but they are a little expensive too: 450 pesos adults and 150 students except weekends and holidays.

Someway, a like a little more the transantiago system than concepción transportation system. You must pay only once and can make combinations, one trip only costs 130 pesos for students *-* (in comparison, I have a friend who lives in Coronel and must pay 450 pesos for just one travel to her university, one coronel-concepcion and one “blue-bus”). Though I live far and takes me 1 and half hour to come here, I take only one bus and sleep all the trip, and, a really really good point, it’s that you don’t have to fight with the drivers every time you want to go out :D

Anyway, I miss blue-buses :’(