Transantiago: Before and after

This week my post is about Trasantiago, the public transport system of the capital of Chile.

Transantiago was a big change, from an unplanned system, operating to demand to a planned system of transport. This system includes a new rationale, a tecnichal racionale that seeks make more efficient, clean, organized and quick the public transport system, not only seek made money with the "micros".

Another thing that is necessary to say is that change, like any change in the people rutine, can be traumatic, it´s necessary good and clear information about new routes and pay methods, if not, many protest will be not only for a deficient operation of the system, but by the change of a rutine and a way of moving through the city.

I think that transantiago has many advantages, like pay with a card and not with coins, routes announced on the bus stop with schedules of each route, drivers who only are dedicated to drive, exclusive ways for buses, fixed salarys for the drivers, among other.

I arrived to Santiago one year before transantiago, I usually moved in the yellow "micros" and I must say that the routes were useful, but it was a complete chaos, the buses go through the city with no logic and advancing any car in front of them, making races between them, charging and driving. But, I always see the nice face of transantiago, I don`t live far away from downtown or college, so I don´t have to make large trips day by day.

I believe that a good improvement is to have fixed schedules for the buses, where you know at what time the bus will pass by your bus stop, and where you can program your day or activities with exact time. I always remember than I used to tell a friend I´ll be there in thirty minutes, but I used to arrive in one hour or more.

Well, here is the post that I made last week, but I forget to post it.

Burma

Hello everybody, this week on my blog I will talk about a country I like to go.

I like to visit Birmania, because is very different to the country that I live. First of all this country lives under a military dictatorship since 1988, so the early world changes and the so called "globalization" have not reached the most people of this country, except in urban areas.

Another interesting particularity is that this country is divided in seven ethnic states, for example, one state is called "the Kachin state" and another one is called "the Shan state". Most of the people lives from agriculture, the major economic activity, where rice is the most common cultivation and the base of burmese diet.

The burmese culture is a mix of indian, chinese, thai and burmese traditiones, reflected into language, cook and music, while arts have been influencede by buddhism too. This religion is predominant in the region.

I would like to travel around the country, especially to he Kachin state, localized in the Himalayas, I still remember the book "Political systems in upper Burma" by E.R Leach where he described how this peoples subscribe to different ethnics or beliefs systems for more power.

I would like to travel here to learn and interact in a multi-ethnic, exotic (for me) and millenary country.

Thats all for this week, see you next.

First term: good and bad points

Hi everyone, this is my first post this new half, so I´m going to write about good and bad points of the first half.

Last semester was nice, I´m actually backlog in the career so I´m taking few subjects, in that way my half was pretty relaxed. I aproved all subjects I made, and I had time to go out, visit friends and play music.

About university I made a really good class, called quantitative methods II, I learn how to do correlational studies, how to use simple and multiple linear regression, binary logistic regression, factorial analysis, and most importantly, how to use SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). The rest of the class wasn´t so usefull as quantitative methods II.

During last semester I also works, I sell clothes, shoes, clothes, shoes, toys, stuffed animals, nuts at the free fair. This was on the Tejas Verdes fair, San Antonio, because my parents lives there and I visited on weekends.

But the best of the past half was the visit of my uncles and cousins, I do not seem them since 15 years ago, they were moved to Miami 18 years ago so was a bit extrange, but it´s nice see the family together after so many years. Also I met my little cousin, because when I visit my uncles he was not born yet.

This is all for this week.