TRANSANTIAGO. BEFORE AND AFTER

Trasantiago was implemented in January 2006, at that time i was living in Temuco, so i didn´t travel in the old bus system. although this, i heard a lot of comments about the change of the public trasport.

First, i know that the previous system has old buses that were very noisy and obviously this affect people´s tranquility in the streets, and even causes stress. So, in this way Trasantiago is a huge advance, and i think this is the better improvement of this new system. Besides, drivers receive a regular payment and they don´t worry about how many people get on the bus or going fast in city to win the higher number of passengers as posible. In this sense this contribute to the security of people.

On the other hand, transantiago is a headache to a lot of people, mainly the ones who lives outskirts, because the routes are not well desings and engineers (the responsibles!) don´t consider either people needs not the rush hours or the number of passengers according the neighbourhood, so it was common that people take more than before to arrive to work, for example. although, this is improving, actually.

I think the money is the main factor to improve the service, money is necessary to buy more buses and do exclusive ways for buses (to travel faster), but also its necesary anthropologists that ask people the things they needs according their conditions (for example, the population, the hours they mainly need buses, etc) and apply this to the system.

PEOPLE AND TRADITION

A thing that is very interesting and mainly worry is the "resistence" of people to change their costums and adapt to the advances that the young people (mainly) do. for example, in Chile is still some of old people that think that once you are married you should be married with the same person for all your life in spite of all the problems you have with your couple, some of them just think that to mantain the tradition is most important, "is always has been that way" -they say (and sometimes that is tottaly false!).

This fear to new things is very incredible and its reflected in the laws. For example, the law that allows the divorse in Chile just has been pass in 2004. But is fair to say that the influence of catholic church is very extended, and this cause, with an other factors, that the laws don´t reflect the mentality of people. But is also truth that if they have this influence is for the support of chileans.

Talking in general, to change seems to be a very dificult thing to accept and this is just pure intolerance, i think. Probably, people not just think that is necesary to maintein the costums becouse is tradicion, but besides this costums are the better way to do the things, and this cause that they don´t accept changes.

Of course, i recognize that i am not the most tolerant person in the world, but i am trying!.

A COUNTRY I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT.

I would like to visit all the countries around the world, since i have memory i want to travel and get pay for it!. specifically, i think any country in Africa would be interesting, because we think we know a lot of that continent, like it is poor, there is a lot of hungry people, and AIDS, and there is black and Arabic people, but the problem is al long as we think we know something with out knowing in fact, more we can surprise whit the reality. probably, Africa is a lot of things more than poverty and hungry.
Besides, is a very diverse continent and complex too. I thing that will be surprising to see so different habits and sometimes opposite to the occidental way of living; there is some tribes that doesn’t use clothes and, on the other hand, women that are always covered whit a burka, people that its totally open sexually speaking and an other that is totally forbidden to have previous relationship whit the opposite sex in all senses, people who still believe in magic and witchcrafts, some who live in constant war, and some who have no contact whit the occidental mentality. I really like to say more things about this place but i don’t know much about it. but i hope some day to go there.

FIRST TERM: GOOD AND BAD POINTS

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The first term of this year it was very interesting and happened a lot of things i don’t expected.
In university i have very good and bad subjects. Anthropology III or materialistic anthropology was a very good subject but, on the other hand, i had boring subjects like Statistic and Latin American History which teacher was really disappointing and he doesn’t want to hear the thing we want to say.
In june i went to Bolivia, specifically to Coroico, for an anthropology student congress. There were student of all Latin America, but almost the half of them were Chileans and i want to know people of other countries, so i don’t talk much whit them. Coroico is a little town at the north of La Paz, the houses and streets seems to be of a colonial time, and the people speak an indian language.

In my personal life i have to say a lot of things, like i found a very interesting man who is my boyfriend. he is very sensitive, and he has a lot of opinions about the things in general. he also likes to do a lot of things like dance ballet, walk, play music, do some sports like yoga and tai-chi. But the problem is that he is a little stubborn (that seem to be very common in men).