Last term 2009: good and bad points

Last term I lived very good things, and also bad things, I'll start with the bad things and let the best things for the end.

Last year I was on my first year in the university, I did like very much the career but the last term was very very stressful for me. I had new subjects, like histology, anatomy, and biochemistry. I didn't pass biochemistry, and I hated that subject because I didn't understand it very well of course, and the teachers did never upload the power point presentations to U-cursos, and I hated that! because on the class I couldn't pay attention and also copy what was on the power point, and every day that I had biochemistry was a bad day!. And because of that, I did the summer course, in december and january, and I passed finally biochemistry, but it was really bad, because I'm from Calama, and all I wanted during the year was going to Calama in december, to see my friends from the school, and spend the christmas there with my family, and be at my home, see my dogs, and everything!! And I couldn't make that, I was very sad, and also very angry with me because it was my fault. And I had to be in Santiago on january to, and I hated that also!, I don't like Santiago, at all, and I wanted to go on holidays and not stay there the whole year.

The others bad things were just the stress, in november I really was in stress, I dind't wanted to study anymore, I was sooo tired and bored, I had to study every day! I couldn't do nothing else!.

I think the worse thing about last term, was the difference between how was my life in Calama (living with my parents, that the city was not big at all, etc) and then in Santiago. I was not used to do the housework, to cook every day, to go alone anywhere, the distances, the transantiago, living just with my sister, and doing all by myself, it was a very big change.

Now the good things! I learned how to work with horses, I learned it on hippotherapy, it was really relaxing and funny to work with them, I love horses!. Another good thing was that me and my sister moved to another department, bigger and new, we were very very happy!! Finally I had my own room, and a big kitchen and the living room was a lot bigger than the other one in the old department. And because of the new department, and because I had more space, my boyfriend gave me a little cat!!!! And it's was so pretty, my cat's name is Mo, and is very sweet, me and my sister were very happy with Mo.

What else... I passed the rest of the subjects and I promised not to fail again on the second year, hopefully!

TRANSANTIAGO: before and after

I'm actually living in Santiago since last year, so I didn't use really the pre-transantiago system, just I used it on holidays when I was in here, so I don't have too many opinions.

Transantiago was launched in February 2007, on that year I was living in Calama so I wasn't here to see how it was the beginning. It was launched during the government of the President Michelle Bachelet.
I think that the transantiago it's much better than the older system, because it's more estructured, the buses have colors, and diferent routes, we have now maps with the buses in it, so you can see which bus number do you need to go somewhere.
There are also combinations with the underground, which it's pretty usefull. Now we have the bip card so you don't have to find your coins and cash on your wallet anymore (that's very usefull, when you have many many things on your bag, like me, and you can't find your wallet).
The Transantiago it's also cheaper, because you can pay once and take the buses that you like for 2 hours, and also if you want to take a bus, and then the underground, you also pay just once. Another good thing is that there are specially streets for the Transantiago, so the people that go by car don't have to drive next to the buses (the bus drivers aren't very polite by driving).
There are determinated bus stops, so the bus don't stop anywhere, and that makes it faster.

Like I said, I'm not from Santiago, so I can't compare how it was when it started and now.
One thing that I don't like about Transantiago is that sometimes the buses don't come frequently and when they arrive, they come FULL, and I think that a good solution will be establish schedules, on every bus stop (in Germany they use this sistem), so you can be sure when the bus comes, and if you're late you know exactly when will come the next one. And that will be also a ood idea for the Chilean peolple, that we are usually very unpunctual.