lunes, 24 de agosto de 2009

I'll change the picture in a brief. -> TRANSANTIAGO >> BEFORE AND AFTER


aujourd'hui, I have to talk about the Santiago's new transport system, Transantiago (the name, I think, it’s a contraction between transport and Santiago).
this system started operating in the first year of the of Michelle Bachelet’s government, and it has have a lot of problems. In the beginning, there were a lot of problems, with the number of the buses and with the bus routes. today, four years after, there’re still some of those problems, especially in the more populated areas.
I think that those problems could finish, but there’re still some ideological problems, like, now, the all “public” transport system, has ten, yes only Ten owners.
mm.. I don’t know what else to say. This has been an important theme in a lot of conversations, and now is a bit boring to write about it. besides, I don’t have much troubles with Transantiago. I use my bike to go everywhere (or I try to use it to go everywhere), and when I use the “micros”, I haven’t had problems, except probably when the bus is full of people, that’s a little disgusting.
I think that the only way to make Transantiago a better system, is that the state take his control.
Good night & good luck.

lunes, 17 de agosto de 2009

Paris --> A PLACE I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT.


hello you, my blogger friends. today I'm going to talk about a country I would like to visit.
I really don’t have any particularly country I would like to visit (I want to visit a lot of places in the earth), but I think that I like to go to France, to Paris, to practice my French. also, there are some places in there that I want to know, like La Sorbonne, Les Invalides, Notre Dame, Le Sacré Coeur, le Petit Palais (Museum of Fine Arts) and of corse, the graveyards of Montparnasse and Pierre Lachaise, where I’d like to visit the tomb of Jean Paul Sarte and Simonne de Beuvoir, and of corse, the tomb of Julio Cortázar.
some times, I think that more than in a holiday trip, I’d like to go to study something in there, because I like a lot the urban life. besides that, in Paris there is one of the best schools of Social Science, the EHESS, École des Hauts Études en Sciences Sociales (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences), where I think it’ll be a nice place to study a post-degree in Social Science, or maybe in other subject, like linguistics or literature.
that’s why I`d like to visit Paris.
good night and good luck.

lunes, 10 de agosto de 2009

number One -> GOOD AND BAD POINTS.


first of all: hello you, my fans, this is my new blog for my really new English life. I'm isidro, a Sociology student in a strange english class, where I have to create a blog to practice, I think, my English.
okei, lets talk about me. I was born on a hot night, a six of november, in 1990, so, as you can see, I'm 18 years old. this year, I've started studing sociology at the University of Chile, so, I've had a lot of interesting subjects in here, like Sociology, Anthropology and Contemporary World History.
I also do other things, like play clarinet with my band, called "La Orquesta Chora". We play some jazz, and some gypsy music, and also cumbia, and some Chilean music. I also like literature, to read and to write.
I'd like to say a last thing. when I started at the University, I wasn't very sure about studing Sociology, but now i am :). so, I hope things continue like there are, learning a lot of new stuff, and of corse, I hope that this blog would be an important tool to improve my english, in my new English life.
good night & good luck.