Santi...

I was born in Santiago and I really like it, I can't imagine myself living in another place, but I don't really know it very well. I'll give my best!
If you're in the town and you don't know where to go, you should visit the downtown, there you'll find some important places, like the Goverment Palace called "La Moneda", it is a beautiful white building & you can visit the centerfields too, it's a chilean symbol you can't loose.  If you want to know another historical buildings you can go to Plaza de Armas, it's a tipical square surroundend by the "Catedral", "Correos de Chile" and you can also find some artists painting caricatures and and pretty lanscapes and much more! You should go 'cause it's funny and has a variety of activities to choose.
If you like animals and wild world, "Cerro San Cristóbal" is your place. There you can walk up to the Virgin María, visit the zoo or just lie down on the grass.  If you don't like to walk a lot or you're just tired you always can take the railway or the cable car and take amazing panoramic pictures of the city.  Next to there, it's the "Barrio Bellavista" full of pubs, restaurants and another places you could party in; but if you like to share a drink or coffee or sth else in a peaceful and kinda quiet atmosphere you can go to "Patio Bellavista" where you can find another bussiness and window shopping some craftwork and souvenirs.
Finally if you love Art and all you want is to visit some chilean exhibitions, you have lots of museums, like the "Historia Precolombina" museum, "Historia Natural" museum and "Bellas Artes" museum, there aren't way too expensive and you could spend all day long there. Oh! by the way, you can go there by the subway, it's too easy!
So chose your place and let's have some fun in Santiago!

Visiting Italy :D

 I've never been out of Chile in my life but if I have to visit another one it'll be Italy, that's for sure. I'd love to go because of architecture, language, food and art... oh! And it's like a boot hahahaha! The things I know about it's because of its history, (it is impossible don't know anything about Italy!) and a few "tips" I've heard from my Italian teacher (she's Italian and she loves to tell us funny things about their lifestyle) just to say one: did you know they drink a so concentrated coffee in little cups? it must be so bitter.

I don't want to go for a few weeks like a tourist; I'd like to go to study for a year or maybe two at Bologna University.  I knew that an anthropologist were there as a student exchange and I would like to do the same, I don't know exactly when but I will do.

Considering that I'll be alone there I'll HAVE TO meet some new nice people and during the weekends I'll go to visit to Rome, Firenze or another cities by train, that's not so expensive and it's a great opportunity to see beautiful landscapes.  Another problem about going there for a long time is money! I have all my hopes in some kind of scholarship or something else but I should save some money anyway.  Thinking it over is really hard to go to another country when your own country doesn't have any exchange student program and cover all your needs as student... in Europe that do exist and I've talk to a German classmate who was living and studying here for free. 

That’s all, see you next week!

P.S: sorry for not upload this at time last Thursday, my internet was down after upload the first post.

First post ever

Let's talk about the previous semester.  I think it was so special because that was the beginning of my first year at college, new life, new people, new teachers, new topics; everything was entire new world to discover... Trying to move forward and change my mind about how academic things should be, I mean, I REALLY have to read and study (not the day before as I did at school, having good marks anyway). Sometimes I almost got mad about "things to do" that was really stressful! And made me think that I won't handle it at all, but at least I could! At the end of July I finally was having a happy winter holidays (so deserved, BTW).

Wait! last semester wasn't that dramatic, there also are positive stuff: I met new friends, added new things to my knowledge (I've learnt so much, more than I did last year, I guess).  Oh! and I'm learning a new language, Italian, and I really love it, I took that class because someday I want to go to Italy and study sth there (fingers crossed for me) I think it's a beautiful country with pretty places to visit.

Finally, looking back I could say that my vocabulary will never be the same, words like ethnography, functionalism, structure, status, society and (the most important) culture, are part of my life now.

That's all, four months in about 200 words :)