Transantiago.

Clearly no “Santiaguino” usuary to the public transport has been indifferent to new plan launched in February to 2007, the famous “Transantiago plan”, that would change our way to move us by the city, and it was, it really changed our way to do it because not only came to our streets the gigants busses those actually carry on us to everywhere, if not that with they came new busses stop too and a chaos of machiness that would make a real cirugy to ours old streets.
To the beginning for anybody was easy relearning how move us in Santiago, and the fact to have to walk many times more of one block for can take a bus that would have to get off and take the subway or another little bus for get off again anf take some amother green caterpillar that so far has not become a butterfly, in summary a procession of transports.
As to the places where the system works better or worse; actually and as always has been, is better in the centric places and huge avenues, but luckely all the places of the capital have with more of one route.
My experience with the system has been really good thank God, I live in a avenue where enough taffic flows, but I had to habituate me that they don´t stop in the door of my house and that I have to walk one block to the bus stop in that just some stops (is incredible how it takes time in the morning) and clearly the fact of have studient tariff is not a problem now with the driver, being able to travel with a single pasagge in many busses is really beneficial for my studient pocket too.
The changes that I would make would be related to the not payment by the called “barsas” that lately abound and always have the same faces, I belive that pay the tariff before to boarding to bus like in the peack hours would be a good method and the other change could be implement a special tariff for old people (like in subway) because they deserve pay less.

A country I would like to visit.

This is one of the most hard questions than sombody could do it me, because I want to know all the world if I can!, but if I must to choose just one country, I think that it would be Japan. Always caused me curiousity the oriental culture, specially the japonese culture, becuase when I was a child I liked the “manga”, in fact I studied for two years English- Portuguese- Japanese translation, but it was not the mine, the good part is that I knew the customs from a lot of places, because I has professors from EEUU, England, Brazil, Portugal and Japan of course and I must to say that I fell in love a little more with Japan. How they have managed to preserve their ancient traditions, despite to be one of the countries with more technology in the world, it is causes me the most curiousity, the form that there are in the same block an old temple and a built with the most modern architecture, and how they show respect for others, specielly for old people and the environment, even until to cook they are really methodicals and keep old forms for do it, which reminds me that I like a lot the tipically japanese food (less sushi, I really hate it), well there are too many japanese things that like me, even I think that I would have liked to had studied my secondary there (the school uniforms are really lovely), but when I will finish my college I would like to do some post grade in Tokio (for that I must to finish my language studies) that is the form how I could stay more time there, because I don´t know if I want to stay there all my life, and if not, I will go anyway, it is something that definilly I must to do someday, although will be just for one week I going to visit the country most interesting for me.