TRANSANTIAGO: BEFORE AND AFTER

I think that the new transport system is better than the previous one, known as "micros amarillas" ("yellow buses"), mainly because it's cheaper, cleaner and friendlier than the old system.
Transantiago can be considerated as a real system, where all the buses and the Metro (Santiago's subway) are interconnected, not like the "yellow buses" which were only a conglomerate of privates enterprises that competed between each others, converting the streets of the city in a big chaos.
But, this changes cost a lot of problems for the people and for me, becauseat the beginning (one year and some months) of the implementation of the system the situation was terrible. I live very far from my University, and the Transantiago each day caused troubles to me and millions of people. The worst was the long waiting times for the bus to arrive, the slow trips and extremly crowded buses, and the long time required to get home.
Fortunately the system changed, maybe very slowly, but the important is that it changed. Some things continue failing, principally the crowded subway in the peak hours, and the lack of buses in regular hours.
I hope that with the new lines of subway, and more feeder buses, the system will work perfectely well.

My first term...

The last semester was a mixture of much work in the university, what meant a little of free time, but with great trips to the beach and to the south of Chile. In general, I did many funny things, but I also had to do a lot of boring work.
Also I have worked as waiter in a bar in Bellavista neighborhood since February. This bar is called Altazor, it is a little bar where Blues are played. It is a good job, it has allowed me to fianace my personal expenses, including a surfboard, a wetsuit, and three trips to the beach, two to Pichilemu, and one to La Serena.
So, this year I tried to learn surfing. It is a very hard sport. It is so dificult to stand up on the board, before you learn a lot of things, like row, find the appropriate waves and specially, lose the fear to the sea.
This first semester was definitely fun. I like soo much traveling away from Santiago, and in my job I enjoy very good moments with my coworkers after the job in the dawn. Maybe some subjects in the university were boring, but that did not ruin my term.