In Santiago... Places to go...

For me, as a fan of cathedrals, that would be one of the first places to recommend a foreigner who come for the first time to Santiago. And well, now you’re there, just in centre of the city, right in Plaza de Armas, you have plenty of places to visit and things to do. Take a decision and choose go north, northeast, east or south and you’ll find three places you must, as a foreigner know: fist if you go north, the road will take you to one of the most traditional places in Santiago: Mercado Central, where you can eat seafood, traditional food and just enjoy the spectacle of weir and odd people while you’re there, just to enjoy the view. Haha. Then, if you take the second way, that road will take you to an amazing museum, one I like a lot: The Bellas Artes Museum. Just in the middle of the Forestall Park, there you can find precious paintings, sculptures and any kind of art you can imagine. Then on the straight east way you’ll find the Santa Lucía Hill, in there you’ll see such a great ancient architecture made of stone and the amazing view of Santiago when you are in the top of the hill, It’s just something you cannot miss!. And well, going south, a place, that’s a must in you visit to Santiago, it’s to visit the Cousiño’s Palace, and That’s! an amazing place to visit, is soooo over the top and all the decoration inside and out it’s just something unseen elsewhere in this city.

I'm addicted to...MUSE

What’s my addiction?... that’s a difficult question… but I think an idea it’s coming up to my mind…
I am a huge music fan, kind of a music lover… I feel music fills my life someway no other thing does, it can makes you fly, and be pretty much high without anything else, only one good song can make your life a bit better…
There’s a band that makes all of this and so much more… and that’s a British band called MUSE.
Before them I have never listen something alike, something so magically amazing, a music that’s so perfectly well done… and makes you feel…
The first time I listen to a Muse’s song, which was Hysteria from the absolution album, I immediately fell in love. There was such power there I couldn’t ever have imagine. Nowadays when I go in the bus to the university or back home… or I travel anywhere they are the first choice in my music player… I cannot live without those lyrics, that music, the sound of the vocalist voice, Matt, the piano, and the guitar, or without the amazing pair that Chris and Dominic are in the Bass and Drums (respectively)…the harmonious melodies they create to make me fly and just enjoy… pretty much in a state of ecstasy… they are just great!
Now I’m just listening to their new album and it’s just an amazing piece of art!
I don’t think I can ever beat this addiction, because it is so great that nothing can keep me from listen…and my advice for the people who hasn’t ever listen a single chord from them, if you don’t want to get stick to them… don’t listen to them. But, let’s be realistic here… I believe nobody should die without listen at least once a song… one single song…
They deserve be loved and admire by everybody… I had the chance of watching a show of them last year… and I can say… after that my life change… for me they ARE the BEST live SHOW I’ve ever seen… and I can compare them with big ones like Ozzy Osbourne, or U2… and they kick their asses! That day change everything… that July 26th was THE best day of my musical life… I fly, scream and sing as I never have…
Well that’s my addiction… and as I listen to “United states of Eurasia” I’ll tell you that… THEY ARE THE BEST!
“Don’t be afraid of what your mind conceives you should make a stand…a stand up for what you believe…and tonight we can truly say… together we’re INVINCIBLE” – Invincible – MUSE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDDCieKfrvY

the so hated transportation system...

Yes, I’m talking about Santiago's transportation system: TRANSANTIAGO.

At least in my point of view it works, the real problem is that is hard for people to get used to something new. It's been like three years since these buses started to work on the streets of the city, and at that time, everybody was quite excited because it was supposed that it was going to fix all the problems that we used to have with the famous Yellow Buses. Once this public transportation program began to work, everybody thought that was going to work fine in the first moment, pretty much magically. But of course it doesn't. The big change of paying with those freaking obnoxious coins to start using a card instead (one you have to charge money in to use it... pretty difficult ah?) was such a problem, because nobody was still ready for such a change!

Well, now it's been a large while, and people keep thinking things will be instantly and magically perfect from the start. But all of this it's a process we all might pass through, and after all, finally people it's getting used to the change. Of course nobody likes to travel in a hideous and full to top bus everyday, even more when you have a long way to go, nor you have to travel an hour just to get home, or university, I don't like it either, but that's life, you can try the Subway, but is just the same thing.

It's Magic...

If you ask me which place in earth I would like to visit, and not only that in strict rigor, I would get speechless, because for a moment I couldn’t be able to choose where would I really like to go!
Well, of course I have a few places in mind.
Starting here in South America, going then to the Mesoamerican area, then all the way to Europe and Asia… Do you think this plan is a bit unrealistic? Well, maybe…but it’s a dream I really want to make true and one I will make true, in the near or not too far, I hope, future… Yeah… these places are so worn out, and everybody want’s the same and blah blah blah… But, like now, I’ve never care about what people think of the most amazing and beautiful places of the world… So…if you don’t like it…I don’t think it’s right to type what I wanna tell you all…
Alright, as I said I’m gonna start with South America, and of course one of the most magical places in the territory now known as Peru, of course, I mean The Inca’s city of Machu Pichu. The reason behind this is that that place is just full of amazing energy and myth, mysterious beliefs and the most wonderful view and architecture constructions full of mystical significances for the unbelievable culture that once, not so long ago lived there.
Let’s change the place, and let’s travel to Mesoamerican area of Yucatan, where the great Maya culture lived their greater times of imperialistic force all the way down from the now known as Mexico’s Caribbean area to the actual Honduras. Yucatan is the principal Maya religious city, the one full of magic and power. The temples there, are mostly covered with grass and plants, are the giants buildings with the form of a stagger pyramid, where they made their cults for the moon, the sun and most of their gods. The thing I love about this is that first they lived in a period where in the present nobody believe it was possible such amazing constructions nor civilizations as Mayas within whole lot of others, and I firmly believe, despite what anyone would say that the past was so much better than the future in so many aspects I couldn’t name most of them.
I wanna see and experience that magic, that power, that great and unrealistic energy that those places have inside, and all the things they keep in secret I want to be able to discovered them, as an archaeologist, and that’s why I spect for my degree, and then my career…
I decided that today I’m gonna write just about those two places, maybe in another day or time I’ll finish this, for now I’m gonna stay with that…

First blog, the first half of 2009

First Blog, first thing I will write here, and I don’t even know where nor how to start. I will just make things easier, and I will begin with the first thing in the list of things I must write about: The first half of the year in College.

At first, I didn’t know what to expect, and it was hard for me to adapt my mind to the college speed, well after a year off, of course it was going to be hard. Anyway I approach every purpose I have made and every promise I have made to myself. It was a hard work but it worth it. I learned a lot about what Anthropology was about, some little thing about how to work with it, and started to fell in love with Archaeology which is THE one specialty I’m looking forward to, why? Is not something I can tell clearly right in this moment, maybe in another blog...

The past half year went on so fast I couldn’t realize nor even get noticed about everything I have done, nor everything I approached, but right now I can say that it was a lot of thing going on my head to even get aware of a bunch of important things. Everything changed in four months, and everything will still going to change in the next for and so on, and I now, now that I think about it why everything went too fast. The one and only reason was that besides of being adapting myself to the college speed, I was adapting myself to the fact my sister start college too, but farther away from Santiago, to Valdivia, so it was a very difficult thing to stay and be without her to think about all the things I did or dedicate to not think about her being away.

So that’s it, what else can I say?