What to do and where to go in Santiago

Hi foreigner tourist, today I’m going to recommend you some places to visit in Santiago, Chile.

The first thing you have to do when you arrive here is get Chilean money and buy a BIP! Card. This card is for paying the bus and the subway, in order to get anywhere you want to. Some places you should visit/activities you should do if you are in Santiago are:

- Plaza de Armas
- San Cristobal Hill
- Get a teleferico (cable car)
- O`Higgins Park
- Quinta Normal Park

The first place in the list, Plaza de Armas, is the most typical place. There you can find a Cathedral and several Chilean food places. A place you certainly have to visit is the San Cristobal Hill, in Providencia. It has a beautiful road that goes up the hill, following the shape of it. In the same hill, you can get a teleferico (cable car) and see the incredible landscape from above.

O’Higgins Park is another typical place. There you can take long walks, make pick-nicks and hang out with friends. You can do the same things in Quinta Normal Park. You also can visit MAC (Contemporary Art Museum), it´s near the Park and there always are good things to see.
A useful advice could be to be aware of your personal things like camera, cell phone and wallet. Some months ago I was near Plaza Italia and I saw how an American tourist was robbed. So, watch out!

That’s all for this week, bye bye friends!

ALAS, the Congress in Buenos Aires

Hello fellows, today I`m going to tell you about my last trip to Argentina. I attend (as most of my degree classmates) to a sociology congress in Buenos Aires. ALAS (Latin American Sociology Association) organized the congress. It took place in the UBA (Buenos Aires`s University), specifically in the Medicine, Deontology and Social Sciences, from August 31st to September 4th 2009.
The weather in Buenos Aires wasn`t the best. The day we arrived it was so hot you hardly can breath, and the next days were cold and rainy. Lots of places were flooded! That was one of bad points about the congress. The organization wasn`t good. Formal aspects were really a mess.
Anyway, the best conference I went to was “Women`s movement and the fight for legal abortion”. I liked it because -however you agree or not with the exponent’s opinion- you could learn a lot both historical and sociological aspects about the topic. The people who gave the conference (mostly women) were super prepared and where very clear, beside a critical opinion about our patriarchal society.
The highlights of the trip were not only the good conferences, but share a lot with my classmates for a few days. Because of I`m in my first University year I haven`t spent too much time whit my generation. Knowing them better was great!