Changes, changes and more changes

That if I would change anything about my study programme or my university? Definitely. And not one, but a lot of things. Universidad de Chile is an excellent university with a horrible administration: the money is not well distributed between the different faculties (just look FEN next to FAU...), some careers are collapsed and they keep getting more and more students (Laws is completely full and they're getting 200 more students next year), if you fail in some subject, it's almost impossible to take the classes you want (and need), there isn't a good psychological help for students, etc. So yes, I would change some things. I would change the money distribution; I think that it's fair that faculties like FEN or Beauchef receive contributions of privates, but it's not fair that they also get the bigger percentage of the money that the University hands out between the faculties. If they get money from outside and inside the institution, there will be always a major difference between the different study places. Maybe we could make some kind of common fund and finance the needs of less lucrative faculties (like mine).
Also I would create support classes for the students who are getting stuck, and alternatives to get their classes passed, because when you fail two or more subjects, it affects you the rest of your career. Maybe I would do the schedule less tight; it's very exhaustive to have that much of classes that the first year students have... My classes starts at 8:30 am and finish at 8:00 pm almost everyday!
Well, is that and many more things, but I have to admit, even with all this bad things, I like my university a lot!

My most freak trip on the Transantiago

Santiago public transport is crazy; you can find almost everything in there! There are a lot of weird people who talk to the doors or fight with the air, travelling dogs that knows the journey better than everyone, drunk guys singing, dancing and doing stupid things, and the best and the worst musicians you can imagine. If you go on a 210 to Puente Alto at night, you will probably find a heavy, distorted party at the back of the bus: loud cumbia music (you could find reggaeton sometimes, but it’s not common), an improvised dance floor on the center, and a lot of drunk people making friends with anyone just because they share the bus. Or the 502; a bus that goes through the graveyard and the psychiatric hospitals. At night, you could find a lot of creepy, crazy people, but don’t be alarmed, they are harmless the most of the time. The most of the times, but not always…

I remember one of that times when I was on that bus (the 502), it was like 3 or 4 am because I was partying in a friend's house in Santiago Centro. I just had my cellphone stolen by a guy in the street (he just took it, ran, got into a car and flee) so I just wanted to get home as soon as possible. But when I get into the bus, it was nearly empty, and there was this old woman singing something that really freaked me out. It was not a normal song, it was more like she was crying or something. She was talking about her baby, and how she had suffocated her to death. It was so freak! I listened to her words until I get off near my house, and I was just horrified! 

Pearl Jam 2015

I have gone to many concerts in my life; Muse, Black Sabbath, Guns n' Roses, many music festivals, but if it's one that I will remember all my life is Pearl Jam's in 2015. Pearl Jam was one of my favorite artist since I was 15 or 16 years old, and it was my dream to saw it on concert, but when they announced their visit to Chile, I was out of money because I was saving it to travel with my friends two months later. I have lost all faith on going to the concert, but, just three days before the show, my best friend called me on the phone and said: "Domingo, do you really love Pearl Jam? because I got an extra ticket". It was the best thing ever, I was so excited! (Thanks Vale, I love you).
The concert was awesome! They played all the songs that I wanted to listen, and some more from other groups, like Pink Floyd's "Mother" and Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World". Eddie Vedder was so fun! He drank two entire bottles of wine on the time he was on the stage, so he started joking and talking nonsense, like when, after the song "Even Flow", he said "and remember to listen to Sonar FM 105.3... Sonar FM, Sonar FM, música caliente" and he began to dance salsa or something like that.
Now I'm just waiting to see them again someday, and if they come, I'm willing to sell one of my kidneys to buy the ticket!

Bolivia 2018!

For the last three years, me and my friends have done a three weeks backpacking trip to different places inside the country. We save money all the second semester and work in December, and with that money we have already travelled to Chiloé, Puerto Varas/Cochamó and Valdivia/La Unión/Ranco. But this year we are planning something bigger. Much bigger. We want to go to Bolivia for a month, maybe pass to Peru or Brazil too, but the main objective is Bolivia.

We are still planning the itinerary, but it’s difficult because we have never done one, the other times we have went right to “the adventure”, without any plans or something like that, and only asking to the local people where to go. That has worked quite well so far, but now it’s different, because we don’t have the security of being in our own country, and we don’t know almost nothing about Bolivia and their culture. But well, there is the fun of the backpacking trips; nothing is certain, you are constantly surprising yourself with new things that appears spontaneously to change your plans upside down. This is what we want and why we wait the whole year for our January tradition trip.

In fact, we have a planning meeting tomorrow (well, if we can call it a meeting, because it’s more like talking and searching for places while drinking beer). I hope we can solve all the doubts before buying the bus tickets from Antofagasta to Uyuni, our first destiny. I can’t tell you much more, because tomorrow we see what happens. So now, just saving money and waiting for months to pass quickly!