What to do and where to go in Santiago.

First of all, hello. I have to do a warning before i start writing: i’m not from Santiago, so it’s possible that i said really non tourist places.
I think that a good place for a foreigner to visit here in Santiago first is all the downtown of it, because it has lots of national culture, the colony architecture, the typical Chilean people. In the downtown are places like the Santa Lucia’s hill (i like it because it has lots of trees and grass); San Cristobal’s hill with the Maria Virgin on its top, and the “teleférico” (i don’t know how to say it in English), because it’s really fun; San Diego Street with all his books, because it is one of the cheapest place to buy books; la Vega, because it’s a popular place that has lots of histories; the Chile university (obviously the Juan Gomez Milla Campus to drink beers, smoke all the things that you can imagine and fight against the police) because it’s better that the Catholic University of Chile and etcetera.
I think that would be good that a tourist go to La Piojera, to drink lots of “terremotos” (in English means earthquake) and get really drunk. Another thing to do in Santiago its travelling on the transantiago transport system, it is really fun to go on the microbus like a sardine on a tin. Other place to visit is the Pablo Neruda’s (he is a really famous poet of Chile, he got the Nobel prize) house in Santiago.
I don’t know anything else about Santiago, so i guess i won’t write more. See you next week. Bye

Alas Congress

About two weeks ago, the degree of sociology of our university, went to Buenos Aires, to a Sociology congress called ALAS (Latinamerican sociology asociation) on the Buenos Aires University. It lasted all the week long.
The conference i enjoyed the most (and the thing that a liked more of the congress) was one called "Trabajo, crisis y autogestión", because the topic that treated this conference was really good: It was about the experiences of some groups of workers of Argentina that ocuppied some companies, and started cooperatives, thing that was very curious. There was workers from a famous ceramic factory called Zanon, called too FASINPAT that means "Fábrica sin patrón" (without boss factory in spanish).
The bad points of the congress was the bad organization of it. There were lots of room change, that made me really confused about where to go. Another thing was the tend that they build in front of the medicine faculty of the UBA, because they put it in a place that, when it was raining (almost all the week rained in B.A), the wáter filled all the place, and we had to go there to certifícate that we were studying on our university, so we’ve got wet.
The highlights of the trip was that i traveled on plane, and i’ve never traveled on one before. I always was looking trough the window to see the mountains and the clouds.
I had a really great time on B.A, i hope i can go again