Post 5: What to do and where to go in Santiago.

Santiago city has many places very interestings to visit, but it depends of each one tastes. Personally, I like specially places with green areas and trees, and also the viewpoints and places to hold parties or barbecues. Considering this, I should recommend places like the O'Higgins park, that have some(50) artificial lakes and a lot of grass, besides tables and infrastructure for roasts and few drinks. It's also nice the Forestal Park from the commune of Santiago, although there are many police and actually can't be made parties pratically. Another place can be the Alberto Hurtado's Park, but the problem(50) is they charge money at the entrance and the park is increasingly vigilated, so many things are forbidden.

Another nice place is undoubtedly the San Cristobal's Hill, where there are very nice overlooks and also barbecue places (such as "El Hermitaño"). It is a hill that stands in the middle of(50) Santiago, and from it you can see almost the entire city if there is not much pollution. In all these places, in any case, you can smoke a blunt back and enjoy nature.

I would recommend too the neighborhoods where are plenty nightlife, but just for the pubs which are(50) in them because I don't like discos. In those places, the best know is the Bellavista's neighborhood, where there are many bars, restaurants and discos, and the Brasil's neighborhood, which is the same, but there is a large park where you can enjoy the outdoors(45).

In short, I would rank these places like these:

- San Cristobal's hill

- O'Higgins's Park

- Alberto Hurtado's Park

- Bellavista's neighborhood

- Brasil's neighborhood

there are all the places that undoubtly the tourist will enjoy, if they have a young spirit.

Post 4: The Congress in Buenos Aires

The Buenos Aires congress was very interesting, but I only went to few conferences really.
The best conference which I went was the Doctor Honoris Causa ceremony of Theotonio Do Santos, were he exposed about the juncture crisis and structural crisis in the modern capitalist system. The conference was extended(50) by two hours, and were in the medicine's auditorium of the Buenos Aires University.
The congress had some problems, specially with the organization and configuration of the thematic working groups. The timetables were not respected, and a lot of exhibitors didn't attend their presentations, which disminished the quality of the(50) congress. On the other hand, I met a city that I wanted to visit long time ago and I really liked. It was as if I were in Santiago, but everything was bigger: streets, buildings, parks, etc.

Among good things of Buenos Aires is the fact that the books are(50) very cheap and there is much more variety, that the night live is entertaining and the Argentinian girls are very pretty, also the police allowed to drink alcohol in public, which means that we using the parks for events (in fact, we did that every day). Unfortunately, the weather was not very nice because it rained a few days and was not very warm(64).

The best thing of the congress for me, ultimately, was met Buenos Aires and I can say that I went back satisfied.