If you’re a foreigner and this is your first visit to Santiago, pay attention, please…

The first thing is to be patient, because this city is too crowded, and everyone walk careless about other people. Also, you have to be careful, because there are “flaytes” (thieves), and they can steal your cameras, wallets, etc. And never trust someone you don't know, because there are some chileans who wants to defraud foreigners, charging more money than usual in services like taking photos or driving a cab, for example.

… but stay calm, Santiago also has good things.

Santiago isn’t a touristic city like Valparaiso or Chiloé, but it has some beatiful and funny places where you can spend a good time with your friends...

1. Bellas Artes Museum/Forestal Park: Both are in the center of

Santiago. You can go there by Subway (Bellas Artes station). The Museum

is awesome and very pretty, there are old and new paintings, and beatiful

sculptures. The Forestal park is perfect if you want to walk, or drive a

bike, because it is a large zone with big trees and child games. In

weekends, you can go there and watch cultural shows made for young

people, like juggling or making people laugh dressed like a clown.

2. Cajón del Maipo: A beatiful and natural place in the south of Santiago. You can go there to camp and to walk knowing the nature. Also you can do extreme Sports, like “rafting” in a river, “canopy” or “climbing”.

3. Plaza de Armas: If you want to know the center of Santiago, go to Plaza de Armas. You can visit the “Catedral de Santiago”, “Correos de Chile” and also there are sculptures, places to eat, paintiers who sell they work and draftsmen who can draw a cartoon of you.

4. San Cristóbal Hill: This hill has many funny places like a swimming pool, a zoo, a mini-park called “Jardín Japonés”, picnic areas, incredibles views of Santiago and a big statue of a Vrigin on top of the Hill. You can go there in a car, walking, on a bike, or in “funicular” (cabins that go up and down trough rails). The other funny activity that you can do is to raise on “teleférico” (cabins like eggs) that transport you form one place of the hill to other through the air (with cables)

5. Mahuida Park: This park is on “La Reina”, the East of

Santiago. Like San Cristóbal Hill, you can go there and do

many things because is too big. But the funny activities you

can do are: Paintball (a “war game” with paint balls guns),

or fly on helicopter (only if you have enough money, haha).

Also you can go to the hint of sled or do Bungy.

If you didn’t like my options, well… search for other touristic guide, haha!

I have two favourite television series: Lost and The Big Bang Theory, but this time, I'm gonna talk about the funniest one.

The main characters are five:

Leonard Hofstadter is a experimental physicist, who recieved a Ph.D when he was 24 years old. He has an IQ of 173, and he lives with his friend Sheldon in a apartment. When Penny, their new neighbour arrives, he falls in love with her.

Sheldon Cooper shares a apartment with his friend and colleague, Leonard. Sheldon is a theorical physicist, with and IQ of 187, and because of this, he was a "prodigy child",and has a master degree and two Ph.D. He suffer of faults of personality: he doesn't understand sarcasm and he hasn't sense of humor. This character with his particular personality, is one of the most important factors in the sucess of this comedy serie. (By the way, because of this acting role, Jim Parsons was nominated to an Emmy Award for "Best Actor in a Comedy Serie")

Howard Wolowitz is a Master in Engeneer, is judish and lives with his mom. He loves women, but he doesn't know how to treat them well. He is a kind of "pervert", because he tries to impress a woman with his strange skills of seduction.. so he never gets a girl.

Rajesh Koothrappali is from New Deli, India, and he has a Ph.D in Astrophysicist. He's normal, except for the fact that he can't talk to women. The solution for his problem is to drink a lot and get drunk, this way he can approach to a girl and talk to her.

Penny is the neighbour of Sheldon and Leonard (who loves her). She is a girl from Omaha, Nebraska, who wants to be an actress, but she only works like a waitress on a restaurant, "The cheescake factory". She is pretty, blond and a little bit silly, but with the pass of time, she will learn a lot of her new nerds-friends.

I think this is a really good serie, because despite its use of so much scientific terminology, the script is so original and funny. TBBT has a good production, though it hasn't special effects because it is a serie of daily life. The clothes are very special, every character has their own style, even in some chapters the clothes are nerd costumes like Flash, Thor and The Doppler effect, the last one is the most weird costume ever.

Memorable scenes with phrases like “I’m the sword master”, “Tonight I spice my meal with goblin blood”, “Who’s Radiohead” and “All I need is a healthy ovum and I can grow my own Leonard Nimoy!” make this serie a topic to talk and laugh about all day long!

If you're sad at this moment, I definitely recommend to you, right now, to watch TBBT... it will make you laugh like a child in a few seconds!