¡Hola! I am currently wearing a shirt I bought from a Chilean store. Combine that with all the chile-specific phrases and vocab I have been learning, and I am practically a real chilena now. Almost. Today we had another tour of valparaiso with the tour guides from our university, which we just call "la catolica," since we're sooo chilean. We went to La Sebastiana, which is a museum and Pablo Neruda's old house (one of three). Everything in it is ju...

Hola! I have been in Chile for almost a week now, and I'm starting to get the hang of things...although most of the time I'm still a completely confused gringa. Luckily, everyone has been very nice and helpful, and my new Chilean family members do their best to give us explicit directions so we don't get lost. Nevertheless, every time I take the bus, I ask someone who looks nice to help, because the buses here barely stop, they just slow down, so you really ha...