The weekend before last, which was the 18th, Mackenzie and I went to visit the Chilean girl who is also going to live in our house in about a week. She and her family spend their summers in Bahia Inglesa, which is a teeeeny tiny beach town in the north of Chile. Everyone described it as a wonderful resort town similar to the Caribbean...but we're not so convinced. We left thursday night and arrived in Copiapo in the wee hours of the morning and took another bu...

So many Chilean firsts in the past few day! including my first: 1. Chilean earthquake! (very small tremor, don't worry :) I was in class, on the third floor, and the teacher didn't even notice it. I did though! And i sorta screamed because I was excited, just yesterday I was saying how I wanted to see what it was like. The teacher in the class next to us thought i screamed out of fright, but it wasn't scary in the slightest. The people on the first floor didn...

So many Chilean firsts in the past few day! including my first: 1. Chilean earthquake! (very small tremor, don't worry :) I was in class, on the third floor, and the teacher didn't even notice it. I did though! And i sorta screamed because I was excited, just yesterday I was saying how I wanted to see what it was like. The teacher in the class next to us thought i screamed out of fright, but it wasn't scary in the slightest. The people on the first floor didn...

¡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...