Okay finally here's the blog about BRAZIL! After a good amount of paperwork and travelling to and from Santiago to get our Brazilian tourist visas we thought we were set. But… a week before we left we got emails saying that our flight from Montevideo to Sáo Paulo had been cancelled, and that we only had a flight to Uruguay. Since we only have local cell phones, we could only call a Pluna office in Chile, which wasn't working. So Austyn and I were frantical...

So much to talk about! Three weeks ago I went to Pichilemu, a town south of Viña, for a surfing competition. At the last minute I decided to ditch my last class on Friday to first head to Santiago and then take a 5-hour bus ride down south. There were quite a few of us and we rented 2 cabañas to stay in for the weekend. At this year's competition, there were 24 surfers from countries such as South Africa, Peru, the US, and Argentina. Pichilemu is a really ne...

I felt it necessary to write a little about my school situation here in Chile. Let's see…. One of the main requirements I needed in a study abroad program was to take business classes because they are the oly ones I have left to take to graduate. After finding my program, there was really only one business class offered by ISA and the rest were in Spanish that you could take with Chilean students. After being reassured over and over again that I would have no...

Blahhh I haven't written for like 3 weeks… so much to talk about... here goes. Ok so this is the recap of when my parents visited me a week ago, the good, the bad and the hilarious hahaha. Day 1: They arrived on Sunday morning in Santiago around 8 am. I had to wake up super early (4 am to be exact) to head down to the bus station to meet them.As I was waiting for them I started chatting with a fellow that was waiting to pick up a grandmother and grandson. T...

Last weekend I went to Santiago for Lollapolooza! It was the first year that Lollapolooza was in Chile. We stayed at a hostel called La Casa Roja, which was really nice and even had a pool with a swim up bar. On Friday I met up with Mackenzie in Santiago because her parents were visiting. Genna, Mackenzie, Rachel and I all went out for dinner and had the most delicious pizza ever. After that we met up with some other students to hit the town for the night! Sa...