This week has totally flown by, as I have gone from doing not much to being crazy busy... working heaps, my boss at the language school loves me as I just am doing as many hours as he gives me. Feel like I should as I don´t know how long the work is going to last!
So between teaching English, I have been still doing the volunteer stuff and even mananged to fit in a little tour guiding to some friends from Queenstown on Friday. I really realised how far my Spanish has come as I was doing all the talking! I also ate for the first time in ages. And it was so good! I think I may almost be converted. I´ll keep you posted on that one.

Went to lunch with the family today, and in typical Chilean style was drawn out and got home at 7pm. Managed to hold conversations in Spanish with the same people who I couldn´t talk to a month ago... this is all very exciting for me!! Now they know I´m not really a mute! wohoo. I was also entrusted with taking the kids to the park, big move for me in any country.. as I´m terrible with children, alas another skill I´m picking up on the streets of Santiago... Thought the 7 o´clock finish was it, apparently we are going back for the late night party but I think I´m going to use my newly acquired Spanish skills to get myself out of that one. Going to maybe walk up the Cerro (hill-mountain) tomorrow. Don´t want to be hungover for that one... as well its been getting much hotter, up to around 25 degrees now. I guess this is the so-called calm before the storm... in a couple of months it will be closer to 40 degrees, so I guess I should enjoy the perfect weather while I can.