Today I am off to Rancagua with my friend Loreto to spend Christmas with her and her family. My host here in Valparaiso had to leave at 10am so I got up to say goodbye to her before organizing my things. At 12 I have a Group Skype meeting to discuss the upcoming Summer camps in more detail and find out exactly what I have got myself into. The meeting went smoothly and after getting a broad overview I am quite excited about it. After a quick lunch I grabbed my thi...

Even after such a late night I struggled to sleep past 6:30am and found myself wide awake by 7am trying to plan the next couple of weeks of travel through Chile - now that I have decided to change my original plan. Lorena and her friend were asleep on the couch and looked like they had just arrived home so I went for a bit of a wonder. Unfortunately the weather was once again overcast and rainy so I was eager to rush off to the beach like we had planned. I wonder...

Today the plan was for Lorena to take us around the city showing us some interesting places and grabbing some local cuisine for lunch. We had all organized to leave at 10:30am but by 12pm Lorena was still sleeping. I headed off for a walk down the hill to find something for lunch and left a message with Clemmy that I would be back within the hour. The markets here are fascinating with an incredible variety of foods and it seems as if everywhere you go there is pe...

Today I was up early and had to leave Aymerics by 10am as he was moving out of his apartment today and needed to give his keys back. Mid-morning I got an email from English opens doors an English teaching department here in Chili; requesting an immediate interview via Skype. Luckily I had just enough time at Aymerics to take the interview in regards to an upcoming summer camp. The interview went really well and I was told I would hear back by the end of the day i...

I actually managed a nice sleep-in today as lastnight it was around 2am before I went to bed and as I was so cold it took another hour to get my body warm enough to sleep. Today I had promised to cook lunch to say Thankyou to my hosts, I had brought all the things yesterday and would be making an Indian soy mince curryband vegetable ratatouille alongside polenta and guacamole. I cooked for a few hours and everything turned out perfectly and just as Aymeric and Al...