Finally I have worked up the enthusiasm to write this blog for a second time, after spending far to long on the first attempt only to have it vanish when I went to publish it, bad times. Life feels so normal now, I have been living in Linares over 3 months and almost forget I'm in Chile sometimes. Until I hear people shouting Spanish stupidly fast to each other or the occasionaly wisper of "gringo" and point or giggle towards me when I'm walking throug...

Santiago half Marathon is for sure my biggest highlight after moving to Linares. Sharing the weekend with a huge music festival bought an amazing atmosphere to the city, on the down side, we literally had to pay the price for this by forking out $15,000 pesos, about 21 pounds for a night in a hostel. Again, proving my predeparture conceptions that Chile would be cheap to be toally wrong! The Marathon was a huge event with just under 20,000 people running, it is a...

Well, I certainly have a lot to talk about now due to a very eventful past month. Arriving back in Santiago in Late Feburary to find that we still neither had a project or family was extremely fustrating and worrying to deal with. After speaking to the country representative Clair she said she had spoken to fundacion (the charity most volunteers work for in Santiago) before the holidays and they told her they would have a project for us for the new term. You can ...

As i'm sure you have noticed this up date is long overdue; i have been travelling since early January and only returning in Late Febuary. Whiles travelling i have been short of time to update my blog and therefore decided to wait until i returned for my next entry. Where to start? Well the day before we left another volunteer Lewis (who i was planning to travel with) had his bag containing his passport stolen at the bus station. Thankfully upon going through his...

Where to start ? Well, getting back early from camping to apply for my Chilean Visa card turned out to mean getting to the offices with 2 minutes to spare, only to find i still needed one more photocopy from my passport! Running down the street to get to a shop and return just in time to be the last one in the queue, and on the last day the office was open before they closed for christmas! That could have put a flaw in my travelling plans as you have to wait 10 d...