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...

On the 12th i went to try and sort out my Chilean Visa card, this being pretty important as i can't really travel without it! On the way we saw loads of protesters and heard a few gun shots, finally arrived there to find it was the wrong place . . ! Found the correct building, all sorted, then moved on to do the second part to arrive at the entrance and find they were in fact the ones on strike! The next day at school . . . may have recieved a bit of a lecture a...

So, just on the flight over i started getting my first impressions of Chile! I was sat next to a 60ish year old Chilean lady who was really nice and helped me with the visa forms . . . then proceeded to tell me that i was a good looking young man and not to get an ugly Chilean girl and to make sure i get a good looking one. Told me not call them agin if they weren't pretty and find another one, haha she was a funny lady and then after another 2 hours she gave me ...