Blogs from Concepción, Biobío, Chile, South America - page 2

Comienzo mis relatos hablando brevemente sobre la ciudad que me ha cobijado durante gran parte de mi vida como mi hogar, mi punto de parida y mi eterno regreso. Coronel es una de los pueblos más vapuleados por el sistema político y organizacional de mi país. Se encuentra frente a la bahía de coronel, entre la capital de la Región del Bio Bio Concepción (30 kms. al norte) y la otrora histórica gloriosa ciudad del carbón Lota. Coronel es el centro geográfico de Chile, lo que hace a esta populosa y pobre ciudad única y atrayente. Playa blanca específicamente es donde se encuentra el monolito representativo de esta incompartible característica que posee el pueblo de Coronel. Con alrededor de 100.000 habitantes ésta es una de las localidades con más problemas de mi país. Actualmente Coronel es ... read more

The Peru trip had me pretty worn out. Friday I went to bed at midnight... and slept until noon on Saturday. I got up but pretty much stayed in my pajamas the whole day. I ate lunch with my family, did homework and went for a run. I did homework and worked on my photobook the rest of the night. Sunday was pretty much the same story. I slept until ten and didn´t do anything too exciting. After lunch, Christina came over to use our internet and do homework. She stayed until around 8pm. I spent the rest of the night working on my photobook. Monday was back to school. I had class from 10 to 11 and 11 to 1. We used to have a one hour break in between the two classes but we ... read more

My plan for the last day was to go to the zoo with Hayley, Lindsay and Jess A. I got up, showered and went to eat breakfast. We were running a little behind schedule from when we wanted to leave but that was alright. We were supposed to check out of our rooms before noon so we packed up our things and took them to Profe Triana´s room. I went up to the breakfast area to get her key from her to put them in her room. I told her we were going to the zoo and she asked if she could go. I said sure. Eric also wanted to come. We told them to hurry up and we would meet them downstairs. I went on the computers for a little bit while we waited. Evin ... read more

Tues, Oct 6 Today I had class from 10-12. It seems to me that every class I have been to is interesting, because I learn something every day since it's in a different language. That is one of the reasons I was always inspired to learn spanish - because it challenged me. Afterwards, I went to get my Chillean ID, and then returned home for lunch. After lunch, I talked to my brother on skype for 2 hours. That was nice. He mocked me a little bit when he made some ramen noodles; I never thought i'd miss ramen, haha :P. I also watched him play some guitar. He is getting better and better, it is cool. I hung out with my family for the rest of the day - I had dinner, we played some ... read more

Friday I slept in since we don´t have class on Friday. I ate lunch with Jorge around 1. We had this casserole type thing. It was kind of like what is in empanadas but more in a pie form. Jorge put sugar on his which I thought was a little weird but I tried it and it wasn´t bad. After lunch I had to go meet Lizzy at the University so I could get my purse. Lizzy, Sonni, and Sam were going to the beach but I was meeting Christina to go explore Parque Ecuador. Christina wasn´t going to be there until later so I just hung out on campus and waited for her. I got a pop and walked around campus. I found a little store that I didn´t know was there, that sells UdeC ... read more