Blogs from Providencia, Santiago Region, Chile, South America - page 9

¡Hola a todos! I am finally in Chile and I can´t believe it! So much as happened in the past three days that it already feels like I´ve been here a week. I don´t have any pictures yet, but we are leaving for the Atacama desert tomorrow morning at 4:50, so I´m sure I´ll have lots of pictures after that. We got into Chile around 8:30 Friday morning. We were all exhausted because no one could sleep on the plane. Not to mention, I managed to leave Atlanta with a head cold and have been fighting it ever since. Oh what luck. haha. A bus took us into the city because the airport is on the outskirts of Santiago. I was afraid that Santiago would feel like just another city because it´s so big, but I ... read more

We were so thrilled to get to Santiago - hot showers and some English language TV, even if it was Dawson´s Creek and Bev Hills 90210! What a shame we were only here for a few days, because it´s really lovely and we liked it a lot. We actually had not planned to come here but had to stopover because of the way of our ticket worked and decided that we may as well stay a couple of nights. We could easily have stayed a couple of weeks. Santiago itself is massive. Six million people and it felt like they were all on the Metro at the same time we were. We´d read about the polution and it certainly was obvious to the eye and the throat! The atmosphere and the lovely people make up for ... read more

Hello again everyone. Last time we wrote we were in Buenos Aires and about to go to a football match. It was amazing and very different to home, we saw Argentinos juniors ( the team where Maradonna apparently first started) vs Boca Juniors. Before the actual match was the junior team match and the fans had already started to arrive to put up the banners. By kick off it was packed with both sides having bands, banners, flags even umbrellas! They only stopped singing at half time and even when Boca lost 3-2 they were still going on. We also managed to fit in a tango lesson the next day, it was really fun though difficult but we did ok considering everyone else in the class had been doing it for about a month! There was ... read more

Dear family and friends.... We arrived at Chile at 12:30 in the morning! Mom and Dad were surprised that their friends came to meet them at the airport even though they told them not too (because we were spending two days in Santiago before heading to the Chilean hinterlands...Ingrid here...now back to Max). We got to sleep at two o´clock in the morning. Five hours later (still in the morning) I woke up, looked around and had a breakfast. Later in the day, I went on this train-cart thing (a.k.a. a furnicular). You can go to the top of the hill (Cerro San Cristobal) or you can stop at the Santiago zoo. We stopped at the zoo. We saw a monkey itching its overgrown bum. I saw flamingoes. I saw parrots, peacocks and a whole bunch ... read more

Hola mis amigos! Well, Team Chile has arrived in Santiago. It is officially chilly in Chile, but we´re chilling! It has been foggy and raining since we arrived and the temperature has hovered around 10 degrees for most of the time. But Canadians love winter, right? There´s something to be said for living in a city surrounded by picturesque mountains and friendly people. Dr. Peregrine warned us about learning as much Spanish as we could before we left and we probably should´ve listened... we´re sure learning quickly on the job though! We spent yesterday visiting 2 universities in Santiago: UNICIT and Universidad Mayor. Both have veterinary colleges so it was interesting to see how vet students in South America studied. The Anatomy lab smells exactly the same! Tomorrow we´re getting up bright and early to brave ... read more