Food

So I have arrived safe and sound despite a long bumpy flight with no sleep. The hostel is nice, its located in a square called Plaza de Armas. I have related it to George square, it has important buildings around it, museums, Presidencial building around the corner and many people come to visit but if you one or blocks in one direction you are not in the best of areas. The first day I arrived I went on a walk to see the Cerro San Cristóbal, a religous statue of a women with her arms open wide. I was told the gondola was there to take me......no it wasn´t working. I ended up going on a pretty intense hike for about 1 hour. When you get to the top and you see the city and the Andes, it´s pretty amazing. Those mountains are sooo big. Because I dont speak Spanish I find it hard to order stuff, yesterday all i wanted was a cup of tea.... I couldn´t find one anywhere. I wasn´t happy as you can imagine (some of you know what i am like when i am hungry). I then found a Cafe in the mall and I found what I thought was tea on the menu, the only other thing I could understand was brownie a la mode.....once I ate that, the world was a better place. After my new mood arrived I went on a hop on hop off bus and it took me all around Santiago. There are some really nice areas out there (I found Starbucks). Last night I went to a Salsa club with some people I met here at the hostel. it was fun and amazing to see so many men dancing, just becuase they wanted to dance. When we walked in I thought it was something out of dirty dancing, they were all doing the same dance at the same time. It didn´t happen again as I wanted to to get it on video. Its Monday morning and I am going to check out the orphanage this afternoon so i am excited about that.

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