Blogs from Valparaíso, Valparaíso Region, Chile, South America - page 39

Hello all!! Well I got back from Pucon yesterday morning, we had a fabulous bus ride during the night, i got a lot of sleep...not!! But it was amazing down there, it is definatly one of the most beautiful places I have been too!! We left Friday nightand arrived Saturday morning. It was a 12 hour bus ride and on the map it doesn´t look that far at all! I could have gone to Colorado in that amount of time!! Anyway, Friday we took a little tour around Pucon and saw amazing waterfalls and mountains, I loved it!! Saturday some friends and I rented a boat and some fishing poles and went fishing, and sadly we didn´t catch a thing. Actually it felt like there weren´t any fish in the lake but we still had a ... read more

Recovering from the vineyards of Mendoza, we passed back over the andes and welcomed the relaxed beach town feel of Valparaiso and its neighboring town, Vina del Mar. atop the steep hillsides perched colorful houses and the winding sidewalks were fun to stroll around... we found ourselves laughing at the local traffic jams made up of horseback riders weaving their way through the cars and dogs (of which there are roughly 7000 strays in the city). valparaiso and it's neighboring coastal towns have a long and winding coastline that reminds one of cruising along the pacific coast highway in california....the cliffs dotted with amazing mansions and shacks alike. benefitting from a barista's public transit knowledge, we visited little Vina del Mar, a much newer city it appeared with it's condos rising up in every direction. ... read more

Hello all!! It´s been awhile but nothing really new has been going on. But I did start my classes this week, or at least half of them. My Spanish classes started, thank goodness, but my geography classes haven´t, apparently they start next week. I figured this out by showing up to them and having no one else but other gringos (it´s not a bad word here) present. But I think I finally have it down! But today I´m off to Pucón, it´s about a 12 hour bus ride south! But it should be a lot of fun, there are a lot of lakes and parks that you can go hiking around. And then my friend and are planning a trip down to Patagonia for later in the month. But when i get back I´ll post more ... read more

Well nothing new going on here, but I just wanted to give you all my address to where you can send my things!! Lol!! Oh I did sign up for classes and here, you pick a bunch of classes and then at the end of the month you pick which ones you want for the rest of the semester. So right now I have like 21 units which will go down to 12. But yeah!! I´ll talk to you all later!! Love ya!! Love, Lindsay Address: Lindsay Duvall Avenida Brasil 2715 Valparaíso V Region Chile *The V is supposed to be a 5 in roman numerals... read more

Wow is all I can pretty much say right now. I feel like it describes my my day yesterday or at least the afternoon. We left Santiago around 1 and ate lunch and then headed for Valparaiso around 3:30 and getting there around 5:15ish. I met my family and they are super nice my mom´s name is Monica and one of my new sister´s name is Laura. I haven´t met the only brother I will ever have yet because he was camping, at least that´s what I think he´s doing. But everything is different here, not bad but definatly different. We took a placement exam today and well let´s just say that I won´t be placed that high, but tomorrow we have an oral exam so we´ll see how that goes. But I think Monica will ... read more