Seeing Santiago

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After some of the students were sent off with their families and a few more were put on busses, those of us who remained went to lunch at a chinese restaurant around the corner. After that we went back to the YFU Chile headquarters and I think a few more were sent off to busses at that point, then we went to drive around Santiago with some volunteers. There was a ton of traffic because its the end of winter break down here and everyone was out at the Zoo in Santiago I guess.... when we finally got through, we went up this little mountain-hill thing that is the highest point in Santiago and has a great view.

After that we went back to headquarters again and had some snacks and pizza. We started a movie after pizza but gradually people trickled out to get their busses, until at the end of the movie it was just six of us for the latest bus and the four or five that were going to take planes the next morning. We bought some snacks at the bus station and then caught an 11 o’clock night bus that was actually really nice... reclining super-comfy seats and snacks and breakfast served during the trip.

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Photos

hey look... mountains!
if you can see through the smog there are really impressive mountains peeking out of the clouds.... its really surreal to see in person.

Traditional Chilean..... Chinese Food?
this is the restaurant we went to for lunch

Statue in Downtown Santiago
it's of an angel and a lion but none of us could remember which mythological person it was... the YFU volunteer said she thought it was from Roman Mythology... Laura, any ideas?

Cell Phone Company Building
anyone notice what it's shaped like...?

Blue!
there are lots of excitingly colored buildings in Santiago

Traffic!
We were stuck in traffic... but so was one of the other cars full of exchange students! That's Flavia in the window and Felipe with the camera.

Group Shot
this is our carload and YFU volunteer that took us around Santiago.
(LtoR) Christine, Laura, YFU volunteer, Lilian, Me

Camera Shot
that's Reins, and I'm sitting on the ground with a street dog which is why the shot is looking up... Shortly after this photo was taken another street dog came up, climbed into my lap and tipped me over... and one of the girls got a great picture of me mid-fall but i don't remember who.

Comments

[LauraCat]

Statue of Lion and Angel
I didn't think the statue sounded like Roman mythology – they don't really do angels – and I couldn't find any likely hits when I started googling mythology and whatnot... but Mom started googling the statue itself, and came up with this page: http://gosouthamerica.about.com/library/blfisk15kmhistoria42.htm (for English speakers, there's a translation of the important bits at the bottom – the second paragraph below the photo) Tam, you might be interested to know that while the above page was the first thing that came up with a search of "lion angel statue santiago chile," the second was your blog.

[TamiC]

statue
haha cool!

[KathyCat]

statue
For those who don't want to go to the web page, this is the story of the angel and lion statue: The monument to Italian-Chilean friendship, in the Plaza Italia, dates from 1910. The work of Italian sculptor Roberto Negri, the statue of an angel on foot lifts a torch symbolising the future, the lion represents the Chilean people breaking the chains to achieve independence.

[Jon]

lollercopter
is it shaped like the leaning tower of pisa or are you just a really bad photographer?

[TamiC]

jon
well hello to you too and yes im a terrible photographer, so you should come visit and take pictures for me.