http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Chile , Biobio , Concepcion en-us Tue, 08 Dec 09 03:28:23 +0000 Tue, 08 Dec 09 03:28:23 +0000 Last I left off it was Thanksgiving. It was a very long day. We had class all day from 9am until 2pm. After class I went to 30 Express a restaurant to get empanadas with Lindsey Lucas Catie and Christina. I got one with cheese and meat and one with cheese and corn. We waited quite awhile but they were delicious as always. After we ate we went to the grocery store to buy our food to make Thanks http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/blog-458049.html 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 didnt do anything too exciting. After lunch http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/blog-455879.html 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 Trianas room. I went up to the breakfast area to get her key from her to put http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/blog-449304.html Tues Oct 20We got up pretty early so we had breakfast and jetted to the bus station. I brought my 1 and 12 liter of water figuring that it would be enough. We had about an hour till the bus came so in the meantime we tried hitchhiking. It didn't really work but oh well Half hour bus ride we get to Toconao and it is just deserted. Only a few people were outside but it was just like http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/blog-448121.html The packers lost on Monday night. Sad but atleast in South America I dont have to hear about it all day Tuesday I had class from 10 to 12. Class was nothing out of the ordinary. I still couldnt print my essay since the building was still taken and I couldnt get our printer at the house to work. Before class I went to the library and tried to print but I had to go to the fourth floor and coul http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/blog-443778.html Tues Oct 6Today I had class from 1012. 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 http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/blog-443068.html Friday I slept in since we dont 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 wasnt 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 bea http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/blog-442192.html After the Buenos Aires trip there was lots of things to do and catch up on. Tuesday we had class with Professor Triana from 10 to 12. I got a ride to the University with Marcela. We arrived around 9 am. I needed to finish up my autobiography essay and print it so I had my computer with me. The students were still protesting and had taken the Arts and Humanities building so none of us could print o http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/blog-442172.html Tues Sept 22Today I went to class from 1012. We worked on writing our autobiographies. After class I returned home for lunch. I hung out for most of the day I didn't do too much in other words I procrastinated in writing in my travel blog so I forgot what happened haha.Wed Sept 23Today I had class from 1012. After We celebrated Jessica and Allison's birthday. We had cake outside http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/blog-440570.html Saturday we stayed in Chillan. Marcelas entire family was at her parents house. Literally I was pretty bored all morning. I blogged and then just watched t.v. and listened to people. There was a lot of food being prepared. They set up a huge long table in the garage area. A barbeque is Chile is called an asado which is the spanish word for roast. There was so much meat My favorite are the lo http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/blog-438977.html Tuesday Sept 15Today I went to a city called Lota with Profesora Luz and the other students. To sum it up we went to a museum walked around a massive park had lunch and went through a mine I wasn't ecstatic about waking up at 7 in the morning but it also meant a long day . The bus ride wasn't bad about an hour and there were things to look at along the way. We got there and met o http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/blog-438060.html Tuesday was our trip to Lota. We met outside the Humanities building at 830 a.m. I got up at 630 to shower and so I could ride with Marcela to the University at 730. I would be there kind of early but it is easier and cheaper to be a little early than to take the micro or collectivo. Marcela had a class at 810 so I just sat in her office and used her computer while I waited. I went outside to http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/blog-437422.html I tossed and turned Thursday night. I basically didn't sleep at all. My stomach really hurt and I was hot and cold. I woke up wide awake at 330 and I had only gone to bed around 1. I had to get up at 6 because we were leaving from the University at 7 to go to Chillanpronounced Cheeon. In the night I had pretty much convinced myself that I wasn't going to go. My alarm when off at 6 and I though http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/blog-436375.html The weather here has been great. Tuesday was another beautiful day. I took the micro to school for Professor Triana's class from 10 to 12. We worked on writing about ourselves. After class I went with Christina Catie and Hayley to show them where the registro civil was. Catie and I also wanted to exchange out American money.While Hayley and I waited for the other two we walked around and tried http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/blog-435610.html Tues Sept 8Today I headed to my 10am class. It was an easy class. We talked about the importance of letting your host parents know if something is wrong as well as being honest. Also we analyzed certain situations in the past where a student didn't tell the host family something about them and the host family was not too prepared to handle it. I thought most of it was common knowledge that http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/blog-435522.html This is the address to use if you want to mail me anything. It is the address of the university. I think I can have things sent to my house but this is the address we were told to use.Programa de St Cloud State Direccion de Asuntos Internacionales Universidad de Concepcion Victor Lamas No. 1290 Casilla 160C Concepcion Chile South America http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/blog-435013.html After a lot of waiting it was finally time to leave to go skiing on Thursday. We loaded up the truck and drove to Marcela's parents in Chillan. Her parents were out of town but we still go to stay at their house. When we arrived we had a little bit to eat and I had some hot milk. I went to sleep around 11 or 12. We wanted to leave for the mountains by 730 a.m.I woke up around 7 a.m. I ate some b http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/blog-434774.html Hi. I'm going to try and write on here a little more often so it doesn't take me as long to write and thus it won't take as long for you to read. Wednesday I only have class from 3 to 5 in the afternoon. I slept until 10. It feels so great to sleep in. When I woke up I could hear the Nana cleaning up a storm like she does every morning. I had a feeling she didn't know I was home since she arrive http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/blog-433598.html Tue Sept. 1st.Today I woke up had breakfast and took the micro with Oliver to class. In class we talked about our trip lto Chillan a week from saturday. We were going to go this weekend but some of us were going to go skiing instead. Luckily Luz director of the program was able to switch dates. We also went over the buenbueno and estaesa concepts in class. Its nice being in cl http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/blog-433304.html Hola Friday I went out with everyone. My host parents dropped my off at the Plaza Peru around 9. Karl Trevor and Sonni were there. We waited for Hayley. She was walking from the apartment that we were going to go to. Hayley and Lucas met us and we waited for Lizzy to get there. Once she arrived we walked to Valentina's apartment. Valentina is one of our tutors. She only lives a few blocks from th http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Biobio/Concepcion/blog-433103.html