Hi everyone, as usual we have dropped off the face of the earth for way to long. We spent the month of January living in Santiago, the capital city of Chile with about 6 million other people. We got pretty lucky and managed to arrange an apartment in Providencia, one of the nicest Barrio's (suburb). Sharing with an American, a Chilean and occassionaly with another Canadian couple. In a city that has a subway sytem with more than 100 stops we actually lost our way only a couple of times and managed to see a fair bit of the city in the time we had. Our life, more or less was: wake up at 8:30, go to spanish class, have a blast (nobody liked Chiara because she was the teachers pet and always wanted more homework)
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