Choosing which university to study at for my year abroad was one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever had to make but I never had any doubt that I needed to be in South America, Spain just wasn’t an option for me. I finally settled on Chile for three reasons, firstly, the guidebook told me that I could be at the beach within an hour and a half and skiing within two hours, secondly there are penguins and thirdly, and most importantly, I, nor anyone I spoke to, knew anything about it. When anyone mentions South America most people think of the drugs war raging in Columbia, the Rio carnival of Brazil or just extreme poverty, little attention is paid to the long, thin country on the west coast despite the fact that it has been
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