Feliz Año Nuevo
Howdy everyone. Sorry it's been a while since my last confession, but I've been mighty busy. In the cultural realm I've taken a tango class (fun but hard, don't think I'll become a master anytime soon) a salsa class (much more fun but also difficult. I have another class tonight), went to one of the houses of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (very interesting as he liked collecting tchotchkes) also hit up some regular museums and went to a Chilean vineyard (Concha y Torro).
In addition, I've been going out with friends nearly every night till the wee hours of the morning. Definitely makes getting up for class at 9am difficult. Por eso, I've been running home after class to take some nice siestas.
I got to celebrate my first real Christmas with my Chilean family. An interesting experience for me. They waited till midnight on Christmas Eve and then let the kids open the presents. After that we had dinner around 1:30am. Pretty strange.
For new Year's, I went with some friends to Valparaiso, a port town west of Santiago. We went to the beach, had a nice asado (BBQ) and then went to a house party in one of the hills overlooking the ocean. From our location we were also able to see the huge fireworks show that draws tons of people from all over Chile each New Year's eve. Very fun. We stayed there dancing till around 7am.
This is my last week in Santiago since I'm heading to Bariloche, Argentina on Sunday. I'm sad to be leaving my friends here, but definitely looking forward to the clean air and natural beauty of the Argentinean Patagonian region.
I have a ton more photos to post but all the computers I've used here have been very slow so it's tough top upload. I'll let you know when they've been posted though.
Hope everyone had a great holiday season and may all your New Year's resolutions come true.
In addition, I've been going out with friends nearly every night till the wee hours of the morning. Definitely makes getting up for class at 9am difficult. Por eso, I've been running home after class to take some nice siestas.
I got to celebrate my first real Christmas with my Chilean family. An interesting experience for me. They waited till midnight on Christmas Eve and then let the kids open the presents. After that we had dinner around 1:30am. Pretty strange.
For new Year's, I went with some friends to Valparaiso, a port town west of Santiago. We went to the beach, had a nice asado (BBQ) and then went to a house party in one of the hills overlooking the ocean. From our location we were also able to see the huge fireworks show that draws tons of people from all over Chile each New Year's eve. Very fun. We stayed there dancing till around 7am.
This is my last week in Santiago since I'm heading to Bariloche, Argentina on Sunday. I'm sad to be leaving my friends here, but definitely looking forward to the clean air and natural beauty of the Argentinean Patagonian region.
I have a ton more photos to post but all the computers I've used here have been very slow so it's tough top upload. I'll let you know when they've been posted though.
Hope everyone had a great holiday season and may all your New Year's resolutions come true.
posted by Jordan at 10:10 AM
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