So we made it! Chelsea and I got into Santiago about 1:00 p.m. (10:00 a.m. in Iowa) last Sunday. Both of my suitcases were overweight, of course. We had training with our organization CIEE - Council on International Educational Exchange - all last week. It was basically cultural training and learning about how to get around Santiago. We went to Pomaire a village outside santiago famous for its pottery, and la Chascona - one of Pablo Neruda's three houses in Chile.
La Chascona.
We had a few classes on Chilean spanish because its very unique and they speak very fast. I learned that Chileans love onomatopoeias. Their cards to ride el metro (the subway) are called BIP cards because they make a beep when you use them and they call babies guaguas - pronounced wah--wahs. So thats pretty fun.
We started training at DuocUC this week and it has been really unorganized. We don't know which level of English we are teaching, what book we are using, or our schedule. Hopefully we find out before we start next Monday!
Right now I'm living in a residencia for international students. We each have our own rooms and share a few people to one bathroom. I have all my pictures up on a webpage if you go here and there is also a link on the left side of my page.
The people in the program are great. They come from everywhere: Arkansas, Maine, North Carolina, Virginia, Texas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Oregon, Iowa, and I think thats it. Here are some of the people in our group in our hotel one night. We had a little wine and pisco night. Wine is probably about $4-5 a bottle and pisco is about the same, it makes for some fun nights.
This is a view from our first hotel room.
Some Chilean amigos we hang out with.
Hope everyone is well! Drop me a line sometime or leave a comment. You can email me at brookeepalmer@gmail.com.
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