Buenos Dias!
Well... Today was a very productive day. We started out around 10am, and only set one goal for the day, and that was to find our school. For the first few hours we were unable to locate the school, but that was due to the fact that it was a Chilean national holiday. Apparently they celebrate every 21st of May, a historic battle called: Combate Naval de Iquique (21 de Mayo de 1879). The population of ValParaiso is around 270k, and we think that the entire population was where we wanted to be today.
The celebration takes place in a plaza (or a courtyard), called SotoMayor. This is an area where they still have an active naval base and is located near the port. This also happens to be exactly where our school is located. So for the first few hours of the celebration we couldnt get within 300 feet of where our school is located.
We also decided to find the bus station, so we will be able to pick up Kareem when he comes to Santiago on June 1st. Since we had no idea where the bus station was, we decided we would ask a shop owner. We asked him, however we only understood about 10% of what he said, although we pretended to understand everything. After a few more blocks of walking we finally arrived at the bus station (La Terminal). We celebrated by purchasing Empanadas!
So, overall today was a great success. Tomorrow brings new adventure, we have our first day of class in ValParaiso. Wish us luck.
Hasta Luego,
Janet and Steve
Chile
hey folks. we are going to try to keep everyone updated on where we are and what we are doing and so we will be adding pictures as often as possible. check back for more updates.
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Janet
Steve
Kareem
4 comments:
I'm so Jealous...and Steve...I'm mad at you. I called you so many times and you never called me back before you left for Chili. Hope you guys are having fun. I miss my Janet...I bought a pot to go in our apartment.
Are the new pictures taken in Chile? I thought it should be cold because it is winter there. But Steve wore short sleeve.
Mom, the pictures were taken in North Carolina. Anyway it´s not that cold here. It´s like mid 50-60s. Nights are cold though and there´s no heat. We have like a million blankets, but we´re still cold.
Hi Lu! I hope the pot is pretty. Miss you too. How´s workie?
Hey Yall, good to see everything is good :) Keep on posting, be safe!
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