Ok so I've finally got my computer to the area with free wireless for the first time. Below are thee reflections that I wrote on the plane and as we rode the bus from Santiago to Valparaiso.
I woke up this morning with the sun shining in my face over the Andes as we approached South America flying at 33,000 ft. After a 2 hour delay in Atlanta last night, we are nearing our decent into Santiago. While I was in the Atlanta airport, I met up with several of the other students from my program, Shivani, Catherine, Carleigh, and Lauren. We also made a friend. Sandra is a 20 something year old German girl who is going to South America by herself to backpack for 3.5 months. Oh, and she doesn’t speak Spanish. We all wish her the best of luck while remaining cautiously optimistic for her… (and thinking she’s crazy)
We spent our time in the airport leafing though the Chile guidebooks and looking up of words we didn’t know as they were thought up. It’s always interesting to see who flies with you, and this is especially interesting when you fly abroad. In addition to Sandra (the German girl), we have 2 Amish gentlemen, and about 25 red shirted (in the literal sense) people who I think are with some sort of church group. Then, of course, your fine upstanding batch of Tulane University students. Oh now, we are beginning our decent now. More in a bit!
Ok so I’m now headed to Valparaiso. We meet up with our group guide and are on a charter bus. The terrain near the airport reminds me of a very mountainous Southwest. Low lying shrubbery, cacti, I can see the huge mountains off to the east, but now we are headed to Valpo to meet our host families. We picked up phones at the airport in a fairly simple process.
Tasks for the day:
Master peso to dollar conversions in my head. 1 peso to about 510 pesos
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