When I started my blog...I was so excited to write about everything new...new experiences...new people...the new language..new adventures...etc. Now, here I am, as I sit down to write this blog, thinking, "there's nothing really to write about...I'm just doing the usual." My 'normal' has become Chile. It really hit me last week when I got on a micro (bus) to go to Bible study and the micro driver didn't stop at my stop...uuuugggghhh! I gave him enough warning and everything...I asked him why he didn't stop and he just mumbled something under his breath...I was like, 'What!?"...and he just kept mumbling. Anyways, I got off at the next stop and had to take another micro to back track. I got on the next one and couldn't remember the name of the stop so I tried explaining it to the driver and he was just like...uuhhhmm....ok. Either way...I made it perfectly fine to the Bible study...and basically ran up the million stairs of the hill as I thought I was going to be late. (I need to stop thinking that...I'm in Chile). Nope, I was the second person there. Even though it was a pain to take two micros, I felt so confident to have done it -- not knowing exactly how to get here -- etc. It sounds so...little, but things like this each day make me feel more and more...at home...more and more...Chilean...making everything more, well, normal.
I went back to the south of Chile! You know, the usual! I went back to Valdivia (to visit my friends) and Pucón (my second time with CIEE -- my study abroad program). I really do love the south. It's so green and refreshing. I bet I could write an entire post about my stay...but I'll just show you a few pictures:
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| Spanish fort, on the island, Corral. We had to take a boat to get there! FUN! |
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| The famous 'sea wolves'. In Spanish...instead of translating 'sea lions'...it's sea WOLVES! haha!! And I think that brown one is a sea elephant! haha!! |
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| My friend, Maca, and me...picnic in the botanical garden! |
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| An old Spanish watchtower. |
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| Zip-lining in Pucón. |
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| Pucón. ohhh...el sur de mi querido Chile. |
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| Monday...Jill and I went all over Valdivia...but EVERYTHING was closed! No one told us that Monday was their day off! hahaa!! |
