Hello all!
I started school. My brain is constantly trying to wrap itself around this new language and my head hurts, but it is really fun.
I am now in a ridiculous Amazing Race knock off, Chilean style.
We had a challenge to go around the three of the plazas of Santiago and ask people in the city about the history of the city. I don't know how this happened, but the camera crew chose my group to follow, keep in mind there were six groups of us, all in matching shirts, and they chose mine. It was ridiculous. They would run ahead and film us and we had to run and act very serious. My group got mad at me because I spent too long chatting with the people who were answering our questions, even the director told me I needed to pick up the pace.
Him: "What's your name again?"
Me: "Hannah"
Him: "You need to be faster, quit talking so much."
Even in a foreign language I am too chatty. I must be my mother's daughter.
The video will be posted sometime in the next 6 months and I am sure I will be getting calls from all over, move over Kate Gosselin, I am going to make it huge on TLC.
All the other people in the program are really nice. Tomorrow we are going to an English summer camp to provide our expertise.
Here comes the interactive part of the blog: What should I do this weekend?
Options:
1. Go to Mendoza with a few of the folks. This option includes a bus ride through the Andes and a wine tour, I'm just saying.
2. Stay in Santiago and bum around here. There is the presidential election on Sunday so everything will be closed Sunday.
3. Join a guerrilla party in Bolivia and fight for their rights.
Here is a picture of the group at La Moneda which is the Chilean equivalent of The White House. It is also where Salvador Allende was killed.
The other picture is of me at the top of Santa Lucia which is a park in the middle of town. Charles Darwin described the view as "certainly most striking" and in this case, he definitely is not lying. From there you have the most beautiful panoramic view of the city and the Andes. It is awesome.
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Go to Mendoza! You gotta go to the max while you're down there, sis.
ReplyDeletei vote for joining the guerillas. why not? get a taste for the local culture. Rossy would be so proud.
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