1. The Chilean people like to eat. alot. Lots of vegetables with apple cider vinagre and salt. So, welcome indegestion!
2. Push everything back 4 hours. Breakfast: 11am Lunch:2pm Dinner:9pm
3. Everything is so relaxed. Don't expect to get anything done without a buffer of an hour to wait for a bus, stop and talk to people, and walk to where you need to go.
4. the buses don't have a stop. So they pull over wherever you want and let you off. Most of the time they pull over to the side of the road wherever THEY want to let you off. I am living at the top of a cliff, with a beautiful view of the sea and the city below, but I have to take a bus everywhere. I guess they're going to teach me how to use it?
5. Nobody speaks english, but they really want to understand you, so they will try to help you out as much as they can. I have learned that hand movements and dances help well.
6. Tango is amazing. enough said.
7. No heat. Which isn't bad 10 months out of the year, but these two months, it's freezing. That's what long underwear is for!
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overall, I love it here. It is as if the busy-ness of Chicago mixed with the older sector of Paris and put it on the sea, and you have my city. I have a great family, and I am sure they will show me the culture and everything. Right now, I just want to sleep away the indegestion and long day, but I think we are going to watch a movie. My "sister" and my "cousin" have to go to school in the morning, because it's stil fall semester. So it will be me and Olivia 2mrw, or me and chipita, the doggie, until Olivia gets home. I will post a video later of chipita. She is halerious. Okay, it's not her fault that she's blind, but she runs into everything and prances like the little poodle that she is.
Love from Chile!
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