Monday 23 February 2015

First month update

So as of today I have been in Chile for 1 month and 2 days and so far it has just been the same old summer holidays. I have had the odd adventure though. The first I have already talked about in another post, when Reumah and I got stranded in Santiago but still had a great time. I have also gone up San Cristobel hill again on the 5th of Feb With my host sister and her cousin except this time we walked up. I sick of it very fast but it had such great views on the last stretch of the walk and at the very top that it didn't matter. When we were literally 10 meters from being at the very bottom I fell over my shoe and landed in a ditch which I thought was absolutely hilarious! We listened to a popular song at the moment, on the drive home it was probably the best moment I have had since arriving.
                                 
Last Thursday I went with my host sister and her cousin to Pichilemu, which is a coastal town about 3 hours south of Santiago it looked like what I expected typical Chile to look like so I really like it there. On the drive there though, I realised how much I  miss seeing green everywhere. We stopped off at a empanada place for lunch, we could choose whether to have your empanda fried or oven baked, I chose for mine to be oven baked and the other girls had theirs fried, which was a smart choice because mine was so dry I couldn't finish eating it. When we got to Cony's grandparents place, where we would stay in the second house, we unpacked and then got ready to head down to the beach. the water looked so fun to swim in and as I was getting up to go and jump in Cony told me that this beach also has the 10 meter rule and that the water is also very cold. I thought that she was exaggerating about how cold it might be but she wasn't- infact, she was understating it. That sea was so freezing it felt like I was doing the ice challenge. taught the girls how to play phase 10 which they enjoyed but didn't want to teach me a card game they knew so we only played phase 10.
The next day was chilled, we went to the supermarket to get groceries for the weekend, and after lunch we walked around town through all the market stalls there were. I found some nice things that I bought for presents for mum and my sisters. We got back to the house about 20 min before sunset so we all bundled into the car and drove to a lookout point where you could watch the sunset. When the sun went down we walked onto the beach where we ate chips and oreo's, they talked for ages but I couldn't understand so I just stared back at Pichilemu and watched the lights being turned on. The next 2 days was so layed back we visited the beach loads and played phase 10. Cony had to into work on the Monday so we had to wake up 6 am and leave straight away so we could get back in time for Cony to go to work, I stayed in my pj's so I could just hop back into bed as soon as we got home.

I haven't really been doing anything else that exciting though because its getting close to school starting up. I start in 2 days time and Victoria, (my second host mum) says that my school has never had an English speaking student in there school so I am going to be very special and popular when I start. We went into the school today to sort out something ( I don't actually know what was going on)
but I found out that because I am year 13 at home they have out me in their equivalent of yr 13. But they said if it is too hard I can be changed. Next weekend I will be writing a ' First week in school' post.
(All pictures are on Facebook)

Bye!