A month in!

It's hard to think that I've already been here a month. Time has gone quite fast, but that's probably because my first month has been filled with activities almost every weekend and my weeks with school. However things have slowed down some so that has been nice. This week I'm happy to say there were no stray dog incidents. And really not too much has gone on this week. I'm now in the swing of school, homework and all. And I even have a few quizzes coming up in the next week. And I've now doubled my Chilean friend base to two! However I'm hoping to make more friends by participating on the volleyball team, but I'm going to have to work at it because some bad information had caused me to miss the first practice. Also a sidenote, sports directions in Spanish are incredibley hard. But I'm working at it. A side from volleyball I took a salsa class this week as well! And I'm not sure if I think salsa or volleyball is harder. Either way it was a lot of fun, however it was right before volleyball practice so I had to scramble from Valparaiso to Viña only to find out the busses to school weren't running. I shared a cab to school where of course I lost my wallet (I lost a wallet in a New York cab once as well). But luckily whoever finds it will only find 1 US dollar and 1000 pesos and a used up metro card. So all is well.

Yesterday was also my host brothers birthday and a soccer match between Chile and Peru. Unfortunately Chile lost but his birthday getogether at the house was a lot of fun still. And a side note on that, Chileans party until the early morning hours. I left for my room at about 3 but they kept going until 4-5. But again all is well, except I'm sure he is feeling it this morning. As far as this next week goes besides school and volleyball I don't expect much to be going on. But I'd love to find some one to play tennis with, I still haven't played! To bad our school doesn't have a team.

So to end this post I thought I'd share a few things I've learned so far here.

1.Chileans speak fast
2.Chileans speak really fast
3.It can actually be cold here (who knew)
4.Gaining new perspectives is amazing
5.Its hard being the outsider and not being able to communicate
6.Chileans have their own Spanish language
7.There isn't anywhere else I'd rather be studying!

Ill post more soon! Nos vemos