Hotel El Araucano Concepcion

... prepared myself to a few days of solitude, donning running trainers i took my first run in far too long down the black beach... arriving back the hostel was packed! everyone had been out surfing that there was a really friendly international lot, all very chilled and wicked company... the next few days we all enjoyed chilling and watching the massive waves, not actually minding the stormy weather... cooking for each ...

We verlaten het merengebied en gaan verder met onze tocht naar het noorden, via de rio Bio Bio naar Concepcion, de tweede grootste stad van Chile waar we een afspraak hebben met Dania, een weerzien voor Constanza 18 jaar later. Een kort bezoek aan de stad, enorm druk. Daarna samen met Dania haar familie een gezellige avond met lekker (en veel) eten - BBQ met heel lekker vlees.

... to take it. As we were starving,we immediatly headed out to find something to eat, the market was not that great so we settled on a kebab shop, how random in the middle of Chile, well for Chile, it was not bad, but I don´t think it would past the test if was in London! As Chile were playing Argentina in World Cup Qualifiers tonight, we though we go to a local bar and watch it, it was a good atmosphere, the Chileans are obviously very passionate ...

With just a little trepidation I looked out over the waiting crowd for Ricardo. Would he be very different after 20 years? No. Just the same. My short hair caused a moment of hesitation from the other side of the glass but no more than that. Where do you start after being out of contact with one of the most important people of your university years for so long. Well, 'You look just the same' is probably not original but it was what I said.

... is Chilean) parents are lovely, I like the way they must have fresh bread every day and they always freshly squeeze orange juice for breakfast. On the 2nd day at the lake we went to visit some family friends who had a absolutely amazing house looking over the lake and I learned a new 2 person card came that i enjoyed (I won of course) called 26 that i will export to England on my return. No one ...

Concepcion war immer noch verregnet und kalt. Keine Lust da zu bleiben und Isla Mocha waere auch zu teuer gewesen und zu kalt und zu regnerisch und zu baeh! Ich will jetzt in den Norden! Und ich hab schlechte Laune weil ich so vollgeregnet bin und einfach nicht trockne... und weil sich immer dicke Menschen neben mich im Bus setzen und schnarchen. Und weil einen Taxifahrer ...

... hier hoch im Kurs und bei meinem Ausflug vor 2 Wochen nach Argentinien (um mein Visum zu verlaengern), musste ich feststellen, dass auch ich schon das ein oder andere chilienische Wort nutze. Ob das jetzt gut oder schlecht ist bleibt mal dahin gestellt.... Hier in Concepsion gefaellt es mir ganz gut. Ich habe eine nette WG mit 2 Chilenen und einem Franzosen und mein Praktikum ist auch ok. Habe nach den ersten 5 Wochen mein Prakitkum gewechselt und ...

... word. And the letter "s"? Forget about it. It is either just not pronounced, or it is pronounced like "ai." For example, "Como estas?" becomes "Como estai?" You can probably imagine the problems this could cause... But even with all its quirks and difficulties, I love it. So here it is, April 9, and I will be arriving home exactly one month from today. My plan is to work really ******* my research for ...

... me. On top of that, they must think that since I am relatively young and can't speak really well, that I can't do anything on my own. It's like they don't realize that I've spent the past 6 weeks traveling by myself! The situation is challenging, to say the least. However, like all aspects of this trip, I will just need to get used to it and learn from it. So tomorrow, I think that I am going to try and find a beach for a little rest and relaxation.

... while the game was being played. One particularly good chant initiated the crowd to just jumping on the spot and i don't know if you've ever seen 25,000 people jump at once but it looks awesome. It basically looked like the whole crowd was a single living organism and was slowly snaking around the stadium. Colo Colo scored and with 5 to go the crowd was really getting into it (yes more so than before) and the guy behind Linz grabbed ...