O'Higgins Vina del Mar

I took it easy today, especially after yesterday. I got up early to go with Kaye to a class that she teaches at a private girls' school. It's a small Bible class with 3 girls in the 8th grade. They reminded me of my youth group girls and spoke great English. The school is a British school so they do a lot of the instruction and work in English. After that I went back to bed.<br><br>I walked down the big hill to Renaca, the beach town below the house ...

... DESET prodavaca/farmaceuta (nisam sigurna) u jednoj ljekarni (koja se nalazi u sklopu trgovine tipa dm). i iza svake blagajne bile su barem dvije osobe koje su cekale. a ljekarna na svakom cosku, doslovce! imali su neke afere s pljackama od strane ljekarni, pricala mi je estebanova sestra. <br><br>kad smo isli do valparaisa, esteban mi je rekao da je najbolje drzat auto zakljucan dok se vozis jer je njegov prijatelj jednom isao otkljucan pa su mu na semaforu (ili di vec) upali s ...

... like! My host parents did not think that Americans liked to mix solids with liquids until I told them that we eat many different soups, like Chili and turtle soup. Everyone seems to get a kick out of turtle soup. They can't believe it!<br><br>During the afternoon, I returned to the house with another friend, Crystal. We hung out in my room for a while, had once, and afterwards we went out for another friend's birthday. Genevieve (who's in the ISEP program ...

... comer la especialidad de la zona: pescado) y de Valparaíso (el ascensor de Artillería por el cual subimos y esuvimos en el mirador de este cerro, La casa de Neruda "La Sebastiana", y algunos lugares que ya habíamos recorrido).

... re-focus and breathe in. I hopped on a small boat for a marina tour, which helped center me. Anna, your life is about being at sea, not about your hair. Anna, your hair doesn´t define you. Anna, it will only take about 5 years for the damaged hair to grow out. I really did enjoy the marina tour, and was able to see an awesome sea lion on an old buoy. I got a good look at the larger fishing boats and barges, and felt better about my poor luck ...

... in Chile. Nice retirement plan! We split up, allowing the girls to shop, and allowing us guys to do anything BUT shop. Off to the Museo Palacio Rioja, the former mansion of a rich Spanish accountant, a chap named Fernando Rioja. There wasn't much English info given, so upon finding that I spoke some Spanish, an older lady who worked part time there offered us a tour. It was a good tour, and she asked us to leave a comment in the ...

... or if I had some of Darkman's synthetic skin. Off to dinner - sick of the **** breakfasts here, we picked up some bananas, peaches, and plums for tomorrow. After that, I couldn't resist having another cherimoya gelato - so refreshing, that I was tempted to smother it all over my painful, sizzling face. Back up to Cerro Concepcion - this seems to be the best neighbourhood in town for restaurants. One of the top restaurants in town is Pasta Y ...

... on speaking English to me, even though I'd never spoken it to her nor identified myself to her as American. It's all presumably to emphasize her dominance and my Gringo-ass helplessness. While her English admittedly wasn't bad, neither is my Spanish, and it's my money, so THERE! Two can play that game. Like love, language was never meant to be a weapon. So we duel dual lingoes back and forth a few minutes. Welcome to Thailand. I know ...

... spool, thread, 2 sticks and a square of thin paper. To be honest, we spent a lot of time resting in our hostel here in Valpo, but did make it out on some excursions. This included taking the elevator up the Torre Polanco tower (it starts underground deep in the belly of the hill) for a sunset view of this wide, wild city. We also climbed high up Cerro ...

... enough for me! in the springs were also two other irish people, however their accents were very hard to understand so we sat away from them most of the night in fear of insulting them by saying sorry what did you say several hundred times. there was also an american form new york, who sat in there complaining that he only got 10 day vacation a year and that was it, then he bored us all for a while telling us about his work!! argh! so again me and joe swam to the ...