I am officially in Santiago. Because there are teacher conferences all day today, I don´t start volunteering until tomorrow.
Yesterday I came in at 8 am, dropped my stuff, and then toured the city a little bit with the country coordinator. I saw La Moneda, where the president works, and the old place where people used to work if they were president. I also saw one of the old cathedrals, the Plaza del Centro, and the Teletón, where I was originally going to work. I also passed by one of the oldest historical museums that I plan on going to after my thing is done.
My host family is very nice, barring one extremely strange older boy that thankfully doesn´t live in the house. I think he wants a chica. I made it clear that there are certain characteristics that define man, and that boys were the same everywhere. I didn{t say what they were though.
The two main gripes I have are the food consumption, which I knew in advance my options were limited: nothing that hasn´t been cooked, and nothing like juice or yogurt or other stuff like that....... and the fact that the other volunteers are going next week, not this week, so I´m pretty much on my own. I´m sticking with breads, dried things, and tea right now. Which is fine since it´s so cold anyway.
Yesterday I came in at 8 am, dropped my stuff, and then toured the city a little bit with the country coordinator. I saw La Moneda, where the president works, and the old place where people used to work if they were president. I also saw one of the old cathedrals, the Plaza del Centro, and the Teletón, where I was originally going to work. I also passed by one of the oldest historical museums that I plan on going to after my thing is done.
My host family is very nice, barring one extremely strange older boy that thankfully doesn´t live in the house. I think he wants a chica. I made it clear that there are certain characteristics that define man, and that boys were the same everywhere. I didn{t say what they were though.
The two main gripes I have are the food consumption, which I knew in advance my options were limited: nothing that hasn´t been cooked, and nothing like juice or yogurt or other stuff like that....... and the fact that the other volunteers are going next week, not this week, so I´m pretty much on my own. I´m sticking with breads, dried things, and tea right now. Which is fine since it´s so cold anyway.
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