El Campo

El otro dia, fui a Cajón de Maipu con mis compañeros. Durante invierno en Santiago, la cordillera es muy hermoso. Nieve en Santiago es muy raro, las montanas tienen nieve. En Santiago es casi imposible para ver con el smog. La contaminación es muy malo por los pulmones, así fuimos a una lugar bonita y limpia.

Llegamos a una lugar para caminate y la chica en la oficina quiso $4.000 CLP por una hora hasta unas cascadas. Por referencia, ahora en mi trabajo en mi hostal, gano $1.500 por hora. Era ridículo, asi mis amigo y yo caminamos por la calle hasta encontráramos una lugar preciosa.

Finalmente, encontramos una lugar muy lindo. Habia campo con mesas y equipo para escalar. Usamos el equipo por fotos con la cordillera. Los resueltos son fantásticos.

Wasting Time

Since the last post, I have not left Santiago since yesterday. I have graduated, started a new job (or 4), moved into a new house, met lots of new people, spent most of my days solely in Spanish, and grown in love with produce. This post will be mainly just pictures as I have taken a surprising ton of good ones, but the theme is only my life in Santiago and a little tiny bit in Valpo.

There was now on the Andes when I first arrived here. It was not until this last week that the snow returned finally to the mountains. From Los Dominicos I could see the snow capped Andes (none of the pictures turned out) while sitting under a palm tree.

This picture is of interest because I have spent the last 9 months ranting about how one time this stupid drunk man kicked my soccer ball into a tree. I came back in June only to find that my soccer balls still remains wedged into the tree. If you look in the center of the picture you can see that I have forever made my mark on Los Dominicos.

I have to always be careful. From the picture below, you can see the little white glow of the Virgin Mary. She is always watching... always judging.

While Valpo is not Santiago, it is close enough that you can count it. Winter time Valpo is colder and almost without tourism, but wonderful none the less.

Second Semester Santiago