Hola Amigos!!
After about 20 hours of flying and waiting, I finally made it to Santiago de Chile, the capital. I have been planning this trip for the last 4 or 5 months (well, much of this trip was planned within the last 2 or 3 weeks), and I can hardly believe that I´m here in South America finally!! The journey started yesterday morning around 10:30 in Durango. I even told Kristy, who dropped me off, that it wasn´t until we were about 100 feet from the airport that it set in that I was actually leaving! And it wasn´t until my wait to get on the plane from Atlanta to Santiago that it realy set in that I was going to another country and when I was truly excited to get going. These last few weeks have been CRAZY trying to finish school, change my travel plans, make more plans and arrangements with my already changed plans, being the corredenator for subletting this summer, going out and doing class stuff with the Chile group, while trying to pack and say goodbye to people I wouldn´t see for 5 or so weeks! Two words: UFT DA!!
Nothig too exciting about my flights yesterday except for my last one. We were an hour late to board because the plane wasn´t clean, which really wasn´t a big deal because then I got to talk to people on my phone more before I left cell range. The flight itself went smooth, and I got to see a movie I had never seen, but then 1:45 am rolled along, and I was stuck next to snoring man who needed leg room and the isle. Let´s just say sleep wasn´t really in the cards for me last night. I lift my head from my tray table around 7 am to hear a chipper "¡Buenos días!" coming from the man next to me, and the first thing that came to my mind was, "I´m sure YOU´RE having a buenos días, you actually GOT sleep." But I kept my comments to myself and replied with a good morning back.
Everything went pretty smooth after that. I got picked up and brought to my hostel (which is pretty darn cool) so I could get my jumbled self back in one piece. I took a shower (for the first time since Friday) in a 5x5 shower and read a little before my professor came back and we ate lunch with her family, and then we got to see the main plaza and the central market, which we got to by subway! Way cool! Tomorrow, the rest of the students should be arriving and then we´re off to do really who knows what! We have a plan, I just don´t know it in detail.
Well, the weather here is pretty warm for fall/winter. I wore flip flops and a tshirt and was perfect! The mountains are GORGEOUS, but you can´t really see them through all the smog. I got to see them flying in this morning. Santiago feels like any city in the United States really. There is a wide variety of people here, and I feel just as safe walking down the street in the day time like I do in Denver. I don´t think I´ll risk the evening though... but what am I going to do about dinner... I think I´ll just suck it up and wait until breakfast, or maybe I´ll just go down a couple blocks to some food. Maidunno. But I´m excited to be here and I can´t wait to see what God brings next!! Until next time,
Vaya con Díos!!
Leah =)
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