Tomorrow evening will mark one week since I´ve been here in my home in La Serena. I have had a great time this past week meeting so many new people. Last Tuesday, I visited my school (Colegio Santo Tomas) for the first time and met all of my classmates. There are 25 students in my class. Luckily, because I have a host sister (who is now on her own exchange in Illinois, USA) I got to meet her friends and now I am able to call them my friends as well. Everyone here is so nice and excited to meet me. On Friday morning, we left La Serena to drive for about 5 hours to Viña del Mar. There, we stayed at my host mom´s mother´s house so I got to meet my abuelos (grandparents), my tios (aunt and uncle), and my primo (cousin). I also got to spend more time with my host sister before we brought her to the Santiago airport on Saturday night so that she could begin her exchange. We spent most of today driving back to La Serena, and then this evening I went out to dinner with my host brother and a few of his friends. So far, the food here is not that different than what I eat back home. Lots of sushi, beef, chicken, and potatoes. I am definitely going to come home a little heavier! I am having so much fun here and I am excited to start school tomorrow so I can really start living life like a Chilena. The language barrier is definitely difficult, but my friends and family are all patient with me and I know enough to get by. I am learning LOTS of slang, which is a very big part of what makes Chilean one of the hardest dialects of Spanish.
Well, I should be going to bed right about now. I have a big day tomorrow! (Luckily, my first class is English.)
Adios!
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