i haven't updated this one as much as the other simply because I can't figure out how to post pictures anymore, but today i am having a terrible day and can't write about it on there cause i don't want to worry the padres. nothing is actually wrong. i am just sick and feel so tired and can't breathe the air here really well. the combination of pollution/smog, smoke and talking so much with so many new people has really killed my throat. not to mention the air in general is thick and hard to breathe. so that has been really annoying and I am ready to leave the city.
also, it is cold, obviously i dont like this. i hate having to time my showers so the cold water isn't too cold cause it's also freezing outside and im not a fan of shivering all the time. thank god for my down sleeping bag. so today was just one of those days where i was uncomfortable and cold and tired and so i wanted to be home and didn't want to deal with the little hassles of learning my way around here. it will get better, just today wasn't so great. at least i go to the warmer city of arica on sat! bright and early-leaving at 6:30am.
but the important part i should update about, which i will add pics to in the other one eventually, is that i went to visit vivi and guido (my old host parents) yesterday. i got out of my orientation early at 4 and metro-ed to the bus station and then took a 2 hour bus to their house. i was really proud that i remembered how to get to their home from the bus station, especially since so much has changed there since i last lived there. it is even prettier than before because when i was there there had just been an earthquake so everything was a bit messy, but now it is all new and reconstructed and was absolutely beautiful.
so i went to their house and had dinner with vivi and their new host kid, then she and i hung out. i had planned on leaving that night around 10, arriving to santiago at 12, but she said i couldn't go so late to the city, so i should spend the night and take a morning bus. so then guido came home and we all talked and he looked at his new camera i brought him and they showed me pictures and then we went to bed. so then i got up at 5 and guido walked me to the bus stop and i got back around 7:45, took the metro to the hostel, changed my clothes, and walked to orientation. it was a very long day to say the least. not only cause i got up so early, but also i didn't sleep at all because their house was so so so cold.
it was really nice to see them and strangely normal and familiar. i will see them again in december before bill comes and then again when we visit for the new year so that is nice that i will see them so much
so tomorrow is the last day of orientation and tonight is our last night all of us together (all 80!) so people want to go out and as much as i want to join in, i think my body would actually implode if i did. so instead i think i will go to bed now. start fresh and again tomorrow.
hope you are enjoying your warm beds and the sticky weather.
sick love from chile
also, it is cold, obviously i dont like this. i hate having to time my showers so the cold water isn't too cold cause it's also freezing outside and im not a fan of shivering all the time. thank god for my down sleeping bag. so today was just one of those days where i was uncomfortable and cold and tired and so i wanted to be home and didn't want to deal with the little hassles of learning my way around here. it will get better, just today wasn't so great. at least i go to the warmer city of arica on sat! bright and early-leaving at 6:30am.
but the important part i should update about, which i will add pics to in the other one eventually, is that i went to visit vivi and guido (my old host parents) yesterday. i got out of my orientation early at 4 and metro-ed to the bus station and then took a 2 hour bus to their house. i was really proud that i remembered how to get to their home from the bus station, especially since so much has changed there since i last lived there. it is even prettier than before because when i was there there had just been an earthquake so everything was a bit messy, but now it is all new and reconstructed and was absolutely beautiful.
so i went to their house and had dinner with vivi and their new host kid, then she and i hung out. i had planned on leaving that night around 10, arriving to santiago at 12, but she said i couldn't go so late to the city, so i should spend the night and take a morning bus. so then guido came home and we all talked and he looked at his new camera i brought him and they showed me pictures and then we went to bed. so then i got up at 5 and guido walked me to the bus stop and i got back around 7:45, took the metro to the hostel, changed my clothes, and walked to orientation. it was a very long day to say the least. not only cause i got up so early, but also i didn't sleep at all because their house was so so so cold.
it was really nice to see them and strangely normal and familiar. i will see them again in december before bill comes and then again when we visit for the new year so that is nice that i will see them so much
so tomorrow is the last day of orientation and tonight is our last night all of us together (all 80!) so people want to go out and as much as i want to join in, i think my body would actually implode if i did. so instead i think i will go to bed now. start fresh and again tomorrow.
hope you are enjoying your warm beds and the sticky weather.
sick love from chile
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