Chile/ Santiago: First impression

It's colder than I thought...

When I got here tuesday morning, the first thing I did was getting all my "winter clothes" (if you can call them that) out of the depth of my suitcase. As soon as the sun rose it became clear that I wouldn't need them that bad. It's the beginning of spring and that means the temperature can reach between 20°C and 27°C. The summer is gonna be really hot though...40°C is common! I hope its not too bad and I get used to it fast.

All right, first day in Santiago and I already have a funny/embarrassing (whatever you want to call it!) story to tell. Ralf and I went to the Mall to get some groceries. I looked around the mall and he got the groceries. We were supposed to meet one hour later, at 17:30 o'clock, in front of a store. Since I didn't have a clock with me and my cell phone just died, I checked the time on a clock in some store. I got to the meeting place at 17:30 pm and waited for 20 minutes, but Ralf didn't show up. So, I went to an apple store next to it and checked the time on one of the iPads...there it was only 16:30 pm. Well now I thought I had one more hour to look around, so I did;) When I checked a different iPad one hour later it was already 18:30 pm!! I kinda freaked out after that, cause Ralf and me were supposed to meet one hour earlier, I didn't have his phone number AND I was surrounded by spanish speaking people. I hurried down to the parking lot and -thank god- found the car with Luna (Ralf's dog) in it. After waiting there a few minutes, a security guy came by and tried to tell me that they were looking for me and I should stay by the car. He got Ralf then and everything was fine again ;) Ralf told me they started a search action and even paged me (ausrufen) two times! Hihi, obviously didn't hear that! Pretty embarrassing but another good story to put in my travel diary...

After all this stress again I just fell into my bed and slept about 12 hours!! I have never slept that long...there was probably a little too much going on the last four days.

At the end, a picture of Chile

Hasta luego amigos :)

Eure Nina