Okay, now you probably want to know what kept me so busy?! Well, first thing is obviously school. The first four weeks I came home about 5:00-5:30pm, depending how crowded the metro and bus was...I live kind of far from the center of Santiago, so it always takes me about one hour to get there. But living with Ralf and Marie in this nice and quiet neigbourhood is worth it ;) Sometimes after school I attend on one of the activities the school offers. One Wednesday we went to a winery one hour from Santiago. The guide showed us around, talked about family tradition and did a wine tasting with us. We learned how to taste a wine in the proper way. Here is a picture:
We also went to the "Museo de memoria y los derechos de humanos". It informs about the time between 1973-1989, when there was a dictatorship in Chile. It was shocking how many people died, the way they treated people those days and the worst that it's only 20 years ago. Before that visit I never heard anything about the chilean history. Do you guys know that there actually are a whole bunch of german immigrants in Chile, mostly in the south?! The word "Kuchen" exists only because it was used so often by the Germans and later by the chileans as well. The funny thing is that the plural form isn't "Kuchen" but "Kuchenes" :D sounds pretty funny to me!
On Friday nights we always go to a free salsa course for one hour. It's really fun. I will continue going there and hopefully learn lots of salsa figures ;)
On wednesdays we usually go to the "Miercoles Po" Party. That party is especially for foreigners, changes its location every time and has different themes. Last time the theme was "Oktoberfest" :-P Germans got free bear until 10:30, but since I didn't know and came one hour too late I didn't get any...whatever! I doesn't really matter to me cause until now I never had to buy myself a drink. That's the good thing of having REAL blond hair in Chile. Haha! On the other hand you get a lot of attention, for me way too much!!
The other days I just hang out with friends. One day we made crepes at the place of a friend from Australia. We also had tons of tea...I don't remember how many cups I had but it must have been a lot cause that night I only slept until 4 am and couldn't get back to sleep ;)
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| Goodbyeparty from Johannes (guy on the left) |
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| making yummy crepes :) |
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| Escuela "Tandem" with Siswa, Martha and James |
Okay I guess that is enough for one post.
Hope you enjoyed reading it?!
Haste luego amigos!
