Settling In

The last two days haven't been to exciting to discuss. Exploring this gigantic city, orientation at school about the upcoming weeks, buying little necessities for my room, etc. The public transportation here is excellent. I have a "bip!" card that accesses both the buses and them metro that both can take you essentially anywhere very quickly. Connected my cell to the local network and bought some minutes...really easy process. I got introduced to a tutor, Pablo, who is a 4th year architecture student with a good outlook that can help me during my studies at Universidad de Chile, nice guy.

For this weekend, all the students are going to the beach for more orientation stuff. Seems strange to go to the beach because its a bit cold for that. Won't be able to update the site until Sunday night most likely, but I should have some cool stuff from the trip.

The weather hasn't been much different than San Francisco, surprisingly. The real problem is the smog, might even be worse than Los Angeles cause of the surrounding mountains combined with tons of cars. The other students all seem nice. Went to a place called Le Petit Bar last night with ten other people, great place. Very small, had a guy playing Clapton, Floyd, Guns n Roses and taking requests. Fun stuff.

We had a quick oral exam this morning for placement in Spanish classes for next next couple weeks. Very easy. Have to start packing for the trip, be back Sunday night. ciao...oh yea, and i've been eating lots guacamole and avocados : / still rather leave satan's condiment out of my meals.