1 week down...

So, as of Saturday Morning I've been in Chile for one week. Seems like a lot longer than that, but so far so good. Although I really wish it would get warmer. I've started sleeping in my backpacking sleeping bag so my feet don't freeze!

Snowboarding in the Andes was amazing, as expected. I'll be posting pictures of that and other things as soon as I get internet on my own computer. I think that might even be later today. Until then, I have to read like 50 pages of dense economic theory stuff in Spanish. Aurgh, I totally can't handle that yet. Like, I read it and understand most of it, but have trouble putting it all together.

Oh and another interesting thing happened. I was talking politics with my host mom, just to make conversation, and it turns out she is super right wing. She's voting for Lavin, the guy who is basically a clone of Pinochet (the military dictator in Chile from 1970 something through 1990). I just kept my mouth shut, other than saying the usual "I didn't vote for Bush."