bienvenidos a valpo! wooooooooo

haha heyyy im so glad to finally have a chance to blog! omg everything is crazy amazing. i cant believe im actually here haha its incredible
where to start...
getting off the plane...
and boom there are all the other students. we waited a while for the last group and then we all left on the bus.  we traveled to the hotel and unloaded and got our rooms.  haha we stayed in little condos?! y? i dont know haha but honestly they were a hotel roomwith 4 ppl and a kitchen haha but there was a balcony that wrapped around 3/4 of the place! how amazing huh? the first two days (thurs and fri) were foggy (which i was later informed was SMOG not fog... dirty santiago) but after the rain on friday night, saturday was GORGEOUS! just beautiful. the mountains are so beautiful and they all had their first snow on top so it was great.  we saw various places of touristic interest/historical value haha so that was great haha one of my favs was going to see pablo nerudas house! he was a silly silly poet from the early/mid 20th century who was friends with pablo picasso and walt whitman and such so ya check him out.  then we went to this fort that was how the chileans won the war against peru so that was important appearantly.. hmm wat else (btw it feels really weird writing/thinking in english haha) um oh we went out and drank some haha just a little because i dont like much haha and we cant buy alcohol and bring it back to the room or anything so its kinda expensive to drink a whole lot. some other people stayed out super late and got shwastey which is dumb haha but watevs actually the cheapest and best tasting thing so far is the beer haha i like the local stuff its smoother and there is a lot of german influence in the culture (weird right? haha jk) so the beer is fantastic.  i think i wanna try the rum here oh and so wine is popular but expensive good thing i hate it. ugh its disgusting! i felt bad wen we went to the wine tasting cuz i was useless. i would have rathered gone to a beer tasting. ok so after a long day yesterday we traveled to valparaiso. it took us about an hour and a half.  wen we arrived i got my bags and lizet (the director) took me to my mom. haha there was a big kiss and a hug waiting and it was wonderful. sometimes ya just want some ninny and now i have a mama y papa chilena :) haha anyways so the kids: catalina (19yr old) is nice she is kind of feisty which is perfect cuz so am i haha and then there is felipe (17 yr old) who is precious.  he is so kind and patient with me.  hes very cute too! in a justin beiber way not rob pattinson way haha oh hey that reminds me eclipse will be here july 1st!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cata and i r gonna go because itll be the best day ever!!! ahah im so excited to see it! ummmmmmm que mas.. oh mis amigos from isa (fellow students from the states) are very cool.  there are a people from tennessee, florida, penn., new jersey, arkansas, texas, utah, colorado... and more haha very diverse lol the michigan accent is my favorite so far lol ummmm ok so now im in valpo and we had dinner last night. we ate hotdogs haha how funny right? but they eat them with kind of a french bread and tomato and avacado lol. it was yummy hmm the dad likes the beatles so thats cool and haha during dinner last night a michael jackson song came on and i was singing it and they laughed then i went upstairs and skyped a little with the parentals which was cool cuz they got to meet my chilean fam and such haha
oh!** i forgot haha before dinner we went and saw felipe in his school marching band! haha how perfect right haha he plays the drums and they just do this little easy military stuff but its cool and it was funny seeing it in action in another country haha which also meant i saw proud band parents in action as well haha patti is very proud of her "bebe hermoso" (her beautiful/precious baby boy) lol right? no matter where u r mamas r proud of their babies :) today we went to the university to do orientation stuff and take the diagnostic test and register for classes.  im taking chilean conversation and culture class as well as political history of the chilean 20th century.. tough stuff but ill be fine.  hmm to get to school i take the metro- its really a train cuz its above ground but there are some metros that are below.  i could also take the bus but eh they are less safe and stuff so meh and plus the metro passes right next to the ocean so yea im enjoying that haha hmmmmmmmmm k so right now im chillin in the living room listenin to some music and writing this haha oh and please email me wenever you want! i cant guarentee a quick response but i would love an email haha umm ya cata and pipe(said like peepay) are studying so im gonna go and try and upload some fotos so i might post in an hour or a day or a week haha but love yall and miss yall
mwa
peace and blessings~