During my second week here in Santiago I have felt that life in Santiago is not to different from life in any city in the US. I have been to two malls, and my entire family had McDonalds for dinner on Saturday. I do not think that you can get much more US of A than that. However every once in awhile something happens to remind me that I am a foreigner: like when a cab driver drives you around your neighborhood in circles for an half hour, because you can not tell him the exact directions to your house and then offers to split the excess of the fare because it was both of your faults that you were lost even though you had given him the intersection of two very well know streets as the place to drop you off!! Oh well next time I will hopefully know enough Spanish to give him a piece of my mind.
I have gone out on the town here twice so far and both trips were overwhelming successes. My first was to a street of discothques where Heather and I tried each one out for free getting in on our good looks and US accents (returned home at 5 am.) The second was to a blues bar near my house. The bar was hot and the music was poorly done US covers, but we made friends with everyone that worked there and so ended up being invited to hang out with them after they closed. My friend Melinda and I were the life of the party. I finished my beer with the sunrise and returned home at 8:00 am this time.
This was also my first week of my intensive Spanish class which I am not to thrilled with so far. The class is only two hours long and it is more academic than functional, oh well at least there are excurtions included with the class. I would prefer to talk to my family or watch TV rather than do my homework both of which I believe would be more useful.
Talk to you all next week! Take care :)
