Palegoldenrod

Hi guys.

I have made it safely to Santiago de Chile – I arrived at lunch time today (an hour ahead of schedule) after a 15 hour flight via Auckland. The flight was easier than I expected, though my chair didn’t recline at all which made for a fun and somewhat uncomfortable night.

But here I am after having spent the afternoon with my cousin Dane, who I have discovered all over again as being all types of awesome (and in addition we like a lot of the same foods, music genres and music artists, have similar political views, etc).

We’ve been for a bit of a walk through the blocks near his place and it is still hard to feel like I am really here. It is really weird to hear the kids calling out Spanish as they play in the street tonight.

There is very, very little English is spoken here, lol. Dane has arranged for a friend to help teach me Spanish (Thanks, Dane!) and then we are going to go shopping tomorrow and probably hanging out with his partner Marcelo which should be cool.

Anyway, I’m pretty tired (read: brain is more retarded than usual) so I’ll finish up there and post again in a few days.

I heart you guys!

Carly