Will and Kate on the Santiago Metro

My morning commute today.

Job Application Break

I was in a cafe, applying for job after job, and this girl comes in and just starts singing.

Not only is she great, but her English is amazing! (As you see at the end, she´s Chilean.)

These cafes are pretty neat - they have free internet, and all the big newspapers and magazines are free to read here, just for the asking. And you don´t even have to buy anything to drink or eat to study there! There is a whole system of them throughout the city, which is an excellent public service.

How to refill your cell phone minutes

...Find one of these teenagers on the street, give them a few mil, and your phone company and number. Tada!

Rengo

The holiday´s not over yet, but this is where I spent last night:

¿...lindo, no?

Sopaipilla

Imagine a cold fall day (or a cool summer night, or a rainy day), and you are walking along, and work up an appetite. Now, all of the sudden appears a lady with a grocery store cart filled with a pot of oil over a gas heater, and a pile of these, soft and hot and waiting for you.

Now imagine that this amazingly delicious fried dough cost just 100 pesos, or 0.40 USD.

Now imagine it, just with spicy aji sauce or pebre piled on it, and just a hint of mayonnaise to balance out the spice.

Irresistible!

Matricula

This is what I do when I do office work - sit in a tiny dark room, waiting for students to come and have oral evaluations or computer tests.

One More Reason Not to Use Google Translate

¨Cervical¨ means ¨of the neck¨ in Spanish. It´s not a pillow for your cervix.

Maratón de Santiago

Tomorrow´s the day! 21k!

Here we are excited to pick up our shirts and chips!

Then Shander had us shake hands and promise to be friends afterward.

More later!

My Student´s Typical Day!

IMG_0977, a photo by chalupa1631 on Flickr.

This is from last semester, but I thought it was cute, and a little different from life in the US. They were all about 14 or 15 years old, and I gave them the line, markers, and five minutes, and they gave me this!