After a long, eight-hour flight to Santiago, we are finally
here! I thought the traveling was going
to be much more difficult than it was but everything went smoothly. The only difficulty we faced was the
pickiness of the people accepting our money for the country’s entrance
fees. The dollar bills had to be
pristine or else they wouldn’t take them; it was very annoying and we really
angered some girls on a Canadian handball team behind us in line. We arrived in he hotel around eleven o’clock
this morning and prepared for our first full day in Chile! After I took my first freezing cold shower, I
was ready to go out to our first lunch together as a group. We went to a Mexican restaurant called Tiki
Taco and had a delicious sampling of Mexican food. The restaurant is putting a picture of our
group on their Facebook page! After taking five years of Spanish, I thought I would
be able to read/ speak some of the language while I was down here, but so far I
had thought wrong. The natives to the country
speak very fast and so far it is hard for me to understand them or communicate
with them. I also need to start to work
on learning how to manage the currency here because as of now I am clueless as
to how the Peso works. The two Chilean
students we met today are extremely nice and helpful. They along with the professor in charge of
this Pitt program took us to a futbol game this afternoon. The fans were so loud and dedicated! The
Chileans literally never stopped cheering throughout the whole game. I have been to many sporting events at home
and none of the fans compare to the fans down here. I am now going to head out to have dinner
with some of the students in my group. I
had such a good first day, and I can’t wait to continue to learn more
throughout this study abroad experience! Below I have included photos of the dedicated fan section at the futbol game and a picture of Molly and I at our first lunch.
After a long, eight-hour flight to Santiago, we are finally
here! I thought the traveling was going
to be much more difficult than it was but everything went smoothly. The only difficulty we faced was the
pickiness of the people accepting our money for the country’s entrance
fees. The dollar bills had to be
pristine or else they wouldn’t take them; it was very annoying and we really
angered some girls on a Canadian handball team behind us in line. We arrived in he hotel around eleven o’clock
this morning and prepared for our first full day in Chile! After I took my first freezing cold shower, I
was ready to go out to our first lunch together as a group. We went to a Mexican restaurant called Tiki
Taco and had a delicious sampling of Mexican food. The restaurant is putting a picture of our
group on their Facebook page! After taking five years of Spanish, I thought I would
be able to read/ speak some of the language while I was down here, but so far I
had thought wrong. The natives to the country
speak very fast and so far it is hard for me to understand them or communicate
with them. I also need to start to work
on learning how to manage the currency here because as of now I am clueless as
to how the Peso works. The two Chilean
students we met today are extremely nice and helpful. They along with the professor in charge of
this Pitt program took us to a futbol game this afternoon. The fans were so loud and dedicated! The
Chileans literally never stopped cheering throughout the whole game. I have been to many sporting events at home
and none of the fans compare to the fans down here. I am now going to head out to have dinner
with some of the students in my group. I
had such a good first day, and I can’t wait to continue to learn more
throughout this study abroad experience! Below I have included photos of the dedicated fan section at the futbol game and a picture of Molly and I at our first lunch.
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