The first thing I should let everyone know is that my computer power cord is fried. Therefore, I haven´t had quite the internet access as before, but more importantly, have not been able to upload pics yet :(. However, new power cord is in the mail (hopefully) and I have pictures of the yacht trip and Mendoza to upload.
Lately, I have fallen into a more normal routine with school, which has been a nice, but somewhat difficult change. I had quizes, readings, and even a presentation this week (that was really scary). Besides having consistent work for the foreign student classes that I did before, I now have constant work in my meteorology class and a class which started recently called Globalization, Development, and Regions...a two credit geography class that I have been anticipating. However, because that class JUST started, we have lots of make-up classes and well, lots of work. This week I will start my volunteer (well volunteer for credit because it is part of a class) work in a elementary school. I´m excited about that too. The only class that has yet to get hard, not surprisingly, is History of the 20th century through film...we just watch movies in class. that´s it.
Last weekend, I took a lovely short trip to Mendoza, Argentina. It is an 8 hour bus ride over the Andes, which in itself was worth the trip--very beautiful. Mendoza is a very pretty, serene city, with lots of parks, plazas, tree-lined streets etc...While I certainly noticed many differenes between Chile and Argentina, aside from the obvious differences in spanish accents, I feel somewhat disqualified to elaborate since I was only in that country for three days. What I did realize though, is how much a rivarly exists between the two countries. Argentina is a huge country, but chile is quite powerful for its mere 16,000,000 inhabitants (there are about 36 million in Argentina and almost half live in or near Buenos Aires).
Anyway, I really enjoyed Mendoza simply because it was a very relaxing, peaceful weekend. Argentina is much cheaper compared to Chile, so we were able to eat, shop, and have fun without spending too much. Most of the time was spent wandering the city (by the way it has about 1 million people, to put it in perspective), going to the large park San Martín, and basically relaxing. Saturday we did a fun winery tour...on bike. That is kind of the thing to do in Mendoza tours of "bikes and wines." It was so lovely because you really are just biking down these tranquil, tree-lined roads in the country going from winery to winery. Soooo nice.
Other than that, my only other recent news I suppose is that I got the flu this weekend...sucky. But, I am getting better. I miss everyone and am kind of sad to be missing the end of the year, graduation festivities happening at LC right now. I will write more soon.
OH YEAH, a 4.0 earthquake woke me up at 5:00 this morning. Scary and exciting!
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