5:47 PM
Mid-week update on mi vida: I met with the directors of my program last night, Claudia and Andrea, and they’re great – both are young and very nice. We ended up talking about things like which countries have the most attractive guys (they think Italy and Argentina), and they offered to take me out with their friends on the weekends if I want. I also learned more about my job: I will be helping to teach English to kids from ages 8 to 18, all of whom live in poverty and have had trouble in school. I’ll also get the chance to tour the other programs of the foundation and possibly help out with those as well (technical classes, classes for adults who never finished high school, and I forget the other). It looks like my schedule will be a little less rigorous than some of the others (some internships go from 8:30 am to 6 pm at night), but they still haven’t decided exactly how long I will be working each day. I’m excited to start, and I hope I like it!
Other than that, this week has been full of visiting sites around Santiago: El Palacio de la Moneda (main government building), La Chascona (one of the houses of Chilean poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda), and the Museum of Human Rights, among others.
That’s all for now, but I finally put up some pictures as well!
Brianna
Me in front of El Palacio de la Moneda
A view of Santiago - note all the smog
Some of the mountains!
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