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| The view from my window. |
It's my second day in Santiago. You can see the Andes Mountians from my windows. It might be cold in my room, but at least I have a good view.
My room is smaller than my room at home,but it's cozy, and less room for me to make a mess. I also sleep with a hot water bottle because it does get soo cold here at night. I'm also glad I brought my snuggie from home because it helps keeps me warm as well and is comfy to snuggle up with.
Yesterday I arrived at around 2:30am yesterday. We had to go through a police security check thing, I can't remember the name I can look later in my passport. But there they stamped my passport and took some papers with my information about where I would be staying, and I think they just made sure I was me and not trying to pretend to be me. Now that I look at it, the picture of me for my visa looks nothing like me.. my hair looks darker and its a crazy pic.
After getting my passport stamped I headed to the Baggage claim with Quinn and Erin. Rachel was no where to be found. I think it was because her school told her to wait to get her student visa down there (I guess it was less of a hassle than in the US) so she didn't have one. Our luggage was sitting there waiting for us as we got to the claim. I found mine easily..a little tooo easily. But after having a heck of a flight down here I think anything going with out trouble is tooo easy.
We then went through customs and just had our bags sent through the x-ray machine again. I thought it was going to be a lot harder to get into the country that it was. I parted ways with my new found friends and found my new host mom Maria. Her boyfriend Patricio was also there and helped me with my luggage. When we got home I had something to drink and fell asleep. Or tried to that is, it's hard to sleep in a new place the first night...
I'll write more about my first day in Santiago later. Right now Jessica C. and I are going to get ID cards and register our passports.
Hasta luego
Leslie
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