pictures of our room!

Because nothing super interesting has happened in the last few days we thought we'd treat you all to some photos of our room, taken prior to our camera's liberation. Enjoy!


One interesting thing that has happened is that it became summer. Literally overnight. We came back from Valparaiso, and winter in Santiago had ended. We went from wearing every single article of clothing we own all at once to sweating from a 10 minute walk outside. Today it was about 78 degrees Farenheit. Our dream of the pursuit of an endless summer is finally coming to fruition. To celebrate the gorgeous weather, we (with a great deal of help from Javier) have organized a futbol game of Chilenos vs. Extranjeros (foreigners). We will almost surely lose, but it's going to be a hell of a good time.

Last night we went out to an Indian restaurant for our friend KellyAnne's birthday. It was actually pretty delicious, and it confirmed our suspicions that Chilenos do not like any kind of food that has flavor. Our friend Diego almost barfed while trying to choke down his vegetable masala, and then he threw a fit when he found out it cost 5 luca (5,000 pesos or about $10) for "nothing more than some rice and a bowl of fucking mushrooms." We comforted him by plying him with beer.

Today we met with and talked to the guy who runs the TEFL Academy and who will be our trainer. It turns out once we finally obtain jobs, we'll be paid pretty decently; much better than we had originally thought, which is a relief. We can only keep up this destitution act for so long. It has been helpful in terms of health, though. We're both on the "poor man's diet," which consists of only one big meal a day, lots of vegetables (because they're cheaper), and walking everywhere that is less than two miles away. When our class starts we'll be facing intensive classes every weekday from 10am to 5:30, which will be quite the opposite of our rather lax lifestyle right now. I don't know if it was the sudden weather change when we got here or fewer hours of daylight or the fact that we literally have no responsibilities other than to feed ourselves every now and then, but we have only woken up/gotten up earlier than 10:30am ONCE since we got here. I'll pause for a moment to let all of you hard-working shmucks out there loathe us with every fiber of your being. ... ... Honestly though, it's getting kind of boring, and we're both looking forward to our upcoming trip up north to the desert and to our class beginning.

I now realize that I had intended to only post these pictures and that I claimed nothing interesting was happening. Sorry for the long-winded exposition on basically nothing! I might as well add that we love getting comments from everyone, especially the snarky and ridiculous ones, so keep 'em coming!