I've been in Chile for a solid month and a week, maybe two weeks. It's still crazy waking up knowing that I am in a whole new country, but some things never change. Like me forgetting to call my mom yesterday (sorry mom, you will get a phone call today).
I got my first A on an assignment in one of my classes which is super rare for me because I've gotten a B on literally every assignment this semester so far. Pats on the back for me.
Chile just finished having a heat wave (any weather that is 90 degrees Fahrenheit and above) that lasted two weeks. Which means I can walk to my metro stop and not have to worry about sweating through my clothes before my 9:30 class even starts.
There have been two huge fires with smoke that you could see from campus classrooms happen in the last week. Northern Chile (The Atacama Desert aka the driest place on Earth) was flooded last week resulting in the partial destruction of a main bridge in the city. In the south, fires have been ravaging the more temperate weathered section of Chile. Someone tell me that climate change isn't real after hearing that.
Next week our school is going on a trip to a vineyard that's about an hour and a half south of Santiago. While this is tempting, a few other people are going on a trip to Pucon (a city that is supposedly really cool but I have no prior knowledge to it) which I have considered attending, but we will see what happens.
Everything is going great. And I started my application to the Peace Corps. Sheesh.
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