HELLO FROM THE LAST DAY OF MY TRIP!!!! I am SO excited to be home and in 28 hours, I WILL BE! This trip has been emotionally and mentally difficult and I am so ready to be DONE! My roommate and I had to leave our Airbnb by 1 pm and we don’t need to […]
Hello from Santiago, Chile! The above photo is from yesterday’s day trip to Portillo Ski Center. Today I am writing the 14th edition of these Checking In posts, which is just two months after I wrote the last one. Let’s get to it! Making: lots of plans for the rest of the summer! I am […]
I did it… I finally did something I have been thinking about doing for a long time. I deleted Instagram (not my account, just the app). A couple of weeks ago, I was scrolling mindlessly (like I usually do) and just feeling jealous towards everyone at their pool parties, lake days, beach days, and just […]
Hello, hello! Do you know what today isssssssssssssssss? It’s 5 days before I get to go home! We leave on Saturday and the thought of being home is very, very exciting. I guess it’s obvious that I still am not really enjoying Santiago very much. I still feel like a spoiled brat, but it’s just […]
Wow, I don’t know if it’s Spain or this is an international….issue…let’s call it, but finding the right place to open a bar/cafeteria/restaurant that has all of it’s ducks in a row, isn’t wildly expensive, and doesn’t need major renovation is NOT easy. I haven’t mentioned it here, but we found a reasonably OK place […]
Hello and Happy Monday to ya! This time next week, I will only have FIVE DAYS LEFT! And in two days, it will be the official hump of this long trip. If you can’t tell, I am still very much not loving Santiago. The program itself is fine, and the kids are great and I […]
Good afternoon from the computer lab of our “school” here in Chile. Thank goodness for these computers, otherwise I would be limited to my iPhone for blog writing and that wouldn’t work well and all of you would be left post-less…. the horror! Yesterday I had “off” in the morning, so I did some exploring […]
Hello from Santiago, Chile and the very sticky keyboard in the hostel! If any words I write are missing letters, blame this keyboard. First lesson I’ve learned here: to type the @ symbol, you need to type Alt + 64… how would anyone ever figure this out? I had to ask the guy at the […]
As I’ve mentioned in the last few posts, I am going to be heading to Santiago de Chile for a 3 week trip with a group of American students. The students are doing a cultural immersion program and learning all about entrepreneurship (actually, they are learning a very simplified version of what I learned all […]
I made it back to the good ole USA late last night after over 14 hours of travel, a thorough security check (I was the last one on the plane and then entire plane had to wait 45 minutes for me!) and then it took over 3 hours to get home from the airport. I […]