Arrival

The plane was delayed out of Dallas until 2 AM, which was hardly welcomed by anyone. I translated food and drink orders for two Chileans in the Mexican restaurant in the airport (the Chileans didn´t know what the items on the mexican menu were, and the people working in the restaurant were all gringos). They were in the US on business, and gave me a lot of advice on where to go in Chile for vacation and how to get there, etc.

I got on the plane and actually managed to get a few hours of sleep, before waking up and talking to the Chilean next to me, who works in IT. He gave me his card as well as a lot of advice on getting around the city and what to do.

I took a taxi to the dorm, which is farther away from the university than I was expecting. I´ll go to the university tomorrow and get all the international information and everything around there. Although, since my cell phone doesn´t work and the clock on this computer is kind of screwed up, I realized I have close to no idea what time it is. I think we´re 2 hours ahead here, judging by a very confusing map in the airline magazine.

I´m pretty sure my Spanish has improved in the last 3-4 hours dramatically, or at least a lot of it came back to me, because now I´m finding it a lot easier to communicate that it was 24 hours ago.

I went around a park pretty close to the dorm and wandered into a free museum of natural history. I was expecting a few quiet families and some geology nerds... but it was almost like a playground for a bunch of toddlers running around in there. They had the skeleton of a blue whale in the entrance hall, quite amazing.

Well, apart from the fact that everything is closed on Sundays, everything´s great, and I should have plenty of time to get everything done that I need to tomorrow.