if you're anything like me, and your mind is oftentimes not exactly where it 'should' be (i.e. you're with a bunch of people and instead of contributing to conversation you just watch and listen to those around you), you'll understand this. maybe you will even if that made absolutely no sense.
i feel like i'm in the U.S.
for the most part, viña del mar looks like it could be bellingham, or vancouver or maybe even alabama. riding a bus is like riding a bus anywhere else. shopping at the grocery store is no different than at home. all the stores at the mall have their own credit cards. family dinner is, well, a family dinner complete with questions and jokes and laughing at the antics of a 6-year-old. i can't get enough of the fact that although i'm in a different country, hemisphere, time zone, coast... everything is still the same. granted, people talk faster than new yorkers on crack and they're all speaking spanish. that's even not so terribly hard to deal with a lot of the time. i'm surprised with how much i can understand (when they talk slowly!). speaking is a different story, but that will come in time.
my arrival was messy business, what with paying $150 USD for a taxi ride to viña , arriving to no roommate (and no key), and brett coming to save me. all in all though, not so bad.
tomorrow i begin spanish classes. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. mon.-fri. i should actually probably get to sleep now, so my brain will function in spanish mode en la mañana. eesh.
no pictures yet. they'll come soon enough.
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