My butt hurts.

On Saturday 4 friends and I hiked up San Cristobal, and my butt is just getting over it now. San Cristobal is a hill in Santiago with a huge statue of the Virgin Mary on top. This is the few of it from our starting point at Plaza Italia.








Of course, there are several ways to get to the top, such as taking the Funicular (a wee train), a gondola (like the ski lift kind, or a taxi. But we hiked. I'm thinking if I walk up it every week until December, I will have buns, thighs, and calves of steel when I come home. Weather.com said it was going to rain, but it clearly did not. 80% my butt.




This is us at the very top, minus Madeline who took the picture. And by very top, I mean we're standing directly in front of a humongous statue of Mary.






Everything is superbien with my new family. I love them so much! This is a picture of Monse (Monsay) "reading" my map book. She just wandered in, laid down on the bed, and picked it up.






This is Monse with Benja (Ben-ha). He talks super fast and I never understand him, but I do know it's usually about videogames, so I always say how cool videogames are and how good he is at them.

Today was the first day of classes that you could go to. They kind of have a trial week of classes where we can go and decide if you like the professor or whatevs, and then real classes start next Monday. Es un proceso interesante. I tried to sit through a class today, but when the professor is speaking in Spanish (like they often do here), it's easy to zone out. But I guess it was a good class, because my friend said she thought it was interesting. I'm not slacking, honest. I'm going to kajillion (or 4) classes tomorrow though, and they sound more interesting anyway. So ha.

Oh, and some interesting news... Blair, my friend who lives with my old "aunt" and "uncle" said my old family had dinner over at their house the other day. Meme said I was "problematic." Uh, yeah, I caught you guys stealing from me. Sorry I caused you find that problematic. My bad. Buuutttt, Andres, previously known as my uncle, sent me a message on facebook (yeah, we're friends) and he said I'm welcome over there anytime and they'd love to see me. I just hope we don't all wander over there on the same day. Eeh.

About the movies -- most of the children's movies are dubbed over, while you can see adult movies either dubbed over or with subtitles. When I went to see Dark Night (El Caballero de la Noche), it was all in English with Spanish subtitles. So that's super nice. (btw, Heath Ledger was AMAZING, wasn't he?) There is a little lag time with openings though, like Mamma Mia isn't out yet here. Thus, I'm super duper jealous of you, Aunt Kim!

And yes, Patty is a wonderful name and everyone named Patty is super awesome! :)

Besos!