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Ok, so I decided to make a blog. I had to keep adding more and more people to my email list, so eventually I just decided this would be easier. My dad also has a blog. He actually has a talent of writing, so if you want to read his stuff go to www.beyondcapricorn.blogspot.com. He also has a lot more pictures. Anyway, the following is my first email that I sent out about my adventures in Chile.


Ok, so here's what I'm doing: I'm doing a sort of bloggish thing because so many people want me to keep in touch. It's gonna be a lot easier than sending individual emails. I was originally gonna send this to like, 50 people, but I found out that my dad is doing one too, so I narrowed it down a bit. I took out people that would get one from my dad, that way I can be more open and less formal than I would have to be. I'm gonna be doing this regularly. If you don't want to receive any more of these emails, just tell me, I won't get offended. Anyways, here I am, 11 stories up in El Plaza del Bosque, The Plaza of the Forest or something. It's our hotel. Today is my second day here in Chile. Our flight here was extremely uncomfortable. I had to sit next to a full grown man who played on his Nintendo DS the whole 9 hour flight. lol They served us food. Dinner sucked, breakfast was ok, i guess. They played Ghost Town on the plane. It was funny. We landed, and it took like, two hours to get through customs. We had 21 bags weighing 50 lbs. each. That's 1,050 pounds. Plus carry-ons. My dad and I used rope and carabeaners to attatch 6 or 7 at a time and make a train of suitcases. It was insane. We got picked up by people from the embassy.
They took us straight to our hotel. It's pretty nice. We have 3 rooms. Lindsay and Carley share a bed in one room, same with los padres, then Hyrum and Luke share a bed in my room. i'm the only one who gets their own bed. But the boys are loud. Whatever. So much stuff is different, but it doesn't feel like I'm in a foreign country. Well, it does when someone tries to talk to me, but it doesn't when i'm alone. The outlets are all different. You have to have a power adapter for everything. My mom's hairdryer blew up this morning because of the different outlets. The light switches are different, and the toilet paper holder things are different too. It's weird.
So the first thing we did was go to the US Embassy to rent a car. The girls and I sat outside with Pepper and Sadie, the cat and dog, while dad went in. It's just a gated building. hmm...well, we got a minivan and went and dropped the pets off at this lady's house because the hotel doesn't allow pets. The house was very small. There are tons of stray dogs everywhere. Drivers are crazy. Motorcyclists will weave in and out of traffic and occasionally onto the sidewalks. Everybody honksand flips each other off. The roads are insanely crowded. There's this one street, where for the first half of the day, it's a one way one way, then the other half, it's a one way the other way. What happens at the moment it changes? Weird. lol Anyway, we drove around for a bit. We went to the grocery store. Money is so confusing. We had a bunch of empanadas for dinner. We went swimming too. The pool is on the top floor, the 17th. There's a beautiful view. I'm going to put pictures up on my myspace sooner or later. Today we went house hunting. Some of the houses we looked at were pretty nice. All of them have pools. Oh yeah, it's summer here. I'm on summer vacation. I don't start school for a couple weeks. haha I had to kiss my realtor on the cheek. It was weird. Evidently people in Chile talk Spanish the fastest and hardest to understand of any other Spanish speaking peoples. Great. It's so different from the Spanish you learn in school though. We went to a mall and ate at a resturaunt called Pasta Basta. I had raviolli. All the food is so different. I already miss American food. It's not gross, but it's so, foreign? idk It's just weird. I've been trying so many different things. After lunch we went back to the hotel. I slept. I do that a lot. lol We're three hours ahead of Texas. The speed limit signs are in kilometers, not miles. It's just a bunch of little things like that that make this place so confusing.
For dinner we went to an Argentine resturaunt called Don Carlos. My meal was about $10,000. In Chilean pesos, that is. lol My dad gave Linds, Carley and I some weird looking meat stuff to try. He wouldn't tell us what it was until we ate it. It was alright. Then he told us. Blood Sausages. No meat at all. Pretty much cooked blood. Nasty. We went to a park after dinner. There were a bunch of strays, including a big ol German Shepard. Then we came home. Tomorow is church. In Spanish. Great. Well, it's midnight, and church is early so imma go. Peace out.

So I fell asleep before I could send the message, so I'll tell you about today. Church was.....confusing. For some parts, people translated for me. I thought I would understand a lot more Spanish than I actually do. Oh well, hopefully it will get better. We ate at these peoples house. They told us some stuff that kinda scared me. Honestly, I'd rather not talk about that right now. At church, I gave like, every single female a kiss on the cheek. No hugs, just awkward kisses. I'll have to get used to it. There are 4 times as much stray dogs than hot chicks. ugh. It'll get better once I go to school and actually meet some people. So there's this kid at church named Peter (lol) and he doesn't really speak English, but evidently I'm going to Fantasiland or something with him this Saturday. It's an amusement park. He told me he loved me several times.......hmm....Well, tomorow I'm going house hunting again and to a meeting with the school. And to another family's house for dinner. Great. Whatever, mabye something interesting will happen. Hey Rendillio! In about a year my dad and I are gonna climb Aconcagua! lol And for anybody who has an Ipod touch, (Zak, Spencer) my dad showed me an app where you can call people. Look it up. look up Truphone for the Ipod touch. I'ma check it out and let you know how it is. Alright, im out. peace.