This month, I went to visit my roommate from USC, Gaby, in Sao Paulo where she's studying abroad. This was my first time in Brazil, and thank god I had Gab because she was my translator for everything Portuguese when Spanish didn't work. Besides for having a local tour guide/translator, it was also really nice to catch up because I hadn't seen her...

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On Friday, it was down-pouring (again) in Santiago, and I didn't have an umbrella or a raincoat with me. I was already in a pretty weird mood from work, and I was getting soaked. On my way to the metro, a stranger said she was walking the same way and shared her umbrella with me. We talked the whole way there about our...

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DAY 1 Cusco After a flight from Santiago to Lima, sprinting through the airport for my connecting flight because I didn't know there was a time difference, and then another flight to Cusco, I finally got to my hostel around 12. I dropped some stuff off, and had the whole day to explore. I wish I had more than one day there, because...

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During our free walking tour of Valparaiso My best friend came to visit last month! My roommate from USC, Gaby, is studying abroad in Sao Paulo right now and she visited me in Santiago for a week and a half. The first weekend she was here, we went to the winery Concha y Toro, about an hour outside of downtown Santiago. I loved...

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Santiago is pretty empty during Santa Semana (Easter week.) Everyone escapes the city for the weekend, and most stores aren't open. Luckily, grocery stores stayed open, because otherwise I probably would've starved. To celebrate Semana Santa the Chilean way, we went to the Easter mass on top of Cerro San Cristobal. We took the furnicular (trolley) up to the top of the hill...

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{Haven’t blogged in a while, my bad!} I can’t believe it but I’ve already been here for a little over a month now. I’ve had something planned almost every weekend & throughout the week I’ve just been getting into my routine and struggling through classes. If I'm being honest, I probably screw up something every day, whether it’s saying something completely wrong or...

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Kind of a random little blog post, but I thought it could help the next cohort program if I described how the printing center works at FEN. I needed something for a class & I had no idea how to print anything, and every Chilean I knew kept telling me "just print it," which obviously didn't help with anything. So there's two options......

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