Speaking da Spanish

Today, we woke up went to an orientation at the universidad de chile office. We had a native speaker give a presentation on all the slang chilean words and a whole bunch of phrases. It is amazing to see how different it is compared to Spain. I have to switch up a lot of my spanish now. Its frustrating but I am learning more and more everyday. He then took us on a tour of Santiago and we had another great dinner, which served tons of tapas, which are like appetizers. We had fish cheeks, fried mushrooms, calamari(spell check too lazy), chicken picante, oysters. There was a lot of food! We had extra food so some of the girls took the rest of the food and fed the stray dogs as we walked back to our hotel. There are many stray dogs that run a muck around the streets. We are now just hanging out deciding whether or not to go out for a bit or just go to sleep and rest, because tomorrow we start our EOD orientation, which is the ministry of education, this is where it could start getting tough. We are going to stay in a hostel and perhaps meet other people from other programs, which will be cool, but the work is about to start. We officially start classes April 4th. Anyway, check in later, hasta luego

Joel