Well... here we are in Santiago!  I have some catching up to do on my blog!  We got here Monday late afternoon, after a 30 hour bus ride from Arica, Chile.  We are staying downtown with our friends Alex and Naoko.  We've done nothing but hang out with them and our other friends since we got here, drinking beer and eating!  Yesterday was May Day, and so no Chileans work.  None of the stores were open. So we went to the park and sat around and then made pizzas.  It was fun.

Today I'm going to run a few errands, get some gifts, do laundry.

I've arranged to meet up with a few old students, so I'm excited about that!  I really miss my students.

It feels weird and wrong to be leaving Santiago. We have so many good friends, and we love the city. It's got great weather (apart from the smog!), great public transit, great parks and museums and malls and culture.  And great people.  If I didn't have to teach English, and if I could actually speak Spanish, I'd rather live here then the States.

My flight to Kentucky is on May 9th at 1am.  

I will keep posting about our last weeks in Bolivia and Peru!

Chao!
annie