Adventures

I looked out my window the other night and saw this moon-rise over the Andes

I know this is super soon after the last blog but it's been a fun couple of days. On Wednesday I skipped school and we had a family outing to the river Clarillo. It's part of a national park about an hour's drive out of Santiago and it was awesome to get into the foothills. Filipe's family joined us too so, his mum, his brother Jaime and his sister Natalia and her husband Antonio with their 2 boys. Whew! Very hot day which was good because the river was pretty cold but a beautiful place. The river has been dammed a little in places to create swimming holes and there are lots of places to picnic and bbq. It was a lovely relaxed day and I managed to not get sun-burnt!

Yes that is me IN the river

Filipe and his brother Jaime

Up on Santa Lucia

Yesterday I ventured into the city by myself after classes finished and visited some local markets and discovered Santa Lucia. This is the other little hill in Santiago and had heaps of gardens and fountains and a small fort at the top of the hill. I had a great time exploring and was surprised to find out that it's actually supposed to be a dangerous place to go by yourself. Emy was pretty shocked that I'd gone there! But I didn't feel unsafe at all so I definitely felt like God was looking out for me.

I then went to a salsa dancing class back at language school. Nobody else turned up so I had a private lesson for an hour and half. Nearly died! Very hard work but a lot of fun. The bum-wiggle was especially confusing and I'm sure you have to be Latin-American to really get the hang of it! A kind German doing their homework found my camera and dutifully took a video which I guess I should probably share with you...it looks better than I felt it did!