Cerro San Cristóbal

my room

from the mercado/vom Markt

tallest building/höchstes Gebäude

japanese garden/japanischer garten

view/aussicht

Swiss School/schweizerschule

We didn't end up leaving for the beach yesterday after all. Once I had given them all of their presents (which they loved) they told me we would leave the next day, because...  - well I don't really know.
I was pretty happy about just having a nice relaxed evening at home, I thought I could maybe read for a while... But then they decided we would go look at Santiago, which was super cool too!
We went to the Cerro San Cristóbal, which is like a big hill in the very middle of Santiago. There were lots of people biking or jogging (we drove, my familia is not sporty!!), then we took several stops while driving up the hill. The first one was at the japanese garden, a really cute little place! There was a tree that Japan had given Santiago (or Chile) for it's 200th birthday.
Then the next stop was higher up and we had a very nice view of one part of the city. The highest building of South America is also in Santiago and you could see it from there too.
Then we went even higer up and then walked to the very top. I had a little race with the boys, and it felt nice to finally run and be a little active!
Up at the top we had an even nicer view, there was a very pretty sunset and we waited until it got dark and you could see all of the lights, it was all very pretty!
Then we had dinner at an Italian restaurant, I had Lasagna, the only vegetarian thing they had.
Later we went by the Swiss School and looked at it from the outside, it had all fences around it so you couldn't actually go inside. Anyway almost everything in Santiago seems to have fences around it.
We got home at 11pm and I was in bed by midnight, I feel asleeep right away - I'm still pretty jetlagged and all of the Spanish is making me tired.
This morning I got up at 10:30, had breakfast with Andrés and Andreu and now I have a little time while the others get up and have breakfast.
Then we'll leave and finally go to the beach. They said it's about a two hour drive, and I'm pretty excited to see some more of Chile.
I took some pictures with my cellphone and I'll try to upload some of them, but I'm not really sure how that will work. : )
Lena