Valle Nevado

On Wednesday we watched the second one of Chile’s games in the world championship. They won again and the whole school (all of Chile really) was super happy as you can probably imagine.

Last Friday we had ‘jeans day’ at school. That’s a day where everyone can wear to school whatever they want to. It was pretty cool to see everyone in different colors and not just read and blue! : )

I had gymnastics as usual at night, and then we went to have dinner at a friend of my host parent’s house. He lives farther up, closer to the mountains – still in Santiago though – and you had a really cool view of the city lights until it started getting suuper foggy.

Yesterday Lea and I had a going-all-about-the-city-day. First we went to a market where they sell all sorts of things. Then we went to my house and Lea helped me get my snowboard ready. Afterwards we went to the mall Plaza Egaña – so that Lea could play some piano. This time my favorite people were a guy who gave her a thumbs up sign as he walked by and some other person who started applauding. : ) Our last stop was Lea’s house, where we watched a movie. Afterwards I went home and then had some more organizing things to do.

Because today we went SKIING!! We went to Valle Nevado. The drive up there takes about 1.5 hours and there’s a part where the road winds itself up the mountains – there’s 39 turns and each of them is numbered. : ) The highest point I went to was almost 3500m above sea level! I think that’s pretty impressive!
We had a great time all day! It was pretty cold at times but I still LOVED it! Andrés drove us up there, but then I only went skiing with the boys. In the afternoon I also spent some time boarding with Cathy and then some more with José. One thing that I think should definitely be something other skiing resorts should think about, is that in ‘Valle Nevado’ there were always little stations with boxes of tissues at the botton of almost every chairlift! I mean how brilliant is that?? : ) On our way back down at 5pm the sun was setting behind the mountains and the sky turned orange and purple. It was beautiful!

Just so you know – even though I did get my license I’m not planning on driving around alone for a while!! I know that I still need to practice a lot and I’m not even thinking about just going about the city by myself. I haven’t driven at all anyway since I got my license! : )

Now I only have another two weeks of school and then another two weeks of holidays to look forward to until I leave this crazy, precious, amazing and beautiful country and then head up to the US to spend a month in yet another one of my homes spread about the world.

mundial

Plaza Egaña

trying to get my board ready : )

tissue station

on our way back down