School and Viña

Yesterday we got the official tour of Adolfo Ibáñez and the rundown of the school and general safety tips. The campus is smaller than I'd anticipated, but the architecture is super interesting. There are four buildings (A, B, C, and D. They like to keep us college kids on our toes, ya know.) that each serve their own unique purpose.

Also, Christina left to go back to Texas yesterday, leaving me her [far more spacious] room, outlet converter, and cell phone. One whole wall is a window, which has a nice view but also means that it gets super cold and really bright in the morning. I woke up this morning thinking that I'd turned on my lamp in my sleep (cause I do stuff like that....yep.) but it's just the window haha.

After Christina left, I met Alice's 4-year-old granddaughter, Florencia (a.k.a. "La Flo"). I was getting my stuff ready to move into my new room when Flo walked in, sat on my bed, and announced that she had something to tell me: She didn't know who to play with. And thus commenced an entire afternoon dedicated to reading, coloring, and playing pirates with Flo. I also met Tia Lilian, but I have no idea where her relation is in the family aside from being an aunt of some sort.

Today was fairly eventful. Went to Union Church where a college professor preached as a guest speaker on showing true love and commitment to Christ and his body. We had lunch with him and his wife after the service. This guy is actually Irish, but met his Chilean wife at school in California and moved here after. After lunch, we went on a tour around Viña along with the rest of the students in the exchange program. It was kind of redundant since we Grove City folk took pretty much the same route to get to church this morning.  Even so, it was nice to take our time to check out the park, see the "famous clock" of Viña (is it bad that I'd never heard of it?), pass by a couple castles (the one in the picture is a museum now, the other is used by the police force), and stop to chill at a McDonald's.

 Sea lions by the castle

Estrecho Maga Maga where it meets the Pacific

Made for a long day of walking, and I think we've all agreed that it's time for a hot shower and bed. I'm still working on figuring out my class schedule and when and where I need to get on the bus, but it looks like I'll be able to buddy up with other gringos throughout the undertaking. School starts tomorrow!