El Kiwi en Sudamérica

I´m here!

Hola amigos!

Sorry I didn´t give a synopsis of my trip plans, i´ll give them in retrospect instead:
My journey started at home in Rolleston at 6 in the morning. After packing up I left CH CH at 9:45 to Auckland- then from auckland to Buenos Aires at 4:30 pm wiht Aerolineas Argentinas.

The flight was ok i guess-Except that I had only one/two hours sleep in a 12ish hour flight. I was sitting beside an old lady who could only speak spanish-I think she understood that i was going to chile and that i´m from New Zealand but i´m not sure even of that. After my brief nap i woke up to see the southern part of chile out the window, which gave me a huge buzz and woke me up real good. for some reason our flight took a big u shaped path instead of a straight one.

2-3 hours after that we arrived in Buenos Aires, and then I was kinda close to missing the plan- I was told it left at gate B, but i learned later that gate B was a bus to my plane. anyway an airline guy asked for "passenger sinclair" so I followed him to the bus and onto the plane. good thing i was sitting in the right place.
I wish I could show some photos becuase the flight over the Andes was "muy bonito" , but i couldn´t see the city from my seat because of the cloud/smog over the city. I arrived aoçround 4:30 pm

Omar Ramos, from the Reformed Baptist Church over there picked me up frojm the aiport. (I had a few problems in customs but i´ll talk about that some other time) He drove us on the big toll road round the top part of the city- it was such an amazing drive. The view was awesome, the mountains are so close, the city so busy, old buildings and new ones etc (i wish I took more photos, but i didnt want to feel like a crazy gringo) He took me to his place where I met his family: his wife, two daughters and his son- I also met some of an american family who have been in chile for the last 7 or so weeks. And in normal Nathan fashion I can remember for sure all their names. So I stayed there for 2 or 3 hours and followed Omar around to a dairy (i can´t remeber it´s chilean name) and to a school to pick up his son. It was great fun. Omar speaks english pretty well but the rest of the family aren´t as good as him. So I tryed to comunicate as best I could.
I eventually made it to Waldo´s and Omar´s (another Omar) apartment(they are friends of a chilean frined of mine in NZ) at around 8:30 or something. Omar and his wife, Sussanah took me) . Waldo and Omar are brothers from Concepcion. They both wnat to practice their English so we can communicate quiete well. So we went shopping for some food to make some Chilean hot dogs in their car and arrived back around 1o something to cook it up for tea. Driving around in Santiago is brilliant, swerving lanes, buses driving like crazy.
I eventually got to bed at around 11.30 chile time (3 p.m friday NZ time) Iwas "muy cansado" or very tired.

I got up this morning at 9 and i´m now in Santiago central with Omar (he is looking for work) after a trip on the "Metro" (the subway) and we´re in an e-cafe.

Sorry for all the typos and bad sentence structure- the keyboards here are weird.

Adios,

Nathan
P.S don´t expect all my post to be this long...and photos will come soon

posted by Nathan Sinclair @ 12:03 PM