well It's been close to a week since I out something up, I'm sorry, I shouldn't be so slack.Anyway, What has happened lately? Well, to tell you the truth, it's been fairly chilled out lately, just work, work and other stuff.So here's a brief recap before getting onto details:
Wednesday nite: went for a run in the rain in the dead of night- dodging spray from vehicules etc. (Ivé really been enjoying pretending i'm fit... it's a good way to familarise myself with the surroundings)
Thursday: Chilled and prepared for work, and ate Pizza with Becka and some of her friends (I must have done more...)
Friday: My student arrived for the early (7:30) class in the morning, and I taught my other class, after that I relaxed, visted Omar and his Mom who was visiting (and had a conversation with her for like an hour in spanish- yes!) went to a Ping-pong championship at Wooodward Language inst. (where I do exchanges) and went bowling at Gringolandia (a big mall in Las Condes, i'll tell you more later*)
Saturday: Ventured to another muy grande mall in Las Condes (I went by Micro, you know, the yellow crazy buses) to hopefully buy some stuff to make a shelf and fix the gap on the edge of my window, see below for more**. So I did that and lesson preperation.
Sunday: Church and lunch with one of the familys (the same family as two weeks ago, (I can't spell their last name) but in a different location- I'm not excatly clear which is their home but i'm leaning towords the later). Good times definitly. Next week it's gonna be a church luncheon or something i've heard (but when I say heard, don't take it for granted that I heard correct) And a little lesson preperation.And today I had one class in the morning and I'm getting ready for some new classes I have tommorow, both off site
*GINGOLANIDA
Anyway, I was at Woodward Inst. for their every-so-often table tennis championship (for the record I got to the second round, but failed to beat a Chilean girl (whos coming to New Zealand) who was wearing high heels) and chilling with the people there, and then I got a call from Becka saying I should come bowling with some of the people frokm her apartment, and that they were going to a alley in Las Condes. So I got the name of the place and what time, thinking it should be all sweet. But after leaving woodward I started to wonder if I woluld even find the place (I didn't have my map on me and, ummm.... what was the mall called again?) so I started walking towards Kennedy Av. because I was pretty sure that was the big mall street. So I eventually found it, with prayer (I was kinda laughing at how mad I was- running off in the dark with only a clue where this pace was) and by guessing were the people with shopping bags came from (i'll back the former) I made it to a mall- but was it the right one?- so I found a security guy, and I asked him in perfect spanish "where is the (I did some brilliant charades)" Dude was helpful as and pointed the way. But lo and behold Becka and the crew wern't there yet. but I was just on time so I waited, got a drink, and amazingly didn't feel extremly out of place (I wasn't the only one in the room without dark hair/eyes, It seemed strangly surreal. I felt like I was in some big mall in New Zealand (actually, it was too big for new zealand, lets say America instead) so I was hopeing that no-one would asume that I was some rich kid from out there and start talking spanish to me and then I'd look kinda stupid) I also had a freaked out feeling that they were at another mall that had an alley as well. But they arrived, we eventullay got a lane, and had a good time. But I'm serious that place was gringolandia to the extreme! I wish I took my camera. Madness.
*GRINGOLANDIA IION saturday I had some home-handy-man ambitions for my room: a shelf, and some "no more gaps TM" to fill up the gap on the edge of the window. so after getting some micro numbers from Becka the night before,I headed off into the unknown... ALTO LAS CONDES! (a different mall) so that was pretty straight forward. I walked around the 4 story mall for awhile, stumbled across a massive jumbo were i found some hair wax (I looked all though the pharmacies in Provi and couln't find any) and a rubgy ball (for 4,000 pesos- about 12 bucks) which was cool. The home-depotish kinda store had shelves that were too expensive, no obvious place to buy just a little bit of wood, but they did have some kind of no more gap stuff. So, with a huge sense of pride in my homehandyman skills, I filled it up... and here's the proof:
and the view up my nostrils.
Well at least the proof I bought the gear.
And a pick of the beautiful Andes (I still get a buzz looking at them)
And Saturday marked my 1 month anniversary of arriving here. 1 down 11 to go...
And here's a video tour of my apartment (very low tech, in the future videos will feature flashy effects and hitting soundtracks)
posted by Nathan Sinclair @ 1:42 PM
9 Comments:
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Yay, you've got a piano. Looks like a tiny bedroom, but I suppose it does the job. Keep Bloging, we check just about every morning.
Nice video.
How about getting some photos of your friends and flatmates. That would be cool.
good work handy man. 1 down 11 to go
hello Nathan Go The All Blacks!
All Blacks vs Springbok cool ay he he he he he he he he
Umm.. Theresa, I can't see the piano your talking about... And if you think my apartment is small it's actually quite sizable, it's hard to get the scale from my video (I was with Waldo when he had a look around a new apartment complex and they were alot smaller... I think when you have 4 bedrooms they upsize the lounge abit) funny thing with the apartment waldo's getting- it's on the 13th floor, all the others had sold out(gotta love superstition right)
oh, yeah, whoops, on second thoughts it looks more like the TV cabnet, it looked a bit like a piano at a glance.
sounds like you're keeping yourself busy! Can you get 1000 peso notes or something? Cuz 4000 coins 'd be pretty heavy?
yes you can get 1000 peso notes, thats the smallest size in cash, but in coins the smallest is 1 peso (330 pesos to the NZ dollar approx)
Great to see things Nat - i can't wait till the vids have soundtracks and flashy effects. But keep them coming whatever the state, they are cool to see....and wash those dishes!
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