El Kiwi en Sudamérica

Sorry for the wait

oops, sorry for the delay with this, and for penance I'll be posting two blogs in short succesion.
This entry is for up to Thursday last week.
Thursday:
Normal happenings lately, still not many hours, but i'll sort things out. The highlight this week would have to be going to the Andes on tuesday (It was a public holiday for the assumtion or ascension of the virgin, I can't remember for sure. What I can remember is that they gave us a holiday for it)Jessenia told me on Monday she was going to the Mountains to go skiing. So, after finding out the cost, I went up; but only to 'chill' in the snow. So we rushed off in the morning, caught the bus (with more gringo's than locals) So it was good times chatting to the guys on the way up. There is quite a few ski fields mear Santiago, I'm not sure how this one rates but looked pretty cool to me. It's quite a different set up to what I'm used to in NZ. There are all these Chalets/houses very close to the field, and lodges as well to stay at. So, while everyone else hit the slopes, I sat in the sun, read books and played a little in the snow (of course you need to do that, the video is on the way)
On the way back, some oif the guys mentioned that they were going to a football game the next day: Chile Vs. Colombia and invited me to come along. So the next day I met up with them and the crew from their Spanish school thing. But unfourtunatly when I met up with them I found out that the game clashed with Touch rugby, so I just tagged along to get a taste of the atmosphere, and to scout out what the process was of getting to a game. By the time we got mear the ground people were selling all these flags and stuff; Guess what I bought? I first bought a medium sized flag (for $3 NZ) which was the first ones I saw for sale. But down the road I bought a flag nearly the size of a sheet! (for $7.50 NZ approx, but I have a sneaking suspicion that I accidently used a 10,000 ($30 NZ) peso bill instead of a 1,000 one, which wasn't what I was planning!) So I followed them to the gate, lent them my flags and rushed off to touch.
Touch was good times again, but I had real bad cramp, so it wasn't a vintage preformance. But I got to meet some people from the team I will be playing for, and gave the opposition a false sense of my abilities (bruhahahaha...evil laugh). Afterwards I went to CJ and the girl's place again, and some dudes came around later as well. Good times, Yep, another late night.
As well on Sunday I went with Omar and Sussana (the Pastor and his wife) to a church's anniversay service, which was good times. The service was a bit different, but the people had the same love, and I knew quite a few of the worship songs in english, which made it alot easier to sing along. And It was cool being able to understand a bit more, both Omar's sermon and their Pastors. My Spanish seems to be inproving, which is cool. I need to get out there and practice more, but I'm generally happy with my progress.
That's about it really, hopefully there will be another opertunity to go to a football game. I was getting similar vibes to what I get going to a big night rugby game, apart from the number of street vendors (I love them, when I go home I'll have to start making bootleg flags and sell them at the rugby- Don't steal my idea). I'm missing you all: look after yourselves, and each other.

(coming soon...Photos, and this weekends edition)

posted by Nathan Sinclair @ 8:11 AM