Yesterday and Today

Well yesterday was fun! First day of classes but only IFSA offered classes so I went to my Advancer Grammar spanish class which seems like it will be a little work but not too bad. After school my dad came and picked me up again and Chaz, Leah, Jorge and I went to exchange money in Valpo (Chaz and Leah needed money), this is apparently a bad idea as it is super dangerous but luckily nothing bad happened with us! After we went to Paris, a large store so Chaz could buy a phone! After that Leah left and Chaz, Jorge and I went for a stroll around Valpo, much like my first day here! It was lots of fun and lots and lots of walking but I took pictures! We rode 2 ascensores (elevator things that go up/down the side of the hills) and wandered back down both times. See the pictures below for more detail. I also took pictures of all the murals that are in Valpo. There is lot of graffiti but there are also lots of murales that are super sweet! I'll try to post a couple of my favorite below! I also bought some super sweet earrings made of glass!

The sweet glass earrings I bought!
Looking down a road
Host dad, Jorge and me!
Going up the ascensore

Chaz and I waiting to go up!!!

After getting home and trying to figure out where to go for classes tomorrow (17th), Chaz and I realized that we had a choque de horario (quite literally a schedule crash but really just a conflict in schedule). The art building was not where I thought it was and was in fact on the other side (not in the right direction) of Viña. This led to much stressing and skipping a class today to go talk to Claudio, the super nice director of study abroad stuff at PUCV.

So today we went to talk to Claudio and after a mess of talking to people and coming up with alternatives and such maaay possibly have a schedule. Though it is definitely not the one I want. For starters I can't take the sculpture class that I want and may have to take the poetry class I was thinking about dropping. So currently I'm just waiting and hoping things work out but sad that I can't take the sculpture class.

Despite this, after class and lunch Chaz and I went to the beach and bought ice cream and I got to walk in the sun and sand and ocean. So all things considered today was pretty sweet! Thanks to Chaz for helping me work through this mess with him! ^_^

<3Annie