Hello again,

So I know I just posted last night but I wanted to get some pictures up! Nothing too exciting happened today except that I tried to join a gym but they were going to charge me $60 for the month...that was a little too much for me. So instead I went for my first run around my neighborhood. I was a little nervous about getting lost and looking like a fool because hardly anybody works out here (maybe it is because of the price of the gyms). But I was able to explore the area around my house and work on my fear of barking dogs. The amount of dogs here is insane and for most of them there is no way to tell if they are owned by someone or stray dogs, every time I ran by one it barked VERY loudly! I also got a lot of strange looks, and they were probably thinking why is that Gringa running in the middle of winter in shorts and a t-shirt. Oh well!

Now for the pictures you have all been waiting for!

This a picture of my host mom (Gloria), her son Bruno (who looks funny because he didn't want his picture taken), and my little sister here Alissia. Aren't they cute??

This is a picture of my room here, it is a little bit cleaner now.

This is a picture of the outside of my house.
And it is totally okay to be jealous of this picture. This is the view from my window here in my room and yes, those are the ANDES MOUNTAINS! Pretty cool, huh?

Tomorrow is the first day that I will be going to a school to observe the education system in Chile. The first school we are going to is in a very poor part of Santiago with lots of drug problems so it should be quite the experience. I will let you know how i goes.