Lo cotidiano-"the day-to-day"

After my exciting trip to Pomaire things have settled down. I did some Valpairaíso exploring yesterday with Christian and Erika, saw some of the older, maritime parts of the city, and walked along the beach. Its actually getting a little warmer, and yesterday I was able to go out for two hours wearing no wool sweaters. That's right, no wool sweaters. It was incredible.

Today I got up early for class only to discover that it was cancelled. That's ok though, I need to get in the habit of getting up earlier, because I'm going to have to on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursdays. Its still pitch black when I get up at 7, and way cold. I have to go out on the balcony to light the hot water heater for my shower, which is tricky and usually takes me at least 3 tries :S I've made a huge pile of dead matches.

Since my class was cancelled, I went to the foreign students' office and signed up to do a "language exchange" which is an informal meeting with a Chilean student where you speak english for half the time and spanish for the other half. I also signed up to volunteer for a program called something like "English opens doors" where you go to schools and teach kids english. Should be fun.

Other than that, I don't have much to report. My life is pretty similar to what its always been--school, plans, chocolate, scrubs, talking on the phone. Trying to stay warm. Taking at least half an hour to get out the door to go anyplace : )

Oh, here is a picture of my room. Mama was asking what it looked like.