My neighborhood

Today I definitely woke up on the wrong side of bed. After a gloomy morning, I decided I needed to do something to fix that. All in all I've been trying to be more independent and to use my time in ways that make me glad to be here. After all the main reason I'm here, other than wanting to become fluent in Spanish, is to have the challenge of an enormous change in my life. I hate change, so I figure this is good for me. So anyways I decided to go out for a long walk around my neighborhood instead of moping which was what I felt like doing. It was a beautiful day...the first sunshine we've had in a long time. I brought my camera along and took quite few pictures. I really love walking around with the purpose of taking pictures, because I find I notice and appreciate so many more things. I took pictures of bakeries, bridal shops, antique stores, and hardware stores. I went in to two churches and by four parks. It was great.

Here are the pictures of the Plaza O'higgins and Calle Uruguay, where I live. They're actually some of the least pretty of the pictures I took. But I want to post them so you can see what its like. As soon as I walk out the huge metal gate from our appartment building (the blue building on the left in the first picture) I'm out in this mess. Its really noisy and energizing.