I finally got to take some pictures, as a friend let me borrow a camera for my trip to San Pedro in the Atacama desert, which is the driest place on earth..really. Though I have complained plenty about the fact that I'm paying my university's tuition while I am here (Chilean tuition is much cheaper), the flipside is that it paid for this incredible 5-day trip (and one more that I leave for in two weeks). We saw everything--geysers, salt flats, incan/atacameño ruins, tiny towns in the middle of the desert, and this valley called "valley of the moon" that literally felt like another planet (ironically, not so much like the moon..though I can't say for sure..). Luckily, the camera I was using was really good quality and I was able to get some nice shots. Most of the people you are seeing in the photos below are friends from my program, but there are some strangers sprinkled in for fun.
To give a quick update, everything else is going well with my stay here--the weekend prior to this trip I had amazing time in Curico (2 hours to the south of Santiago) for 18th of September (Chilean independence) staying with my friend Pablo and his family, who spoiled me all weekend. On the radar for the next two and a half months that remain: teaching english as a volunteer (got placed in a school with all girls :0...quite the experience) and also making a little money which is good, classification to the Word Cup for Chile (fingers crossed--Saturday!!), day trip to a national park, a visit from my m uncle arthur, trip to Pucon (in the south of Chile), time with my host family, exams, quizzes, papers, and more...and hopefully a little more traveling when that is all done..
Hope everyone is well..
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