What can I say?….Chile was certainly the experience of a life time… 6 weeks later and over six pounds lighter, I am still looking back and rejoicing in telling, re-telling and re-retelling friends and family about my Chilean adventures!
So…what to expect from Coyhaique? It is small, and very beautiful. The people are some of the friendliest I have ever met; you can’t help but bump into someone on your travels and end up
chatting for hours on the freezing street corners…. Better still you may be invited in for a “mate” or two (pronounced mat-ay a form or herbal tea) and be made to feel part of the family!
The teaching for me was somewhat of a surreal experience, rocking up at the high school on my first day was certainly terrifying as I racked my brains to recall the Spanish I thought I had learnt! However I quickly realised that they were fantastic kids and I reveled in watching how quickly they would pick things up. I was soon immersed in a whole new world….and it seemed I was not the only one doing the
teaching, as I learnt word after word of Spanish slang and street talk! Read the rest of this entry »
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