Valparaiso

We had a free morning today! It was our first free morning on a weekday. It was glorious. We all slept in until like 11:30 and then we woke up and just walked along the beach. Then we went to the mall and got food, I noticed how they have a lot of chain restaurants that we also have in the USA. I thought that was pretty interesting. Even Dunkin Donuts had the same motto, America Runs on Dunkin with a photo of the US. I thought that was peculiar since their business was in Chile.

Afterwards, we had a scheduled tour of the Port of Valparaiso. It was a shipping dock and we got to take a bus tour and have a brief lecture before. It was really interesting how everything worked together and all the machinery to lift the heavy containers. We saw shipping trucks as well as a giant German shipping boat. After the tour we had two hours to kill. Daniella and Ignacio were our students today so we hung out with them and they showed us around a little bit. We ended up taking a boat tour for $6! It was only 30 minutes but it was really cool and we saw seals! We then all went to Werner’s house for a BBQ. We had Chilean hot dog things as well as meat kabobs. All the Chilean students were there and it was so fun hanging out with everyone. People started leaving but the Chileans and a bunch of us stayed in the room and hung out for the rest of the night. They’re all so fun! I’m going to miss them so much once we go back home.