11 February 2009

Culture shock: Arriving in Chile

Well we finally made it to Chile!!

Flight was supposed to be 11 and a half hours, but we were stoked that there was a mean tail wind and it took 1.5 hours off the flight! Arriving at the airport was a bit crazy with no one really speaking english, so we just had to wing it and made it out the other end safely!

Managed to find a chick who spoke english who sorted out a taxi and place to stay, although we are still feeling ripped off from it as we are sure she took a large cut!

Will be much easier once we have worked out how much 1000 pesos is, although we are starting to get the hang of the $$ now. The spanish is another story though! LOL! We have a vocab of about 5 words which seems to be getting us by! Hola for hello, gracias for thank you, donde for where, cerveca for beer, vino for wine! Other than that it is a whole lot of smiling and hand signals!! Keeps us entertained and as a result we are reading the phrase book during downtime and have a new ¨word of the day¨ each day after today I accidently bought a return ticket for a bus ride to Vina del mar when we only wanted a one way ticket! Fortunately Rodney realised when she handed us 4 bus tickets, so we somehow managed to work this out and speak pigeon english with her and get a refund!!! The language difference is keeping us entertained! Hence todays ¨word of the day being¨ dee ida, meaning ONE WAY!!! lol!!!!!

Staying at Vina del mar beach at the moment, which is 2 hours from Santiago by bus, deciding our next move, but bascially heading up the coast beach hopping for the rest of the month, and plan to hit bolivia by late Feb.

Vina del Mar, Chile by mrs_dahlia

Hope everyone is well, would love to hear your news too, so email us to say hi or make a lovely comment! (except you schumacher!)

Dahlia and Rodrigo xxx

2 comments:

  1. Hey guys, great to hear you arrived!
    Rod how are the coronas treating you? Tried any decent hot sauce yet? Daile got the cans out on the beach yet?

    Scotty

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  2. Get amongst the Pisco Sour, its sure to improve your Spanish...

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