Living the wired life in the 2nd world
Jan 6, 2005
I know that it was a pretty big risk to take my laptop all the way down to Chile with me, but I have to say that so far I have been very happy that I’ve taken the chance. I’ve done a very good job of keeping it by my side at all times and I figure that if I ever am in a situation where it was physically taken from me, then I would have a lot more problems than loosing a laptop. At the same time, I have been careful to not bring it out in public places, or to ever let it out of arms reach. I feel like I should be doing some ad for Apple, with the amount and different situations that I find myself using it. It’s also beneficial with keeping in touch with friends and family. I’ve had a couple of opportunities to actually talk to friends back in the states with IM and send real time pictures back and forth. I haven’t been able to get the live video feed to work yet, but I’m sure that it’s technology ports between us that are preventing it, and not the actual technology on the client side.
After updating my blog today at the dinner Jake and I spent most of the morning at, we took a long walk down to the playa, or beach. We were suppose to meet Charlyn there at 4:00pm. When got there, 45 minutes late, we looked around and couldn’t find her. Realizing that this was Chile, we realized that we were probably early. We decided to go to the local super store “Jumbo”. While there I was able to find some paper, pens, 3 liter bottles of water, which I will horde 2 of them, and a set of something that looks like 3x5 cards. Although they aren’t exactly 3x5, nor are they lined. I guess they are more like cards. Anyway, I found them, so I can use them as flash cards. While checking out I used my credit card and realized that I didn’t have my passport with me. I was actually able to successfully explain and explain my way out of not having it for identification. It’s times of stupidity like this that I realize that I’m getting better at speaking Spanish.
When we returned to the beach an hour later, Charlyn had just gotten there. Ahh, Chilean culture. I think that if you set everything forward by two hours, you have adjusted your clock right. When we returned home we were greeted by Rosalinda and immediately whisked off to dinner at “some person’s” house. We were able to figure out that is was a good friend of Rosalinda’s and that it also was the principle of the school that we were using for the program……which really is a pretty big surprise/honor. So Jake and I spend the next 3-4 hours having dinner and polite conversation with an extended family.
I was speaking with Jake, and it seems that every day we are studying Spanish for the day, only to receive a practical quiz in the evening. Tonight was a true pop-quiz. I think we would have received a passing grade.
I know that it was a pretty big risk to take my laptop all the way down to Chile with me, but I have to say that so far I have been very happy that I’ve taken the chance. I’ve done a very good job of keeping it by my side at all times and I figure that if I ever am in a situation where it was physically taken from me, then I would have a lot more problems than loosing a laptop. At the same time, I have been careful to not bring it out in public places, or to ever let it out of arms reach. I feel like I should be doing some ad for Apple, with the amount and different situations that I find myself using it. It’s also beneficial with keeping in touch with friends and family. I’ve had a couple of opportunities to actually talk to friends back in the states with IM and send real time pictures back and forth. I haven’t been able to get the live video feed to work yet, but I’m sure that it’s technology ports between us that are preventing it, and not the actual technology on the client side.
After updating my blog today at the dinner Jake and I spent most of the morning at, we took a long walk down to the playa, or beach. We were suppose to meet Charlyn there at 4:00pm. When got there, 45 minutes late, we looked around and couldn’t find her. Realizing that this was Chile, we realized that we were probably early. We decided to go to the local super store “Jumbo”. While there I was able to find some paper, pens, 3 liter bottles of water, which I will horde 2 of them, and a set of something that looks like 3x5 cards. Although they aren’t exactly 3x5, nor are they lined. I guess they are more like cards. Anyway, I found them, so I can use them as flash cards. While checking out I used my credit card and realized that I didn’t have my passport with me. I was actually able to successfully explain and explain my way out of not having it for identification. It’s times of stupidity like this that I realize that I’m getting better at speaking Spanish.
When we returned to the beach an hour later, Charlyn had just gotten there. Ahh, Chilean culture. I think that if you set everything forward by two hours, you have adjusted your clock right. When we returned home we were greeted by Rosalinda and immediately whisked off to dinner at “some person’s” house. We were able to figure out that is was a good friend of Rosalinda’s and that it also was the principle of the school that we were using for the program……which really is a pretty big surprise/honor. So Jake and I spend the next 3-4 hours having dinner and polite conversation with an extended family.
I was speaking with Jake, and it seems that every day we are studying Spanish for the day, only to receive a practical quiz in the evening. Tonight was a true pop-quiz. I think we would have received a passing grade.
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