Hola out of the sun,

it's me again :D

It's actually not much to say, after we had a couple of slow, relaxing days with a lot of studying spanish and doing finance for my part ...

Inbetween we were always in the city again, checking out new place, yesterday for example we went to a southamerica market, which was really nice, so many colours and great things :)

For today I thought I write a bit about little differences and things which I saw or heard.

People here don't enjoy walking that much, maybe it's because of all the hills and the ups and downs everywhere, when we say oh, yeah, we walk to the city and back, everybody always thinks we are crazy. They always tell us to take public transportation which is mostly consisting of collectivos, little busses, which come all few minutes, they usually drive pretty fast and in order to get on one you need to wave for it, a second later you are already going. Then there are taxis, not that cheap, but everywhere. Last but not least the Metro, it's nice, seems pretty new and if you here very loud classical music, you can be sure to be close to a station ...

Then something I learnd from Stefan, maybe it's not new to you, but for me it was, always when we are on the way home he says see over there, we live close to the flat building and at the beginning I looked over and didn't know what he meant. When I think flat building, I always  imagine a small house with just one floor and a flat roof, but now I learnd buildings which are tall and have no balkonies, with walls going straight down, are flat buildings cause nothing is sticking out and walls can be flat too, that was really new to me, but ok...

What is normal for South America and other countries, and I knew about, but I still had to get used to, is, that every building, house, office or what ever, has a high fence around it and gates which are always locked. Lot of house in the better areas even have a home security system, everywhere you need at least 2 or 3 keys to come in or pass a security guard.

What I also thought is interesting on every other traffic light are people on the street when the cars stop and show fire shows and so on to earn money. On the beach they also have different ideas, sand figures, paintings, cart racing for kids, candy and jewlery stands and so on.

When they clean the beach they have like wooden sticks with baskets on them which they slide over the sand to collect all the trash, looks really like a lot of work. Everyday all the trees and grass around the streets is getting watered and for examples some of our neighbors cut grass and water around 11.30pm.

The most annoying thing sometimes I think are the dogs, there are really a lot of dogs out on the streets, some people just let there dogs run over the day and some other dogs are just living on the street, so you should sometimes check where you want to sit and eat outside. I think 85% of the people here own a dog.

A few other good things are you almost never see anybody smoking, if yes, then usually only tourists and the internet here is pretty fast or lets say normal, I heard Chile is the country with the best internet connection in South America and busses to travel around are really nice with aircondition and not even that expensive. I am still thinking about flying over to Buenas Aires so, if we should go, after the girls we met in the hostel needed over 7 hours at the border to enter into Chile, but maybe that will get better as soon as summer is over.

Ok i think that's all from me for now, I need to go eat lunch, but I might add some stuff later ;)

Talk to all of you guys soon, lots of hugs