Hi :)

After everybody is writing today, I thought I should bring a tiny update, too, so everybody is in on the newest news from Chile :D

Since we have returned  from our little trip to the south, our life got busier and busier day by day. We studied a lot wrote a lot of tests and learnd more every day ;)

Then last friday I decided it's time for a break and went shopping with a friend for a few hours and then afterwards to the chinese buffet, which was delicious. The plan was to go out later on, but I passed then after I decided to go to Casablanca the next day. 

So after getting up early last Saturday morning I met up with Lucie and we took a Mikro to the busstation where we were supposed to meet the others but at the beginning nobody showed 15 minutes/ half an hour later a few of the spanish exchange students came along and after another 15 minutes and still nobody else there we decided to go alone. We were 7 people by then so a nice little group. Another half an hour later we arrived in Casablanca at the vine festival. It was a beautiful day, nice and warm and the fest was in a park in the middle of the town. Up front was a stage with music and people dancing typical chilean dances. We bought our entrance tickets, 3000 peso, for a wine class and three tickets for testing and we went around got the different wines explaint and tried one and sat down in the sun and listened to the music, just wonderful.

Later on the others arrived, a few chileans and people who do internships or work in Vina and then the french exchange students :) So we decided to go to the other building, highly watched by the police after we had to cross the street with a wineclass in our hands, also it was empty, but drinking in pulic is not allowed in Chile. There we signed in a list and were able to do a course about how you drink wine the right way, which was really interesting. Afterwards we go some food and enjoyed the rest of the day.

In the evening back in Vina, the other girl called us up, to go and drink cocktails with them, so after a quick stop to crab some food at Lucie's ( was the birthday of her host sister, yummy cake ) and a little time meeting new people in another friends house, we went over to the Sheraton, which is like the biggest and best hotel in the city. So where just a few weeks ago presidents and ministers of different countries met, we were sitting now, having cocktails. I had a Mai Tai which was really great. Fantastic Day !!!

Sunday then I had to go back to serious thing and started writing applications for internships again and read texts for classes, the same happened monday. Yesterday then was a day of classes and in the evening all the exchange students were invited to a "Cena Bienvenida" by the university. We even got half an hour earlier out of our spanish class and after we heared it is probably going to be a bit fancier, Stefan and me went home to change, 5 minutes later back at university, we got into the car of our spanish teacher and drove to the other end of the City. The dinner was in "Club Naval" which belongs to the Navi and it was good that we dressed up a bit. We found a room full of round white tables and buffet to the side. It was a pretty good dinner and it was nice to see the Santiago group again. The end came a bit sudden so, as soon as the coffee was gone, the other group left and we decided to go too.

So we wanted to go back to the street, but the fence at the end was kind of closed by that time, but after it was just like 2 or 3 meters high, we climbed :D Shortly afterwards we got on a micro towards Renaca and there to a club. We had cards for free entrance before one and 100peso for a pisco before that time to. But somehow, they didn't really let people go in, only like little groups of 5 like every ten minutes and a few chileans always passed the line. After a while we decided, no that's not for us and we left, then they suddenly started calling behind us, but no, we were gone.

Now we had to go back into Vina, but after it was tuesday night there were no mikros anymore and just a few collectivos (= shared taxis) and we were 12 people but could only find 2 cars, so what should we do, asked the driver for options and he says no problem we just do 6 in each car :D so crazy. So in our car Thomas, Jono and Stefan were sitting in the back and Lucie was just laying on them and then Edouard and me were up front, which wasn't easy after you would always bump your head and then Edouard saw that the second car had already left, so he said to the driver, hey, it's no problem to get them or? So a minute and 120 km/h in the city later and we were passed them...

To end my today actually planned to be very short hallo, I should tell you, that you can't really reach us the next days, because as soon as classes are over tomorrow, we will go to Atacama in the north till tuesday or wednesday. If we can trust google, then it will be an about 28 hours drive, so sit back relax and wait for stories of us driving up there, which will come sometime next week.... Ciao and to the ones who know who I mean, be careful  and stay safe.