5 more weeks

Already 3 weeks have passed since Philip left and since I had to go back to work. The first week was quite hard, but the last two weeks have been great! I have been getting to know some girls from my church group much better and we meet up once a week to catch up and eat together and followed by praying together which has been really nice.

I've been on 2 weekends away and in the first weekend I joined a tour to go to the mountains and go to hot springs there and go for a hike. We camped there, and it was a great relaxing weekend with awesome views. 

The following weekend we had a 3 day weekend and we went out and sang some karaoke and danced the first night with some girls from church and the rest of the weekend we lay by the pool and went to a fair en just some quality time was nice! 

This weekend we went with 8 girls from our church group and our pastor and his wife to Algarobbo, which is a city on the beach. We all come from such a large variety of countries and the conversations were just great learning about each others cultures, educational systems etc and I'm sure the pastor also enjoyed listening to our conversations about boys, relationships and marriage haha. The apartment was close to the beach, so I got to do some fitness on the beach yesterday morning which was great and later on we did a biblestudy on the beach and sunbathed.

So as you can see I've been keeping myself busy which helps with the wait until I get to go home, because honestly I really cannot wait! Very excited to see everyone again and to just being home sweet home. But what will really help me get through these next 5 weeks is that I'm meeting up with my parents in Lima, Peru, next Saturday and I'll be travelling with them for 2 weeks!! CAN'T WAIT! 

Work has been okay, nothing spectacular or great, but it helps to just tell myself that e.g. right now I only have 3 weeks of placement left! The weekdays pass quicker because I make plans with people to meet up, like prayer night with the girls, biblestudy and I like going out for dinner or a drink with people, like below:) 

I also definitely gained weight in Chile, so I've been doing sports 3 times a week, and because it's now light until 8.30pm, I have time to do this after work and outside, which is so much more motivating than going to a gym.

Oeh another detail is that everyday it's between 25 to 30 degrees which has been so great! Being at work with those kind of temperatures isn't as nice but it makes weekends so good! Wearing skirts or shorts for that matter isn't something I get very excited about in Santiago seen as the men just get worse. I'm sure you've seen the video on facebook or something about the girl walking down the streets of NYC, well sadly that's exactly what it's like in Santiago (see below).

Youtube video

I have been trying to ignore it by always listening to music, but it can get so so frustrating! But anyways, 5 more weeks;)

I will let you know after I get back from my trip with my parents how it was, seeing more from South America will be great! We will be walking the Inca trail from Cusco to Machu Picchu and showing them Santiago, and going to the Iguazu Falls on the border of Argentina and Brazil. I will then fly back to Santiago and they will have a couple more days in Rio de Janeiro! Should be good!