to get you up to speed: i'm on exchange in chile, just arrived yesterday, will be attending pontificia universidad catolica (orientation thursday, classes next week), living with a homestay, and will be here (other than small trips to brazil, argentina, and paraguay) until decemberish when i go to colombia, then back to canada in january.

so i'm in my house with matty, jaime, and felipe (mother, father, son in host family) in las condes, one of the nicer neighborhoods in santiago, and enjoying myself aside from the constant nagging feeling of the essay i need to be working on pretty damn quick for an sfu course i still haven't finished.

today i went with matty on a walk to change currency and buy a cellphone. jaime dropped us off at the 'claro' branch in his ciotren van/truck type thing with two real seats and some cushions in the back for any extra passengers.

we spoke to a lot of people in order to just buy a prepaid cellphone. when we got into claro the first thing matty did was head towards the "Venta" (Sales) sign, which made perfect sense to me, but apparently that's too easy for chile.