The first week

First week done: result-interesting.
Hey you guys,
I just thought that I would sit down and write a little something about my first week here. Its been a lot of finding my way around and setteling in at my new home. I, well Mandy and me, moved into our new home on Friday and its great. I have a small room to myself with a little balcony and I can even see the ocean (although for that I have to look through the tree and over a few other houses) I don't have a chair, just my bed, so I spend most of my time on my bed, in front of the computer.
Mandy found this online Spanish learning thing, it's not bad, but I haven't actualy done that much with it. Right now my Spanish is still a lot of just smiling and saying Sí all the time when my house mom talks to me. It only gets a little funny when she has this look on her face...the I just asked you something look... and then I have to ask her to repeat what she just said so that I can answer.
Ok, so to what we did. I have been sick over the past few days. Not dying sick, just not really feeling very well kinda sick. So I wasn't really up too to much but Mandy and I did do quite a lot of walking around. Everyday in a new direction, so that we can see a little more of Vina every day. We even found a Dunkin Donut's (a very happy moment for Mandy).
The city, or area, can be broken into three areas. There's Valparieso, which is too the south. Its the biggest city but also the poorest. It has the country's largest port and is actualy quite nice, although it's obvious that many poor people live there. Then there's Vina del Mar, that's where we live. It's the middle rich city. It's nice, and in the summer its the main touristy spot in the area. All the rich people in Santiago have summer homes here and come down in the summer. The last city is called....blast don't remember. It's more of a city part of Vina then an actual city. But it's the nicest of the three and also the smallest.
It's actualy qutie crazy, right now there are about 1,000,000 people here and in two months there will only be 300,000. Most of the buildings in Vina are empty during the year, just not in summer. I did make an interesting discovery yesterday. You see, people told me that the water in the ocean here was cold, and I was just like, yea yea sure. I put my feet in the ocean yesterday. The water isn't cold. It's freezing. It is really really really cold. I was shocked. It was such a nice day and the water was cold.
So that was fun and thats really all from me. I know it wasn't a very detailed report of what I did, I guess you can read Mandy's and together you can figure out what happend.
All in all my life is slowely setteling down into something normal. Hopefully by the time Uni starts here the Spanish thing will be history ;) Lots of love from Chile to all of you ;)
p.s. If you have any special requests for future blogs, ie pictures or the like, do hesitate to ask :D