We spent a few days in Puerto Montt before taking a ferry to Ancud for a couple days, and then a short bus ride to Castro, where we are now. Ancud and Castro are on the main island of Chiloé, an archipelago about halfway between Valparaíso and Patagonia. The weather is lovely, and the attitude is laid-back, though there aren't sandy beaches or as many tourists as we found elsewhere. We're basically enjoying being lazy for a week or so before heading back up to Valparaíso to spend more time with my host family and then make our flight on the 25th from Santiago to Mexico City. We hope to get situated with host families and classes (apparently some schools also have dance/cooking/culture classes) in Oaxaca, Mexico. We're looking forward to the food, Jay's getting ready to get into student mode, and I'm hoping to find some good volunteer oportunities and perhaps some private lessons for accent/idiom work.
In the meantime, life is good. Jay's working on learning new guitar songs and trying to teach me to play the multi-stringed instrument of doom, and we're getting our fill of seafood soups and German-ish
kuchen (lots of German influence this far south).
Photos follow, updates to come. We do appreciate your e-mails and such too, so thank you all for those.
Much love from the south,
JJ
1 comment:
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