One morning, we toured a 6th generation family winery. That was interesting to go into the basement and see the barrels and wine-making process!
Then went to one of Pablo Neruda's Houses in Santiago. He is a famous Nobel Peace Prize winner in literature. He is well-known in Chile and many people love him. He has 3 houses, and will visit the other 2 later. His house was interesting...he definitely had an interesting imagination. He made his house and each of his rooms like his was on a ship. The designs, flooring, lighting, everything! He loved the ocean and always wanted to feel like he was on the water. The pictures are just parts of his house and don't do it justice. There were about 4 diffent sections to the house that we had to walk through.
After our touring and orientations we left for Valparaiso! We met our families and the real fun began, because we were with our newly found friends to speak some English or Spanglish together. It was just you, your family and the Spanish language.
My family was very sweet though, but it was overwhelming right at first with all their questions. On top of that, it was the little boy asking a bunch of the questions and he was the most difficult for me to understand! I have four brothers though. Felipe (21), Maximo (18), Joaquin or Kako (15) and Diego (7). The mom is Lorena and she is a very brave lady with all those boys! haha. Then, there are 3 others Chilean students (boys) that live here, but are currently on vacation. So it's definitely fun and never a dull moment! I'll post a picture soon!
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