April Foól's Day was the chosen departure day from Oz.. Brisbane-Auckland - Santiago flying backwards in time is a crazy phenomenon flying for 18 hours and landing the afternoon of the same day. Great luck.. met a Chileno from Melbourne who helped me navigate the airport in Santiago to the bus station and put me safely on a bus to Valaparaiso.
My new family met me at the bus station...Monica is the sister of my Spanish teacher in Oz .. she looks just the same ... except she doesn't speak English.
Crazy taxi ride up the zig-zag roads of the steep hills of Valparaiso in a collectivo.. a shared taxi that goes only in a certain route.Lunch with many gestures, rapid Spanish speaking, me laughing because I just had no idea what was going on... and a few glasses of red wine.. this is my kind of family!!!
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