After an 8 hour flight - luxourious compared to our most recent busrides- we arrived in Santiago, Chile. We didn´t arrive until about 1:30am, so we basically found a hostel and called it a night. The next day we bought bus tickets to Mendoza, Argentina. After a lunch of completos and a side of smog, we hopped on yet another bus and headed east. What is a completo you ask? It´s Chile¨s most popular street food-a giant hot dog smothered in mayonaise. Anyone who knows my love of mayonaise will know that i was very happy with this meal. Jason and Janet couldn¨t stand up to the challenge of all that mayo, but I succeded. The 8 hour bus ride was by far our best bus trip yet, as we crossed the Andes. I was stoked to be in the mountains again, it reminded me a lot of Yosemite.
In Mendoza we headed out for our first Argentinian meal. The most important thing on every menu we looked at was the 3 dollar bottles of wine. Good wine. Ahhhh. We tried 3 different kinds with our late night dinner, each one better than the last one. (but that usually happens with wine, right?)
Today we had a different mission and that was to look into language schools. We found one reccommended by the hostel and are officially signed up for classes starting on Monday. They had us take a placement test-I haven´t taken a test in a looong time-but Jason and I scored well enough to get into Level 2. Muy bien!! The Spanish spoken here has a lot of Italian influence making it much harder to understand. Luckily that Italian influence also made it¨s way into the food. Muy bien!
So it looks like we will be staying in Mendoza for the next week. On Sunday we are going to visit the farm we plan on working on for the months of January and February to meet the owners and check it out. I like the feel of Argentina already-as Janet said, "it´s like a cheap Italy".
Well, it is 9 o´clock and we are going to head out for dinner. Late lunches, siesta, ice cream everywhere, cheap wine, late dinner - I think I am going to like it here.
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