After two weeks

So it has been two weeks since my arrival in Santiago, Chile. Everything is still looking up and I continue to climb the "exchange student mountain" so far without any boulders to over take. School is great besides the 2hr classes and ending at 1630. However, I have a week vacation for the national holiday starting Friday afternoon! I understand a lot of what is going on in class especially the math that we have been assigned by our sub teacher since our teacher is away on a ten day class trip. It is SAT math so it is a piece of cake :) I take a wide range of classes: art, music, theater, religion, math, spanish, advanced english, philosophy, science and gym. In the english class I correct and translate paragraphs from spanish to english. Translating is harder than I thought because not only am I translating for something to make sense in my mind, but it actually has to make sense when written on paper. After school a bunch of students just hangout after getting snacks at the local mini-mart near the bus stops on the main street near school. I take the bus back with one of my friends and sometimes we have other students who ride on the same route as us. The company on the 30-minute bus ride defiantly makes the trip go by much faster. The weather here has not been great, but a few days ago the sun came out and the views from my window and even from school are spectacular of the "cordilleras." Clear sky and the white capped snow mountains. This week there is prediction of sunny with clouds and with the past few days of tons of rain I am hoping the forecast is correct.