Sunday Dec 24 |
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| another hike, nice stuff!
A not so nice thing was that yesterday, someone stole my camera in a restaurant. That definitely does it. In 3 weeks here I've been robbed my necklace and my camera. I seem to be very attractive for this, with my appearance it's like I have a huge sign on top of my head saying "tall & blond = rich --> should be robbed". I really try (or have tried) to give trust to people, be open and not have prejudices that the other person might be a criminal (even though even chileans tell me to be careful everywhere). But sad as it is, it seems that it is not possible to think like this here. From now on, I guess I will have to view almost everyone as a potential thief, unless I want to return to Switzerland naked... :-((( |
Saturday Dec 23 |
| Running 2:00:00 [2]+1000m | |
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| hike in El Morado National Park. Nice place! But when you don't have good maps and there aren't many trails you can take, it's not so easy to find a good route... ;-) |
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| Christmas is approaching here as well. But for the first time, I don't feel any christmas spirit at all here. Ok, there are lots of lights in the streets, christmas trees, and even (german!) christmas songs in supermarkets and in the streets, but in 30+ degree heat, that's not Christmas to me ;-) Anyway, it's interesting to experience this in a totally different way for once.
Progress in spanish is going pretty well, this past week and the next one I have a teacher for myself, which is super efficient and also quite tough, doing conversation and grammar 4hrs in a row every morning! I'm real happy with how much I learned so far. Although it differs from day to day; some days I seem to understand everything and speaking is fluent, and on others, I have to search for every single word in my brain. This is something that seems to be normal, as everybody here at the school has the same experiences. Also, it depends a lot with whom I'm speaking - the teachers at the school and some chileans (strangely, women much better than men) I understand very well, but sometimes on the street or in restaurants, it's real difficult to understand the locals... but people always tell me that if you understand the chileans, besides perhaps the cubans you will understand every other spanish speaking person on the planet ;-)
There's one week left here, then after New Year, travelling time will begin! |
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Wednesday Dec 20 |
| Dancing 1 [5] | |
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| Salsa class.
Hmm, ok. It was definitely not salsa what I did last time... only when someone showed me the real basic steps, I realized that I have no rhythm and absolutely no idea what I'm doing (but you can actually dance like that, seems to work ;-)). But there seems to be some logic behind it, so it can be learned. Anyway, learning this is going to be a real challenge. It will require lots of sweat, blood and tears to get my neurons connected in a way that my body does salsa. But I've always liked challenges, and life is full of them... ;-) |
Monday Dec 18 |
| Running Intervall 18:00 [4]5 km (3:36 / km) +300m 2:46 / km | |
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| Intervals, 2 x ca. 7-8' plus some shorter stuff in the end. Bit rusty in the beginning, but then ok. |
| Running 45:00 [3] | |
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