Hiya,
Been pretty busy this week with teaching and moving and paperwork... I guess this is just the beginning! My new classes are going really well. The chef is a lot of fun, and it seems that I know a lot more about cooking than I thought I did (thanks Mum). It is a full on class, that we have in the restaurant (in the afternoon when it isn't open). I guess by the end of the class he is going to have to be able to cook and talk at the same time, so maybe I will get a meal out of it, who knows! Hopefully I will get some cooking tips anyway! I have also started with an architect who is the chef's business partner, who is not taking a book course either. Should be a fun course to design though because he doesn't have any specific objectives except for improving his speech, which means we can talk about things that interest him (and me!). I like these non-book courses. They mean a lot more prep but a lot more fun too! I also have a group of elementary students starting on Monday, journalists. All three of these classes are in a block of each other, in Bellavista, the bright coloured neighbourhood from one of my earlier sets of photos. It is a nice area to work in, and I can walk there from my new house in about half an hour which is great because the transport here in the mornings is madness.

I have moved out of Tuca and Miguel's finally and am living in an apartment with a Chilean guy. He has been doing quite a bit of painting so the place is looking a lot better than when I first came to see it, and he is bending over backwards to make me feel at home. It is much closer to town than the last place I was staying, about a 40min walk to the office, but only 5min to the metro or the bus if I don't want to walk. The weather is so good all the time that there really isn't a lot of excuse for not walking though! He speaks very good English, so we mostly speak English at home, or a combination where he speaks to me in Spanish and I reply in English. Hopefully over time I will manage to increase the Spanish quota and lessen the English quota. I am lucky that he is very patient with my appalling Spanish!

Today (Saturday), the couple who I teach a couple of nights a week are taking me sight-seeing in Santiago. I think we are going up Cerro San Cristobal, and maybe out for lunch. Should be fun. They are lovely people who want to help me in every way. Will try to remember my camera, and depending on how bad the smog is today, try and take some pictures.

Thats about it for the week. Planning lessons and teaching. Have hardly spoken a word of Spanish all week, and am afraid with all this English speak I am not going to be learning very quickly.

Gotta go,
Hasta pronto,
KiwiKaz