It certainly seems like 2011 is the year for change. Friends getting married, some buying houses, others doing PhD's at the worlds leading universities. It's really exciting to see whats going to be happening to everyone across the next 12 months!
For me after several months of planning and nearly 20 hours of flying, I have arrived in Santiago. A whole new world awaits me, and words (particularly with my limited Spanish vocabulary) simply cannot describe the excitement that I am feeling right now. After getting in at slightly after midday on Monday (Lunes) I was met at the Airport by Jorje who was extremely helpful and managed to pack my worldly posessions into his car and bring me to my apartment. A brief trip to the supermarket to make sure I had something to eat in the morning and I was back in the apartment trying to unpack my my suitcases. Unfortunately jet-lag (or simple tiredness) got in the way, and around 5pm I crashed out. I have no woken up at the delightful time of midnight wide awake, even though I know I"m completely exhausted.
I'm really excited about the morning - I have my first day of a new job, get to meet my boss, all my new colleagues and am really looking forward to the friendships I am going to make across the next year.
But for now I should probably try and get some sleep so that I don't spend all of the day yawning, falling asleep and dreaming about playing lasertag (actually I wonder where I can play that here?)
I will post again when my thoughts are a little more coherent and the jetlag has eased and I'll tell you all about my impressions of my new environment.
Hasta Luego Muchachos!!
Monday, 28 February 2011
Thursday, 24 February 2011
And it begins...
Welcome to my new blog. I hope that you will find the posts entertaining, enlightening and most of all give those of you who care an insight into my life whilst I am in South America. For those of you who don't, I will endeavour to keep you amused by the random thoughts and tangents that flitter through my mind at various times.
For those of you who haven't heard as of yet, I am about to undertake the adventure of my life so far. I am packing my bags and getting on a flight at 6am to jetset 16 odd hours to Santiago de Chile! For those of you who are concerned, no I do not have an outstanding warrant I am fleeing, I have been given the opportunity to transfer across there for 12 months to work.
Due to the timezone and the probability that I will have limited direct access to most of my friends and family, I have decided that across the next 12 months that along with latenight facebook posts, I will attempt to rigorously maintain a blog. Hopefully, it will enable me to keep all of you around the globe up to date on my many adventures, challenges and in all likelihood humorous anecdotes where I have inadvertently insulted royalty due to my poor grasp of Espanol.
Buenes Noches!
For those of you who haven't heard as of yet, I am about to undertake the adventure of my life so far. I am packing my bags and getting on a flight at 6am to jetset 16 odd hours to Santiago de Chile! For those of you who are concerned, no I do not have an outstanding warrant I am fleeing, I have been given the opportunity to transfer across there for 12 months to work.
Due to the timezone and the probability that I will have limited direct access to most of my friends and family, I have decided that across the next 12 months that along with latenight facebook posts, I will attempt to rigorously maintain a blog. Hopefully, it will enable me to keep all of you around the globe up to date on my many adventures, challenges and in all likelihood humorous anecdotes where I have inadvertently insulted royalty due to my poor grasp of Espanol.
Buenes Noches!
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