my bags are in peru

The plane to Chile was really cool with touch screens and lots of movies but i fell asleep halfway through The Rocker with Dwight from the Office because I was tired. We landed in Santiago at 3 am and luckily my bags didn´t come from Lima even though when I was in Lima I asked 6 different people if I needed to re check my bags and they said it was checked all the way through to Santiago but they lied to me I guess. So I had to wait an hour and a half at the airport while I filled out forms and stuff but no one really speaks English in this entire country but I think I figured everything out. Then I told them to send my bags to the orientation hotel but that hotel is full until tomorrow so I went to this other hotel which was very secure and I had an individual room with a king bed and an extra bed and a fridge and a TV and a bathroom but it was another hour ride from the airport so I didn´t get there til 5 in the morning and it cost $60.

Then check out was 10 in the morning so I slept for really like 3 hours and paid $60 which doesn´t seem that fair to me but whatever. Then I took a taxi this morning to the orientation hotel because the airline told me my bags should be there by 7 am and even though the hotel I was at was in a nice area with lots of things to do took the taxi for 30 minutes to the other hotel which is in a very nice area but with nothing but car dealerships around. They didn´t have my bags and I called the airline and they said they have ¨no new information¨ so I´m not really sure what that means.

I refuse to repay a taxi to take me back to things so I´ve been walking for 2 hours back the way I came. My backpack is very heavy and I wish I packed an extra change of clothes or something instead of a nerf football which isn´t really helping me right now.

I ate my first meal in Chile at an exxon cafe on the run because i was starving and it was the first thing I saw. I had a hot dog. Also the director of this program seems to not speak English because I called him to ask for help or to ask what I should do and he didn´t speak english.

I asked this guy how much the bus cost and you needed a card to get on it so he paid for me then offered to let me sleep at his house and gave me his address and number and said he had a pretty daughter my age. Using some advanced arithmetic I calculated that the chance of me being raped outweighed the free food and sleeping. I found some hostelish place in a house for like $20 so that´s fine I guess. I spent the middle of the day sleeping and reading and then I went out but now everything is closed except for this internet cafe and a place where I ate and bars.

That reminds me of something cool that happened to me earlier, I was really thirsty so I bought a bottle of water and I opened it in the taxi and it exploded all over the place because it was gasificada. The driver wasn´t happy. Luckily I bought another gasificada water later on because I didn´t think to look at the label. That stuff is disgusting.