So over the winter break I spent two weeks in South America! One of my best friends from my Study Abroad lives in Argentina, and she invited me to go and visit her! Ine and all of her friends are on Summer Vacation right now, so they were spending 2 weeks on the coast of Chile in Reñaca! I took a 9 hour flight down to Santiago, then managed (mostly through hand signals and horrible spanish) to make it to the bus that took me to the beach! Ine and her friend Luli met me at the bus station and took me to the apartment! It was across the street from the beach with a beautiful view of the sunset. There were 6 other girls total (pictured below from left to right: Mitchie, Rolo, Caro, Luli, Ine, and Manu), and luckily for me they all knew each other from private school where they all had to learn English. They were super sweet and super nice and were great as acting as my translators. I spent three days in Reñaca, drinking Mate and laying in the sun. The sun rose at 8 AM and didn't set till 9:30 PM, so we spent A LOT of time on the beach. The water was blue, clear, and cold, but the waves were so rough you couldn't really swim in the water. But I spent 3 days hanging out at the beach, trying to eat cheap Chilean food, and hanging out with these lovely ladies.
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