It´s a disaster. Naturally.

I´m a bit of a disaster.

You see, today was my first day of class and it did not go according to plan. No, you see, despite my having left the house over an hour before class was supposed to start, I still somehow managed to arrive 20 minutes late to my own first class. Excellent first impression don´t you think. The buses were so packed this morning that the first one I tried to get on shut its doors on me. That is to say it tried to, it was unable to actually shut the doors because a number of junior high school kids who were standing on the steps had blocked the bus doors with their backpacks. When I finally got on a bus at 8, the traffic was so bad that it took even longer than usual to get to school.
I hate being late. I always have. I don´t like tardiness from others and I certainly don´t condone it myself, so when 8:30 struck and i was still about 2 miles away from school I started to have a minor panic attack. My heart was pounding in my chest and I was sure that I was going to be fired, before I had even started the job.
Once I finally got to school, I ran up the stairs to find all of my doe eyed students waiting for me intently with their day old facial hair and mullets in tow. After my seriously delayed arrival class went quite well. The students were all able to introduce themselves and I got a chance to gauge their english abilities. They seem promising.
I didn´t get in trouble with my bosses, they just told me that sometimes these things happen and to try to leave earlier next time. I still felt terrible, but luckily, Brendon had just gotten to campus and was able to give me a hug and a pep talk before I headed to the gym, which was really the best medicine for the day. Also, my cell phone isn´t letting me make calls, but I do not understand that because I just put money on it last week. Moral of the story: Call me, don´t wait for me to call you.
In other news, life in Santiago is still pretty great. It is still hot and dry here, which is nice. This weekend I went into Santiago on Friday night to hang out with some friends. I also met a couple of the volunteers from last year, who have been kind enough to take us under their wing and show us around Santiago. Brendon found a jazz club on Saturday night that I can´t wait to visit and we have finally started to discover the best restaurants in and around Santiago. That´s all for now. I have some pictures to post, but I can´t connect my computer to the internet to transfer them, so you´ll just have to wait a little bit longer. Happy Spring forward! To all of you east coasters, next week Chile falls back so we will be in the same time zone. Note it.
Rad