I made it!!!

Hey everyone!!
I made it to chile, and it is absolutely amazing here!! I had a little trouble at the airport with my thousand pound bags, and I´m definitely suffering from sleep deprivation right now, but it´s all good. We flew in next to the Andes mountains, and they surround everything here so I can see them all the time. It´s like ninety degrees today, but im not sure exactly because everything is in cel. and I dón´t understand it. sorry if I screw up a lot on the writing, but this keyboard has keys all over it and everything is a little off due to all of the spanish letters on it. I´m at my orientation program this whole week, and we had testing all day today and now we have time to just chill before dinner, which we eat here at like eight o´clock at night--it´s insane. They eat sooo much food here too. For our first dinner, they served us empanadas (meat, fruit, and hard boiled eggs TOGETHER wrapped in baked bread), then they gave us cream of asparagus soup :( and then they handed us all a plate of sliced tomatoes and we all just took them and ate them plain because we all had no idea what we were doing, and then the guy next to me realized we were supposed to put them on the NEXT part of the meal, which was something they call choclo, and it´s mushed up corn wrapped inside of a corn husk--and it´s going to take a LOT of getting used to. After that part of the meal, they finally gave us dessert, which was strawberries covered with sugar. But all of the meals here have at least five courses, it´s crazy. All of the people here are super nice...and luckily all of the chileans are really patient and willing to help us out a lot. I´ve met about five people from Minnesota so far so that´s cool since I thought I was the only one in my group. Right now we are all staying at a really nice hotel in a city called Olmué, and it is so gorgeous. On the way here we passed a lot of little shack houses and I was getting really worried, but luckily it turned out to be a really nice building. The little kids here are all soooo adorable, I want to keep them! There are a bunch of them staying at the hotel we´re at, and today they played vollyball in the pool with all of the American guys in our group, it was adorable. I took a lot of pictures yesterday, and I´ll try to put them up here as soon as I can, but right now I was happy just to find a computer. It turns out that for now we are three hours ahead of Minnesota time, but soon it´ll change to be an hour...not sure why. Anyways, I haven´t seen the ocean yet, but I will for sure on Friday when I go and meet my host family...they live right on the beach AND right next to a mall, so i´m psyched. Well, now I´m going to go swim in the pool and then we´re all going to some sort of fair or something later. I´ll write again soon! Love ya!