picada para la yoga

A new friend of mine just told me about these yoga classes. I'm not sure if it's 1.000 pesos the class or the month, but as soon as I try it out I'll let you all know. There are classes near metro salvador and others near metro manuel montt.

http://www.yogaluka.cl/

TEFL Courses and Work Visas

Heyya, so I'm wondering what you all know about online TEFL courses. Can anyone recommend one? I'm going to take one, I think it would be sooo great. I looked at the "i-to-i" one and it cost between $200 and $300, depending on the material I wanted. I checked out taking a TEFL course at Bridge Linguatec and this other place in Santiago where you go to classes. It costed *cough cough* $1500 for two weeks. Are you freaking kidding me? I s'pose if I had money to throw around I'd think about it. A semester at La Católica in Valpo was cheaper than that, like two thirds the cost, for A SEMESTER. Wow, I guess that's the business to get into, charging gringos for TEFL certification. I imagine, for some people it's worth it, but not for me. Anyway, so I'm looking into the online thing, I've spent many years of my life in classrooms and don't need the extra classroom time for $1200.

The other thing I was wondering...I've been on a student visa all this time, and I wanted to know what kind of visas do you all have? I'm not married. And I'm 6 months short of the 5 year mark when you can request a visa de residencia. So I'm looking at the visa de residencia temporaria which allows you to work and live here. Is that what some of you have? Is it difficult to get? Do I need a contract from a business to get it?

Okay well thanks for having a look at this.

Sex in the Ciudad? NAMESAKE

So I was thinking....this blog as an important title with an extremely obvious reference. This reference is now a movie which will hopefully hurry its ass up and get here to Chile. We should get a group to go, lord knows I need a dose of Sex in the City.
What do you say, ladies? Any takers? Anyone have more info as to when it's coming?

Cheap Books in English!

Hey everybody....get excited....Lori just sent me this link to Better World, which sells books in English for dirt cheap and ships them for just $2.97 worldwide. I haven't tried the website yet, but I'm definitely planning on it!

Just thought I'd pass that little dato along for you :)

check this out

Hey girls,

Anibal and I just signed up for an account with this company. Basically, you can order all the products you want (which you can´t normally get form the US shipped to Chile - electronic equipment, beauty products, etc through various online companies, Amazon, EBAY etc) shipped to an address in Miami and they then reship it to wherever you live in South America. It costs around 40$ maintenance for the year. The website is www.skybox.net

I´m getting my iphone at long last! :)

See all you girlies on Saturday, asado and booze, can´t wait!!

Love, me x

Gringa madness

Looks like we are going to have to rent Espacio Riesgo for the next gringa get together. Hahaha. I can't believe how many gringas there are here and with blogs! Kyle's started a movement. We are coming out of the woodwork or something.

I was at a baby shower the other day for a friend..the baby shower was delightfully co-ed. When have you ever drinken straight rum at a baby shower? I did, and it was a very tasty Venezuelan rum. Anyway, there was this Thai girl there, Porn Pian -I know quite the name, she knows what it means in English and goes by it anyway. We were talking a bit about living in Chile and she said there are only 30 Thai people living in Chile. I was like, no there's got to be more, and she said she'd talked to people at her embassy and they only knew of 30. That's not exactly our situation, is it?

Skype

Hey ladies! Just wanted to inform those of you who haven't heard, Skype has a new unlimited international calling plan for $9.95 a month. It's a pretty awesome deal, so I just signed up. Unfortunately it's only unlimited calling to landlines in Chile, not cell phones, but in the U.S. you can call unlimited to cells and home phones.

Just finished a two hour convo with my mom, gotta love it :)