Happy St Georges Day

After the physical exertion of last weekend I have been quite happy to have a pretty quiet weekend. The weekend did kick off in a bit more lively way however with an all-nighter on Friday. I don’t know what it is about Chile but it is very easy to do this, you go out for a few drinks with all the best intentions and the next thing you know you are in a taxi on your way home at 5 am. The occasion on Friday night was Spanish Class night. Spanish Class is the name of the school where I study Spanish. The teacher Paola was there along with a load of past and present students. The venue was a very nice bar tucked down a side street in Providencia called Santo Remedia which I never would have found myself. Despite the relatively slow service the drinks did flow quite freely and I was extremely surprised when they told us they were closing at what must have been around 2 am. Time really does fly when you’re having fun. I wasn’t really ready to go home so two of us went on to another bar called Opera Continental in another part of the city where we strutted our stuff until it closed at 5 am. Thanks to Karin for taking me and my shoes there and doing a nice bit of haggling on the door with the cover charge, I really have no idea where to go in Santiago so having someone who knows the cooler places to hang out is extremely useful. I slept until quite late on Saturday and knew straight away that I wasn’t really up for doing much the rest of the weekend.  I have been working my way through the TV series 24 since I’ve been here; I’ve just started series 4 but watching tv series on DVD is dangerous because they always leave you in suspense and you think just one more episode. I do have a TV in my apartment but don’t use it as the reception is really hopeless. I also purchased a Kindle before I left for Chile, I figured I didn’t want to buy books as they would just take up space on the way home. Anyway one of the nice things about the Kindle is you can subscribe to newspapers and magazines which if you’re an ex-pat anywhere is great. I have a subscription for the Spectator which is quite good for keeping in touch with what is going on in the UK.  I have quite regularly in the past bought the print version but it is really expensive in Brisbane. There is a print version that has around 10 pages of unique Australian content but unfortunately that hasn’t made it to Kindle yet . So I like to spend a few hours on Saturday reading the latest edition which I did this weekend.

Sunday was another lazy day. I spent a few hours in the afternoon putting together a new mix which if you’re interested can find here on Mixcloud, I think I was inspired by Friday night although there’s nothing Latino about it and by the end of it I was ready to go out and party. I didn’t go out and party, I went to the supermarket.

Hope everyone had a great weekend.

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