30hrs in Santiago... "Not all who wonder are lost."

Thursday, after a sweet Wednesday night longboard shredd sesh, I hopped an hour.5 long bus to Santiago. It was for a 9am interview and of course we woke late to get to the bus station. So I was really late and decided to head 7 or 8 stops down the metro to the offices anyway. So they said I had to come back the next day to catch the Friday group interview for Valle Nevado. They host these interviews daily with 5 to 15 applicants in the same room. Wierd.

So I decided to make the best of the day. Had some food and tea, then set out for a walk in what ever direction looked good. I found a nice plaza with some flea market tents, and random businesses....really random. It was about5

blocks long with a park at the end, good place to kill some hours~

When I got sick of wondering I found the internet and hopped on facebook to grab a friends #. Got in contact with the peeps, and they where nice enough to scoop me up at the end of the metro rail~

We went to a mate's house, Fabian. This standared chill hard moment ended with a suprising event. Fabian is the exclusive producer of www.anded.cl to www.chilenieve.com. Which for those of you who don't know or haven't yet seen, is the Sudamerican version of skitownunderground.net~ This path crossing is yet another rare moment in this adventure. We exchanged cards and I said that we are "international peeps" Or as Mike Kelly would say, "World Citizens". Good things are coming...good things

The mountains were on the virge of a low pressure anomily as we caught some lunch with the Santander family. After, the plan was to head back to Vina. This turned into some Pool, which by the way is crazy here because the pockets are half the size you've seen. In result, 3 games takes a long time. I learned something about Santaigo afteer this....Don't be there after 6pm, traveling that is. Rush hour is no joke! We went back to the casa for the eve, and I caught a cab to the metro in the morning for the 9am group interview.

First one there, filled out my paperwork, crutched my way through a 95% Spanish entrevista. The competition was not up for the challenge luckely so I think I had some good stride. 2 weeks for a response though...

Not wanting to wait for a hypothetical response I have decided to rent a place that Mario is hooking up in the mountains. Farellones will be home for only a quarter of a G USD per month.

Finnally I headed back to the bus stop North east bound into the storm front we were awating. And it came....BIG. Downpour in Vina walking to the 602 bus up to Con Con. 5+ inches of water in the low areas of town. This turned into 55cm of snow at the base of the mountains. Much needed for the season opener this Thursday. And my Wednesday arrival~