Metro life...

   I forgot to mention, in the previous post, just how much of an experience the metro can be.  Prepare yourselves for something shocking!   So, my first Spanish class Aunt Bethie and Uncle Ricardo dropped me of at the metro station (with directions to refer to just in case) ... I had no extra time to spare...and so forced myself on to the first metro to stop at the station.  From there on, every stop more and more people would cram into the already full metro car.  The majority of the crowd would move one way or the other due to the sudden stopping of the machine...o Can you imagine it?  A freckled gringo chica who isn't totally used to the whole system is lifted by the crowd and moved randomly about the car??  Ok, maybe I am exaggerating a little...but really this is a very close description to how it can be and how it was my first day alone to figure it out.  Just a bit intimidating!  Never in all my born days have I been so close to complete strangers!!! 
  Today my destination was a bit different then I had ever done alone before...and therefore ended up backtracking twice to go the direction I was headed originally! It cracked me up...15 minutes into my travel I was at the station I had started out at!  One of these days I will figure out the metro system!  Really it isn't as complicated as I have made it sound...just was a bit tired today I guess and didn't read the map properly.  Oh well, you live and learn I guess!
  Just wanted to sketch a bit of the metro experience into your minds so as to help you imagine a bit better what I have been doing... and what I have to endure Monday through Friday.  It has been a different experience!
Hope you all are having a wonderful blessed week!  'Saludos' from Chile!