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    Lista de Deseos – Ir a Fantasilandia
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    Bucket List – Go to Fantasilandia I have a bucket list that I want to try and achieve by the end of my exchange, which you can see here. One of the places I wanted to visit on the list is Fantasilandia, which is an amusement park in Santiago. Honestly, I didn’t think that I […]

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    Lista de Deseos – Ir a San Fernando
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    Bucket List – Go to San Fernando I have a bucket list that I want to try and achieve by the end of my exchange, which you can see here. It’s been a long while since I’ve been able to write one of these posts due to the pandemic and lockdown, but now that things […]

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    Viaje pequeño al Cajón del Maipo
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    Hola Todos! As you might have read in my last blog post (or if you haven’t, here’s the link), my council/area/suburb/place moved into Phase 2, meaning that we came out of lockdown. With this, we are able to travel more freely, and so my host parents decided to take the family on a mini-adventure to […]

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    COVID-19 Update #5
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    Hola Todos! It’s been a while since I’ve written an update, so I thought it was about time I did. I have some good news this time around, so keep reading to find out what it is. This is a really long post, just a warning. In the past month or so, the daily case […]

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    COVID-19 Update #4
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    Hola todos! Yet again, it has been about a month since my last COVID post so I thought I would update a bit because quite a bit has changed. As of writing this, yesterday 05/08/2020 (the numbers haven’t been updated for today yet), there are 1781 new cases, which is about 1k less than what […]

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    Despidiendo amigxs, cambiando casas y mi cumpleaños :))
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    Farewelling friends, changing houses and my birthday Life in quarantine can be very boring, but I’m going to try to write about a few things that have been keeping me busy. :)) Despidiendo amigxs Farewelling friends Part of an exchange student’s exchange experience is having ‘oldies’, which refers to exchange students that were already living […]

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    COVID-19 Update 3
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    01/07/2020 It’s been about a month since I last wrote a post about what the current situation is like in Chile, so it’s time to update on what’s going on. Most of my posts on the pandemic and quarantine have been kind of depressing, or at least I think, and while that makes sense since […]

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    Chilenismos (Parte 2)
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    Hola Todos! I really enjoyed writing the first part of the Chilenismos (link to which you can find here), so I thought I would write about some more of them and explain a little bit more about Spanish and the Chilean accent. I’d like to make a quick disclaimer that there might be some swearing […]

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    Chilenismos
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    Hi Everyone! Hola Todos! This blog post is going to be about Chilean slang (Chilenismos), a few things that Chileans say that differ from the Spanish that’s spoken in Spain and just also explaining some things about Spanish in general. I do give out a warning, this post will probably use almost every swear word […]

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    Culture Shock
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    I’ve touched very lightly on this topic previously but I thought I would write in a little bit more detail some of the cultural differences between Chile and Australia that I’ve noticed in my time here. To preface this post, I would like to re-iterate an adage within Rotary and Youth Exchange, which is ‘Not […]

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    COVID-19 update
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    Hi everyone! It’s been about 3 weeks since I wrote my last blog post explaining what the situation around COVID-19 and Chile is, and things have changed a little bit, so I thought I would write a quick update. I would recommend reading my last blog post before this one, you can access it by […]

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    Lista de Deseos: La Nieve
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    Hola Todos! I have a bucket list that I want to try and achieve by the end of my exchange, which you can see here. One of the things I wanted to experience in Chile was la nieve (snow). I’ve seen snow before, as I was born in Belgium and we’ve visited over the Christmas […]

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    Lista de Deseos: Terremotos
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    Hola todos! I have a bucket list that I want to try and achieve by the end of my exchange, which you can see here. One of the things I wanted to experience in Chile was the earthquakes or los terremotos in español. Geographically, Chile sits on the edge of the Pacific tectonic plate, on […]

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    La vida encerrada en la cuarentena
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    Life inside in quarantine. I’ve had a lot of friends and family asking about how quarantine and COVID-19 have been affecting me, my exchange and in Chile, and so I thought I would write a more in-depth response. Currently, the situation here isn’t looking too good, if I’m perfectly honest. As of today, 17th of […]

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    Lista de Deseos: San Antonio
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    27/2/2020 The first thing I crossed off my bucket list was visiting San Antonio. San Antonio is a port town on the east coast of Chile, about 1 1/2 hours away from Santiago city. I wanted to visit San Antonio mainly to visit my exchange friends there (shoutout to Lachlan, Safi, Sophie and Mila!), but […]

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    Bucket List / Lista de Deseos
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    Hi Everyone! Hola Todos! Desplácese hacia abajo para la traduccion al español. English I’ve decided to make a bucket list of things I want to aspire to achieve this year. It’s a mix of places I want to visit, experiences I want to have and personal goals as well. I’m not sure if I can […]

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    Colegio
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    Hi everyone! After a long period of amazing holidays, I have (un?)fortunately started school! It’s been just about a week so far, so everything is still a little new. I go to Colegio Mayor Peñalolen, a private school in Peñalolen, pretty close to where I live. I’m in the Australian year 11 equivalent; Tercero Medio. […]

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    Food!!
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    Hey everyone, I’ve had a lot of questions from friends and family asking about what type of food I’ve eaten here, and what some of the differences and similarities are between the food in Australia and the food in Belgium (to those who didn’t know I have two nationalities, and want to know more about […]

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    Vamos a Lican Ray!
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    Vamos a Lican Ray! This summer I’m lucky enough to have a total of 2 1/2 months of vacation, as school ends half way through December in Australia, and school in Chile doesn’t start until March (yay me!). As a vacation this summer, my host family decided to head down to the south of Chile […]

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    Mis primeros días en Chile!
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    Hola a todos! I’m currently in bed in Chile writing this and thinking about how Chile was definitely a great pick for me because it’s very normal to sleep in until about 9 or 10, and that custom suits my lazy teenage self very much. Mañana! Travelling over to Chile was quite the journey. All […]

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    Preparing for Exchange
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    Anxiety and excitement are the best words to describe how I’ve been feeling about my exchange over the past few weeks. As I’m writing this, I have a week until I leave for Chile and my whole world changes, and it’s a bit daunting, if I’m being completely honest. Every part I’m nervous about, however, […]

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