Greetings fromt the Sunny, warm Southern hemisphere

Well, its day number 3 here and this is basically the first time I´ve seen the internet clear, so I thought I´d quick post for my millions of readers worldwide. Anyways, I don´t know how I do it, but somehow I always find the partiers. We´ve been whooping it up (and yes I´ve been careful mom). I might be the worst Spanish speaker of the bunch, but hey, I´ve got 8 months to learn. Santiago is very beautiful, but since it is surrounded by mountains its seems to have a continual smog problem. Overall, the people have been very friendly and the food has been good, but not superb. I had a filete pobre last night, which is basically a steak covered in french fries and an egg on top. Other than that its been a bunch of orientation and getting to know people before we all go to our separate towns (there are about 70 total volunteers of which 14 will be in my city). I have some staunch competition on the ping pong table and have already made some friends who´ll give me opportunties to explore all over the country. Also, the first night I hung out with a Chilean who was obsessed with American blues and jazz until six in the morning and then the next night a bunch of us took a gondola to the top of one of the smaller mountains in town and had a great view of the city. We met an Argentinian who gave us a standing invite to go down to Buenos Aires. I might add, I also had my first pseudo-date with a chilean on the flight over. We shared a movie and I charmed her with my umparalleled wit and charm (as well as good looks). Ciao. P.S. if you read this please put some sort of comment. It would be great to have some input on what I´m writing. Ciao, again.