Emily Toop

This Sunday Ian and I are leaving Santiago to go and spend 3 weeks in Buenos Aires in Argentina. We return to Chile for only 10 days before we leave for 2 months in San Francisco. I just thought I would write a quick post about the things that I will and will not miss, and the things I wish I had done. I’ll probably keep updating this as I think of things, but this is what springs immediately to mind.

Things I will miss

• SUP staff
• SUP participants
• Cheap, awesome wine
• Cero San Cristobel
• The summer weather
• Lots of easily accesible running tracks with exercise machines
• The Jewel of India
• Watching sunsets over Cerro San Cristobel from our living room
• Jazz at Thelonius
• Salsa taught by Ben

Things I will not miss

• The dogs
• The car alarms
• the winter weather
• the lack of heating in winter
• the lack of air conditioning in summer
• the smog
• having to talk Spanish every day
• the food
• Coming home from the pub stinking of cigarettes.

Things I wish I’d done

• Visited Puerto Varas, Temuco and Pucón
• Visited Atacama
• Learned more Spanish
• Spent more time in Viña del Mar
• Spent more time at the Santiago Makerspace