La Comision Fulbright

As some may know, I accepted the internship from Fulbright! As first, my mom was convinced that I actually received a Fulbright scholarship (if only!). Nope, I'm just working there as an intern until December. It's an awesome job though! Tuesdays and Thursdays I go in at 9 am and stay till around 5:30, at Los Leones which is this relly cool part of Santiago downtown area. My co-workers are really chill, super nice, and all speak English actually, in order to talk to their bosses in the states.

The weirdest thing though is getting used to the keyboards. The ? and the ' and the shift button and the ! and the @ and the / and the . and the , are all in different places. It's kind of hard to type here just because I'm so used to doing something else now! And you realize that things are just written differently: for example, when we type University of Chile in english, the word 'University' is capitalized.  But, that is not the case in spanish.  The days of the week and months and proper nouns are almost never capitalized either. So weird!

The awesome part is that we are served lunch everyday by a cook for the office, and it's actually HEALTHY FOOD! So awesome. We've had lasagna, and seafood pasta, and salad, and asaparagus everyday. And for dessert: fresh fruit. I am in heaven. 

Thursday there was something going on outside our office (floor 9) and at first we thought it was a golpe (strike) or a bomba (bomb) but it turns out to be nothing, or at least I think. Either way, I love this internship. Good choice I believe!

Oh! And there is another Carolina at my office so everyone calls me Caro. I love it! Such a cute nickname, with the Spanish accent rolling the 'r'.  I am quite happy so far.