For future exchange students hoping to travel to Chile, I write this for you.
10 Things you should know about Chile:
1. Dogs: There are so many stray dogs here that wonder around the streets. Some are nice, and some are not so be careful!
2. Bread: Chileans eat an incredible amount of bread, so now you will too. (and the bread tastes really good)
3. Hellos and Goodbyes: They take an extremely long time because you have to beso and abrazo EVERYONE, so plan accordingly.
4. Bring markers and a coloring book to school, this will save your life, or at least your sanity.
5. Milk is kept in a box on the shelf, not in the fridge, do not freak out, it will not kill you.
6. BRING SLIPPERS!!! Because if you do not wear shoes in the house your host mom will think you are going to die from getting a cold, same goes for having wet hair.
7. Chileans are late to everything, by at least a half an hour, so the notion of being early is ridiculous.
8. Avocado cures everything. You will eat it everyday at every meal, with bread of course.
9. Chilean Spanish is an entirely different language. There is so much slang and almost every word ends in "ito".
10. Once you arrive, you will never want to leave.
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