"Make us some coffee, say hey to the sun"

Well hello, 34 followers! As Mama Swayze pointed out, it's been about a week since our last post. Are we turning into blog slackers? Sorry. It's just that nothing suuuuper exciting has been going on around here. It's still exciting to us just to be here most of the time, but nothing very blog-worthy is happening. But, just to assure you that we're alive and well, here's a quick update:

It's officially the school year again. We got by during the first few weeks doing minimal work, but now it's starting to feel more and more like real school. We're actually spending looots of time in the library (mostly because it's warm), trying to keep up with history reading and Quechua worksheets. And sometimes Abby gets assigned a 300-page book in Spanish, to finish in a week. 

So we had a very low-key weekend, including several hours spent at a Starbucks we tracked down near my house. Yep, a Starbucks. I'd like to say that we only go to cool, local Chilean cafes, but I have to just admit that we went to our beloved Starbucks, such a staple of our Nashville lives. And it was awesome! Not only did we get lots of work done, it was the coolest Starbucks ever! Two stories, and just fancier than anything we have in the USA. We took a picture to prove it to you.

Besides this exciting outing, Abby got to come over for lunch TWICE and hang out with my host family finally, and we had a mini-adventure on Sunday that she'll fill you in on hopefully tomorrow.

The title of this post is from a wonderful song by my faves, The Weepies, called "Simple Life." I thought it was appropriate because we've sort of just been living a simple life for the past couple of weeks. We go to class, we go home for dinner, we read things... but it's still great to be doing all of that in Santiago. And I'm trying to soak up every minute, because the calendar keeps reminding me that the halfway point is hurrying towards us. Yikes! 

We have some pretty big adventures coming our way in the next month, so fasten your seatbelts. This blog is about to get way more exciting...