36 hours in Santiago

So the interesting this is that there really isn't much culture shock here. It's a professional city--but like most of Latin America you can't eat lunch in under two hours. Few people speak English well, so it's been kind of nice to practice Spanish. However, unlike Guatemala or Nicaragua where food is limited, here they have full menus so I'm learning new words ;)

Apparently the MBA trips here are out of control. In little over a day, we've crossed paths with MBA's from Duke, Tennessee, N. Illinois, some school called Baulfield or something, Florida, Auburn and us.

The picture here is of our dinner on night one. Some serious free food, pisco sours, and Professor Kelm (pictured next to me) forcing me to try speaking spanish to his Chilean friend after several drinks. Its amazing how much better I was after some liquid courage!

Anywho, we were done with a lecture today at about 11am and got to work on our tan on the rooftop pool. I'm not used to staying in hotels that are this classy (we have a living room and kitchen, full breakfast on the rooftop and a nice rooftop pool as well. Here's some pictures of the madness...