Since the semesters are a bit different when studying in South America, Alice didn't really start spring term classes until March. We previously wrote about some of her travels before classes started, and now we have the full update from her abroad experience!
The classes she was taking there were Legal Psychology, Educational Psychology, and the Social History of Chile. In lieu of a fourth class, she got a job working as a communications intern for the Red Campus Sustentable, which was an environmental organization wanting to create change from the University level.
In addition to her studies, she had the opportunity to travel down south to Patagonia. They went to Torres del Paine, Santiago, Isla Negra (to see one of Pablo Nerudo's houses), San Alfonso del Mar (which has the largest pool in the world--so COOL!), and also got to ski in the Andes. In addition to those cool places, she also got to travel to Valparaiso and then up north to San Pedro del Atacama.
Alice loved the opportunity to travel during her semester, but learning the language is a main focus for study abroad. She reported that her Spanish improved dramatically through not only her studies, but mainly by hanging out with her Chilean friends, who she spent most of her time with. The Chileans speak "incredibly fast with a very thick accent and they have a ton of colloquialisms." But, she reported that within a couple of months she could fully understand it, which is awesome!
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