Spanish lessons at La Casa Rocker

The weekend after our first Spanish lesson was a fairly mixed bag - we attended the legendary friday night La Casa Roja barbeque, spent most of the weekend doing the ton of homework we had been given and attended the Museum of Pre-Columbian Art on sunday. The following week we had lessons from monday to friday and they were supposed to run from 10 until 2, but Jesus changed the start time to 9am, which wasn´t ideal but it meant we had to show a bit of self restraint in the evenings - not an easy task in that crazy guesthouse ! The lessons were fantastic though and it felt great to be in a learning environment.

Spanish lessons from Jesus

Each night we had lots of homework to do, but we were swots and made sure it was done. This meant that we could have at least a couple of drinks in the hostel bar each night, but we didn´t go to bed too late like most of the crazy people there. One night we enjoyed the sight of a full lunar eclipse which was pretty amazing and kept us captivated for hours.

Lunar eclipse

We met some really cool people at La Casa Roja, none more so than fellow Stokies Vicky and Jon. On the final night, after a couple of drinks (or so) at the friday bar-b-q about 20 of us headed out to rock the night away at a huge nightclub called Blondie. We dragged Jesus with us and a mighty fine night was had by all !!
As sad as we were to leave the place we knew we couldn´t spend the rest of our lives at the hostel so after negotiating Santiago´s metro system we put our Spanish skills to the test and booked some tickets for the overnight bus to Pucon on saturday. Pucon is about 10 hours or so south of Santiago in the Chilean Lakes District. We had a final farewell meal with the usual suspects and said a sad farewell to (apparently) the best hostel in South America - we guess it must be downhill from now on !

The infamous Casa Roja

Nik at La Casa Roja

Bar & pool

The last supper

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jonnik on February 23, 2008 from Santiago, Chile

from the travel blog: Jon & Kenty's Grrrrrand Tour

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