why santiago > dc, part II

It is perfectly normal to sleep away half of the day here. Because everything happens so much later here (dinner at 8 or 9 p.m., going out for the night at 12 a.m., staying out until 5 a.m.), no one will judge you for sleeping past noon. This weekend, I stumbled out of bed around 1 p.m. both days, and my host family remarked that I probably needed to get more sleep to get rid of my cold.

Even the weekdays start a little later in Chile. My earliest class this semester is at 9:40 am, and my host family gasped when I told them what time I had to be at school. My host mom tried to sympathize with me by remarking, "Que temprano (how early)!!" If only she could have a chat with my real mom...