Moving Up in the World

Just to keep things interesting... I have moved- from my home and my life in Santiago to the North.  I arrived yesterday to my new home a small mining town, Calama.  The whole thing has been a very interesting process.  Like most of my travels of late this whole decision has been very whimsical. I dropped my resume off to a couple of English teaching schools looking for a little side work and wound up getting offered this ridiculously high paying job with one small catch... I would need to move to the driest desert in the world and teach English to a group of managers and engineers in this mine called Codelco.  I was really on the fence about the whole thing for a while, but ultimately I felt that taking this job brought me closer to my personal goals of traveling in South America.  For the next six months I will be saving a lot of money and getting the chance to explore the North of Chile.  When that time is up I will be able to see a lot of other areas- Lima, Buenos Aires, etc. 

So in the end it was hard to say goodbye to what had started to resemble a life in Santiago, but it was a chance I had to take.  Very suddenly I packed my bags, quit my job, and jumped on an airplane headed up... way up north!  Having only just arrived its hard to say how I feel about my new home, but Im pretty sure no matter what I'm going to be alright here.  Ive always been a roll with the punches kind of girl with very little in the way of dire necessities... plus just about anything is an upgrade from the floors and schools I lived on when I walked the Camino de Santiago.