Valparaiso

Ilmar headed back to Norway, and I am now in company of my classmates in Valparaiso.

This picture is from Santiago where we spent a day







Valpariso is a rather large city by the coast of Chile. This is where we´re gonna live the next month.

We could have been more lucky with the area we live in. When we are walking near the hostel people comes up to us and warn us. It is the oldest part of Valparaiso, and is where all the poor people live. None of us has been robbed yet. We´ll just have to stick together. I have felt totally safe in the rest of Chile, and my guidebook says that it´s less corruption here than in the U.S. and Japan.


The city is colourful and nice with steep hills and narrow streets. There is street art everywhere, and small shops and stands where they sell handmade things.
































The Open City

The Open City is located one hour north of Valparaiso.
This is where we´re gonna spend our days and build.








Every Tuesday the architecture students in Valpa begins the day with a poetic act in the Open City. After the session they have good old fashion gymnastics. Something for both your body and your soul.






The Valparaisian students had found sites for us. Our cabin will be in the sand hill in this picture.

So, this Monday we´ll start, and 15 chilean students will help our group. I hope we´ll manage to organize them all.
We all look so much forward to start now!