Host Family/Work Information

Here's the description they sent me of my host family and job site:

María Antonieta (60) is a very young-looking great grandmother (as well as a mother of 3—1 boy and 2 girls), and is the “duena de la casa” and a great cook. María Antonieta and Víctor Mauricio had me over for a delicious lunch and I can tell you that your Chilean mama makes a mean peach juice! She lives with her son, Víctor Mauricio (she calls him Mauricio, but many people call him Víctor, take your pick). Víctor Mauricio works at the DuocUC Valpo site as the construction school coordinator and will being studying IT engineering at DuocUC Valpo in March. He is very excited to have you living at the house because he loves to be around foreigners and learn about different cultures. He might even need a little help with his English since he´ll be taking English at DuocUC in March! The family is originally from the small town of Laguna Verde near Valpo (you are probably familiar with it since you know Valpo), and moved into their very Valpo-style house just a year ago, though Víctor has lived outside of Laguna Verde for years. Other members of the house are Víctor´s niece, Katherine (22), who is studying to be an Orthodontic technician at DuocUC and Tomás (23), the boyfriend of a cousin of Víctor. Tomás is finishing up his studies in Geography at La Universidad Católica in Valpo. Katherine and Tomás will often leave the house on the weekends to go to their parents’ houses in Santiago.

This house is probably my favorite host family house because it is so colorful on the inside and full of space! There are 3 floors, the 2nd and 3rd of which are living space. You will have a private room upstairs with a great view of a colorful house-filled hillside and the National Congress building. The bathroom will be shared between you, Katherine and Tomás, who also have rooms on the 3rd floor. This house has so much space that there is another vacant bedroom on the 3rd floor as well as an entire common room with 180-degree views out the windows. It´s really pretty awesome! I´m sure you´re familiar with the plano area of Valpo, so you know that this house is in Valpo´s center with easy access by bus or metro to Viña, where you´ll be teaching at the DuocUC. It should be only about a 20-25 minute commute to your teaching site.