There's a gym across the street that has what I need. I worked with gemini to make this script in advance:
Hola. Vengo de Estados Unidos por trabajo y estaré en Chile durante 6 meses. Hablo solo un poco de español.
Me gustaría hacerles unas preguntas sobre la inscripción:
- ¿Puedo mirar las instalaciones para ver si tienen lo que necesito? (May I look around to see if you have what I need?)
- Me interesa el Plan Semestral (por 6 meses). ¿Cómo funciona la forma de pago para este plan? (I am interested in the 6-Month Plan [Plan Semestral]. How does the payment method work for this plan?)
- No tengo RUT chileno, solo pasaporte estadounidense. ¿Puedo inscribirme y pagar el plan semestral con tarjeta de crédito internacional? (I don't have a Chilean RUT, only a US passport. Can I sign up and pay for the 6-month plan with an international credit card?)
- ¿Cuánto sería el total a pagar hoy, incluyendo la matrícula ($15.000 CLP)? (How much would the total be to pay today, including the $15,000 CLP registration fee?)
It worked well. I have a gym membership and had a good interaction with the manager. Here are a couple of random pictures of the gym:
Our next task was to get a prepaid Chilean sim card for our phones. This is a work in progress. It worked on my phone but not on Laura's. I used a script to start that interaction too:
Hola. Vengo de Estados Unidos y estaré en Chile unos meses. Hablo solo un poco de español y me gustaría comprar una tarjeta SIM.
Preguntas para Entel
- ¿Tienen tarjetas SIM prepago disponibles? (Do you have prepaid SIM cards available?)
- No tengo RUT chileno, solo mi pasaporte estadounidense. ¿Puedo registrar la SIM con mi pasaporte? (I don't have a Chilean RUT, only my US passport. Can I register the SIM with my passport?)
- Quiero una bolsa de datos para tener internet. ¿Qué opción me recomienda para un mes con bastante navegación? (I want a data package for internet. What option do you recommend for a month with good data usage?)
- ¿La tarjeta SIM viene con la herramienta para abrir la bandeja del chip, o me podría facilitar una? (Does the SIM card come with the tool to open the SIM tray, or could you give me one?)
- ¿Cuánto es el total por el chip y la primera carga de datos? (How much is the total for the SIM card and the first data recharge?)
Turns out Entel wouldn't sign us up without a Chilean ID number. However, WOM, another wireless carrier here, was happy to do it. We noticed a little WOM store near the supermarket this evening and two helpful workers there managed to set up my phone. I now have two sim cards. My t-mobile handles phone calls and texting. My WOM handles data. T-mobile handles data here in Chile, but it's heavily throttled and almost unusable. The WOM card gives us regular speed data when we're out on the street.
Speaking of supermarkets, we had a lot of little odds and ends we needed around the house like trash bags, tupperware, dish soap etc. Literally the Walmart of Chile is Supermercado Lider (seriously, Walmart owns it). It's about a mile from our place, so we walked over and wandered around the store seeing what was there overall and also getting the things on our list. We used self checkout. We ended up Uber-ing home because we didn't want to carry all our bags for a mile.
We made dinner at home for the first time. Laura doesn't love the gas stove top. Especially since you have to light it with a lighter, haha. It was just some pasta with ground beef meat sauce, a salad, and some garlic bread, but baby steps. We're slowly building up to a normal household.


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