Eventually, you finish most of the errands, tasks and chores associated with moving to a new place in a new country. At that point, you start to really do what you came to do. In this case, research. With no distractions or other things pressing my todo list, I was able to work on my various sabbatical projects all day.
Laura tends to work at the table in the living room. Today, for example, she had a couple of zoom calls and was otherwise occupied with her work. I tend to stay in our bedroom. We bought a lap desk and I've been pretty comfortable stretched out on our bed most of the day.
Speaking of errands and tasks, I mentioned that one needs to register one's cell phone with the Chilean government or it will stop functioning 30 days after entering the country. Today, I successfully managed to register my phone, which means it will continue to function after Sep 30th.
Around 4:30pm, we went out to try to get a Chilean pre-paid sim card for Laura's phone. Up until now, she's just been using her roaming US T-Mobile account, but it's really slow. We ended up getting another sim card from WOM, the carrier that I used with my phone (set it up last week). All the employees we encountered at WOM have been wonderful and super patient with our rough language skills. I'd recommend them to anyone. We tried both Entel and Movistar before WOM and both were pretty unhelpful. They didn't want to deal with non-Chileans because you have to do extra stuff when the customer doesn't have a Chilean citizen number.
Still figuring out food here. We had bean burritos for lunch using the homemade refried beans that Laura made out of straight up dry black beans. Yesterday we bought something called Aji Crema that looked like a hot sauce. I tried it on my bean burrito and it was pretty good! Kind of a cross between Tapatio Hot Sauce and Buffalo sauce.
I'll definitely keep using it.