I'll be staying near the school, in quite a small village, and I'll be staying in a teachers' house, living with two or three other volunteer teachers.
Throngs of Ground Zero construction workers wearing hard-hats emblazoned with the American flag took in the odd drama as they ate lunch on nearby park benches.
Stacked near the checkout counters, and as colorful as a Fisher-Price toy, it is a not-so-serious-looking power tool: a battery-operated saw-and-drill combination.
Whenever I go to the bank near my house, the cashiers are either fooling around or keeping whole queues of people waiting by chatting to the customer at the front about their holidays.
As if that were not enough, a Brazilian C-130 Hercules military transport plane has remained stranded near the runway of Chile's air base here since it crash-landed in 2014.