Today was our last company visit. We visited Bolsa de Comercio Santiago, in Santiago – it is the stock exchange. We left at 8AM, and got to Santiago around 11AM. They gave us a nice overview video of Bolsa, and gave a Power Point in person, but we could not visit the trading floor. We learned that very few people use the trading floor anymore; the brokers can do all their work on computers at their offices. They had an engineer come in and answer our questions. Half of the 200 people who work at Bolsa are IT people who work on developing and maintaining the software that lets the brokers work from their offices. They were nice and gave us some calendars/planners.
After the short presentation we walked around the city. We had a bunch of school tours ask to take our picture when we went to Moneda, the capitol building. We also got to see the Chilean National History Museum.
We had dinner at a famous fish market – Donde Agusto. I had some salmon with seafood sauce, the same thing I had the day we went to Isla Negra; it was much better at Donde Agusto.
After lunch we went to San Cristobol, which is a sanctuary at the top of the mountain in the middle of Santiago. There is a shrine to Mary at the top, it was beautiful. There were a bunch of tourist shops near the top.
At night, Jon, Ryan, and I lost our room key. We had locked it in our room. We tried picking the lock, forcing the door, and forcing the window, but to no avail. We eventually got help from the staff at the hotel, but they did not have an extra key. In the end, we got the window out of its track a little, stuck our hand in with food tongs, and grabbed the key off of the nightstand.
Lessons Learned: 1. Some bathrooms in Chile cost money.
2. The stock exchange is more of a company that develops and provides services here than it is in the U.S.
3. How to pick a lock.
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