So I finally met up with Sam, got a bus from Pucon to a place about 10 minutes outside of Villarrica on the route between there and Pucon. Sam came out to greet me off the bus which was nice I thought as we haven´t seen each other for 11 years now.
He walked me down some steep gravelly hill off the main road towards the lake. The house was right on the lake, quite literally the back garden backed onto a jetty on the lake. It wasn´t a massive house but it was cosy, it had a big log fire, wooden panelled walls like everywhere else, plus I got to meet Sam´s grandparents who had heard a lot about me from Sam and spoke very good English and they had this really cute little white poodle that jumped up to say hello to me when i first entered.
I got a chance to meet some of Sam´s friends who spoke a little English from what they had learned at school, they stil spoke more English than I can speak of Spanish.
On a whim, they asked if I had been or fancied going to a place south of here called Valdivia. I decided why not, spend some time with them and pick up some Spanish and they can learn more English.
Unfortunately things didn´t really go as I´d expected because there was no room for me at Sam´s place and they were having a sort of family summer vacation at their lake house down south.
This little setback meant I had to find somewhere completely new to stay in Pucon.