its the morning of the day i leave chile. WHAT.
i have now been up for more than a day. and will not sleep again til tonight at 8
we spent the night partying, it was the most random night ive ever had.
then we saw the sunrise on the beach. and what happened? well there was a rainbow from the ocean....of course there was. thank you chile, how i will miss you.
more to come later.
for now, prepare for more waterworks.
"it's all here for you, as long as you don't fly away"
for one last time, peace and love from chile <3
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
sooooooo its hump day of my last week here....
also i think i start the majority of my posts with so or ok. i need to mix things up every once and a while.
anyways, i just thought i would fill in the last few days while i had this break tonight. monday was a good day, me and kathleen walked to sams house to go to the mall to buy our harry potter premier tickets. on the way we decided to stop into little shops that looked nice and bought chocolate and some ice cream, it was a beautiful sunny day and we just walked all around vina. then we went to the mall and got our tickets :) and then we met betsy at the plaza and got on the metro to go to limache. we just rode it there and stayed on and came back, but it was a pretty ride, u got to see some of the country, but it was also sad cause u could see the poverty and it was just so weird to see how much poverty there was right there so close to me that i never even realized. then on the way back we got interrupted and bitched out by some lady, she was mad that we had our feet resting on the seats of the metro. and let me clarify that 1, it was seriously the tips of our shoes on the seats and 2, it was on teh plastic part not even the cushion part...anyways in english she yelled at us in front of everyone being like "take your feet off there, i dont like gettting shit on my clothes, get it? got it? good." although her english wasnt that fluent... and she said something else and we just said YEP and looked away. then she had the nerve to tell everyone around her in spanish what she said to us and that we were stupid gringas and blah blah, and i just turned to her and told her i could understand her thank you and she just acted like she didnt hear. so we were all really upset that she was so rude, but she got it in the end cause she couldnt find her card to get out of the metro and last i saw she was stuck behind the barrier haa.
anyways so then after that we went home for a little bit and then we went to kathleens house. we got all dressed up for a "girls night" haha and made cookies at her house. they were delicious. and then we all went to the sheraton bar to have a nice night out. we were gonna go to the casino, but it was already one by the time we were leaving the sheraton so we just decided to go home haha. a little fome (lame) but whatever.
then tuesday we went to a goodbye lunch for nick at cafe journal. it was really nice it was nick paul ashley kathleen betsy sam and i. it was a good lunch and sad to say goodbye again. then i went to the ciee office to get my still broken camera and ended up talking to glenn and gloria (people who work at ciee) for like 2 hours... then i went to valpo to coyote with my friend carla. we just had a margarita and talked, it was great, i love talking to her cause she is just a really nice person and we really get along and also cause it makes me feel like i really can talk in spanish cause we just have normal girl hanging out conversations but all in spanish. and then at the end we took the sacrificio mayo hah which is a flaming tequila and something else shot...i was very scared. but actually it was really sweet and i liked it. hah so then we left and i went to sams house b4 the harry potter premier! hah only i was kinda drunk by the time i got there ahah so i tried to sober up so i would be able to understand spanish hp. anyways then kathleen came over too, they drank some wine and we ate and then we went to the theater.
its not as fun here cause u have assigned seats in the theater. so there is no need to get there way early and get all pumped up in the theater with everyone. although i did see one theater where it seemed like people were doing that, so maybe it was just hte one i was at. but anyways, we went there and got this HUGE thing called pophome, which is the biggest popcorn ever. also its the best cause they have like caramel corn and regular popcorn. it was delicious. anyways, then we realized that i had lost the tickets somehow...great. so i panicked and was freaking out and feeling horrible, but the people were so nice, we told them and they just made us wait til the end to make sure our seats lined up with the ones we said were ours. so we got in . andddd the movie was incredible....even tho we were in teh first row haha. but i thought it was so great. i really enjoyed it.
so then today i walked to valpo with sam betsy ashley and kathleen and we just took pics, saw the graffitti and the sea lions and then went to an artisan fair to get last minute gifts. i also had one last churro and really good fresh juice. it was another great day, lots and lots of sol. and now i am just wasting time until i go over to camillas house (maggies old host house) to have a goodbye dinner with them...thats gonna be weird, i really love her family they are so so nice and i feel so special and like i really live here cause im just going to have dinner with my neighbors, just some random chilean fam. hah
so i guess thats all for now, im trying to stay busy and appreciate it all, but at the same time i honestly just want to be home. i feel bad for saying that cause i need to appreciate this, but im glad the time has come. ok time to go.
"i'm sane but im overwhelmed. i'm here but i'm really gone. i'm lost but im hopeful baby."
peace and love from chile
also i think i start the majority of my posts with so or ok. i need to mix things up every once and a while.
anyways, i just thought i would fill in the last few days while i had this break tonight. monday was a good day, me and kathleen walked to sams house to go to the mall to buy our harry potter premier tickets. on the way we decided to stop into little shops that looked nice and bought chocolate and some ice cream, it was a beautiful sunny day and we just walked all around vina. then we went to the mall and got our tickets :) and then we met betsy at the plaza and got on the metro to go to limache. we just rode it there and stayed on and came back, but it was a pretty ride, u got to see some of the country, but it was also sad cause u could see the poverty and it was just so weird to see how much poverty there was right there so close to me that i never even realized. then on the way back we got interrupted and bitched out by some lady, she was mad that we had our feet resting on the seats of the metro. and let me clarify that 1, it was seriously the tips of our shoes on the seats and 2, it was on teh plastic part not even the cushion part...anyways in english she yelled at us in front of everyone being like "take your feet off there, i dont like gettting shit on my clothes, get it? got it? good." although her english wasnt that fluent... and she said something else and we just said YEP and looked away. then she had the nerve to tell everyone around her in spanish what she said to us and that we were stupid gringas and blah blah, and i just turned to her and told her i could understand her thank you and she just acted like she didnt hear. so we were all really upset that she was so rude, but she got it in the end cause she couldnt find her card to get out of the metro and last i saw she was stuck behind the barrier haa.
anyways so then after that we went home for a little bit and then we went to kathleens house. we got all dressed up for a "girls night" haha and made cookies at her house. they were delicious. and then we all went to the sheraton bar to have a nice night out. we were gonna go to the casino, but it was already one by the time we were leaving the sheraton so we just decided to go home haha. a little fome (lame) but whatever.
then tuesday we went to a goodbye lunch for nick at cafe journal. it was really nice it was nick paul ashley kathleen betsy sam and i. it was a good lunch and sad to say goodbye again. then i went to the ciee office to get my still broken camera and ended up talking to glenn and gloria (people who work at ciee) for like 2 hours... then i went to valpo to coyote with my friend carla. we just had a margarita and talked, it was great, i love talking to her cause she is just a really nice person and we really get along and also cause it makes me feel like i really can talk in spanish cause we just have normal girl hanging out conversations but all in spanish. and then at the end we took the sacrificio mayo hah which is a flaming tequila and something else shot...i was very scared. but actually it was really sweet and i liked it. hah so then we left and i went to sams house b4 the harry potter premier! hah only i was kinda drunk by the time i got there ahah so i tried to sober up so i would be able to understand spanish hp. anyways then kathleen came over too, they drank some wine and we ate and then we went to the theater.
its not as fun here cause u have assigned seats in the theater. so there is no need to get there way early and get all pumped up in the theater with everyone. although i did see one theater where it seemed like people were doing that, so maybe it was just hte one i was at. but anyways, we went there and got this HUGE thing called pophome, which is the biggest popcorn ever. also its the best cause they have like caramel corn and regular popcorn. it was delicious. anyways, then we realized that i had lost the tickets somehow...great. so i panicked and was freaking out and feeling horrible, but the people were so nice, we told them and they just made us wait til the end to make sure our seats lined up with the ones we said were ours. so we got in . andddd the movie was incredible....even tho we were in teh first row haha. but i thought it was so great. i really enjoyed it.
so then today i walked to valpo with sam betsy ashley and kathleen and we just took pics, saw the graffitti and the sea lions and then went to an artisan fair to get last minute gifts. i also had one last churro and really good fresh juice. it was another great day, lots and lots of sol. and now i am just wasting time until i go over to camillas house (maggies old host house) to have a goodbye dinner with them...thats gonna be weird, i really love her family they are so so nice and i feel so special and like i really live here cause im just going to have dinner with my neighbors, just some random chilean fam. hah
so i guess thats all for now, im trying to stay busy and appreciate it all, but at the same time i honestly just want to be home. i feel bad for saying that cause i need to appreciate this, but im glad the time has come. ok time to go.
"i'm sane but im overwhelmed. i'm here but i'm really gone. i'm lost but im hopeful baby."
peace and love from chile
Sunday, July 12, 2009
sooooo i have alot to update on and i havent quite been able to find the motivation to do so even tho its all great stuff. but im coming to the realization that my time is ending and so i need to make sure i remember the last few good days.
so the thurs i left before going to san pedro i went to stay in hostel bellavista with vanessa elizabeth maggie and kathleen. we drank wine, make tacos and REALLY burnt brownies, exchanged pics and music and just talked most of the night. it was a really great way to spend our last night all of us together. the place was so beautiful and we had it to ourselves and i just loved spending time with them. then the next day we walked around valpo a bit looking at the open air graffitti museum again and then went to a feria of jewelry. then i chilled at home a bit. it was really fun cause my bro was getting all dressed up for some presentation and my cousin was over and we had a really great conversation ( i have a little crush on him so it was extra great hah) and then maggie came over, but she was balling and just really upset about leaving and saying bye but then eventually calmed down and we just hung out and then went to vanessa's. on the way there we saw terra and had a good talk for a bit and then we said bye and terra cried and it was sad, she is such a great genuine girl. and then we hung out just a little bitat vane's and then maggie left, it was really sad and i cried alot hah.
then vane and i went to the bus terminal to meet kathleen and eli to go to the airport to go to san pedro! so we spent that night in the airport and then caught a flight at 6 to san pedro, we got in at 9 and then got settled into our hostel and went to figure out what we were going to do. then we had lunch and went on our first tour to valle de la luna y valle de la muerte (moon and death valley) . we saw valle de la luna first and then went to some caves that were really cool and then went to the sand dunes to watch the sunset over valle de la muerte, it was so beautiful. the colors were great.
then that night we went out to dinner with anna and roxanne to some outdoors place, it was good, but soooo cold. then we went out to SPACE the observatory out at some french astronomers house in the desert. it was really fun, the sky was soooooo beautiful. i think im kinda biased cause, i might be crazy, but i feel so different when i look at the stars, like things make sense and im always where im supposed to be and if not, im at least still close to others cause we have the same sky. the guy was sooo funny and i loved hearing him talk in spanish cause it gave me hope for my own spanish. and i learned alot (for example did u know that all the light we see from stars is actually year old light, thats how far away they are. and the closest one is 4.4 years old light. insane.) and then we had great hot choc and went home to the hostel and passed out in literally all the clothes and sweatshirts i had. (17 layers in total)
then the next day we went on an all day tour from 8-5 of the salt flats, which were sooo amazing. they (well all the sights really) are surrounded by over 15 volcanoes, its soooo cool. and the salt flats arent flat at all, everywhere u look its just all salt rock chunks as far as u can see to the mountains and volcanoes surrounding you, witht the exception of laguna chaxa. where the flamengos live! we saw 3 types of flamengos and a type of bird that lives only there. then we went to 2 other lakes, miscanti and some other m one and they were soo pretty, the blue was insane and they were surrounded by mountains. then we had lunch and saw the inca trail, that the incans used to come into chile when they were taking over basically, its sweet and the path is marked by rock formation. then went to a small town by san pedro and saw llamas and looked around. then that night we went out to dinner, but before we met this potter named fernando who was clearly flying high and we played his clay and gourd instruments and danced and learned about him and it was soo fun. then we went to eat and went to bed early.
then the next day we went to the museum of archeology (i cant spell that) and artisan shopping. then we went on a tour of laguna cejas. this was the best one. we floated in a salt water lake, it was soooooo awesome. it was cold on the top layer but under it was so warm. and u didnt have to kick or anything, if u just pretended u were standing up, u would just bob there, it was sooooo strange. one of the coolest things ive ever done. and then we went to another ugly lake and then to a reflective pool that was sooo clear and like a mirror. and then we went to one last lake that is very shallow so u kind of look like u are walking on water. and then we watched the sunset there and it was soo great, we were surrounded by the water, volcanoes, desert and mountains and the moon was out too, it was soooo gorgeous. so then we made some pasta for dinner and slept early
the next day we got up at 330 to leave by 4 am to go see the geisers for the sunrise. it was so so so cold and the bus ride was equally not warm. we got there and saw 64 steaming geisers and it was pretty, but honestly not as great and moving as i was thinking it would be, partly cause it was so cold. also cause kathleen got altitude sickness and we had to make sure she was ok, it was scary, she was sooo pale and about to pass out and couldnt hear us sometimes, we had to lay her down, raise her legs, warm her up, put pressure on her head and give her oxygen. and then our tour guide and a doctor got into a weird fight about what was best for her and the guide almost left us there....stupid boy. well she eventually got better and just rested in the bus while we had bfast. then we went to the hot springs which only eli swan in. i wanted to but it was soooo cold there was no way i was gonna change into a bathing suit. so we did that and then we went to a smallllll town and had sopapaillas and empanadas and i think the other girls tried llama. then that night eli and vane left and it was just kathleen and i. we went to eat with nick conner and paul and had a fun night. then the next day we went to ride horses to "la garganta del diablo" devils throat...but turns out im terrified of horses... we got two really pissy horses who did not want to take us out and a tour guide who didnt know what she was doing. kathleens horse was crazy and wanted to be the leader and so it kept running to catch up to other horses that werent in our group and were in front of us and mine was trained to just follow him, so we just kept taking off, neither kathleen or i knowing anything about horses or what to do. it was really scary to me, id never been on a running horse and they would NOT listen when we did what we were supposed to to stop them. and our guide was always so far behind, well after awhile of that we just asked to turn around cause it was not fun at all, we were both terrified of falling off or our horses just getting more mad. so then we walked back to the town, meanwhile they got all calm all of a sudden cause they knew they were going home and so we took a small tour of the town with them, that actually turned out to be really fun. and then that night we walked around the town to see the great stars and turned out there was a blackout in the town. hah it was so fun, at first i didnt even notice and kathleen did and just grabbed me and hugged me haha, but then we took advantage and really got some good views of the sky. then we went out with paul nick and conner again and some brazilian girls. (we also found out that the really cool brazilian couple we met got engaged! they were sooo cute and happy to tell us).
then the last day we were there we rented bikes and rode all around, that was so fun. we went to some old ruins and then we found a cave so we climbed in it and up and ate lunch there where we could see all around to diff valleys. then we crossed some rivers with our bikes which was interesting, mostly cause im too short haha. and then we went to some dried up salt river by garganta del diablo and valle de la muerte. it was soooooooooo amazing. it was absolutely silent there, you could only hear the rocks cracking. and everywhere u looked were diff types of mountains or volcanoes or desert or rocks, it was just amazing. so then we hung around there and then went back to the hostel, showered, hung out, shopped and then we made dinner and met some really nice kids from scotland, we ate with them and had good conversation. o i forgot to mention that the last night we had 2 british boys be our roomates, but we went to bed b4 meeting them and b4 they got back and we didnt know what to do about the light, so we left them a note saying they could turn it on even if we were asleep, adn when we woke up they left us a note saying "cheers for the note, we tried our best not to disturb you, see you in the morning <3 alex and simon" hah and it was so cute, we were happy they didnt think we were creeps for leaving the message, but ironically after we never really met, we talked a bit later in the day, but thats all.
anyways so then that night we took a bus to calama...the ugliest city in chile and then flew to santiago at 11 and then we had to spend the night at the airport again and then caught the first bus out at 640 to vina. we got home and i passsssed out haha. then i went and said bye to eli, it was sad, she cried alot. and then i went home for a bit and then way later in the day (meaning 1230 at ngiht actually) i went out for italos birthday/vane's last night. we went to a bar close and just hung out with some of italos friends and then danced, but i left way early (like 230 ha). so then sat i went to say bye to vanessa, it wasnt as hard as i thought it would be, i think its just all becoming to unreal, so i dont feel much anymore. then kathleen and i went to meet al and virginia to get empanadas. we talked all about our favorite and worse moments and things like that here, then we went to the beach, then kathleen and i stayed and shopped and watched the sunset. then we met al and quentin at the movies to see transformers. then we just walked home and i stayed in.
then today i went to the thift and antique fair with kathleen and ashley adn we saw the most amazing sunset...then we were gonna go plant trees in a park but the girl never called us back...so instead we went to sams house and then we went to cuenavaca for some mexican food and then bravvismo for ice cream and made our plans for the next week, haha we will be so busy. i just cant believe i can put all the days i have left here on one page and i have to pick and choose now what i do. o how timhe flies. alright so here is potentially what ill be up to all week:
so the thurs i left before going to san pedro i went to stay in hostel bellavista with vanessa elizabeth maggie and kathleen. we drank wine, make tacos and REALLY burnt brownies, exchanged pics and music and just talked most of the night. it was a really great way to spend our last night all of us together. the place was so beautiful and we had it to ourselves and i just loved spending time with them. then the next day we walked around valpo a bit looking at the open air graffitti museum again and then went to a feria of jewelry. then i chilled at home a bit. it was really fun cause my bro was getting all dressed up for some presentation and my cousin was over and we had a really great conversation ( i have a little crush on him so it was extra great hah) and then maggie came over, but she was balling and just really upset about leaving and saying bye but then eventually calmed down and we just hung out and then went to vanessa's. on the way there we saw terra and had a good talk for a bit and then we said bye and terra cried and it was sad, she is such a great genuine girl. and then we hung out just a little bitat vane's and then maggie left, it was really sad and i cried alot hah.
then vane and i went to the bus terminal to meet kathleen and eli to go to the airport to go to san pedro! so we spent that night in the airport and then caught a flight at 6 to san pedro, we got in at 9 and then got settled into our hostel and went to figure out what we were going to do. then we had lunch and went on our first tour to valle de la luna y valle de la muerte (moon and death valley) . we saw valle de la luna first and then went to some caves that were really cool and then went to the sand dunes to watch the sunset over valle de la muerte, it was so beautiful. the colors were great.
then that night we went out to dinner with anna and roxanne to some outdoors place, it was good, but soooo cold. then we went out to SPACE the observatory out at some french astronomers house in the desert. it was really fun, the sky was soooooo beautiful. i think im kinda biased cause, i might be crazy, but i feel so different when i look at the stars, like things make sense and im always where im supposed to be and if not, im at least still close to others cause we have the same sky. the guy was sooo funny and i loved hearing him talk in spanish cause it gave me hope for my own spanish. and i learned alot (for example did u know that all the light we see from stars is actually year old light, thats how far away they are. and the closest one is 4.4 years old light. insane.) and then we had great hot choc and went home to the hostel and passed out in literally all the clothes and sweatshirts i had. (17 layers in total)
then the next day we went on an all day tour from 8-5 of the salt flats, which were sooo amazing. they (well all the sights really) are surrounded by over 15 volcanoes, its soooo cool. and the salt flats arent flat at all, everywhere u look its just all salt rock chunks as far as u can see to the mountains and volcanoes surrounding you, witht the exception of laguna chaxa. where the flamengos live! we saw 3 types of flamengos and a type of bird that lives only there. then we went to 2 other lakes, miscanti and some other m one and they were soo pretty, the blue was insane and they were surrounded by mountains. then we had lunch and saw the inca trail, that the incans used to come into chile when they were taking over basically, its sweet and the path is marked by rock formation. then went to a small town by san pedro and saw llamas and looked around. then that night we went out to dinner, but before we met this potter named fernando who was clearly flying high and we played his clay and gourd instruments and danced and learned about him and it was soo fun. then we went to eat and went to bed early.
then the next day we went to the museum of archeology (i cant spell that) and artisan shopping. then we went on a tour of laguna cejas. this was the best one. we floated in a salt water lake, it was soooooo awesome. it was cold on the top layer but under it was so warm. and u didnt have to kick or anything, if u just pretended u were standing up, u would just bob there, it was sooooo strange. one of the coolest things ive ever done. and then we went to another ugly lake and then to a reflective pool that was sooo clear and like a mirror. and then we went to one last lake that is very shallow so u kind of look like u are walking on water. and then we watched the sunset there and it was soo great, we were surrounded by the water, volcanoes, desert and mountains and the moon was out too, it was soooo gorgeous. so then we made some pasta for dinner and slept early
the next day we got up at 330 to leave by 4 am to go see the geisers for the sunrise. it was so so so cold and the bus ride was equally not warm. we got there and saw 64 steaming geisers and it was pretty, but honestly not as great and moving as i was thinking it would be, partly cause it was so cold. also cause kathleen got altitude sickness and we had to make sure she was ok, it was scary, she was sooo pale and about to pass out and couldnt hear us sometimes, we had to lay her down, raise her legs, warm her up, put pressure on her head and give her oxygen. and then our tour guide and a doctor got into a weird fight about what was best for her and the guide almost left us there....stupid boy. well she eventually got better and just rested in the bus while we had bfast. then we went to the hot springs which only eli swan in. i wanted to but it was soooo cold there was no way i was gonna change into a bathing suit. so we did that and then we went to a smallllll town and had sopapaillas and empanadas and i think the other girls tried llama. then that night eli and vane left and it was just kathleen and i. we went to eat with nick conner and paul and had a fun night. then the next day we went to ride horses to "la garganta del diablo" devils throat...but turns out im terrified of horses... we got two really pissy horses who did not want to take us out and a tour guide who didnt know what she was doing. kathleens horse was crazy and wanted to be the leader and so it kept running to catch up to other horses that werent in our group and were in front of us and mine was trained to just follow him, so we just kept taking off, neither kathleen or i knowing anything about horses or what to do. it was really scary to me, id never been on a running horse and they would NOT listen when we did what we were supposed to to stop them. and our guide was always so far behind, well after awhile of that we just asked to turn around cause it was not fun at all, we were both terrified of falling off or our horses just getting more mad. so then we walked back to the town, meanwhile they got all calm all of a sudden cause they knew they were going home and so we took a small tour of the town with them, that actually turned out to be really fun. and then that night we walked around the town to see the great stars and turned out there was a blackout in the town. hah it was so fun, at first i didnt even notice and kathleen did and just grabbed me and hugged me haha, but then we took advantage and really got some good views of the sky. then we went out with paul nick and conner again and some brazilian girls. (we also found out that the really cool brazilian couple we met got engaged! they were sooo cute and happy to tell us).
then the last day we were there we rented bikes and rode all around, that was so fun. we went to some old ruins and then we found a cave so we climbed in it and up and ate lunch there where we could see all around to diff valleys. then we crossed some rivers with our bikes which was interesting, mostly cause im too short haha. and then we went to some dried up salt river by garganta del diablo and valle de la muerte. it was soooooooooo amazing. it was absolutely silent there, you could only hear the rocks cracking. and everywhere u looked were diff types of mountains or volcanoes or desert or rocks, it was just amazing. so then we hung around there and then went back to the hostel, showered, hung out, shopped and then we made dinner and met some really nice kids from scotland, we ate with them and had good conversation. o i forgot to mention that the last night we had 2 british boys be our roomates, but we went to bed b4 meeting them and b4 they got back and we didnt know what to do about the light, so we left them a note saying they could turn it on even if we were asleep, adn when we woke up they left us a note saying "cheers for the note, we tried our best not to disturb you, see you in the morning <3 alex and simon" hah and it was so cute, we were happy they didnt think we were creeps for leaving the message, but ironically after we never really met, we talked a bit later in the day, but thats all.
anyways so then that night we took a bus to calama...the ugliest city in chile and then flew to santiago at 11 and then we had to spend the night at the airport again and then caught the first bus out at 640 to vina. we got home and i passsssed out haha. then i went and said bye to eli, it was sad, she cried alot. and then i went home for a bit and then way later in the day (meaning 1230 at ngiht actually) i went out for italos birthday/vane's last night. we went to a bar close and just hung out with some of italos friends and then danced, but i left way early (like 230 ha). so then sat i went to say bye to vanessa, it wasnt as hard as i thought it would be, i think its just all becoming to unreal, so i dont feel much anymore. then kathleen and i went to meet al and virginia to get empanadas. we talked all about our favorite and worse moments and things like that here, then we went to the beach, then kathleen and i stayed and shopped and watched the sunset. then we met al and quentin at the movies to see transformers. then we just walked home and i stayed in.
then today i went to the thift and antique fair with kathleen and ashley adn we saw the most amazing sunset...then we were gonna go plant trees in a park but the girl never called us back...so instead we went to sams house and then we went to cuenavaca for some mexican food and then bravvismo for ice cream and made our plans for the next week, haha we will be so busy. i just cant believe i can put all the days i have left here on one page and i have to pick and choose now what i do. o how timhe flies. alright so here is potentially what ill be up to all week:
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
i just need to update right now for the plain fact that my dad is now playing michael jacksons "heal the world" in rememberance and i can hear my mom upstairs singing along and their accents are amazing and its just so great. this is such a great home.
also, i got my evaluations of my family today, meaning i have to say if i would reccommend them again or not. i cant believe i have to do this already. also my mom told me like 387529 times today that she doesnt want me to go. and she missed out on all these plans tonight just to eat dinner with me. i dont wanna leaveeeeeeee
and then there is that other side of me that cant wait to get home (o god the free willy song now!!) my emotions literally change every hour or minute. for example. today i went for a marvelous run in the first sunny day in forever, got to see the ocean, was in a great mood, in my room dancing (no judging) and never happier to be here, and then i talked to marissa and found out i was going to get to see her in az which made me overwhelmingly excited to go back to az. and then i remembered how much i love there too, but then i had a great lunch with my mom and loved here more again...WHAT THE FUCK. this is so messed up.
so no longer talking about the nonsense in my head...yest i went to the last salsa tuesday and it was great, it was pretty much just us gringos and some really good dancers, like the first time we went...full circle. it was really fun, i loved dancing and it was a good last time.
also tomorrow i am going to stay in hostel bellavista (!!) arthostalbellavista.cl this absolutely amazing hostel with so much artwork/grafitti (nicole we saw it) and a great view of the ocean and just a really cool place. i am going with maggie vanessa elizabeth and kathleen, we are gonna go out to dinner, go to some parties and then make brownies and hang out together cause its the last night with maggie :( god i love her, it will be so hard to say bye. how is it time already? how have i possilby lived here 5 months?? shiiiiiiiiiiiit. theres that thinking thing again.
also im done with finals tom! and then fri off to san pedro de atacama!! wooo. happy life.
these things always turn out longer than i expect. anyways
as micheal says
"and if you really try, you'll find there's no need to cry.....if we try we shall see in this bliss we cannot feel fear or dread.
we stop existing and start living."
peace and love from chile
also, i got my evaluations of my family today, meaning i have to say if i would reccommend them again or not. i cant believe i have to do this already. also my mom told me like 387529 times today that she doesnt want me to go. and she missed out on all these plans tonight just to eat dinner with me. i dont wanna leaveeeeeeee
and then there is that other side of me that cant wait to get home (o god the free willy song now!!) my emotions literally change every hour or minute. for example. today i went for a marvelous run in the first sunny day in forever, got to see the ocean, was in a great mood, in my room dancing (no judging) and never happier to be here, and then i talked to marissa and found out i was going to get to see her in az which made me overwhelmingly excited to go back to az. and then i remembered how much i love there too, but then i had a great lunch with my mom and loved here more again...WHAT THE FUCK. this is so messed up.
so no longer talking about the nonsense in my head...yest i went to the last salsa tuesday and it was great, it was pretty much just us gringos and some really good dancers, like the first time we went...full circle. it was really fun, i loved dancing and it was a good last time.
also tomorrow i am going to stay in hostel bellavista (!!) arthostalbellavista.cl this absolutely amazing hostel with so much artwork/grafitti (nicole we saw it) and a great view of the ocean and just a really cool place. i am going with maggie vanessa elizabeth and kathleen, we are gonna go out to dinner, go to some parties and then make brownies and hang out together cause its the last night with maggie :( god i love her, it will be so hard to say bye. how is it time already? how have i possilby lived here 5 months?? shiiiiiiiiiiiit. theres that thinking thing again.
also im done with finals tom! and then fri off to san pedro de atacama!! wooo. happy life.
these things always turn out longer than i expect. anyways
as micheal says
"and if you really try, you'll find there's no need to cry.....if we try we shall see in this bliss we cannot feel fear or dread.
we stop existing and start living."
peace and love from chile
Monday, June 29, 2009
i would like to just start this post off by letting you know what is going on around me. i am currently in my room listening to my parents and their friends conversation as they eat churros and hot chocolate and my mom makes sopapillas. meanwhile shakira is singing beautifully in the background. only in chile. i love my life.
so im not sure where to start. my real familia was here last week, which was great and stressful and strange all at the same time. i went to meet them REALLY early wed morning in santiago. i waited forever but then finally saw them on the screen u have to watch to see where people will come out and ran to go meet them. it was probably one of the best moments of my life. i might have cried. haha. but honestly, i didnt know how much i needed them til i didnt have them or how much i missed them until i was hugged. THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A HUG FROM YOU MOTHER. or your best friend for that matter. idk when chile turned me into a little sappy family lover, but whatevs, i appreciate what i have now so i guess thats what matters.
anyways so we hopped on a shuttle to the bus station and then on a bus to vina. but did i mention they brought 9 bags. 9! i said one per person tops.... so anyways it was slightly difficult to do all this, but we managed. then we got to vina and made the wonderful 25 min walk with 9 bags to their hotel. haha that was an experience and the first fight..within hours. hah o well. so then we go to to the hotel, after some problems we decided to stay. we went to lunch and they had their first true empanadas then we just walked a little bit to see vina. it was so weird showing them things that were so part of my life that they had no idea about. but also everything was harder than i expected, i forgot i would have to explian the menus and every sign and well everything.
but then my familia de verdad met my host family. AMAZING. i should start off by saying that both my sets of parents are the same. my moms (hah strange) both clean too much, give u orders all the time for everything and have their way of doing things. they are both loud and crazy. and my dads are both just way too laid back. so they met and it was this insane confusing translating fiesta. but they hit it off seriously right away. my host dad knows quite a bit of english and my real mom was really good at picking up what they were trying to say so that helped, but mostly it was me trying to translate everything. so we ate dinner and it all went really well. i love love loved having them all together.
so then thurs we just walked around other parts of vina and had lunch and i went to class. then we went to see the sunset, it was a good one, not the best, but i was glad they got to see it, its so pretty with the port and the city lights and the ocean obviously. and then we just chilled that night i think. friday was a really gross day and it rained and flooded. me mom and chels went to pilates and were soaked by the time we got home. then we went on a driving tour of all vina, valpo, con con, and renaca, the cities by me, it was bad weather so u couldnt see much of how pretty the road along the coast is, we also went and got hot chocolate with my dad and cake in valpo on cerro alegre, which is so pretty. then sat we went to the antique, produce and flea market outside in valpo. that was cool and we walked around lots of valpo and saw the plazas and different places on teh flat part. then we went to quintay with my host family. its a small fishing pueblo about an hour away. it is a beautiful drive up the hills of vina and then through the forest to the coast to this really secluded little area. we went to an old abandoned whaling factory. it was so cool and creepy. we saw where they would drag the whales up and do all the gross stuff and collect their oil and blood and skin and all that. it also had a cool place to climb up and look out at the bay and had a cute little lighthouse. so we walked all around there and saw a beautiful sunset. it was honestly one of the best things ive ever done. the place was gorgeous, jus the calm secluded rocky bay and my two families with me in the place i love getting along so well....i got emotional again. fml. (cucha mi vida cmv.) but anyways then we had an interesting dinner overlooking the bay. we tried 2 seafood things, but i have no idea what they were. one was a pink slimy thing with a parmasean sauce, that was good except its texture and then we had something called loco... it actually wasnt bad but had little flavor, i have no idea what it is tho. then we went home and relaxed in the hotel. then sun we had family fathers day celebration. we had a lunch for like 5 hours haa. it was soo entertaining my grandparents were there too and my other brother and his daughter. it was alot of work translating but i was so happy i could and it was just a really great time. my grandparents especially were so funny, my gpa got so into things he even knocked over his wine, i guess u had to be there but it was soo funny. and then we went on another tour of places with my dad, but where u could actually see things hah, so we went all along the coast. um so then mon i went to class most all day and then that night we went to color cafe in valpo on cerro conception with my friend nick and his real family and some other gringas. that was fun and awkward, my friends meeting my family. but my fam got to ride the elevator up the hill and dee my favorite view of the cities so it was good. then tues i went to class and took a final and then went to the feria and then to my host house for a goodbye dinner. my real fam got presents that were great and we had another great meal together. somehow they always go so fast and we were there for hours after thinking it was going to be a quick hour ish thing. so then wed we went to santiago. we got there later in the afternoon to our really nice hotel after stuffing ourselves and all the luggage into a taxi. we had lunch there and hten i showed them the centro of santiago an d the feria and some of the places i like. then we went back to the hotel and went to a weird buffet thing but with really good music for the rest of the night. then thurs we went to cerro cristobal and the metropolitan park to see the huge mary and ride the big ascensor. then we also went to santa lucia, the park built above the city on a hill and then me mom and chels got massages and then we went to the airport. on the way there also is when i found out michael jackson died by hearing "se murio michael jackson?!"i mean honestly, if there is anyway to find out, its in spanish. so then we said goodbye, which was easier than i thought becasue ill see them in a few weeks. but at the same time still felt weird and like i was alone in south america again hah.
anyways then i came home and had din with the host family and then went out to huevo (a 5 story club) with maggie kathleen vane and the soccer boys. it was really fun, we went to go see a red hot chili peppers cover band, but ended up only seeing the last song cause we went upstairs to dance. it was a really fun night. then friday i went to excercise classes that eneded up being cancelled because of a busted water pipe which then caused me to be on the micro home for an hour. um so then i went to my friend sams house b4 our goodbye dinner, we just hung out a bit and then went to renaca for the dinner. i wish i could say it was a great moving experience, but honestly it was just like any other dinner, we were kinda seperated into our usual groups and there wasnt much togetherness or any big goodbyes. but the food was good. and then we went to cafe journal afterwards for a bit and just hung out. then sat i went to the ex carcel with some friends. it is just an old jail turned into a cultural center (it just stopped being a jail in 1999). it has so much graffitti and is just so cool to see it all abandoned but turned into such a positive space after being a place of such negativity. then we found out that there was a circus show that night outside there with trapeze and acrobats and water and fire effects and all kinds of stuff, so we decided we would go back. then we went to the cemetary that was next to the ex carcel which is cool cause all the cemetaries here are abouve ground and like little cities. they have so many mosuleums and it is set up like cities meaning the rich families together and the poor seperate in littler places. also they segregate it in terms of race, like the italian or spanish fams together, its so interesting. so then we went to get empanadas which was fun and then after we went to the sand dunes to watch the sunset which actually wasnt as great as usual cause it was so cold and hte wind was making the sand hit us alot. um but then i went home for a bit and we were going to go to the circus show, but it started raining as we were walking there and so we figured it was cancelled so we went to cafe juglar close to home for a bit instead. that was fun, it was just sam maggie alex and i and it was good convo. then it was pouring and my street was a river, so i got SOAKED running home. good times. then sun i relaxed in the day cause it was gross and then went to an asado (bbq) at the soccer boys apartment. man what i night that turned into. we werent really wanting to go or stay long and i def was there til 7 am this morning....it was a great night. we just played drinking and card games, estabamos volando talked, sang, cooked, idk it was great. the boys are so nice and i wish we had met them earlier, they arent like other boys who just want to be ur friend cause u are a gringa or try to hook up with u, they never try anything, they just want to have fun and are so laid back and funny. it was just a great night and im so glad i met really great chilean friends.
so then today, was a very interesting day. i woke up after 5 hours of sleep to my family moving around all the furniture in teh room above me. then we ate really quick...which i did not want to do...and then went to a celebration of san pedro, the patron saint of fishermen and valpo because today is his holiday. so i didnt know what i was getting into. turns out it means that u go on a bay tour of the cities. meaning you go with lots of other people onto lots of small boats for a few hours around the bay. wow could there have been a worse day. so who wakes up naseous not just from drinking WAY too much but also from getting my period. awesome, so there i am sitting on the boat rocking back and forth feeling faint from period, dehydrated as fuck, horrible cramps and also about to puke. also i would like to mention that we were supposed to experience an earthquake last night that would be followed by a tsunami...on the water i was then sitting in. great. yet it was still one of the best experiences ive had here, just spending the day with my family, seeing all the people gather again, looking at the cities by boat and the port and huge other ships, like naval ones and the ones with all the train things, from up close. and being on the water which is just one of my favorite things ever. it was just such an unsuspected day and was great. then we went to the grocery store and met up randomly with some family friends (who i mentioned at the beginning of this) and they came over. i left in the middle of writing this to go have hot choc chorros and sugar covered sopapillas with them. so thats that. and now i have to do hw (my final final project!) which im avoiding.
i would like to just throw in here too that i have been close to the most confused i have ever been in my life here. for lots of different things i should definitely be past by now but am not, but mostly for leaving here. i have been so so homesick. like so ready to say fuck it im leaving early, i need what i know, i need english, i need my other friends. but then when i think of leaving here i just want to ball. i cant imagine not seeing my family here everyday, or losing my spanish, or missing my friends here, or my new lifestyle, or the general environment of just living. ill miss so many places i go to and so many people who i just may never see again. and its just not fair. this experience fucks with you. more than i ever imagined. I DONT KNOW WHERE I BELONG. its just made me see that i can love so many different things and places and people which makes this all harder. and how much time i havent spent doing what i truly wanted. i just want to see the world and meet new people and just live. but you cant unless you have money and to have money u have to go to school but by the time u get past all that, forget it, youve run out of time. i hate society. i just wanna do what i want, its my life damnit. also why havent we perfected teleportation yet? god but i cant bitch because honestly the only reason i even know what im missing is cause ive had the great fortune to get to experience so much. what a brat i am. the point is, culture shock is the worst thing ever (sorry steph). i shoulve been warned i would be so fucking lost at the end of this.
anyways, im not going to think about that any more, time to actually do hw. great.
con todo mi amor de chile. nos vemos pronto!
so im not sure where to start. my real familia was here last week, which was great and stressful and strange all at the same time. i went to meet them REALLY early wed morning in santiago. i waited forever but then finally saw them on the screen u have to watch to see where people will come out and ran to go meet them. it was probably one of the best moments of my life. i might have cried. haha. but honestly, i didnt know how much i needed them til i didnt have them or how much i missed them until i was hugged. THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A HUG FROM YOU MOTHER. or your best friend for that matter. idk when chile turned me into a little sappy family lover, but whatevs, i appreciate what i have now so i guess thats what matters.
anyways so we hopped on a shuttle to the bus station and then on a bus to vina. but did i mention they brought 9 bags. 9! i said one per person tops.... so anyways it was slightly difficult to do all this, but we managed. then we got to vina and made the wonderful 25 min walk with 9 bags to their hotel. haha that was an experience and the first fight..within hours. hah o well. so then we go to to the hotel, after some problems we decided to stay. we went to lunch and they had their first true empanadas then we just walked a little bit to see vina. it was so weird showing them things that were so part of my life that they had no idea about. but also everything was harder than i expected, i forgot i would have to explian the menus and every sign and well everything.
but then my familia de verdad met my host family. AMAZING. i should start off by saying that both my sets of parents are the same. my moms (hah strange) both clean too much, give u orders all the time for everything and have their way of doing things. they are both loud and crazy. and my dads are both just way too laid back. so they met and it was this insane confusing translating fiesta. but they hit it off seriously right away. my host dad knows quite a bit of english and my real mom was really good at picking up what they were trying to say so that helped, but mostly it was me trying to translate everything. so we ate dinner and it all went really well. i love love loved having them all together.
so then thurs we just walked around other parts of vina and had lunch and i went to class. then we went to see the sunset, it was a good one, not the best, but i was glad they got to see it, its so pretty with the port and the city lights and the ocean obviously. and then we just chilled that night i think. friday was a really gross day and it rained and flooded. me mom and chels went to pilates and were soaked by the time we got home. then we went on a driving tour of all vina, valpo, con con, and renaca, the cities by me, it was bad weather so u couldnt see much of how pretty the road along the coast is, we also went and got hot chocolate with my dad and cake in valpo on cerro alegre, which is so pretty. then sat we went to the antique, produce and flea market outside in valpo. that was cool and we walked around lots of valpo and saw the plazas and different places on teh flat part. then we went to quintay with my host family. its a small fishing pueblo about an hour away. it is a beautiful drive up the hills of vina and then through the forest to the coast to this really secluded little area. we went to an old abandoned whaling factory. it was so cool and creepy. we saw where they would drag the whales up and do all the gross stuff and collect their oil and blood and skin and all that. it also had a cool place to climb up and look out at the bay and had a cute little lighthouse. so we walked all around there and saw a beautiful sunset. it was honestly one of the best things ive ever done. the place was gorgeous, jus the calm secluded rocky bay and my two families with me in the place i love getting along so well....i got emotional again. fml. (cucha mi vida cmv.) but anyways then we had an interesting dinner overlooking the bay. we tried 2 seafood things, but i have no idea what they were. one was a pink slimy thing with a parmasean sauce, that was good except its texture and then we had something called loco... it actually wasnt bad but had little flavor, i have no idea what it is tho. then we went home and relaxed in the hotel. then sun we had family fathers day celebration. we had a lunch for like 5 hours haa. it was soo entertaining my grandparents were there too and my other brother and his daughter. it was alot of work translating but i was so happy i could and it was just a really great time. my grandparents especially were so funny, my gpa got so into things he even knocked over his wine, i guess u had to be there but it was soo funny. and then we went on another tour of places with my dad, but where u could actually see things hah, so we went all along the coast. um so then mon i went to class most all day and then that night we went to color cafe in valpo on cerro conception with my friend nick and his real family and some other gringas. that was fun and awkward, my friends meeting my family. but my fam got to ride the elevator up the hill and dee my favorite view of the cities so it was good. then tues i went to class and took a final and then went to the feria and then to my host house for a goodbye dinner. my real fam got presents that were great and we had another great meal together. somehow they always go so fast and we were there for hours after thinking it was going to be a quick hour ish thing. so then wed we went to santiago. we got there later in the afternoon to our really nice hotel after stuffing ourselves and all the luggage into a taxi. we had lunch there and hten i showed them the centro of santiago an d the feria and some of the places i like. then we went back to the hotel and went to a weird buffet thing but with really good music for the rest of the night. then thurs we went to cerro cristobal and the metropolitan park to see the huge mary and ride the big ascensor. then we also went to santa lucia, the park built above the city on a hill and then me mom and chels got massages and then we went to the airport. on the way there also is when i found out michael jackson died by hearing "se murio michael jackson?!"i mean honestly, if there is anyway to find out, its in spanish. so then we said goodbye, which was easier than i thought becasue ill see them in a few weeks. but at the same time still felt weird and like i was alone in south america again hah.
anyways then i came home and had din with the host family and then went out to huevo (a 5 story club) with maggie kathleen vane and the soccer boys. it was really fun, we went to go see a red hot chili peppers cover band, but ended up only seeing the last song cause we went upstairs to dance. it was a really fun night. then friday i went to excercise classes that eneded up being cancelled because of a busted water pipe which then caused me to be on the micro home for an hour. um so then i went to my friend sams house b4 our goodbye dinner, we just hung out a bit and then went to renaca for the dinner. i wish i could say it was a great moving experience, but honestly it was just like any other dinner, we were kinda seperated into our usual groups and there wasnt much togetherness or any big goodbyes. but the food was good. and then we went to cafe journal afterwards for a bit and just hung out. then sat i went to the ex carcel with some friends. it is just an old jail turned into a cultural center (it just stopped being a jail in 1999). it has so much graffitti and is just so cool to see it all abandoned but turned into such a positive space after being a place of such negativity. then we found out that there was a circus show that night outside there with trapeze and acrobats and water and fire effects and all kinds of stuff, so we decided we would go back. then we went to the cemetary that was next to the ex carcel which is cool cause all the cemetaries here are abouve ground and like little cities. they have so many mosuleums and it is set up like cities meaning the rich families together and the poor seperate in littler places. also they segregate it in terms of race, like the italian or spanish fams together, its so interesting. so then we went to get empanadas which was fun and then after we went to the sand dunes to watch the sunset which actually wasnt as great as usual cause it was so cold and hte wind was making the sand hit us alot. um but then i went home for a bit and we were going to go to the circus show, but it started raining as we were walking there and so we figured it was cancelled so we went to cafe juglar close to home for a bit instead. that was fun, it was just sam maggie alex and i and it was good convo. then it was pouring and my street was a river, so i got SOAKED running home. good times. then sun i relaxed in the day cause it was gross and then went to an asado (bbq) at the soccer boys apartment. man what i night that turned into. we werent really wanting to go or stay long and i def was there til 7 am this morning....it was a great night. we just played drinking and card games, estabamos volando talked, sang, cooked, idk it was great. the boys are so nice and i wish we had met them earlier, they arent like other boys who just want to be ur friend cause u are a gringa or try to hook up with u, they never try anything, they just want to have fun and are so laid back and funny. it was just a great night and im so glad i met really great chilean friends.
so then today, was a very interesting day. i woke up after 5 hours of sleep to my family moving around all the furniture in teh room above me. then we ate really quick...which i did not want to do...and then went to a celebration of san pedro, the patron saint of fishermen and valpo because today is his holiday. so i didnt know what i was getting into. turns out it means that u go on a bay tour of the cities. meaning you go with lots of other people onto lots of small boats for a few hours around the bay. wow could there have been a worse day. so who wakes up naseous not just from drinking WAY too much but also from getting my period. awesome, so there i am sitting on the boat rocking back and forth feeling faint from period, dehydrated as fuck, horrible cramps and also about to puke. also i would like to mention that we were supposed to experience an earthquake last night that would be followed by a tsunami...on the water i was then sitting in. great. yet it was still one of the best experiences ive had here, just spending the day with my family, seeing all the people gather again, looking at the cities by boat and the port and huge other ships, like naval ones and the ones with all the train things, from up close. and being on the water which is just one of my favorite things ever. it was just such an unsuspected day and was great. then we went to the grocery store and met up randomly with some family friends (who i mentioned at the beginning of this) and they came over. i left in the middle of writing this to go have hot choc chorros and sugar covered sopapillas with them. so thats that. and now i have to do hw (my final final project!) which im avoiding.
i would like to just throw in here too that i have been close to the most confused i have ever been in my life here. for lots of different things i should definitely be past by now but am not, but mostly for leaving here. i have been so so homesick. like so ready to say fuck it im leaving early, i need what i know, i need english, i need my other friends. but then when i think of leaving here i just want to ball. i cant imagine not seeing my family here everyday, or losing my spanish, or missing my friends here, or my new lifestyle, or the general environment of just living. ill miss so many places i go to and so many people who i just may never see again. and its just not fair. this experience fucks with you. more than i ever imagined. I DONT KNOW WHERE I BELONG. its just made me see that i can love so many different things and places and people which makes this all harder. and how much time i havent spent doing what i truly wanted. i just want to see the world and meet new people and just live. but you cant unless you have money and to have money u have to go to school but by the time u get past all that, forget it, youve run out of time. i hate society. i just wanna do what i want, its my life damnit. also why havent we perfected teleportation yet? god but i cant bitch because honestly the only reason i even know what im missing is cause ive had the great fortune to get to experience so much. what a brat i am. the point is, culture shock is the worst thing ever (sorry steph). i shoulve been warned i would be so fucking lost at the end of this.
anyways, im not going to think about that any more, time to actually do hw. great.
con todo mi amor de chile. nos vemos pronto!
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
sooo i bailed on this and now its overwhelming to update.
im just gonna write things as they come to mind...the biggest thing being that nicole came to visittttttt! it went by so fast, she stayed in my moms friends house, i think that was a little more awk than expected hah but it was close so that was good. we went to the beach alot, she saw my school, we had great manjar churros i am now addicted to. we went to "red hot chili peppers" for mexican food and had coconut shrimp and it was yummy. we went to cardio extremo and pilates :) we also went to casablanca on a wine tour, that was so pretty, it was a place called william cole (american obviously) and we actually saw him from afar hahah, it was nice, just us, we had 3 wines cheese and crackers in this restaurant by ourselves looking out on the vineyard (although all the grapes had been picked) we also went to isla negra which is where pablo neruda has another house, its a small town with not much of anything, but the ocean view is greatttt. we saw his really really cluttered house and stayed by the ocean for awhile. we also went to a party with some of al's friends and then to scratch to dance. and we went to juglar with some people so she could try vino con fruita, we also went to barfusion, just a little place, to have some wine and then to juglar later for virginias bday with her david and maggie. she ate an ostrich empanada....o we also ate a pretty dinner at isla negra with a view of the ocean. um, we went to quinta vergara the park here and saw the art gallery there and then saw the cool trees and grounds of the area, we also stopped in a random antique and book store that was awk haha. ummm and we spent an afternoon walking around valpo going to la sebastiana one of pablos houses but it was closed..but it was pretty, we saw all the pretty houses and the view from cerro bellavista, the ascensor was broken so we had to walk it all haha, then we saw the open air museum of graffiti. we also went to color cafe in valpo to eat with some people. she got to ride an ascensor then ha. o also that day there was a strike/ralley in the street so we walked by that a few times. o also one day she sat in on my grammar class and got called on 4 times when i never did haha. and she went to my games class where we painted...o chilean classes. ummm, we ate really good peanuts too. and we had sushi one time.
then we went to santiago which was amazing! we stayed in a great cute hostel that was like an old house and was all antique like and so nice and pretty much just us on our floor. it was a huge old room and on this cute street called londres that was cobblestone and had really cute old vine covered buildings. we took a walking tour of the main places like the plaza de armas and some congress and judicial buildings. we also went and saw the teatro municipal and got a random tour and then decided to go see the ballet that was playing that night. so we got all dressed up (hah that was very interesting cause i had to wear nicoles clothes) and went to a nice italian dinner and then went to the ballet that was sooo amazing, i really really enjoyed it. then sat we went to valle de maipo, well actually san antonio which is a bit farther, towards the andes to go to cascada de las animas which is a reserve along the andes and we hiked to see the waterfall there and just chilled out there, it was so so gorgeous, for me one of the best places ive ever been. the vibe there was just great and u just felt so alone and connected to the world. it was so beautiful. then we ate at the food court back in town hah. umm that night we went to some club that was supposed to be great and have live music, which it did, just two guys with a guitar and an accordion walking around..it was kinda a bust but we still had good wine and conversation. then sun we went to barrio ballavista where we saw pablos last house la chascona. that one was really cool and we also went to la parque metropolitana and cerro cristobal where there is a huge 6m tall virgin mary overlooking the city. we took a funicular up the side of the hill to her and got to see a great view of pretty much all of santiago and of course the huge mary. then we walked around a bit and then ate at venecia, apparently one of pablos fav places, who knows, nicole tried chorrillana (fries steak and eggs and onions) and then we went and had dessert at la boheme :) and then went to have drinks at la casa del aire. that place was cool and had this warm red wine with oranges, it was yummy. then we walked home which was prob a bad idea (after i came back everyone was like, u WALKED home?!) but o well, it all worked out hah. except we did see a sketchy like 12 year old walking like he was up to no good (at like 1 am) and then he got a cigarette from some man he obviously knew to meet and kept going, we think he was a pickpocketer. anyways then the next day we went to cerro lucia where there is a whole park above the city. there is a fountain and some building things and its just really cool cause u can see lots of the city from right in the middle of it. so we stayed there a bit then we went to barrio lastarria, which was soo cool. its a quiet cute little green barrio right next to central santiago and we ate there at a place called cafe geometric where we had the cutest little waiter who was so patient with us cause we didnt understand how the ordering worked and he was so awkward and nice and then we walked to the park and then had ice cream. it was a really great place. and then we had the quickest by in history so far at the bus terminal and she went to the airport and i literally turned around and hopped on a bus home. it was so much fun
umm and then last wed i went to the national chile v bolivia futbol game :) it was so so great. i got on a bus at 330 to go to santiago, there were a lot of us gringos and then some really happy chileans in the back. we kept chanting together and they taught us the songs. i even led them a few times :) it was entertaining and really embarrassing cause after they sang this song something like "gringa preciosa" and would scream "i love you" haha and it was really awk across the bus. but then when we got there....3 hours b4 the game...they took care of us, helped us get in and just were really patient and hung out with us the whole time, we were supposed to be in different sections but they snuck over to ours and were like "we're here! we found you!" hah it was cute so we all hung out b4 and then watched the game. it was great we won 4-0. it was weird casue there were soooooo many police and swat people and the like 12 bolivians were in there own gated area SURROUNDED by swat people, they even had to leave early to get out safe. and then when we left there were even more cops. but the game was great, really entertaining and the spirit and energy there is just mindblowing. i have never really seen so many different people from different parts all soooo patriotic and happy to be their nationality. i mean they were SO PROUD to be chilean. it was sooo soo moving. many people told me that day that no matter what u were a fan of or where u were from, today you were a chilean and cheered for chile. it was just great, flags and singing and so much emotion the whole time. also they always yelled "fuck ur mother" (concha tu madre) when they were mad, even the kids and at practically everything, that was funny. the also served coffee? like the venders that walk around, but not alcohol (it would be SO crazy if people were drunk/more drunk) anyways then we went home on the bus, but i was kinda sick so i just slept on the way home hah.
what else do i remember, this weekend was boring cause i stayed home and did work/tried to get over my cold. on fri vane and eliz and maggie came over and then that night we made mac and cheese! and then we went to maggies and watched a movie and had popcorn! but i fell asleep...
so then today i went to classes and went and got my bus ticket to pick up my family TOMORROW! (10 hours as of now....but next time or whne anyone reads this they will be here!) and then i went to the beach to watch the sunset with some friends :)
im trying to think what i did b4 nicole came, but i guess nothing really happened. ok so ima go shower and try to sleep so i can get up in 6 hours to go get the familia! o how chile has made me a homesick and emotional baby!
welll, still demsiado love from chile!
im just gonna write things as they come to mind...the biggest thing being that nicole came to visittttttt! it went by so fast, she stayed in my moms friends house, i think that was a little more awk than expected hah but it was close so that was good. we went to the beach alot, she saw my school, we had great manjar churros i am now addicted to. we went to "red hot chili peppers" for mexican food and had coconut shrimp and it was yummy. we went to cardio extremo and pilates :) we also went to casablanca on a wine tour, that was so pretty, it was a place called william cole (american obviously) and we actually saw him from afar hahah, it was nice, just us, we had 3 wines cheese and crackers in this restaurant by ourselves looking out on the vineyard (although all the grapes had been picked) we also went to isla negra which is where pablo neruda has another house, its a small town with not much of anything, but the ocean view is greatttt. we saw his really really cluttered house and stayed by the ocean for awhile. we also went to a party with some of al's friends and then to scratch to dance. and we went to juglar with some people so she could try vino con fruita, we also went to barfusion, just a little place, to have some wine and then to juglar later for virginias bday with her david and maggie. she ate an ostrich empanada....o we also ate a pretty dinner at isla negra with a view of the ocean. um, we went to quinta vergara the park here and saw the art gallery there and then saw the cool trees and grounds of the area, we also stopped in a random antique and book store that was awk haha. ummm and we spent an afternoon walking around valpo going to la sebastiana one of pablos houses but it was closed..but it was pretty, we saw all the pretty houses and the view from cerro bellavista, the ascensor was broken so we had to walk it all haha, then we saw the open air museum of graffiti. we also went to color cafe in valpo to eat with some people. she got to ride an ascensor then ha. o also that day there was a strike/ralley in the street so we walked by that a few times. o also one day she sat in on my grammar class and got called on 4 times when i never did haha. and she went to my games class where we painted...o chilean classes. ummm, we ate really good peanuts too. and we had sushi one time.
then we went to santiago which was amazing! we stayed in a great cute hostel that was like an old house and was all antique like and so nice and pretty much just us on our floor. it was a huge old room and on this cute street called londres that was cobblestone and had really cute old vine covered buildings. we took a walking tour of the main places like the plaza de armas and some congress and judicial buildings. we also went and saw the teatro municipal and got a random tour and then decided to go see the ballet that was playing that night. so we got all dressed up (hah that was very interesting cause i had to wear nicoles clothes) and went to a nice italian dinner and then went to the ballet that was sooo amazing, i really really enjoyed it. then sat we went to valle de maipo, well actually san antonio which is a bit farther, towards the andes to go to cascada de las animas which is a reserve along the andes and we hiked to see the waterfall there and just chilled out there, it was so so gorgeous, for me one of the best places ive ever been. the vibe there was just great and u just felt so alone and connected to the world. it was so beautiful. then we ate at the food court back in town hah. umm that night we went to some club that was supposed to be great and have live music, which it did, just two guys with a guitar and an accordion walking around..it was kinda a bust but we still had good wine and conversation. then sun we went to barrio ballavista where we saw pablos last house la chascona. that one was really cool and we also went to la parque metropolitana and cerro cristobal where there is a huge 6m tall virgin mary overlooking the city. we took a funicular up the side of the hill to her and got to see a great view of pretty much all of santiago and of course the huge mary. then we walked around a bit and then ate at venecia, apparently one of pablos fav places, who knows, nicole tried chorrillana (fries steak and eggs and onions) and then we went and had dessert at la boheme :) and then went to have drinks at la casa del aire. that place was cool and had this warm red wine with oranges, it was yummy. then we walked home which was prob a bad idea (after i came back everyone was like, u WALKED home?!) but o well, it all worked out hah. except we did see a sketchy like 12 year old walking like he was up to no good (at like 1 am) and then he got a cigarette from some man he obviously knew to meet and kept going, we think he was a pickpocketer. anyways then the next day we went to cerro lucia where there is a whole park above the city. there is a fountain and some building things and its just really cool cause u can see lots of the city from right in the middle of it. so we stayed there a bit then we went to barrio lastarria, which was soo cool. its a quiet cute little green barrio right next to central santiago and we ate there at a place called cafe geometric where we had the cutest little waiter who was so patient with us cause we didnt understand how the ordering worked and he was so awkward and nice and then we walked to the park and then had ice cream. it was a really great place. and then we had the quickest by in history so far at the bus terminal and she went to the airport and i literally turned around and hopped on a bus home. it was so much fun
umm and then last wed i went to the national chile v bolivia futbol game :) it was so so great. i got on a bus at 330 to go to santiago, there were a lot of us gringos and then some really happy chileans in the back. we kept chanting together and they taught us the songs. i even led them a few times :) it was entertaining and really embarrassing cause after they sang this song something like "gringa preciosa" and would scream "i love you" haha and it was really awk across the bus. but then when we got there....3 hours b4 the game...they took care of us, helped us get in and just were really patient and hung out with us the whole time, we were supposed to be in different sections but they snuck over to ours and were like "we're here! we found you!" hah it was cute so we all hung out b4 and then watched the game. it was great we won 4-0. it was weird casue there were soooooo many police and swat people and the like 12 bolivians were in there own gated area SURROUNDED by swat people, they even had to leave early to get out safe. and then when we left there were even more cops. but the game was great, really entertaining and the spirit and energy there is just mindblowing. i have never really seen so many different people from different parts all soooo patriotic and happy to be their nationality. i mean they were SO PROUD to be chilean. it was sooo soo moving. many people told me that day that no matter what u were a fan of or where u were from, today you were a chilean and cheered for chile. it was just great, flags and singing and so much emotion the whole time. also they always yelled "fuck ur mother" (concha tu madre) when they were mad, even the kids and at practically everything, that was funny. the also served coffee? like the venders that walk around, but not alcohol (it would be SO crazy if people were drunk/more drunk) anyways then we went home on the bus, but i was kinda sick so i just slept on the way home hah.
what else do i remember, this weekend was boring cause i stayed home and did work/tried to get over my cold. on fri vane and eliz and maggie came over and then that night we made mac and cheese! and then we went to maggies and watched a movie and had popcorn! but i fell asleep...
so then today i went to classes and went and got my bus ticket to pick up my family TOMORROW! (10 hours as of now....but next time or whne anyone reads this they will be here!) and then i went to the beach to watch the sunset with some friends :)
im trying to think what i did b4 nicole came, but i guess nothing really happened. ok so ima go shower and try to sleep so i can get up in 6 hours to go get the familia! o how chile has made me a homesick and emotional baby!
welll, still demsiado love from chile!
Thursday, May 21, 2009
o just another typical thurs, last thurs i was on my way to argentina, this thursday i saw a protest and parade. i just went to valpo to celebrate may 21st which is a holiday here to remember a famous naval battle that chile actually lost and "knew" they were gonna lose but went in fighting anyways to show their courage or something. anyways, it also happens that today presidenta michele bachelet was in valpo giving basically her state of the union address and we went to try and see the things going on around there. so we got to the congress after her speech, but we got right to the door just by pulling the "gringo card" acting like we didnt know what was going on and getting through barracades telling the cops we were going to say bye to a friend who was going back to america haha. there wasnt much to see there, then we walked down the street and there was a protest, i actually saw people being cleared using a water gun on the top of a military truck and there was tear gas, we just saw it smoking and went the other way, it still made us all teary eyed and sneeze, but we werent really that close. then we saw broken bottles all over the street (we just walked around all the closed off roads) and there was paint that had been splashed everywhere, then we saw some guys with their faces all covered and pulling the recycling bins into the street and breaking into it to get the glass, but we just walked away. then we tried to find the parade...chilean parades make no sense. we literally chased and followed it around. there was lots of macrching and bands and then cueca dancers but not like floats or candy or cheering...it was all kinda serious and just lots of military/navy things, but u had to go from street to street to see them. it was also the best weather ever. it was really fun and so interesting, only in chile.
and i should really write about last weekend but im lazy and a mary kate and ashley movie is on, so ima go watch that instead. ciaooooo
and i should really write about last weekend but im lazy and a mary kate and ashley movie is on, so ima go watch that instead. ciaooooo
Monday, May 18, 2009
so i had a new, yet old revelation tonight.
i was walking home and i stopped to just stand and look at the sky (something that for some reason i have been really compelled to do since last summer alot) i dont want to sound crazy, but i feel like a different person and in a different place when i just look at the stars. i feel so small and insignificant, but somehow in a good way. i love seeing how much there is out there and that i get to be a part of it. and the part i love the most is that we all see the sky. i never have to feel far from anyone if i just look up.
but then i realized that all the people i love the most couldnt see the same sky as me.
and for a brief second ive never felt so far and so alone.
and then it hit me again, that the only reason i could feel this way is cause i had such great things to feel far from and that ive been lucky enough to have people who stopped me from feeling alone. and damn im so cheesy now, but there is nothing like being away from all you really know to make you see how great you have it. and i cant get over how grateful i am for my friends and family. and how much i love them all. my new friends h ere always ask who my best friend is, and besides chelsea which is the obvious answer, i honestly cant answer that cause i have so many friends i consider close enough to be my best. how great is that? i just cant wait to be reunited!
my heart is seriously aching for my family and friends. even tho i really do love everyone here, i need those familiar faces again. im just happy i know i have people wanting to see me too. there isnt really a better feeling than that.
so idk why im so grossly emotional, but its happening, so there it is.
"he found that he was flying. upstairs. high above the city. through the ceiling of the stars.
so cruel and pretty."
i was walking home and i stopped to just stand and look at the sky (something that for some reason i have been really compelled to do since last summer alot) i dont want to sound crazy, but i feel like a different person and in a different place when i just look at the stars. i feel so small and insignificant, but somehow in a good way. i love seeing how much there is out there and that i get to be a part of it. and the part i love the most is that we all see the sky. i never have to feel far from anyone if i just look up.
but then i realized that all the people i love the most couldnt see the same sky as me.
and for a brief second ive never felt so far and so alone.
and then it hit me again, that the only reason i could feel this way is cause i had such great things to feel far from and that ive been lucky enough to have people who stopped me from feeling alone. and damn im so cheesy now, but there is nothing like being away from all you really know to make you see how great you have it. and i cant get over how grateful i am for my friends and family. and how much i love them all. my new friends h ere always ask who my best friend is, and besides chelsea which is the obvious answer, i honestly cant answer that cause i have so many friends i consider close enough to be my best. how great is that? i just cant wait to be reunited!
my heart is seriously aching for my family and friends. even tho i really do love everyone here, i need those familiar faces again. im just happy i know i have people wanting to see me too. there isnt really a better feeling than that.
so idk why im so grossly emotional, but its happening, so there it is.
"he found that he was flying. upstairs. high above the city. through the ceiling of the stars.
so cruel and pretty."
Sunday, May 17, 2009
i really fell behind here. i cant even believe its may, hell middle may, where the fuck did april go? i leave 2 months from tom. :( unbelievable. ive lived here for 3 months. i have lived in chile for 3 months. in the other fucking hemisphere for 3 months. believe yet? cause i sure fucking dont. wow.
idk whats happened since i last wrote really, well waaaaaaaaaaaay back when on the 29th of april i started my volunteering program, its called programa calle and we go to valpo, make bread with manjar and then go to different stops around vina. i went with a girl named lily and gloria. to be honest i was really scared, i had no idea what it was gonna be like to talk, in spanish, with homeless people, i feel so bad now for being weary of them. i have met amazing people. they are soooo happy and appreciative. they just smile and want to talk to u, tell u about their lives, families, past, and hear about you and america and know how ur friend obama is doing ha. it feels so great to help them, but even better really to just meet such different people but see how happy and content with life and how they really appreciate everything. its just amazing.
then that thurs i went to sams house and we made cookies and it was deliciosoooooooooo. that night my bro invited me out too for the first time really and it was exciting, but i was going to la serena the next day early so i had to pass him up.
soooo then i went to la serena!!! that was a great trip with vanessa and elizabeth. it took us like 10 hours on bus and then we went to hostel maria, it was cute with a garden, we figured out what we wanted to do and just wandered around town that day, went to gabriela mistral museums. then sat we went to vicuna, a really cute small town kinda like olmue, it was so pretty, we stayed in a cute hostal that was just a house, but we had all upstairs, it was a great great place. we made dinner and then went to an observatory out in the valley to see the stars. that was one of the coolest things ive ever done, we saw so many things and the guy just answered all my questions, i was so happy i was learning so much and it was cool and it was in spanish! woooo. it was cool too cause apparently i cant see lots of those things from the northern hemisphere so that may be the only time i ever do. so that was just unbelievably cool. then sun we went to pisco elqui and on a pisco tour and had a cute lunch and then walked through the bvalley and vineyards to monte grande, it was so so gorgeous and like a painting.
ummm then that week i cant say anything too out of the ordinary happened, just classes, salsa, volunteering. thurs i went to eat greek food with kathleen (who we ran into on the road with italo and lufe...awk) and vanessa and went to sarahs bday party at her house, that was cute, then just went to a bar to chill. then fri i went to aerobox wooooo and um then that night we went to another beach party and i got way too drunk. it was so much fun tho. we just danced alot and there werent tons of awkward dancing moments hah. paul finally got the come save me look thing down so thats good. and then sat i went to a around the world food thing at the middle/high school with vanessa and kathleen, it was yummmmmy. then we went shopping and i just hung out at home. then sun i got my mom flowers for mothers day and made her a card and it was so cute cause she got so happy and started getting teary eyed and she hadnt even read the card yet, she was just like " o i have to go upstairs and show ur dad" it was so cute. o sat night i forgot we had "family" dinner for mothers day with all kninds of family.
then this week, um i actually had hw which was dumb, but also encouraging cause my mom checked over a paper and found like no mistakes, that made me really happy. tues we went to salsa, wasnt really feeling it that night, wed did work bleh, thurs i left for argentina! i cant write more now tho, so that will come.
im tired.
night from chile.
idk whats happened since i last wrote really, well waaaaaaaaaaaay back when on the 29th of april i started my volunteering program, its called programa calle and we go to valpo, make bread with manjar and then go to different stops around vina. i went with a girl named lily and gloria. to be honest i was really scared, i had no idea what it was gonna be like to talk, in spanish, with homeless people, i feel so bad now for being weary of them. i have met amazing people. they are soooo happy and appreciative. they just smile and want to talk to u, tell u about their lives, families, past, and hear about you and america and know how ur friend obama is doing ha. it feels so great to help them, but even better really to just meet such different people but see how happy and content with life and how they really appreciate everything. its just amazing.
then that thurs i went to sams house and we made cookies and it was deliciosoooooooooo. that night my bro invited me out too for the first time really and it was exciting, but i was going to la serena the next day early so i had to pass him up.
soooo then i went to la serena!!! that was a great trip with vanessa and elizabeth. it took us like 10 hours on bus and then we went to hostel maria, it was cute with a garden, we figured out what we wanted to do and just wandered around town that day, went to gabriela mistral museums. then sat we went to vicuna, a really cute small town kinda like olmue, it was so pretty, we stayed in a cute hostal that was just a house, but we had all upstairs, it was a great great place. we made dinner and then went to an observatory out in the valley to see the stars. that was one of the coolest things ive ever done, we saw so many things and the guy just answered all my questions, i was so happy i was learning so much and it was cool and it was in spanish! woooo. it was cool too cause apparently i cant see lots of those things from the northern hemisphere so that may be the only time i ever do. so that was just unbelievably cool. then sun we went to pisco elqui and on a pisco tour and had a cute lunch and then walked through the bvalley and vineyards to monte grande, it was so so gorgeous and like a painting.
ummm then that week i cant say anything too out of the ordinary happened, just classes, salsa, volunteering. thurs i went to eat greek food with kathleen (who we ran into on the road with italo and lufe...awk) and vanessa and went to sarahs bday party at her house, that was cute, then just went to a bar to chill. then fri i went to aerobox wooooo and um then that night we went to another beach party and i got way too drunk. it was so much fun tho. we just danced alot and there werent tons of awkward dancing moments hah. paul finally got the come save me look thing down so thats good. and then sat i went to a around the world food thing at the middle/high school with vanessa and kathleen, it was yummmmmy. then we went shopping and i just hung out at home. then sun i got my mom flowers for mothers day and made her a card and it was so cute cause she got so happy and started getting teary eyed and she hadnt even read the card yet, she was just like " o i have to go upstairs and show ur dad" it was so cute. o sat night i forgot we had "family" dinner for mothers day with all kninds of family.
then this week, um i actually had hw which was dumb, but also encouraging cause my mom checked over a paper and found like no mistakes, that made me really happy. tues we went to salsa, wasnt really feeling it that night, wed did work bleh, thurs i left for argentina! i cant write more now tho, so that will come.
im tired.
night from chile.
Monday, May 4, 2009
ok, so i know this isnt really what this is for, and also this is emotional whiplash, but i am really homesick. it makes no sense cause i went on a great trip this weekend, had so much fun and still felt great to come "home" here, but i cannot stop thinking about missing people.
i miss chelsea more than ever. she went to prom this weekend, and im looking at all these pics of her, she looks so gorgeous, and i am more than bummed that i missed it. i didnt even know it was going on this weekend.....what kind of sister doesnt remember that? i hate looking at the pics of her and my parents, they have so many of them on the family spring vacation trip and at events of hers and her prom and i just hate feeling left out and like i am missing everything. and now im going to miss her graduation and her 18th birthday and i just feel like a horrible sister. i didnt think i would care, but im never going to get to live those with her and its really bumming me out. i hate dwelling on things here, but everything i do here, i just want to share with her or her to understand, but we barely ever talk and i just wish could more.
also, i am soooo craving a hug from my mom, like a REAL hug. everything has been reminding me of her, smells and fruits and just everything. it was really weird to come "home" today from my trip and even tho i was excited to tell me chilean mom everything, its just weird cause my real mom still has no idea what ive been up to the last week or so. ive never really missed my family like this before, at school or anything, i think its just getting me this time cause i know its not an option to see them. i just really really want my mom.
and my friends. im sick of trying to explain my friends to my news ones here, i like the ones here, but i just want my other ones too. im just worried about how little time i have left at school and how im missing out there, even tho i know i wont think like that later. im afraid of where life is going after this. and that i wont like it.
i dont know why i am in such a funk about this. its so weird. but i guess it just shows im lucky i have places and people to miss. sorry this wasnt really a post, more just me getting shit out.
"cant seem to hold you like i want to, so i can feel you in my arms"
still sending all my love from chileee
i miss chelsea more than ever. she went to prom this weekend, and im looking at all these pics of her, she looks so gorgeous, and i am more than bummed that i missed it. i didnt even know it was going on this weekend.....what kind of sister doesnt remember that? i hate looking at the pics of her and my parents, they have so many of them on the family spring vacation trip and at events of hers and her prom and i just hate feeling left out and like i am missing everything. and now im going to miss her graduation and her 18th birthday and i just feel like a horrible sister. i didnt think i would care, but im never going to get to live those with her and its really bumming me out. i hate dwelling on things here, but everything i do here, i just want to share with her or her to understand, but we barely ever talk and i just wish could more.
also, i am soooo craving a hug from my mom, like a REAL hug. everything has been reminding me of her, smells and fruits and just everything. it was really weird to come "home" today from my trip and even tho i was excited to tell me chilean mom everything, its just weird cause my real mom still has no idea what ive been up to the last week or so. ive never really missed my family like this before, at school or anything, i think its just getting me this time cause i know its not an option to see them. i just really really want my mom.
and my friends. im sick of trying to explain my friends to my news ones here, i like the ones here, but i just want my other ones too. im just worried about how little time i have left at school and how im missing out there, even tho i know i wont think like that later. im afraid of where life is going after this. and that i wont like it.
i dont know why i am in such a funk about this. its so weird. but i guess it just shows im lucky i have places and people to miss. sorry this wasnt really a post, more just me getting shit out.
"cant seem to hold you like i want to, so i can feel you in my arms"
still sending all my love from chileee
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
i love my life.
i dont know how many times i can say or feel that a day.
the only way this could be any better is if my friends and family from "home" (wherever that is) were here.
i have never felt so free.
i have never felt so me.
this is an amazing place.
im definitely not looking forward to going back to reality and working and schedules and doing what im supposed to instead of what i want.
living in the moment is the best thing i have ever learned.
so with all that out of the way....
tuesday was one of the best days of my life. i went to dance class, which is always entertaining, then i was waiting to go to pilates and one of my friends told me he and others were going to renaca, 2 cities away, to go to the beach there and i should come. so i changed my mind, went home and ate quick and then we went to renaca. we just hopped on a bus and got off where we felt like looked good. which is everywhere there cause renaca is the rich city. then we went to the beach and i saw the biggest waves i have ever actually seen in real life. it was crazy. they could def kill me. then kathleen betsy and i decided we wanted to go to the sand dunes and get empanadas and ice cream. we started walking cause we thought they were ALOT closer than they were....so after realizing we would never make it and we had to be on the other side of the hill, we tried to go up an acsencor (the elevators on the hills) which turned out to be private and just to peoples apartments, but the guy working it was really nice and explained which bus we needed, and flagged it down as we literally ran to it haha, we must have looked soooo dumb. then we were on there for a long time, switched buses and like 30 mins later got to the dunes where maggie was waiting for us. we went to the store, got empanadas and wine and i got manjar cookies and then we hiked up the dunes. it was gorgoues. the sun was just starting to set. the sand was turning pretty colors, it was the softest and finest sand i have ever felt. so we sat there eating and talking and it was just perfect. on the left was my city and sister city and we watched the sun reflect off all the buildings and then the city lights start to turn on. and then in front of me was the ocean as beautiful as ever and to the right more sand dunes and cities. i have never been so content to just sit and stare. i had planned out what i was going to do that tues, instead it became this amazing and random day.
then it got even better cause we went home real quick, showered and went to salsa. i invited some new chilean friends and they came so that was really cool cause i just keep expanding my friends. i danced alot. i got to know ben a bit more, i didnt like him when i first met him, but we danced and he was really funny and goofy and actually nice. i also danced with some old guy and then some really smelly hippie dude. he was soo funny, like hearing his own beat and was def on something but he made me smile the whole time and he knew really cool turns. i like being the girl, u just get spun around all the time, its so fun haha. also speaking of hippie dude, im going to get a dread in the back of my hair, like at the bottom. everyone here has them and i figured when in rome....my friend choklo is going to do it for me, im excited.
umms then weds nothing special happened really, i just went to classes and stayed home that night and talked to friendssss.
thurs i went running...BAD idea,i felt like my legs were tearing apart...one thing about living here i dont like, EVERYTHING is on hills, my legs are always sore and calves are always so so so tight. but i passed vanessa's real mom and her bf on the street and that was kinda neat. then i went to class and walked home with vicki who now lives close to me! im really excited about that. then i did nothing again that night, finally a thursday night in...
yest, fri, i went to pilates and aerobox class. aerobox is amazing. its like dancing kickboxing to like techno britney spears. its soooo funny and i love it. i smiled the whole time and looked like an idiot, but it was awesome. then i ran errands for my mom, ate lunch and went to the beach. it was kinda chilllly, and i got bitched out by some pregnant woman in spanish for not giving her money...i just blocked her out and looked at the ocean haa. then i ended up watching the sunset with david haha how romantic. he is actually really cool and we get along really well.
then i went home and eventually me and kathleen met up with paul, nick and some other people at juglar. while downing a vino con fruita with her some really drunk, not all there woman tried talking to me, who knows about what....3 of tried to understand, it was NOT spanish or any language ive heard b4. but she just kept saying she was sorry and she didnt know i was a foreigner, she kept pulling my arm to hers and saying something about how our skin was the same...she knew i didnt understand yet kept going...it was funny. then we went to some knew place called kamikazi, its really modern, but kathleen and i left soon after to meet ashley and sam at the plaza. so we pretty much ran across town to make it there by midnight (hah i make it sound like cinderella now) and we made a pit stop in a hotel to go pee. that was hilarious cause there was a wedding going on and all these old dressed up people and we clearly didnt belong. so we just got stared at, it was so funny. then we took a bus to this party at the beach las salinas. and here is where i become awesome. me and my friends were totally on the VIP list...ive never been on a list, let alone VIP, in chile. it was one of my shining moments haha. the place is so cool, it has 3 rooms with diff types of musica and a balcony over the ocean and u can see the beach/ocean from all the rooms. it was really neat. we just hung out and danced, i ended up babysitting nick pretty much the whole night cause he wasss really high and drunk, but i still had fun. also had some awk moments with paul, but it was all in good fun. then we took a micro home, paul and nick walked me home and that was that.
today i got up super late, talked to chels a bit and some othersss and later i am going to valpo to color cafe, a really cute place to eat with elizabeth and kathleen and then we are going to some other cafe to watch some boy named diego peralta play an acoustic set. i listened to him on myspace and he sounds so good, plus his top friend is elliot smith, so i give him puntos already. aha
so thats all. these are always so long. i have a gift.
"everytime you come around, i feel more alive."
bunches of love from the southern hemisphere <3
i dont know how many times i can say or feel that a day.
the only way this could be any better is if my friends and family from "home" (wherever that is) were here.
i have never felt so free.
i have never felt so me.
this is an amazing place.
im definitely not looking forward to going back to reality and working and schedules and doing what im supposed to instead of what i want.
living in the moment is the best thing i have ever learned.
so with all that out of the way....
tuesday was one of the best days of my life. i went to dance class, which is always entertaining, then i was waiting to go to pilates and one of my friends told me he and others were going to renaca, 2 cities away, to go to the beach there and i should come. so i changed my mind, went home and ate quick and then we went to renaca. we just hopped on a bus and got off where we felt like looked good. which is everywhere there cause renaca is the rich city. then we went to the beach and i saw the biggest waves i have ever actually seen in real life. it was crazy. they could def kill me. then kathleen betsy and i decided we wanted to go to the sand dunes and get empanadas and ice cream. we started walking cause we thought they were ALOT closer than they were....so after realizing we would never make it and we had to be on the other side of the hill, we tried to go up an acsencor (the elevators on the hills) which turned out to be private and just to peoples apartments, but the guy working it was really nice and explained which bus we needed, and flagged it down as we literally ran to it haha, we must have looked soooo dumb. then we were on there for a long time, switched buses and like 30 mins later got to the dunes where maggie was waiting for us. we went to the store, got empanadas and wine and i got manjar cookies and then we hiked up the dunes. it was gorgoues. the sun was just starting to set. the sand was turning pretty colors, it was the softest and finest sand i have ever felt. so we sat there eating and talking and it was just perfect. on the left was my city and sister city and we watched the sun reflect off all the buildings and then the city lights start to turn on. and then in front of me was the ocean as beautiful as ever and to the right more sand dunes and cities. i have never been so content to just sit and stare. i had planned out what i was going to do that tues, instead it became this amazing and random day.
then it got even better cause we went home real quick, showered and went to salsa. i invited some new chilean friends and they came so that was really cool cause i just keep expanding my friends. i danced alot. i got to know ben a bit more, i didnt like him when i first met him, but we danced and he was really funny and goofy and actually nice. i also danced with some old guy and then some really smelly hippie dude. he was soo funny, like hearing his own beat and was def on something but he made me smile the whole time and he knew really cool turns. i like being the girl, u just get spun around all the time, its so fun haha. also speaking of hippie dude, im going to get a dread in the back of my hair, like at the bottom. everyone here has them and i figured when in rome....my friend choklo is going to do it for me, im excited.
umms then weds nothing special happened really, i just went to classes and stayed home that night and talked to friendssss.
thurs i went running...BAD idea,i felt like my legs were tearing apart...one thing about living here i dont like, EVERYTHING is on hills, my legs are always sore and calves are always so so so tight. but i passed vanessa's real mom and her bf on the street and that was kinda neat. then i went to class and walked home with vicki who now lives close to me! im really excited about that. then i did nothing again that night, finally a thursday night in...
yest, fri, i went to pilates and aerobox class. aerobox is amazing. its like dancing kickboxing to like techno britney spears. its soooo funny and i love it. i smiled the whole time and looked like an idiot, but it was awesome. then i ran errands for my mom, ate lunch and went to the beach. it was kinda chilllly, and i got bitched out by some pregnant woman in spanish for not giving her money...i just blocked her out and looked at the ocean haa. then i ended up watching the sunset with david haha how romantic. he is actually really cool and we get along really well.
then i went home and eventually me and kathleen met up with paul, nick and some other people at juglar. while downing a vino con fruita with her some really drunk, not all there woman tried talking to me, who knows about what....3 of tried to understand, it was NOT spanish or any language ive heard b4. but she just kept saying she was sorry and she didnt know i was a foreigner, she kept pulling my arm to hers and saying something about how our skin was the same...she knew i didnt understand yet kept going...it was funny. then we went to some knew place called kamikazi, its really modern, but kathleen and i left soon after to meet ashley and sam at the plaza. so we pretty much ran across town to make it there by midnight (hah i make it sound like cinderella now) and we made a pit stop in a hotel to go pee. that was hilarious cause there was a wedding going on and all these old dressed up people and we clearly didnt belong. so we just got stared at, it was so funny. then we took a bus to this party at the beach las salinas. and here is where i become awesome. me and my friends were totally on the VIP list...ive never been on a list, let alone VIP, in chile. it was one of my shining moments haha. the place is so cool, it has 3 rooms with diff types of musica and a balcony over the ocean and u can see the beach/ocean from all the rooms. it was really neat. we just hung out and danced, i ended up babysitting nick pretty much the whole night cause he wasss really high and drunk, but i still had fun. also had some awk moments with paul, but it was all in good fun. then we took a micro home, paul and nick walked me home and that was that.
today i got up super late, talked to chels a bit and some othersss and later i am going to valpo to color cafe, a really cute place to eat with elizabeth and kathleen and then we are going to some other cafe to watch some boy named diego peralta play an acoustic set. i listened to him on myspace and he sounds so good, plus his top friend is elliot smith, so i give him puntos already. aha
so thats all. these are always so long. i have a gift.
"everytime you come around, i feel more alive."
bunches of love from the southern hemisphere <3
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