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