Pichilemu

Holiiii!
So I just got home this morning from Pichilemu, I'm tired and not all at the same time. Teh bus ride was 4 hours long. It was sooo latino. We would go, way crowded, and we'd stop at bigger towns on the way like Santa Cruz and San Fernando. So these guys would come on selling juice, chilean treats, empanadas and stuff like that. They speak so fast you can't understand them. So I was talking to my friend Gonzalo or "Chalo" and he said they didn't understand them either... Chileans just know what they are carrying where I didn't really. So we go over the Cordillera de la Costa (small mountains on the west side of Chile) and then go down again to the costa! PICHILEMU! I think its fun to say! hehe.

It is so crazy to be at a beach and look around you and see just beautiful, green mountains. WOW! The stars at night were crazy beautiful as well. It was just sooo peaceful. Well... not all the time. I went with one of my best friends Francisca, her boyfreind, and their freinds... we were 13 all together. It was total chaos as one might imagine. They had so much slang and inside jokes I was lost at times... It made me super tired to translate for the first day but I got used to it and now writing e-mails and this blog is hard. hahah So we'd wake about 1-2 and then have lunch and go to the beach. We'd come home around 7 then have "once" which is similar to high tea.

(culture note: some families have a larger "once" and some have smaller and like my family we have a small dinner at around 10. "Once" comes from these construction workers who weren't allowed to drink on the job, but Chile had just started to import beer in like 1850. The code word for the brewery that they made in Valpo i think... had 11 letters. So they started saying lets go have "once" and then it became a cultural thing. But its like tea, bread with manjar, coffee, and the whole family gets together to talk. I think its so cute!)

So at night we'd go to the centro or downtown and walked through ferias which all have like arts and crafts. Its soo awesome. And as you all know I am obsessed with Chilean earrings. :) One night we went to this crazy discoteca and danced to of course... R E G G A E T O N ! ! ! it was AMAZING! This crazy flaite low class... like ghetto not always poor but have a certain style and attitude that's just gross. Anyway... he finally came to ask me to dance and my freinds were like sorry she doesn't speak Spanish. It was so funny. They did that for every guy becasue guys come with friends and just ask girls to dance... its crazy! Someday we just had some Piscola and hung out. It was sooo much fun!!!! It was awkward at first not knowing anyone but we became friends quickly.

So even though it was pretty awesome... I guess all the traveling and the change in the enviornment made my immune system weaker. I have or had not sure yet Tonsilitis. Its horrible... I had a 102º fever when they took me to urgent care. It feels exactly like strep throat except there is no medicine to kill it. GRRR. The clìnica was so mmm... different shall we say. I mean they didn't cover the thermometor the doc didn't use gloves. I guess you can take the girl out of gringolandia but not the gringolandia out of the girl. Whatever. I am taking 400mg of Ibuprofein(sp?) and feel lots better. So say some prayers because this girl is going to Viña del Mar on Tuesday for a week with Conie and then to a resort with her familia! YAY! Gosh its just flying.

They aren't showing the superbowl commercials here. Just the game. So I am pretty bummed. But happy super bowl sunday anyway! That's all my updates for the moment.
I'm tired from staying up til 6 then getting on a bus at 9. Grr... So I'm gonna take a Siesta! Love the latino culture!

Hope you all are doing well! Miss you!