Jody: Chillin in Chile

I am starting my first international adventure on August 18th, when I fly from my hometown, Wiarton, population 2 500, to Punta Arenas in Chile. It has been recognized as the southernmost city in the World, with a population of about 114 000. This blog will be updated periodically, allowing you a glimpse into my year of South American culture.

Monday, September 11, 2006

So...the weekend

Friday night, I hung out at my house, and fell asleep rather early as there had been much activity in my life the days previous. Saturday morning, I awoke first in the household, so got myself breakfast (fruit and cereal..nothin special), then decided to walk to town to buy a Chilean flag for my jacket. The walk is about an hour, and it was a beautiful day. The dogs followed me the whole way, and didn´t leave until I went into a store. I thought they would leave to go home, but oh no.....about 2 minutes into my walk home, they were waiting on the street corner. So, I walked home and got back at about noon. I tried clam and sea urchin, but as some of you know, I am a huge texture person, and the texture of clam, well it´s just weird raw. I did eat some cooked clam in a salad. It´s not my favorite though.....but hey, I tried it. That´s the whole thing ,try everything. In the afternoon, i sewed my flag on, and then a friend from school (and a friend of my ´sis`who is in michigan, came over for a visit. Later on in the evening, I went to Julia´s school with Julia, Gabi, Inge (a girl from germany who is leaving to go home tomoro), and a girl who just got back from exchange in minnesota. We went for a Chilean cultural festival, where I tried more traditional recipes, all super good!!! We also watched a lot of the traditional dance. I headed home for more QT. It was pretty stellar. Headed to bed probly around 12 or 1... Sunday morning, I awoke, made myself breakfast and attempted to send an email with pictures. It didn´t work, so i´ll try again later. Then i went for another phenomenal run along the beach...like 5 feet away from the ocean!! Super cool. Showered at home, then lunch. More chillin at home, and dancing salsa in the kitchen and a bit in the back while the meat was on the barby. After dinner, I watched some tv, visited with the mass amounts of company, and went to bed, refreshed for today.
I woke up at 5 this morning because of mass amounts of rain, but fell back asleep quite quickly. (Yup...my brain lets me sleep now....yay). A bit of confusion about how i was getting to school today, but I got there! Oh...and it snowed this morning!!! for a bit, it was big fat flakes comin down fast, but it didn´t last long, and most melted as soon as it hit the ground. My walk to school in the afternoon was a bit chilly, wearing mitts, a hat, scarf, and vest over my uniform jacket. Definitely a change from sunday, when I ran in shorts!! And tonight I had my meeting with rotary to go over the rules and such....and then ate some delicious homemade fries with meet, and now am going to go to bed. Buenas Noches!! xoxo

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