Hi!
I know it has been since Chile since I have written, but my adventure has not stopped! First, let me tell you my time in Brasil with Leo was AMAZING. He lives on a paradise island, one where we should all visit. There are 46 named beaches, and at everyone of these sights you can usually drink beer and eat some kind of fried food (fish, shrimp...) o and it is so good. Not to mention, the people are beautiful. It is a lot like California, a bunch of surfers walking around and people tanning on the beach. In contrast to Chile, the ocean is warm, much like a bath! The temperatures are very different. Leo's family is so friendly, and his mom made sure leo took care of all of my needs. I went to a few barbeque's and had a wonderful time. Leo's father owns a construction business where we went to visit. On sight, Leo's father has sheep's just because he loves farm animals! There were some baby lambs who were 3 days old. I didn't touch them but they were precious. I also went to Leo's beach house, which when you walk into the yard, it is a 30 second walk to the beach. Once again, way too amazing. We laid in hammocks, played soccer on the beach and had a barbecue. Leo told me his family goes there very often. Other than that, Leo showed me the island (even though we didn't have enough time) and one day, we took a boat ride to a restaurant where we ate all types of fish and ended our day playing in a waterfall. I can't wait till i get to go visit him again.
The rest of my time in brasil was spent in sao palou with Emily's host family from brasil. They were also way too nice! I went shopping with Pri and did a lot of laying around and relaxing. Marcia's boyfriend is very nice and so is Pri's. The night before I left, we had a wonderful Christmas dinner with tasty pork, potatoes and cheesy pasta. Once again, soooo good!
Lucky mom, I surprised her on Christmas day. My grandmother Hone picked me up at the airport, and took me to where my entire family was. My mom had no idea, and when realized i was actually home, started to cry! It was so special.
So, what am I doing to day that keeps this grand adventure going? Well, I am doing very well in school (this quarter is almost over 2 more weeks) and am getting very excited about the commissary being built. Over the summer, my friend Askin and I cleared out a room, and recycled computers to raise money for a sink. Through this recycling job we made 500 dollars, enough to buy a sink! The goal is to get the commissary built by April. Keep checking back, and I will keep writing.
In abrazo
xoxo... kati
Monday, March 2, 2009
Monday, December 15, 2008
demasio disfrutar... too much fun!
Well helooo,
I was so busy in my last weeks in chile, that I have not gotten time to sit down and right a blog. So, before lunch, which has now changed to 12 o clock, and will contain rice and beans, I am sitting at our lovely leos computer writing to all of you! And let me tell you, it was so hard to leave chile. But first, I am going to tell you about my trip to the south.
We started with a 12 hour bus ride to Chiloe, an island in the south of Chile. The island is known for houses on stilts, witchcraft and myths. However, I know the island as being green, relaxed and beautiful. Definitly a place i could imagine living, it is just too beautiful. To get to this island, you arrive in a main port city and take a fiary in your bus to the other side. Every once in a while, you will see dolphins jumping alongside the ferry, but I only saw seals and penguins. Haha, penguins, thats a different story. Anyways, we stayed in this beautiful hostel called nuevo mundo, and in the mornings for breakfast they made fresh jam and fresh bread. A different attraction of the city (we stayed in ancud) is the market place. Here, you can get fresh fish at good prices but more importantly there were so many stores filled with wool, and it was all handmade. You saw hats, slippers, socks, penguins, dolls, scarves, sweaters, purses, bags, dresses, anything you can think of! The best part is in all of these whops (there is probably forty) the women are sitting in the back just knitting and waiting. It is too beautiful.
Well, the main attraction of Chiloe was the tour we took. All the girls (natael, katelynn, alysha and hanna) set off with our guide Brit (thats my name, not what I am), into the distance. WE drove to this pasture without a trail and began our hike along the coast. We walked through all the green, saw horses sheep and a lonely farm. However, before we knew it we arrived upon the breathtaking ocean scene. The waves were crashing, the water was dark blue, you could see the white of the ocean and the rocks were standing tall. It was so beautiful. We continued our walk along the coast, so we were basically walking on little rocks. We found treasures such as large sea shells and sea weed so long you could jump roap with it. After leaving the ocean, we followd the way of the sheep to try to get to our final destination, lunch. To do this, we walked through trees and more pasture. There was one part where we could not find a way out, so brit told us to follow the way of the sheep. We found an opening through a barbed wire fence that had wool covering the barbed wire so many sheep have crawled through it. After this, we climbed up a small stream, and if you were not careful you feet would get stick in the thick mud, and you might lose a shoe. So, the hike was pure scenery and we wound up eating a smoke salmon quiche for lunch and continued our journey. We drove to a boat where we got on to go look at penguins! And oh, they were so cute. black and white and living the life in chile. They walk cute, and sometimes blend into the rock. Also on penguin island we saw two sea otters putting on a show, birds with red feet, seagulls, and other species of animals. It was too much fun, and I love penguins. Our guide was ridiculously smart and he told us about the giant earthquack in chile, which actually brought more damage with a gigantic tsunami. And after about three days in chiloe, we went to Pucon.
Pucon is a very touristy spots town. In this town, you can climb valcones, go rafting, go fishing, hydrospeed, canopý adventure, hot springs, horse back riding to Mapuche reserves and I am sure much more. The town was absolutely beautiful because over the city lumes a huge valcano. One that I climbed. Haha, in pucon i chose to go hydrospeeding and climb the volcano. Hydrospeed is a lot like rafting however, you are solo, and in the water with an oversized kick bored. So, your body serves as the raft, and you get very personal with the rapids. It was so much fun hoever, the other girls chose to go rafting and I went without them with a guide. It was not too bad to have a break. When we came home from our activities, we were all a little bit soar and looking forward to getting up at 5 in the morning to go to the valcono. So, they next day after getting up, three of us (me, hana and alysha) embarked on our valcano adventure. we woar waterproof suits, helmets big boots, warm clothes and sunscreen. The valcano of 5000 meters did not look to difficult however, it was so trying! Our friend alysha did not make it to the top. and she stopped with a few other people after lunch. The rest of the group kept climbing, slowly but surely. It took us about 7 hours to get to the top of valcano villarica. To make it to the top, you walk in a zig zag pattern. During one part, we put on our crampons to stop slipping in the snow. Well, the journey up the valcano was so hard, but the entire time you were above the clouds. You looked down and saw the clouds looming over pucon. I could see the incan empire amidst all the clouds, having fun in their green hills. So we killed ourselves to make it to the top of the valcano, however going down was so much better. We strapped these duck tape things to our butts, and slid down. It was like the alpine slide, but with ducktape snow and butt shoots. Haha, it was so fast and so much easier. I was overjoyed to have accomplished making it to the top of the valc, and only too happe to get in the van to go home after making it down.
A funny thing about chile is that you never have to sign a waiver or a consent form.
Anyways, the final day in pucon we went to the beach. The beach is very special because it is made of entirely black valconic rock, and it is the beach of a lake. So the water is warm, and the sand is black. Haha, it was also wonderful to catch some rays on the valcano beach.
So, that was my trip to south of chile, a place I definitly want to take all of my family and friends to. When I came home, I had 4 more days untill I left chile. It was filled with family, friends and food. I could not have asked for anything more other than a little bit of sun, because it was also cloudy.
On friday night I went to zapallar to have a going away barbeque with my friends. Here, we ate chorripan, meat and drank wine. Haha, I am positive between about 10 people we drank 12 liters of boxed red wine. WAY TOO MUCH! however, it was a loving wonderful very fun party anyways.
On Saturday, I made empanadas with my what chile would say, mother in law. She taught me the old way to make them which involves boiling salt water and putting it in the pot of flow before you put in the melted butter. It made for a wonderful dough, and we filled it with pino meat. Everyone loved the empanadas made by gringa hands with gringa love. They told me all people from abroad love empanandas, and pizza is ordinary and I should go home and start and empanada business with chilean wine with fruit in it instead of pizza. I promptly disagreed. haha. well I must tell you it was so difficult to tell everyone good bye, but my pain was filled with love and excitement to be in brasil. And leo and his family is as wonderful as you can imagine. I am off to go eat lunch and try to communicate portugues to spanish.
I hope this message makes sense, I know it is long, and I rushed through it. Love you!
Un abrazo,
xoxo... kati
I was so busy in my last weeks in chile, that I have not gotten time to sit down and right a blog. So, before lunch, which has now changed to 12 o clock, and will contain rice and beans, I am sitting at our lovely leos computer writing to all of you! And let me tell you, it was so hard to leave chile. But first, I am going to tell you about my trip to the south.
We started with a 12 hour bus ride to Chiloe, an island in the south of Chile. The island is known for houses on stilts, witchcraft and myths. However, I know the island as being green, relaxed and beautiful. Definitly a place i could imagine living, it is just too beautiful. To get to this island, you arrive in a main port city and take a fiary in your bus to the other side. Every once in a while, you will see dolphins jumping alongside the ferry, but I only saw seals and penguins. Haha, penguins, thats a different story. Anyways, we stayed in this beautiful hostel called nuevo mundo, and in the mornings for breakfast they made fresh jam and fresh bread. A different attraction of the city (we stayed in ancud) is the market place. Here, you can get fresh fish at good prices but more importantly there were so many stores filled with wool, and it was all handmade. You saw hats, slippers, socks, penguins, dolls, scarves, sweaters, purses, bags, dresses, anything you can think of! The best part is in all of these whops (there is probably forty) the women are sitting in the back just knitting and waiting. It is too beautiful.
Well, the main attraction of Chiloe was the tour we took. All the girls (natael, katelynn, alysha and hanna) set off with our guide Brit (thats my name, not what I am), into the distance. WE drove to this pasture without a trail and began our hike along the coast. We walked through all the green, saw horses sheep and a lonely farm. However, before we knew it we arrived upon the breathtaking ocean scene. The waves were crashing, the water was dark blue, you could see the white of the ocean and the rocks were standing tall. It was so beautiful. We continued our walk along the coast, so we were basically walking on little rocks. We found treasures such as large sea shells and sea weed so long you could jump roap with it. After leaving the ocean, we followd the way of the sheep to try to get to our final destination, lunch. To do this, we walked through trees and more pasture. There was one part where we could not find a way out, so brit told us to follow the way of the sheep. We found an opening through a barbed wire fence that had wool covering the barbed wire so many sheep have crawled through it. After this, we climbed up a small stream, and if you were not careful you feet would get stick in the thick mud, and you might lose a shoe. So, the hike was pure scenery and we wound up eating a smoke salmon quiche for lunch and continued our journey. We drove to a boat where we got on to go look at penguins! And oh, they were so cute. black and white and living the life in chile. They walk cute, and sometimes blend into the rock. Also on penguin island we saw two sea otters putting on a show, birds with red feet, seagulls, and other species of animals. It was too much fun, and I love penguins. Our guide was ridiculously smart and he told us about the giant earthquack in chile, which actually brought more damage with a gigantic tsunami. And after about three days in chiloe, we went to Pucon.
Pucon is a very touristy spots town. In this town, you can climb valcones, go rafting, go fishing, hydrospeed, canopý adventure, hot springs, horse back riding to Mapuche reserves and I am sure much more. The town was absolutely beautiful because over the city lumes a huge valcano. One that I climbed. Haha, in pucon i chose to go hydrospeeding and climb the volcano. Hydrospeed is a lot like rafting however, you are solo, and in the water with an oversized kick bored. So, your body serves as the raft, and you get very personal with the rapids. It was so much fun hoever, the other girls chose to go rafting and I went without them with a guide. It was not too bad to have a break. When we came home from our activities, we were all a little bit soar and looking forward to getting up at 5 in the morning to go to the valcono. So, they next day after getting up, three of us (me, hana and alysha) embarked on our valcano adventure. we woar waterproof suits, helmets big boots, warm clothes and sunscreen. The valcano of 5000 meters did not look to difficult however, it was so trying! Our friend alysha did not make it to the top. and she stopped with a few other people after lunch. The rest of the group kept climbing, slowly but surely. It took us about 7 hours to get to the top of valcano villarica. To make it to the top, you walk in a zig zag pattern. During one part, we put on our crampons to stop slipping in the snow. Well, the journey up the valcano was so hard, but the entire time you were above the clouds. You looked down and saw the clouds looming over pucon. I could see the incan empire amidst all the clouds, having fun in their green hills. So we killed ourselves to make it to the top of the valcano, however going down was so much better. We strapped these duck tape things to our butts, and slid down. It was like the alpine slide, but with ducktape snow and butt shoots. Haha, it was so fast and so much easier. I was overjoyed to have accomplished making it to the top of the valc, and only too happe to get in the van to go home after making it down.
A funny thing about chile is that you never have to sign a waiver or a consent form.
Anyways, the final day in pucon we went to the beach. The beach is very special because it is made of entirely black valconic rock, and it is the beach of a lake. So the water is warm, and the sand is black. Haha, it was also wonderful to catch some rays on the valcano beach.
So, that was my trip to south of chile, a place I definitly want to take all of my family and friends to. When I came home, I had 4 more days untill I left chile. It was filled with family, friends and food. I could not have asked for anything more other than a little bit of sun, because it was also cloudy.
On friday night I went to zapallar to have a going away barbeque with my friends. Here, we ate chorripan, meat and drank wine. Haha, I am positive between about 10 people we drank 12 liters of boxed red wine. WAY TOO MUCH! however, it was a loving wonderful very fun party anyways.
On Saturday, I made empanadas with my what chile would say, mother in law. She taught me the old way to make them which involves boiling salt water and putting it in the pot of flow before you put in the melted butter. It made for a wonderful dough, and we filled it with pino meat. Everyone loved the empanadas made by gringa hands with gringa love. They told me all people from abroad love empanandas, and pizza is ordinary and I should go home and start and empanada business with chilean wine with fruit in it instead of pizza. I promptly disagreed. haha. well I must tell you it was so difficult to tell everyone good bye, but my pain was filled with love and excitement to be in brasil. And leo and his family is as wonderful as you can imagine. I am off to go eat lunch and try to communicate portugues to spanish.
I hope this message makes sense, I know it is long, and I rushed through it. Love you!
Un abrazo,
xoxo... kati
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Living the life
Hi!
So, the teleton started, and I believe it is like a television drive, however there is shows and concerts all over the country. But, I wouldn't say I have seen a change in anybody, or the feeling. However, I did get handed 2 mil on the micro last night for no reason. So I tried not to take it, but figured I would donate it to the teleton. Anyways, we have had two big dinner in the past two days. It was yummy!
Seeing as they do not celebrate thanksgiving here, I did miss it! But I miss the leftovers even more. However, I do not miss seeing the leftovers for two weeks after thanksgiving, so I hope you eat them all, very quickly. Here, it didn't feel like we were missing much, because the country went on like normal, with no knowledge of thanksgiving. But, we did have or going away dinner for our program. It was a nice dinner, with three courses of drinks (non-alcoholic), appetizers, salad, a main course and as many desserts as you could eat. I am sure we didn't' get drunk on alcohol, but we did get a food high! And everyone was there with there mom's. And the mom's love to gossip, so we had a great time. After the dinner, a lot of the students went out in Valpo, where we all had finished off a great night, however, just like COPA told us, two girl got robbed three different times that night. Chile won't hurt you, but it will rob you blind!
And last night, we decided we would have a rap up dinner for our spanish class. So, the five students went to renaca where our Spanish teacher prepared some food. We ate chips, crackers, peanuts and cheese to start, and for dinner we ate this cheesy, tasty ham lasagna, and for dinner we had a manjar and cream mousse, and a fruit tart! During all this time (8-12:30) we drank pisco sour and red wine! Haha, and we talked and laughed outside on her Patio. It was a wonderful experience. It seems here parties are nice because the host makes her home that of her friends, and neither party feels uptight. It makes for a very relaxed time. And the food was wonderful! My spanish teacher did a lot of traveling, they lived in Russia for an amount of time, and also one day decided to pack up and move to England.
So, as I have preached before, world relationships are such a valuable thing to have. And I know I have family in Chile, as they also have family in the US.
Un abrazo, eat all those leftovers.
xoxo... Kati
So, the teleton started, and I believe it is like a television drive, however there is shows and concerts all over the country. But, I wouldn't say I have seen a change in anybody, or the feeling. However, I did get handed 2 mil on the micro last night for no reason. So I tried not to take it, but figured I would donate it to the teleton. Anyways, we have had two big dinner in the past two days. It was yummy!
Seeing as they do not celebrate thanksgiving here, I did miss it! But I miss the leftovers even more. However, I do not miss seeing the leftovers for two weeks after thanksgiving, so I hope you eat them all, very quickly. Here, it didn't feel like we were missing much, because the country went on like normal, with no knowledge of thanksgiving. But, we did have or going away dinner for our program. It was a nice dinner, with three courses of drinks (non-alcoholic), appetizers, salad, a main course and as many desserts as you could eat. I am sure we didn't' get drunk on alcohol, but we did get a food high! And everyone was there with there mom's. And the mom's love to gossip, so we had a great time. After the dinner, a lot of the students went out in Valpo, where we all had finished off a great night, however, just like COPA told us, two girl got robbed three different times that night. Chile won't hurt you, but it will rob you blind!
And last night, we decided we would have a rap up dinner for our spanish class. So, the five students went to renaca where our Spanish teacher prepared some food. We ate chips, crackers, peanuts and cheese to start, and for dinner we ate this cheesy, tasty ham lasagna, and for dinner we had a manjar and cream mousse, and a fruit tart! During all this time (8-12:30) we drank pisco sour and red wine! Haha, and we talked and laughed outside on her Patio. It was a wonderful experience. It seems here parties are nice because the host makes her home that of her friends, and neither party feels uptight. It makes for a very relaxed time. And the food was wonderful! My spanish teacher did a lot of traveling, they lived in Russia for an amount of time, and also one day decided to pack up and move to England.
So, as I have preached before, world relationships are such a valuable thing to have. And I know I have family in Chile, as they also have family in the US.
Un abrazo, eat all those leftovers.
xoxo... Kati
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Oh Chile...
Hello,
I know it has been a while since I have written so hello, I hope everything is going good. I am using the school computer, so even though I am excited, you can not see the exlamation mark because i can not find it. Anyways, everything in Chile is going well, however I am running into some frustrations with school but only for my two classes purely chilean. First, in my biotechonology course, we have to give group presentations. So, earlier this month during the presentations, the professor missed two weeks of classes. This week, my group thought they had to present, so we met this morning to get together all of the information. Do not ask me why the procrastinated so long, I can not tell you. Anyways, this morning we also discovered we do not present until the 9th of december, when I have travel plans. Well, that means because the class was delayed two weeks, so was our project. The thing is, we have our project done and the girls are not willing to accomodate my needs. At the end of class when I was asking the professor if we could change the date, some girl came up and said well, I am in here group and we picked this because we knew it was one of the last presentations and we can not change the date. So, what will happen with that I will tell you later.
In my business class, which in business communication is very important, I had earlier attempted to contact my group multiple times. My plan was to do the busienss presentation this week, so I could leave for vacations next week. Well recently I talked to a kid from my group who told me that we were not going to be ready. Another grand frustration considering I tried to communicate my needs earlier.
Other than that, my grades will be turning out fine, and it is not really a problem.
Chile right at the beginning of the Teleton. This is a money drive for kids, and has been promoted for 2 months now. Some people do not see why they drive so hard, and guilt you into giving money, but in general the opinion is that the Teleton is a beautiful thing. It unites Chile, which is still a country of two sides (Allende vs. Pinochet), into a common goal. They have parties and shows, and the feeling in the country is positive.
Well, this weekend when I was in Zapallar, we went to the beach, and they were charging 200 pesos to get on the list to play volleyball, and it was a drive for the teleton. So, I played volleyball and soaked up the sun. I have earned the ever so popular name of gringa, but sometimes they do call me Kati. I had a great time, and got to practice my skills in beach volley ball.
I am getting very tan, I wish you all could be here to leave your house to lay on the beach everyday with me.
Love you very much
Un abrazo
xoxo... kati
Monday, November 17, 2008
Chile has a mind of its own
Hello,
So, as I was traveling to the Botanical Gardens yesterday with my friend, it was a Sunday, so not that many Micro's were running. Well, we asked a micro driver if he went there and he replied he would drop us off close, but we would have to do a little walking. No problem there. Well, when we got off, we were then informed it was about a 30 minute walk. We then ran into some other people walking the opposite direction and asked where to go. They said, keep going straight, its gonna be about 1 hour. Haha. So, we continue to walk, and end up getting a ride with some friendly people, who then informed us it would've been about 2 hours! Well, I don't think it would've been 2 hours, I feel it would've been 45 minutes. But as we were talking in the car, the my friend said the Micro driver will lie sometimes just so to get your money, and the driver of the car said, ya, you have to be careful about Chile. Well my friend was obviously Chilean, and so was the driver, but Chile will get the Chileans if he can. O Chile. Other than that, my friend and I ate subway sandwiches (I was so happy to discover regular mustard instead of sweetened mustard, and you can add avocado!), chips, and drank wine from a melon. Its entertaining, you open any type of fruit or melon (we had honeydew), get all the seeds out, poke the fruit so it mixes with the wine, then add sugar and white wine! You can drink it out of the side, or from a straw. Not to mention, the botanical gardens were beautiful. I am living in the garden city, where they are many flowers, trees, plants...
Well, Sat and Sunday this weekend were beautiful and great for going to the beach! Today, in my paper class, we have been preparing paper pulp from dried plan for about 4 weeks. We finally got to use the pulp to make paper. So what I have is a few sheets of paper made from palm tree! How cool... Other than that, I need a hair cut and am having a wonderful time. O yes, and right now there is a strike of government workers going on. One day, they woke me up with their whistels and magaphone while walking in the street. Today, I saw they had traffic all backed up, and in a huge parade, they were at the center plaza in Vina. They had whistels, drums, people, flags, horns, loud speakers and energy. Good to them for being activists, but it impeded me from getting a card I wanted, so I will have to wait till Wendsday.
I wish everyone at home the best.
Looove you all!
Un abrazo
xoxo... Kati
So, as I was traveling to the Botanical Gardens yesterday with my friend, it was a Sunday, so not that many Micro's were running. Well, we asked a micro driver if he went there and he replied he would drop us off close, but we would have to do a little walking. No problem there. Well, when we got off, we were then informed it was about a 30 minute walk. We then ran into some other people walking the opposite direction and asked where to go. They said, keep going straight, its gonna be about 1 hour. Haha. So, we continue to walk, and end up getting a ride with some friendly people, who then informed us it would've been about 2 hours! Well, I don't think it would've been 2 hours, I feel it would've been 45 minutes. But as we were talking in the car, the my friend said the Micro driver will lie sometimes just so to get your money, and the driver of the car said, ya, you have to be careful about Chile. Well my friend was obviously Chilean, and so was the driver, but Chile will get the Chileans if he can. O Chile. Other than that, my friend and I ate subway sandwiches (I was so happy to discover regular mustard instead of sweetened mustard, and you can add avocado!), chips, and drank wine from a melon. Its entertaining, you open any type of fruit or melon (we had honeydew), get all the seeds out, poke the fruit so it mixes with the wine, then add sugar and white wine! You can drink it out of the side, or from a straw. Not to mention, the botanical gardens were beautiful. I am living in the garden city, where they are many flowers, trees, plants...
Well, Sat and Sunday this weekend were beautiful and great for going to the beach! Today, in my paper class, we have been preparing paper pulp from dried plan for about 4 weeks. We finally got to use the pulp to make paper. So what I have is a few sheets of paper made from palm tree! How cool... Other than that, I need a hair cut and am having a wonderful time. O yes, and right now there is a strike of government workers going on. One day, they woke me up with their whistels and magaphone while walking in the street. Today, I saw they had traffic all backed up, and in a huge parade, they were at the center plaza in Vina. They had whistels, drums, people, flags, horns, loud speakers and energy. Good to them for being activists, but it impeded me from getting a card I wanted, so I will have to wait till Wendsday.
I wish everyone at home the best.
Looove you all!
Un abrazo
xoxo... Kati
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
La Serena
So, I learned an interesting thing about Chile yesterday. In Chile, there is no ozone layer! This means, someone who receives 14 years of sun exposure in one state, would receive 50 years of sun exposure here! What a difference. So. when in Chile, don´t forget your sun screen, nobody wants premature wrinkles. With this said, I had a wonderful vacation this weekend. With my COPA exchange program, I traveled about 6 hours in bus to the north, in a place called La Serena. Considering Chile is the longest and skinniest country on earth, the drive was all coast line and was very beautiful. But, I slept. Anyways, let me tell you what I did in La Serena, other than have an amazing time. The location we stayed at would be like a resort kindof. It had a pool, a ping pong table, pool table and foosbal. The condos were connected but had two floors, seven places to sleep, a kitchen, two bathrooms, a living room and a balcony. Absotlutely beautiful. We could see the ocean from our back door, and were located next to Iguana Empanadas.
All the activities were pre-paid, so all I was responsible for was food. Upon arriving, we went to the grocery store and my friends and I bought stuff for burritos (white beans from a box, they were already cooked, cheese, tortillas, salsa, which were actually spicy, and rice), stuff for sandwiches, cereal, fruit and chocolate. We ate like queens. Night one we made our burritos, and they turned out grand! The next day, the day was cloudy untill about 3, however we laid on the beach for 2 hours in the clouds! Don´t let this confuse you, your white skin will get burnt in the clouds. However, once the sun came out it was sooo nice and warm. We laid on our towels and soaked up the sun. Around 4 I went inside with my friend but stopped to have a fried cheese and shrimp empanada before going in. It was good. That night, we went on the bus and traveled to an observatorium with our group. It was very beautiful however the light from the moon made it impossible to see all of the stars. But, we did get a real close look at the moon, and that was awesome.
Day two, we left at twelve and drove two hours to go to a solar restruant. They use the sun power too cook. This meant, they have solar ovens. It takes two hours to cook little rolls, and they even boil water for tea using the sun. The food was awesome considering how slow cooked it was. We had rice and chicken, followed by flan for dessert. I had an herb tea, which had a mint leaf and hot water in it. Very natural. After this, we visited the Gabriela Minstral musuem, who was a Chilean poem writer and won the Nobel Piece Prize. My friends and I ate this popsicle, bright green and pink, tasting exactly like a watermelon. It costs us 30 cents. After we got home, we went to play in the ocean. Despite my terror of waves, the water was warm enough to play in, and we worked up an appetite for dinner. We went to a seafood restruant, and I had lobster pinchers and salad. Very tasty. I didn´t tell you yet, but me and two of my friends were the color of the lobsters. But, I didnt´get my face burnt!!!
Well, the last day came, and we went to a national park. It was in a dessert climate, very mountanious, a lot like Colorado. However, we drove an and hour and a half through the park to get to the main attraction. It is a rain forest, from the second region (we were in the 4th region) that was adapted to absorb the mist from the ocean to survive. The forest was wet, mossy and magical. Absolutely beautiful.
After this, we went home to tell our families about our vacation. Yesterday, I went to school as well as tuesday, and today I´m writing to say hello.
So, I hope everybody is doing great! I love you all
Un abrazo,
xoxo... Kati
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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