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
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Katie,
You know, people are the same everywhere. The Chileans will get the Chileans and the Americans will get the Americans. Just reference the financial meltdown and credit default swap debacle on wall street. It is a story of Americans getting each other all over the place, from Wall Street to Main Street, and now we are paying the price tag. Unfortunately it will be a price you and your children will be paying too. It is wonderful you are getting so much exposure to so many experiences, good and bad. We have Mac the Dog (from Mr. Carl Johnson who has gone to Texas to see Reed, Collin, and Ashley for T-day) at the house. Poor Bear is traumatized. Joe and I get to work tomorrow because we are busy.
Love,
Dad
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