After taking a walk down to the store with the girls, Javier and Paula (the parents) began cooking the most amazing dinner
I think I've ever eaten in my life. Appetizers- shrimp on a bob, empanadas, and of course beverages. Being a bartender, of course, i was excited to see Javier making a real mojito. (Students back home, you are not 21, and therefore should not drink. EVER!!)
For dinner we had the most delicious chicken on earth, corn, other things I don't even remember, but please trust me that it was incredible. And Chilean wine. Chile is very famous for its wine, and it is tasty. (again if you are not 21, it is illegal to drink! and therefore you should not!)
The next day we laid out on the beach for about 3 hours. Me, having never been burnt on the legs, neglected to put sunscreen on myself anywhere below the shoulders. Hence, by that evening, I was red as a lobster and could barely walk without wincing. 
We also had lunch at a nice little restaurant down the road, and waited on the dock for about an hour while Javier disappeared, reappered, repeat, before we got on a speedboat ("lancha") with their friends. Funnest thing ever!!! We also saw what looked like a log bobbing in the water, only it was going under then coming back up, and the guy told us "es un lobo del mar!" and i'm thinking ok, lobo means wolf, but... and he apparently could also translate in english, and said "it is a sea wolf!" and we're like yeah, that doesn't help. I have no idea what a sea wolf is! But it was creepy looking.
On Sunday, we laid out on the beach again, and I collected lots of shells. I started thinking, I could probably get enough to give one to each of my students! So, I have a lot. (I can't make any promises. But we'll see. Most of them are purple, so they're really pretty.) We again had a delicious meal of steak and some other Chilean things.
Then sadly we had to return home.
When I got back to Kelsey's house, my family picked me up (Reinaldo the dad, Ignacia the sister, and her friend Flor) and we went to the store. I immediately purchased some aloe (pronouned "a-lo-eh" en espanol) and then we bought a frozen pizza and beverages. It wasn't until like 10:30 that we had dinner, but all of us sat together at the table, and it was really fun. I really hadn't talked to Reinaldo (the dad) for more than a minute at a time since the first day I arrived. He actually said to me "entonces hablas muy bien el español!" ("so you speak spanish very well!" ie, he didn't know this before.) Then i helped Bea (the mom) understand Stuart Little, which little Carlitos has to read for his English class. It was nice to put my English knowledge to use. We went to bed very late that night. It was a great weekend.
8 comments:
¡Srta Heckman! Usted se parece a usted tienen un tiempo impresionante allí. Todas las imágenes me hacen deseo que fuera o tibio aquí, o estuve allí. Las imágenes son todo tan hermoso. Yo no supe que usted fue un barman. ¡Eso es tan refresca! Había pensado un rato atrás que es lo que quise hacer cuando conseguí más viejo. ¡Demonio, he cambiado de opinión, TIEMPO GRANDE! Ah bien. ¡Buen viaje! (:
estas embarrasada ya? no? lol. jk.
theresa, que placer oir de ti! si, soy cantinera. tu tambien puedes ser asi cuando cumples el 21 anos! me alegre que te gustan mis fotos. y dile a tu novio que no estoy embarazada, no pienso en embarazarme para al menos 2 anos, y que el necesita aprender deletrear.
¡AH! ¡Mira tan hermoso allí! ¡Estoy tan celoso! ¡Vuelva a casa por favor pronto! ¡NOSOTROS le perdemos! ¡(Sí, aún Clark)!
Jopalicious, extrano a Uds. tambien! y si, chile es muy muy linda.
Que pasa senorita Heckman. Esta es O'Shay. Como menudo hacer ustedes salir y por como mucho tiempo?que es todo por ahora, paz.
Julie is that keith terry in the yellow shirt?
hola oshay! solamente hemos salido uno o dos veces. es muy dificil hacer planes sin telefonos celulares, sin autos, todo eso. but we went out last weekend with a native and it was sweet!
janelle- rofl!
Post a Comment