Yesterday we went to Valparaiso and toured Pablo Neruda's house, "La Sebastiana." Neruda is probably the most famous Chilean, as a well known poet and winner of the Nobel Prize. (I always hated studying his poetry at Ohio State, cause I never understood it. But apparently he is really good.)
"Fotos" were not permitted to be taken inside, but I was able to sneak this one of his bar. Come on, how cool is it!
We also spent a few hours at the beach. It was only about 72 degrees but the sun was amazing!
At night, our tour guides José and Pablo took us Americans to a local restaurant called Los Buenos Muchachos. They had a band onstage, and lots of meat, and french fries, and the Chilean drink Pisco. Kelsey and Jessica and I all had a pisco sour, which, as the name implies, is rather sour.
After dinner a lot of people got up and danced. (I abstained from dancing, in the interest of everyone there.)
Today we flew down to Concepción and I got picked up by my family. They are really nice! My "sister" Ignacia speaks English pretty well, so she speaks to me in it quite often, as does the 11-year old, Guatón. (i have no idea how you spell his name, but you say it "wah-TONE.) The 6-year-old, Carlitos, is the cutest little thing I have ever seen, although he does not shut up. He knows a little English too, so like when I told the father que "tengo veintitres años" he looked at me and said "..twenty three?" lol! I love it here.
Anyway, Ignacia and I are watching "Zohan" in her room and are about to go to bed. I am a little surprised at how similar Concepción and the culture down here is to Americans'. There are kids on skateboards, with iPods, Ignacia has her own laptop, the 2 boys play soccer and fight, it's really all very similar.
Right now I am going to bed though, and tomorrow I begin teaching at the Thomas Jefferson School! more blogs on random observations (e.g. Chileans´ obsession with American 80s music) to come.
6 comments:
pienso este en espanol. ?estamos commento ahora o luego? fotos estan fantastico :]
-- Fina Sollmann Brown [[Jennifer Sollmann]]
hola jennifer :) i am not sure when clark wants you all to leave me comments. i was thinking you all could just read my blog if you were curious and hopefully learn some cultural things. i will email him and see what he says. gracias! i´m glad somebody is reading it :)
Hola :]
¿Cómo está Chile?
--Lauren Lewis
Hola!
yo echo de menos tu la cara en la clase
Corinna Clevinger
Mrs. Heckman!
Sounds like you are having fun, thats good.
by the way love the pic of you at the beach. im jelous, its cold...and rainy here.
not a lot has happen since you left...so your not missing much...i did get my liecense yesterday thought and i have managed to not get pulled over...yet. I miss bothing you already..me and stevie got into it thursday...over fashion lol. but i gotta go to work so make sure you wrie me back...ill be checking, erinfulcher
gracias a todos para tus comentarios.
lauren- chile is great! it's very sunny down here, and warm. i'm slowly getting accustomed to speaking in spanish.
corinna- i miss seeing everyone too! today i got some shells on the beach so hopefully i'll have enough to give some of you guys.
erin- congrats on the license! i'll be sure to keep my eyes peeled on the road once i get back to fairborn, lol. tell stevie to shut his mouth. :-)
i miss all you guys!
will write more soon. right now i'm at a beach house. totally got burnt this weekend.
peace!
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