Q lindo el dia

Ayer
Went to the beach with Martha, bought a ring made of copper and these orangeish rocks.  I owe Martha 5 luca because I didn't have any money.  Then we had Churros,  mine with manjar. It was a beautiful day but then once the sun goes down it gets really cold. I met up with a chilean friend and went to this bar, el juglar. Then I met up with Katie and Dana at Journal, then to Lindseys to pregame before they went to the discoteca. I didn't make it out with them though because I was so tired by the time they left for Valpo.  Lindsey lives in a house full of tenants, it's fascinating.



Hoy

panquques con manjar con Alesia y su pololo Jaime, so niceeeeeeeee they are both so awesome together. Pbly my favorite couple atm
Parque con Katie, terrible headache!

Spanish Knowledge

que onda- whats up
buena onda- cool person
me duele mi cabeza
aps- ok (in Chile)


pasar de largo-stay awake til morning
en la piola- tranqulo discrete

earthquake this morning

Long day of class yesterday. Soup full of questionable sea creatures and a very depressing movie called Machuca http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machuca

School in quintay

Freaking freezing
Ton of food, beautiful ocean

Quillota

Today we visited two schools. One with the highest marks and the other was the more rurual school where often the children with bad homelives ended up.  We also made it onto PUCV´s website.

http://ucv.altavoz.net/prontus_unidacad/site/artic/20120710/pags/20120710174239.html

Walk on the Coast

Today after class I walked from our metro stop Barron to Portales on the coast.  At first it seemed a little dodgy because it was 10am and there weren't many people around.  But then I saw 2 caberneros and more people so I felt fine walking along the path.  It was by the ship yard and smelled strongly of fish at times.  I sat down and watched some sea lions try and get up onto this tall cement structure that looked like an old bridge or dock.  The poor little guys couldn't make it up there. I have no clue how the other ones got up there either because it seemed almost  impossible.  They I walked more down the way past a run-down building and train covered in graffiti.  It was raining and sunny at the same time which made everything so beautiful.  As the sun came out it only lit up parts of the city slowly like they were in the spotlight. It was breathtaking.  Of course it was something my camera couldn't catch but as always I tried anyway.

pastel de papas, sweet mashed potatoes (sweetened with sugar) and meat and onions on the bottom

Protest

Alonzo purple shirt
Tear glass water
Lots of people
Handed out flyers
walked around Valpo to victoria center
in the road
then behind the federal building is where it got broken up
Chocolate covered cookies
Chants often insulted los pacos (policia)

Dana, "do you need help cutting those fliers?"  Katie, "yeah are your hands tired?"  Me, "girl please, I scrapbook I am set"
Tswift in kitchen

CNN Chile, ministro de educacion de Chile is asking for them to deal with these in the justice system and not in the streets, no en los calles
Santiago 30 mil personas, marcha mas violentas

http://www.demotix.com/news/1304549/chilean-students-protest-against-profit-education-valparaiso#slide-1

Alesia's Birthday with the Family

So fun, as always uncomfortable at the start but then it was great. This one boy talked to me about movies and delt with my Spanish.  Gabi has an adorable blonde haired blue eyed daughter. Nice older woman I think could tell I was feeling awkeard and tried to include me by asking me a question in Spanish I didn't understand.  This resulted in a bright bright red face on my part.  I really like that woman though she always goes out of her way to talk to me and ask me questions. A ton of food and sweets. Alesia liked the ring I gave her, I liked it so I am glad she does.

Little girl kept asking me words to translate to English and got really energetic toward the end of the night.  Both of the boys went to go play legos with the kids, it was kind of adorable.  Her uncle also doted on her it was sweet.

Lots of sipo, Chilean slang

Alesia's pololo is awesome. Him and I talked about religion and traditions in Oklahoma and here. He said it was nice to finally meet me. Such a nice guy to everyone, Alesia picked a good one. It was a great evening and most importantly now I get to sleep.

Tons of cakes, one pineapple,apple, berry and the orange one that Jaime, Alesia's pololo made. The orange was really good!