Typing in English is like the most relaxing thing I do all day. BUT today i bought a bunch of school supplies in Spanish, harder than I expected but still a success. For some weird reason they pretty much exclusively sell notebooks with graphing paper here. No idea why, but trying to explain that I was looking for a notebook with lines only going horizontal was super difficult. I got it figured out though. Santiago is so similar to the US but i keep finding random things that are just a little bit different.Okay more pictures:
Dinner last night. Beef and vegetables. The red-ish box is Jugo de Pina- pineapple juice. All the juice and milk 'mi mama' drinks comes in boxes. Water is like super foreign here, she thinks I'm weird for drinking water at dinner?!?! But vegetables here are super fresh and delicious. Oh and tonight for dinner we had Dominos Pizza. LOL. It's much better than in the US actually. (I was worried about starving here, but turns out I should have been worried about gaining weight!)
A park that we ate the most delicious ice cream ever in today. I had raspberry ("frambuesas") and pineapple, but other kids got green tea mango, ulma honey (ulma is some kind of tree), and lots of other weird options. It was super delicious though. This is considered "El Centro" or the center of the city. I still can't get over how green it is!!!
This is a "caracol" which directly translates to "a snail". Apparently to chileans ("chilenos") it looks like a snail because it spirals. I don't know if you can tell from the pictures but there aren't any stairs between the levels, they just spiral up, and there are like maybe 40+ shops in the whole building. Super cool!
Still not sure what this is but I tried it today. From what it tasted like its kind of like tea and canned peaches and "mote" which kind of tastes like chewy oatmeal, only the grains/kernels are bigger. At any rate it wasn't that good but these stands are all over Santiago and the people seem to enjoy them.
This old looking, bright turquoise building is a gym. Pretty much the last thing I expected when I was walking by, so I took a picture. haha.
This is like the National Stadium for Futbol (I think, 'mi mama' was explaining to me in Spanish so that's what I discerned.) This picture makes it look really small but its actually huge.
Chile is in a valley so there are freaking beautiful mountains anywhere you look. They are waaaaaay bigger than the ones in Boulder but not quite as close. Super beautiful though!!
"Have you ever thought that the Earth is floating? Anything is possible."
They even have philosophical graffiti! What's not to love!?!?
Well thats all for now. Trying to be bilingual is way harder than I expected. When I'm listening to others speak its like "yeah okay, I've got this, I'm practically Chilean" but when its my turn to talk I feel like I'm trying to communicate in some sort of spy code. I have no idea what sort of subtleties i'm conveying. Not sure what "gringa" means but it seems to be synonymous with "Piper" (JOKING!!! kind of... the blues eyes and blonde hair doesn't help though.)
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