Procrastinating

Well I have a paper due tomorrow, so naturally its time for a blog update instead!! (i've also helped clean the house and done laundry).

So classes started last week but they really don't get underway until this week. (I know, I forgot I was here to take classes :/) So I'm taking (all in Spanish, with mostly only Chileans): 20th Century European History (the closest I could get to US History), Human Rights in Chile, Political and Economic Development in Latin America, and Social Movements & Globalization. Should be interesting, but lets be honest, I don't care about that part so much. So my weekend, which starts Thursday night because I don't have class on Friday. Thursday we went dancing at a 'discoteca' (spelled something like that) basically a club. And.. I'm still bad at it.. so that was pretty uneventful really. On Friday I did another hike. Mmm look at that smog:

Me and Jess and all that smog

Yesterday me and some of the gringas (and one Australian.. who I guess is technically still a gringo) went to Santa Cruz, about 3 hours south of Santiago by bus, to explore and do a wine tour. It was probably the classiest thing I've ever done. We tried 7 different types of wine and they were super delicious. If you didn't know, Chile is known for its wine. According to some Chileans, 'you can't buy bad wine from Chile, there is just good, better, and phenomenal' haha.

Just so classy!! 

Me being super classy AND multicultural (drinking wine in Chile with an Australian)

Rows and rows of grapes! This is my friend Ruth.

And last night we watched Pulp Fiction with Spanish subtitles.. which are NOT the same. 

Okay thats all for now.

Oh one more quick thing. Friday night for dinner my mom served an ensaladita (a salad.. that was actually just lettuce,) and pasta sin salsa (plain pasta, without any form of sauce or anything) and instead of being grossed out like I should have been I just put some salt on the pasta and the salad and chowed down (salt is like a combination of every other topping that we have in the US.. pasta sauce, salad dressing, steak sauce, everything.) I even drank the juice (juice here is like cheap tang.. YES CHEAPERTHAN TANG. It rarely actually contains the fruit in question, and water and sugar are always the first 2 ingredients. Thus I usually just drink water.) I didn't even realize it was happening until after I had eaten everything. So I guess I'm adjusting?!? Not sure if that's good or bad in this case.