The next day, Fridays we don't have classes b/c we're abroad and need more time to explore the world around us? It's the best idea since cheddar cheese. Anyway, after a night of a little too much fun some friends and I spent a day in a pool getting tan :) It was so relaxing except that my friend's host sister is TINY, a lot of chilean women are twigs! Other than feeling inferior I soaked in some sol and had a good time relaxing.
The NEXT day we went to the beach, Niebla :) This beach is so gorgeous, we just relaxed in the sun all day(again). At one point I bought an empanada with shrimp! It was super yummy. Alicia, my roommate, and I saw a sign in English that attempted to translate empanadas. "Dough pocket filled with cheese" It's a fairly good description just a bit hilarious. Also, I saw a cute cat. You'd be surprised how uncommon cats are here. There are an abundance of stray dogs here, but no cats :( I think the funniest part of the day was seeing these two grown men on the micro(bus) have a tickle fight! I wondered if they were trying to impress some women. I haven't seen men play like that before especially in public, so I wondered why they would. Anyway, it was just an interesting part of the day.Sunday :) I have a friend in my American Corner Group (it's a group of chilean students that want to learn English, so the exchange students volunteer at this place) who is a Kayak instructor. He invited us out this weekend and took us to this little town about 2 hours away in kayak. It was a perfect day for it too, the only problem was that most of us are not experienced in kayaking. Sooooo it was very interesting at the end of the day, extremely sore and burnt.
The day started out lovely and everyone was very excited. We passed a bunch of things including a man fishing without pants on. He was a little embarrassed to see a bunch of gringos pass him. It's a part of the river that doesn't get much traffic, so obviously normally he'd be free to not have pants on! About half way there we stopped at this lookout point that I jumped on. It was coming out of the water so I could have easily jumped off. It's spring here, so it's not overly hot for swimming in a river. So, I opted out of jumping. I took some awesome pics of the water though!
When we finally got to the town, we wanted to eat right away. We ended up finding a place with empanadas filled with cheese or beef. They were really good and their dogs loved us by the end even though we didn't feed them. There was a cute little girl there too who was VERY talkative. She was also very hard to understand b/c of her squeaky voice. She told us all about her dogs and how all of their names were either Camilo or Camila depending on the gender. On our walk towards the beach we ran into a cute dog who just wanted to play. She followed us, even into the water. She wanted to come with us so bad :( I felt bad and just wanted to take her back to Valdivia, but that really wasn't possible.
By the end of the trip everyone was done for. Either you were burnt or your arms were noodles, or both. The trip was difficult, but so worth the good times. One of the best things to think about is that up north ya'll have cold weather, while we on the other hand are headed towards summer. I'm loving Valdivia right now. I hope this feeling continues. There's no reason it wouldn't, I mean we have Harry Potter coming up :D To all the peeps in America we get to see it an entire day earlier than you :P Sometimes being in another country pays off!Can't wait for another weekend full of sun(please Valdivia please don't PMS next weekend)!
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