Terremotos are bad, regardless of whether there's wine involved.

For some reason this city just exhausts me everyday, it must be the heat or the millions of people or something! Or the fact that I haven't woken up this early for this many days in a row for a lonnnng time.

Anyhow, after class today we had another outing with our cultural monitors to La Moneda (the Presidential Palace). We took a tour of the building where the presidential administrative offices are, kind of like Chile's equivalent to the White House, only the president doesn't actually live in La Moneda she just lives in a house in a nice part of Santiago. The tour was really interesting and historical, we saw a lot of artwork of important historical figures such as Don Pedro de Valdivia and lots of past presidents. There was also a lot of history involved, for instance, when we went to the part of the palace with a piece of the original wall that was bombed and destroyed in 1973 when Pinochet overthrew and killed President Salvador Allende. It was really interesting!

After the tour, we went with our cultural monitors to get ice cream (not a surprise at all at this point) and the to this Chilean Bar to order some traditional Chilean drinks called Terremotos (see title of entry). Now terremoto literally means earthquake, but in this case is a cup of white wine with some sort of ice cream/sorbet in it. I've decided I'm not a fan. I took a few sips trying to convince myself it was a Chilean fave and I had to like it, and the gave up and ate the ice cream off the top. I don't think I'll be spending my money on terremotos while I'm here!