Okay, so last weekend started out with a 5 de Mayo celebration. . .on 7 de Mayo because that's when we all had time! We did it potluck style at Lindsey's apartment and actually ended up eating probably the best Mexican food I've had in the past 4 months! I made loaaads of guacomole again and brought a chicken from the store, which when combined with refried beans that Gina's mom brought form the US, homemade Mexican rice, tortillas, salsa, and tomatoes resulted in a pretty incredible burrito! Topped off with Lindsey's homemade Sangria (delicious), some spanish language radio station (highlight: Lindsey saying "There's gotta be a spanish radio station. . .oh wait they all are we're in Chile), and dessert of homemade arroz con leche! Super rico!! And a very fun night spent with friends :)
Saturday, I finally went to Fantasilandia with my friend Christine and three of her High School students from her internship. Fantasilandia is an amusement park in a park in Santiago. For some reason, I was under the impression that it was a little kid place and I was going to be goofing off and acting like I was 5 all day: WRONG! These rides were big and scary! Like Knotts Berry Farm or even almost Six Flags status! And these girls who were our tour guides were all about the adrenaline rides! After the initial shock, it was really fun! Rides were definitely more janky than anything in the US and there are definitely a few I would not choose to ever go on again, but it was really fun spending the day at an amusement park with Christine and three crazy high school girls (who I'm pretty sure are chain smokers. . .). The funniest part of the day was when we rode "Piratas del Caribe" which was definitely a shorter, crappier, attempted duplicate of Disneyland. Complete with scenes that were excactly out of the Disney ride. I wonder if Disney knows hahahah!
That evening after skyping with Jess for a bit, I went to a friends 21st birthday party at her apartment themed after a hialrious book entitled "Stuff White People Like". You were supposed to dress up as something of the list, so I went as Outdoor Performance Gear. It was a really fun night and it was great to see a lot of people from my program who I hadn't for a while!
Sunday was spent being very lazy and catching up with friends back home on Skype and seeing a movie (Date Night=Hilarious!) in the evening.
Monday, I went for a run (on what turned out to be a smog alert day that i have no way of knowing about due to the lack of television) and then played catch up on some things I hadn't done the rest of the weekend before returning to classes and projects yesterday and today!
This weekend, I am going south to build mediaaguas (temporary housing) for Earthquake victims. The Chilean government has a goal of constructing 20,000 of these this weekend to get things up before the rain comes (although it's predicted to rain this weekend) so nearly everyone I know is headed south this weekend. I'll be sure to update when I get back!
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