Yo I got a Chilean ID though

Counting down the days until vacation in February! Wednesday was a productive fun day for me. After classes in the morning we went right to the government building to pick up our Chilean IDs. Mine was ready to go (check out the picture) but they lost Cynthia’s and Dana’s so they needed to do the process all over again. The ID is pretty cool. Part of it is raised and it has my fingerprint on the back and everthing. Bacan. After the ID place we went to a quaint little restaurant in town called Burger King. For about $5 USD I got two cheeseburgers, two small fries, two sodas, and a sundae…not bad.

I am still not very good at ordering food. Little things trip me up…they speak very quickly and it is hard for me to determine the difference between: “did you already get ketchup?” or “do you still need ketchup?” and most of the time I just answer with a complete sentence “I would like ketchup please”…which probably sounds weird to the locals but it’s how I compensate for my lack of understanding at the moment!

After the BK lounge we went back to Cynthia’s to work on our homework/group project. We had to work on a presentation about a story called “ojo silva” and for another class we had to present on the Mapuche tribe. Ojo silva is a story about a homosexual photographer that finds himself in an Indian brothel with 10 year old castrated boys…it was a very difficult story to read but it brought up some very interesting class discussions. In the 1960’s members of the Mapuche tribe were arrested for sacrificing a 5 year old boy. The judge ruled that “they were driven by uncontrollable forces of their heritage and culture” and they received two years in prison (the sacrifice was very brutal…I won’t give details but google it if you’re interested!).

I went home to eat some food. Our hot water was broken (I had to take ice showers), but when I got home a man was there fixing it. I heated myself up some dinner and changed. We went bowling! It was really really fun. It was $4 each for an hour of play and shoes…Christian knows the good deals of the city. I’ll try to get some pictures up once the girls post them on facebook. After bowling we went to a sushi restaurant…it was the cheapest sushi we could find but it was still very good. The ingredients are very fresh and they can catch almost anything off the coast. We had a nice dinner (if you call 1am dinner time) and Christian dropped us all off at our houses…he’s a good guy.