Okay sorry I've been kinda busy the last few days with all my new endeavors. I have been busy with class, going to the gym, basketball, and family activities. On Tuesday I woke up for my first philosophy class. It was very hard to understand the professor. My main problem was focusing. I would find my mind wandering every few minutes off onto tangents. It will be a tough course but I know I will improve as time goes on. Here are the pics I promised of the CARNAGE! I got a little artsy with the PELIGRO (Danger) picture but its hard to see what I'm getting at. On Tuesday we had some more guests over in the house. Judith's brother and his son Christian (I remembered a name). I hung out with them and chatted for a while before I went to the gym. I hung out with the family more and talked a lot that night I've been practicing my Spanish a lot more.
Wednesday was another pretty busy day for me I woke up to go to the gym before lunch at 12:30 then class at 1:30. I had class with Marcelo. I had Marcelo for an Intensive Spanish course in January. He's a really cool guy and he pushes us so we learn a lot. We are going to talk about really interesting things that have to do with Latin America. We talked about precolombino (before Spanish influence) art and culture. It was really cool I look forward to his class Friday.
We had more guests over Wednesday night so I watched the news and talked to them for a while, then went out with some friends to celebrate el dia de San Patricio! We went to the gringo headquarters of Santiago "California". Its a bar in a nice neighborhood and its FULL of Americans. I feel like every American in Chile is there all the time. The party was hoppin real good. It was hard to breathe let alone move. We made our base camp on the second floor where there was enough room to establish personal space. I hung out for a while and took it easy with two drinks anticipating a very action packed Thursday.
On the walk to the bus stop, a Chilean girl (pretty cute) stopped and asked me if I was Chilean. I told her I was a gringo and she said I should come out with them. She was a little barracha (drunk) and she grabbed my arm and started pulling me along with her friends. I am always down for adventures so I went along with it. I asked where we were going but she said it didn't matter! ...Alrighty then! We actually walked back to California, but went into a shady club next door. The "solo mayores de 21 años" sign made me a little nervous (I'm only 20) but they let me slide so I went in. We went deep into the depths of the bar until we found an inconspicuous padded door. When we yanked it open the sound poured out and revealed a dance floor. No one was on it but that soon changed. Our group of about 7 led the way to a dance circle. My friends were aided with plenty of liquid confidence to take the center of the dance floor and I went along with it.
The bar vultures lurked into the dance room to watch as we made our party circle. Before I knew it, it was my turn to take the circle "baila, kevin, baila!"
Now as you all know, "gangsters don't dance...they lean wit it, rock wit it" so I showed them how we do in the states.
I spent about a half hour there but I knew I had a full day so I tried to leave, but they didn't want to let the gringo go! Finally I gave them my phone number and escaped to get some sleep!
Thursday I had a full day. Class 10-11:30, gym until 1:30, lunch until 2:30, Class 3-6, Leave for basketball at 7 get home at 11...full day!
Class was fine, basketball was good, but I am very tired and about to get some well deserved sleep! Gracias por el apoyo a todos!
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