Hey everyone...sorry I haven't been doing too much lately I have worked my way deep into routine of family time, gym, basketball, and classes. I have not been doing anything too exciting but its nice to have some time like this to learn the language and make some friends at school. I decided since nothing too cool is going on I'll take the next couple days to fill you in on some of the differences, surprising similarities, and fun facts about the beautiful country of Chile.
First I will cover the really cool thing I went to last weekend. The airshow they had here in Chile. It is the biggest airshow in South America, and the war didn't stop the USA from showing off the biggest and fastest toys at the demo. Francisco hasn't missed this airshow since he was 2 years old...and it is an important tradition to him. That's why we got up early and left around 7:30am to beat the crowd. We also beat the airshow because no planes were open or flying for the first two hours, but Francisco was happy so we were all happy.
The airshow turned out to be really cool, and I was proud that my country represented with some multi-billion dollar bombers and a bilingual crew to explain to the Chileans. It was also nice to be able to talk to some American guys for the first time in over two months (even if it was only the Airforce!) But I did gain a lot more respect for the Airforce guys they had some really cool equipment. Some guys I talked to had a big transport plane that could hold hundreds of troops, helicopters, tanks, a few humvees, you name it. Their motto was "You call it, we haul it...any one, any time, any where." Pretty B.A
We got lunch at the show, and went back out to watch the plane demos. It was very busy and full of people but it was really cool to see the planes flying around overhead. Here is a link to a Youtube video of the Halcones. The Halcones are Chile's special trick group of the airforce. They were really good. This is a link to just a short video but if you search for more there are some videos of their better tricks they were really amazing.
A quick sidenote. I forgot my camera and these are all Judith's pictures. While I was creeping around on her memory card I found some others that I randomly threw in of some people that stayed with us. Another sidenote....Chileans LOVE to take pictures. I was actually irritated at people and their picture taking...not sure why. I searched through about 1200 of Judith's pictures of the airshow to find some good ones, and in one of the pictures there is actually a kid...taking a picture with his cellphone. And I can guarantee you that he was capturing the left tail section of the model truck, because he already had the front, back, upper right, and birds eye view of it. People would take pictures of everything and anything. I don't think Judith missed one of the 900 model planes they had on display in the hangers, but I guess a picture is worth a thousand words (86 million words and counting).
We stayed at the airshow for a veeeeery long time. We saw each plane about three times, and I got sunburn for being out so long, but Francisco had a good time and it was his kinda thing. At the end the Halcones did a cool thing where they spelled "FUERZA CHILE" (reference video below)...I was impressed.
We waited to leave in the congested parking lot for 2 hours...yes 2 hours, but I took a nap so it was all good. Other than the airshow nothing too crazy has been going on in Chile, but I am learning a lot. I will dedicate the next few posts to cool things I've come across that I hope everyone finds equally as interesting. Thanks again for your support I hope you are enjoying my entries I'll keep em coming.
Besitos
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