Lluvia
Its been raining so, so hard here. Its beautiful, in a damp, chilly way. I've gone out walking in the rain and gotten soaked and muddy so many times that I've gone through about 4 times as many clothes as I should have this weekend. Yesterday I walked an hour in the pouring rain to get my favorite kind of chocolate. Probably not many people would do that. But the walk was lovely and the chocolate was incredible (I say WAS incredible because unfortunately its gone already).
Santiago is completely flooded and Marjorie is so glad that she's here (her foot's broken so she's off work for three weeks) instead of there in the chaos and muddy water. They've been showing it on tv, and it looks awful. Lots of the poorer families lost their houses and things. The minister of education has said that there's school as usual tomorrow, but I can't imagine kids going anywhere with lots of areas three feet deep in water and many of the schools being used to house families who were evacuated from the flooded areas.
I had a fun time last night. I went first to a vegetarian/vegan supper/party thing with Kristin, Carla, and Mariah. The people there seemed really cool and I liked the atmosphere. We just talked the four of us, had some amusing conversations, and had a soycheese pizza ("Soycheese....it even melts!"). Dylan would have loved it ; ) Afterwards we walked to Plaza Aníbal Pinto to go to the mosaic bar, "Ritual." We had kiwi and pisco drinks, which were suprisingly delicious for being as strong as they were, and then walked home. Kristin, Carla, and Mariah had a lot to do today, so they left to take transportation back to Viña and go to bed. I wasn't really sure what to do but then Christian invited me to hang out with him and his friends. We drank beer in Christian's room and talked until 4 in the morning. We talked about politics, Bush, socialism, gay marriage, machismo, environmentalism, friends, drinking stories, and hookup stories. You can kind of see a progression from intelligent topics to more drunken topics as the night went on. I had a great time. I don't think I'd laughed so hard since I got here.
Today Erika and Tío are visiting the abuela. So Marjorie, me, and a hungover Christian are just hanging out in the house, snacking and watching the rain in comfortable silence. How did I get such a cool host family.
I'm really looking forward to my reall family getting back from Santa Barbara tonight so I can actually talk to them. Its been a while!
Santiago is completely flooded and Marjorie is so glad that she's here (her foot's broken so she's off work for three weeks) instead of there in the chaos and muddy water. They've been showing it on tv, and it looks awful. Lots of the poorer families lost their houses and things. The minister of education has said that there's school as usual tomorrow, but I can't imagine kids going anywhere with lots of areas three feet deep in water and many of the schools being used to house families who were evacuated from the flooded areas.
I had a fun time last night. I went first to a vegetarian/vegan supper/party thing with Kristin, Carla, and Mariah. The people there seemed really cool and I liked the atmosphere. We just talked the four of us, had some amusing conversations, and had a soycheese pizza ("Soycheese....it even melts!"). Dylan would have loved it ; ) Afterwards we walked to Plaza Aníbal Pinto to go to the mosaic bar, "Ritual." We had kiwi and pisco drinks, which were suprisingly delicious for being as strong as they were, and then walked home. Kristin, Carla, and Mariah had a lot to do today, so they left to take transportation back to Viña and go to bed. I wasn't really sure what to do but then Christian invited me to hang out with him and his friends. We drank beer in Christian's room and talked until 4 in the morning. We talked about politics, Bush, socialism, gay marriage, machismo, environmentalism, friends, drinking stories, and hookup stories. You can kind of see a progression from intelligent topics to more drunken topics as the night went on. I had a great time. I don't think I'd laughed so hard since I got here.
Today Erika and Tío are visiting the abuela. So Marjorie, me, and a hungover Christian are just hanging out in the house, snacking and watching the rain in comfortable silence. How did I get such a cool host family.
I'm really looking forward to my reall family getting back from Santa Barbara tonight so I can actually talk to them. Its been a while!
posted by Julia | 12:45 PM
3 Comments:
Julia,
Have you thought about going for treatment for this chocolate addiction? And do you think it is genetic, or acquired from the Spy Girl?
The flooding in Santiago sounds a bit scarey...hope you won't be making any trips there soon.
We've been enjoying water of a totally different nature. Took a drive up to Rye Patch yesterday and the reservoir is higher than we've seen it in probably 12 years. Our path to the rattlesnake swim location is under water. I swam for just long enough to get wet. Peanut was having a fit that she couldn't join me and somehow it didn't seem very relaxing with a yapping dog on shore. She has stitches that she can't get wet...is healing up from a skin wound that she got in the yard last week. I walked the fence to try and find what might have torn her skin and I found a broken nail head with hair AND tissue on it. The nail was greasy even. Yuck. Thanks for the email. I'll try to get a letter off to you at least by the end of the week.
Hi Julia,
I wish I had chocolate right now, that sounds good! Except you're crazy LOL! Hope you're having a good time. Love, Tia Lea
Hi Julia,
How good was that chocolate to walk an hour for it? Miss you! Love, Charlie Brown the Toothless Wonder (just lost a tooth today, in the middle of band practice.)
P.S. Eat lots of chocolate & make up for what we would have eaten!
Lol thanks for the comment girls! I will try : D
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