In the past few days I have

-learned to make empanadas
-watched "La virgen de los sicarios"--" Our Lady of the Assasins"
-started volunteering in an English classroom. Its an all-boys highschool in Cerro Barrón, a poorer neighborhood not far from where I live. Walking from the school entrance to the classroom amidst screams and whistles from the hundreds of boys around who formed a crowd around me wherever I went was one of the most awkward and terrifying experiences of my life. Still, I like the teacher I'm paired with and it seems like a potentially good experience.
-gotten a haircut (by my host mom)...it looks really nice!
-Made 4 friends
-Played "tacataca" aka table hockey for three hours
-Made plans to go hiking in the coastal mountain range tomorrow
-started reading "Hijo del hombre" (Son of Man) by Bastos for my literature class. Its reasonably good but not something I would chose to read on my own time.
-toured a fire department
-actually fallen over while riding the bus
-and I just read online that Bush's approval ratings, according to an AP poll, are below 40% for the first time (!!!!)

A haircut pictures. Ok so it doesn't look that different. But still, it feels really different, and I like it.