Questions

Sometimes, I swear that Valparaíso is just like San Francisco. And other times, I feel like I'm in a completely different world. I'm struck by how little Chileans know about Americans, and vice versa. Take, for example, the questions I got asked yesterday:

At home:
-"What's an essay?"-Marjorie
-"Didn't you know that avocado peel tea is good for colds? I thought everyone knew that!"-Erika

At Liceo Barrón:
-"Are you related to Arnold Schwarzenegger?"-Kid
-"I have lots of American music that I listen to. Like the Braveheart soundtrack, that's really popular in the US, right?"-teacher at Liceo Barrón
-"Do people in the US really act like they do in Desperate Housewives?"
-"Do you know Eminen?"

All I can say is that thank god we have things like study abroad, otherwise Chileans would go on thinking that Americans actually act and live like the idiots on tv, and Americans would go on thinking that Chile is a tropical country filled with Chiquita-banana women!