I was forced to start my day when Lindsay came over for almuerzo around 12:30 maybe. (Lindsay is una gringa who was a friend of my host family's past gringa. She lives on an island in Washington state and she's been here before as well as Nicaragua to study. Tiene 23 años). We had empanaditas de queso (fue MUY bueno) and some more pastel de papas with veggies. I ran to the panaderia with Sarita to get some fresh bread. I guess they do that practically every day!
Well when Sarita and I came back, her, Lindsay, and I went to a park about 15 minutes away with a bunch of different Chilean trees in it. It was so cute and interesting! They had kids activities and games there about recycling. (too bad Chile doesn't recycle much, but at least they're not as wasteful as Americans.)
Ugh, I hate to say it, but just look at my Facebook pictures to see what beauty I managed to capture.
Lindsay speaks very good Spanish, prolly cuz she has lived in SA for over 2 years total of her life, but its intimidating when we're with her and my family so I don't talk much. I also figured out I can't talk much in the morning, haha, and my Spanish is best at night.
After the park we went home to wait for Saritas brother, my host uncle I guess, and he took Sarita, Lindsay, and I to a beach. It was the place where the Bio Bio river meets the ocean and it was breathtakingly beautiful! Even though it was rainy and windy, such a beautiful sight to see. I cant wait to go when its not raining, or even warm out!
There was a chiquitito restaurant close to the beach we went to and we went there for some seafood empanadas. Best empanadas I've had so far! There were crab and cheese in some, and a rare chilean fish and cheese in the other. With that we had this drink that was like, wine and fruit and sugar. I forgot the fruit's name but its definitely uncommon and not in the United States!
After that I came home and skyped with my family sans Robert for about two hours! I filled them in on the past 11 days or so.
Something I forgot to blog about last night, is the hilarious way Chileans would try to hit on us gringas. All of you who took Spanish for a few years and then then tried to forget it all, there's always one phrase you remember, right? And thats "Hola, como estas?" Well the Chileans that took English in high school will come up to us and say "Hello, how you?" and then when we respond, they have no idea what to say! Its soo funny. They'll yell that on the street too!
My familia chilena keeps calling me "gringa delgada" (skinny girl) and I'm afraid they're secretly trying to make me more fat by feeding me all this bread.
OH Hilarious side-note!
Earlier I blogged about the Chileans cracking up when they'd ask Sonni "Te gusta pisco?" and she'd say "CHUPALO!" Well I found out why that was so funny. They were ACTUALLY saying, "Te gusta pico?" And pico is a slang word for penis! So Sonni would respond, suck it! hahahaha oh Chile. I love Chile.
I don't know if I documented that I had my first pisco drink last night. It wasnt anything special, it was just pisco and coke which they called piscola. It was deeelicious. Pisco is kinda like a wine, but its hard liquor. VERY strong. Gringas have to be careful. I want to try a pisco sour, I hear its practically the national drink of Chile.
I just had a great chat with my dad about giving Gays/Transgenders rights. We both agree all people deserve the same rights, no matter what you are or who you love.
I swear I love my family more and more each day.
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