SO. Today, I was lazy and talked to ppl for a long time after my first day of classes (see previous blog, it was hell, but a cold hell), and I waited to go to the studio with Vlado. I don't know if I blogged about this, but on Mondays my host brother is on TV to talk about movies on a young person's channel! He told me today he got to do this because he knows the owner of the channel or something like that.
Anyway, I watched this program being filmed! And people were watching it live! After they talked with some young chilenos (who where quite guapo I might add, wish i got better pictures) then Vlado got some screen time! It was sweet, I saw them talk about older movies like the Pineapple Express y also some newer movies coming out in spanish that were recently dubbed in Spain.
One of the young chilenos guapos was hitting on me, his name was Roberto, and it was soooo awkward becuase he kissed me! (like on the cheek). You're probably thinking "but thats standard in Chile!" Well, its more like you put your cheeks together and kiss the air. Well this guy gave me a big fat wet one right on my right cheek and everyone saw and started laughing reeeeally hard so i was really embarrassed! Later I was told that means he likes me haha, and Vlado also told me he was only in his second year of high school, meaning he was like, 16 hahahahahahaha.
I'm still laughing about that one. Its like they see a blonde girl and immediately need to get to know her because they're so rare here.
Anyway, it was really cool to see them recording live television. Especially chilean television. Oh I should mention that I didn't understand hardly ANYTHING! They talked sooooo fast and used sooo much slang, I seriously had NO idea what they were even talking about! I could pick up random words but thats about it.
After that, me and Vlado went downtown for some food and I had my first empanada! Like, the staple in chilean meals. I'm surprised it was almost a week till I had my first one haha. It was SOOO GOOD! I just had cheese and mushrooms in mine but you can get practically anything inside them. I think Vlado had ham and cheese. Mmmm.
We took a micro to the studio, and we took a colectivo home. I think I'm starting to understand public transportation here :) muy importante.
Some of the other students from St Cloud went out with some chilenos tonight to a bar and probably to party, but I'm glad I did this instead, I can go out with them like, any other night of these 4 months.
Vlado told me he knows these English sayings "She thinks her shit doesn't smell" and "Thats what she said." Yeah, I laughed for a really long time.
Did I mention that ALL of the water they serve is carbonated? If i want just plain water I have to order "agua sin gas." Yeah, by the way, carbonated water is GROSS. At least what they sell here, ew, yuck, gross. I think I was sick/dizzy the past few days becuase I was a little dehydrated (thank you for helping me figure that out, Joe). Going to buy bottled water from now on (sin gas of course). Its only like 400 pesos for a bottle of water, which is like less than one American dollar! Woot woot.
Lots of things are cheap here. = AMAZING.
I have class with my professor who came down here from St. Cloud tomorrow, so thank GOD I'll be able to understand her. Phew!
One more thing: My spanish is improving exponentially every day, but somehow, I STILL suck!
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