Busy Bee.

I've just been so busy I haven't been able to blog much! Aahhh and these last few and next few days have been/will be especially packed.

One thing I forgot to mention about skiing was that there was one point that I took the lift to the top of the mountain and I wasn't able to ski down. Therefore I took off my skis and slid down on my butt. For probably about 200 feet or more and again but in shorter incrimants. I really wish someone would've gotten a picture, it was sooo funny! After a while some really petit woman came sliding down next to me and said in English "Thanks for the idea! I can't ski this one either!" haha

Well Saturday after skiing my whole body just ACHED like hell. Buuut Cheryl, Hayley, Alison and I needed to get to the travel agency very early to square away our Argentina trip. We made it to Turismo Gestur in the morning. Paulina was the agent who helped us plan the trip and she was very nice. We found out she had hosted students from California before so she was able to speak really clearly for us.

What ended up happening was she couldn't book our hotel for the next day therefore our trip got bumped back to the 24th of September. But that wasn't bad news at all: for 100 dollars less we get to stay an extra night and also stop in Uraguay for about 7 or 8 hours. The whole package deal we got for 360 dollars included: plane tickets, four nights at a hotel, transportation from airport to hotel, breakfast every day, ticket vouchers to some discotheques, and a city tour. We are all SO STOKED!

On Sunday and Monday me and Lindsay hung out a lot and did .... next to no homework, haha. My dad liked talking to her a lot so that didn't help much, but it was nice he wanted to talk with us. Lindsay and I watched this movie called The Linguists which you can watch for free at http://thelinguists.com. Its SO SWEET, and I recomend it to everybody.

Monday night though there was a welcome dinner for international students at la U de C and I met some really nice people from Germany, Mexico, and France. They served us vino tinto and empanadas, my favorite :)
Unfortunately I didn't get any last names nor numbers so I'm not sure when I'll see them again, but I have a feeling some other gringos did and we'll see them on the bar strip soon.
After that welcome dinner we went to a bar called "The Beer Place." Yes, it has an English name. Its really close to campus. There we just socialized some more, obviously ordered beers, and just had a good night.

I went to bed at like 3 or 3:30 because I was talking to people online, and I had to get up at 6 to make it to campus by 8 to go to Lota. Lota was AWESOME. We only had to pay about 500 pesos to get there, pretty cheap. First we had a presentation at this school and helped some students practice their English. Then we saw a semi-boring museum. After that we got to walk through this INCREDIBLY beautiful park in Lota right on the beach. I'll have to wait for others to post pictures and steal them because after the museum my camera died, unfortunately! We ran around there like a bunch of kids. Loved it. I know for sure I'm going back someday before I leave.

After eating lunch (of which I ate a salad and split a bottle of vino tinto with other gringos) we went down to some legitimate mines. It was so cute we got to wear the lights on our head and ride a swinging cage all the way down into the mines. The tour guide was kind of boring so Jess and I amused ourselves by somewhat splitting off from the group and exploring places we weren't supposed to.

I was so pooped after that I fell asleep on the bus ride home! Which is something I usually can't do. I'm still tired now, but I need to finish up some homework due tomorrow for Ostrias class. After his class I'm going to the travel agent again to really set in stone this trip since there was problems with my credit card last time.

After THAT tomorrow theres a big party on campus where everybody gets wasted and dances the cueca! Apparently its huge tradition and all the students go. I'm pretty stoked! My brother might come too. Hasta luego.