Hate Luz, but the day turned out alright.

Well.
This morning I got a ride to campus- WOO! Even though I don't mind taking the micro at all, a free ride is better than a paid one. I'm so damn cheap. My host brother is always calling me a jew. No joke.

Well Luz's class ALWAYS drives me crazy, she is the worst professor I have ever had. She should really be teaching middle school, not at the college level. This is the third semester in a row I've had her, and I think I've hated her more and more each semester. Honestly, sometimes she makes us sit around in a circle and talk about our host families and our feelings about Chile. Last time I checked, I paid hundreds of dollars for the credits for this class and I want to learn something dammit, not have group therapy sessions. PLUS: She's so incredibly disorganized, has NO schedule for this semester abroad whatsoever, and never knows how to help us and never bothers to find out. Worst professor, director ever.
I didn't even want to wait for her after class to find out how to finish processing my Visa since I wont be in Conce this weekend when the rest of the gringos are going (I'm going to my family's cabin in the ANDES MOUNTAINS NEAR ARGENTINA).

After chit chatting after class with otros gringos, Hayley and I took the micro home to have almuerzo and after that her, me, and my family went on a little tour of the surrounding boroughs/cities of Conce. Took a buncha pictures! (see fb in a few dias).

My dad and mom were driving us around for a while when all of a sudden Vlado, Hayley and I are getting out of the car and preparing to take this train across the Bio Bio river! It was super cool though, got some sweet shots, learned how to take panoramic pics on my camera too. We switched trains in the actual city of Conce and then accross the Bio Bio we got off in San Pedro de La Paz. It was a cute little city accross the river, we walked through a mall, then walked around, and it started getting super cold so we went to Telepizza and I had my first pizza in, like, months! It was soooo good! My brother, Hayley, and I had really good conversations about politics, history, Americans, Chileans, food, and langauge. My brother didn't believe me that frozen pizzas are super popular in the United States, haha.

After that we took a micro back to el centro in Conce and walked around. I think we went to the top of 4 different floors just for the sake of going somewhere, haha. It was fun though! My brother and I were teaching each other swear words. He taught me "andale la chucha," "No me wayi," and "chupalo" which I already knew. Bwah haha. Don't take those and write them on my wall though (KRISTOPHER!) because I'm friends with people who will know what they mean and its not nice!

Tomorrow, apparently, I don't have class at 10 anymore, since Luz thinks she can just switch up our schedule however she wants it. Sooo I dont have class till 3 technically, but Hayley and I are heading downtown to start her Visa processing and just to shop. I need a Coro Coro Chile jersey de futbol! And a giant flag for my wall. And stuff for people (maybe I should put that off till November or December...).

DAMN the Chilean accent is weird.
Something I keep forgetting to mention in my blog is how they ask questions. Sometimes, the -as ending of a quesion in the tu form turns into -ai. Which is like, where "cachai?" comes from. Its supposed to be really "cachas?." I figured this out lately because a lot of chilenos ask me "como estai?" and they're asking me "como estas?" but it took me so long to figure this out.
THERE ARE SO MANY CHILENISMOS (words unique to Chile).
Like, some spaniards say "peus" at the end of sentances, it just means like, mhmm or yeah. Well Chileans use "pu" or "po" for pues. For inmediatamente they say "al tiro." And they say "yah" just like we do, hahahaha.
My brother always jokes that if I wanted to learn Spanish, I shouldn't have come to Chile, becuase lots of other South American countries don't consider Chileans speaking spanish, they literally call thier language chilian.
I'm still glad I came here though, its so unique. I like that it has its own language. I mean, I can still communicate, and thats what matters. I was thinking today that I have a minimum of 10 more years of my life I can travel and learn and all that. Ten more years! Zach told me about this amaaaazing program for teaching English in foreign countries for free room and board and I for SURE want to do that. I have so much life left! Its like I'm impatient to live it sometimes. No, thats not the rights words.... whatever, I just love traveling and I'm glad I'm only 19 and I have so much life left to live.

Gonna be lame and sleep early tonight. Chao!