Sunday July 22nd, 2007

Sunday, July 22, 2007

We woke up Sunday afternoon to Calli’s mom telling us lunch is ready at 2 pm. We watched the end of the Chile vs. Austria soccer match for 3^rd place in the Sub-20 World Cup. Chile won 1-0 to finish in the best place for Chile’s Sub-20 team. After lunch we drove to the most important port in Chile, Port San Antonio. We met up with all our new Chilean friends and walked all over. We saw “lobos del mar” which translates to “wolves of the sea” or sea lions and 1,000 pesos (about 2 US$) to take a boat ride through the port. We watched the sunset from the little boat with an incredible view of the port and town on the hill.

My Chilean friend Sebastian gave me un regalo (a present) when explaining it was “para mi insistencia” (for his insistence). It’s a small wooden box with glass stones adorning the top from the Port of San Antonio. I think it was a peace offering/apology/one last effort gift and I politely thanked him. (Don’t worry Trevor!!)

We didn’t drive back to Santiago until around 9 pm, after watching an incredible example of Chilean television (including high school students on buses traveling through southern Chile, but they play nickelodeon type games to earn other passengers. However some of the games included making one girl get a haircut like Victoria from the Spice Girls (really short), and two other students act out the kiss from Volver al Futuro (Back to the Future). ) When I got back, Olga loving greeted me as though I’d been gone for months.