Saturday, August 11, 2007: HP, seafood and Salsa

Saturday, August 11, 2007

I woke up and read Harry until 12:15, then headed home from Calli’s to read more. Olga tore me from the book to have almuerzo around 1:30. After eating a was going to read more, but I decided to try to call Trevor. We hadn’t talked in almost a month and I didn’t think he would answer! Amazingly, we got a hold of each other and talked for over 2 hours. It was great to catch up and hear more about his last few weeks in Ecuador and Wyld Life camp. When Trev had to leave to go to mass, I decided I needed to stop being such a waste of life. I went running and showered and got ready for mass.
I went to mass with a friend of mine, Tom, at San Francisco, an ancient, beautiful church downtown. The building is incredible and I loved the mass. Along the sides of the church are statues and altars to different saints, Mary, etc. At St. Franis’s altar, little kids wrote prayers of thanksgiving and petitions for their pets. There were even pictures of lost pets and prayers that they will return. It was very touching.
After mass, Tom came over and ate dinner with Olga and I. He had told me a few weeks ago that he loves fish but his Chilean mom never cooks it. So when Olga cooked fish today for lunch and I knew we were going to mass together, Olga told me to invite him over. He was thrilled and great company. Olga loved him.
Saturday night a group of us went to the trendy neighborhood Bella Vista. We bar hopped a bit and I tried Schop con sangre, which is Draft beer with a shot of grenadine. It was actually quite good. We finished out the night at Maestra Vida a really popular with the locals Salsa club. We had a great time watching the Chileans dance. Its quite incredible the way they move their hips! At one point the three gringas went and stood around the dance floor and the men came and asked us to dance. It was much harder than it looked and I after a few songs and lots of awkward attempts to move like the Chileans, I resigned myself to watching in awe.