Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

I woke up, went for a run, and came back to Olga waiting with an egg yolks and oil mixture for my hair. Last night I told her that my scalp was really dry and that I had dandruff (I had to look that word up: caspas). So when got back, she plopped me down and put the concoction in my hair. We ate almuerzo while I waited with my hair in a plastic bag. After about 45 minutes I took a shower to wash it out. My hair was super shiny and it seemed to work.
I spent all Tuesday afternoon studying for my first test tomorrow in my Educacion, Cultura y Sociedad class. I met up with 3 other gringos and one Chilean girl in our class to study. Luckily our friend Silvia (the Chilean) is really nice and fluent in English, so whenever we got stuck she could explain it to us. She gave us a basic break down of all the issues in Chile’s education system and helped clarify a lot of the more theoretical concepts that we didn’t understand.
The library at La Católica closed at 8:30 pm (crazy right!?) so we walked a few blocks to a posh little café with wireless and studied there. Around 10 I couldn’t think anymore and headed home. Olga was waiting for me, of course with food, and instead of eating quick and heading back to studying, I talked with her for over an hour. I eventually told her I couldn’t procrastinate any more (but there is no verb procrastinate in Spanish), and went back to study. I was pretty convinced I was going to fail this test, so I really wasn’t too stressed.