Thursday, October 18, 2007 EVERYTHING

Thursday, October 18, 2007 EVERYTHING

I woke up super early to get to the high school for my volunteer job. I helped the kids pronounce the irregular verbs in the past tense, which was fun for me to hear them try to pronounce stuff. But I don’t think they really learned anything. After a while Ms. Mabel gave up and handed out a worksheet (that they didn’t do) but I didn’t mind because I could study. For the second class we reviewed the verbs then had them play charades to act them out. They had fun with it and behaved themselves relatively well.

I left after the second class to get to campus on time for the test. On my way to the classroom I ran into Christian and Manuel so instead of last minute studying I chatted with them. I went to take the test and it ended up going a lot better than I’d thought. The question was really opened ended, like any good essay test so I could basically regurgitate everything I’d memorized. I made an outline then speed wrote for over one hour. By the time I finished my brain hurt, so I just turned it in without rereading or reviewing it. I hope the professor understands!

I’d made plans to meet up with Calli and CJ to go to the Concho y Toro winery, the biggest winery in all of Chile (which is saying something). I’d thought I’d have enough time to go home and eat there before heading out but since the test took longer than I’d thought I ended up staying on campus and eating there. I ate with Christian and some of this classmates and after I few minutes I gave up trying to understand them.

At 2ish I met CJ and Calli in the metro and we took it to the end of the line then got on a bus to make it to the winery. We had a tour in English at 3 which lasted about one hour and included 3 glasses of wine. Plus we got to keep the fancy wine glass. Besides the wine and the glass, I wasn’t too impressed with the tour. We didn’t really see anything and I didn’t really learn anything. I guess compared to the other tour we did it was really touristy and superficial (actually a lot like the tour of the Pisco factory in La Serena).

I got home from the tour around 6ish and relaxed for a while. At 10 a big group of us met up at the movie theaters to see Superbad (or Supercool), the new movie with the kid from Arrested Development. Despite being horribly inappropriate, it was hilarious (plus it was in English). I hadn’t laughed out loud like that in a movie in quite a while. After the movie we all took the bus to Plaza Nuñoa and got drinks. I shared a Malta con huevo (a malt beer with a raw egg and lots of sugar) with Hanna. It’s a popular drink in Chile and we’d seen the movie called Malta con Huevo, so when we saw they had it we really wanted to try it. It was actually not that bad, almost like a beer milkshake. But it was really rich and strong and we couldn’t even finish it between the two of us! The bar closed and kicked us out of our relaxing patio seats at one and we all took buses home.

p.s. The litre is pretty much completely gone. I’ve got a few patches of dry skin and one little spot on the side of my lip but it just looks like I broke out. With some makeup you can’t tell at all!