so annnnnyways, life has been going along and here's what's been happening. I had my first assignment due for one of my real chilean classes (one of my classes is a class for foreigners where i get to feel good about my spanish ability once a week). my first assignment was an eleven page paper about ....something...literally. we didn't have a prompt or anything. just a "okay go write for 11 pages and use these texts. roooiiiiiight. so it was basically me torturing myself in front of the computer for days and complaining to anyone within listening distance. or emailing/facebooking distance. sorry all, but it really did suck. i did indeed finish it though and have now moved on to torturing myself about what kind of grade i'll get. this is normal though and hopefully it all went well. guess we'll seeeee.
the Weekend of Evil Paper Writing was all easter weekend, and although we were not motivated enough to make an easter egg hunt, we did have a huge group dinner at the dorm. I made home made mashed potatoes (with a little help from Andrea who used her bare hands as the mashing tool) and there was a bunch of other delish food. por ejemplo, scalloped potatoes, sushi of the california roll variety, broccoli, stuffed mushrooms (i actually tried and liked the fungus. shocker), pan fried chicken, salad, patacones (fried plantain chips) with homemade salsa and guacamole, brownies, and this odd combo of thanksgiving cranberry thing and cheese (kind of good in a gross way). so it was basically awesomely delicious and super fun. i think we're going to do more group dinners, with the boys cooking next time. they weren't so much help this time around but they did do the dishes afterwards. thanks, boyzz.
Dish Washing.
fooooood.
mashing away.
The school week (well the 3 days i have class) is pretty uneventful and classes are admittedly kind of crappy. they're somehow very different from class at home. ie more boring. this probably has a lot to do with the fact that class is in spanish and that i can miss a word and then just space out for the next five minutes. but lectures also just seem a lot more pointless and the profs seem to go on about things that aren't important...or at least i hope they're not. another difference is that when a chilean student participates in class, he/she really participates. at home, you'll generally say a sentence or two and anymore than that and the rest of the class gets antsy waiting for you to shut up. not so much here. chilean students share their opinions for what feels like centuries. i'm not saying it's a bad thing, but it's definitely different. haha.
but yes other exciting things...kelsey, laura, and i were reunited after their week long trip to buenos/iguazu (i decided i'd rather go later in the semester and i had that paper to write). so to celebrate, we ate ice cream of course! it was a beautiful day though and we walked through the bellas artes neighborhood to get to this really cute ice cream shop so we could try their specialty: rose flavored ice cream! which sounds very very wrong but it's actually really good. so that was a cute afternoon. i also successfully made eggplant parmesan last week and i feel very proud of myself about it. yum.
and then the last thing to talk about is this weekend! friday was kevin's birthday and it was a really good time. jess and alyssa were nice enough to host it, and although we couldn't have music playing because they live in a residencia like me, it was still really fun. i played some drinking games with chileans (yes actual interactions with chileans. score). these chileans also liked to sing in english such things as "to the bottom, to the bottom. oh yeahh oh yeahh" and "I like to drink a lot, i like to drink a lot". maybe not so creative, but really hilarious. here are some pics i stole from andrea-
please note kathy stealthily stealing chips in the back of one of those pictures. ahahhaha. too funny. the next day, andrea, john, maritza, and i tried to go to a bar to watch the big barcelona/madrid game but unfortunately every single table and chair was taken at the bar so to console ourselves we went to dunkin donuts and the weirdest thing happened: their donuts had no holes in the center! i felt kind of scandalized by this. what is a donut without the hole? i felt better about the situation after i ate my manjar filled donut and realized the world was okay again.
that night, we really wanted to go out and do something but all planning seemed to fail. until laura said that her host bro was having people over and that she could therefore have people over too. fantastic. kathy and i headed on over as did marc, kelsey, and amanda and it was a really good time. we also got home ridiculously late (6 am) so i was a completely useless person the next day but that happens sometimes.
cuteness.
and kathy giving the best face ever. hahaha.
so that's it for now. tomorrow i think kathy, lynzee, pablo (my tandem), his friend, and i are going to a cafe con piernas. should be interesting. chaoooo for now. oh and besos, too.
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