Field Trip :)

This morning at 10 am we went on a field trip to Pablo Neruda's house in la Isla Negra.  It's a city about an hour from Vina.  We're learning about Neruda in class right now...he was a great poet of Chile who had received the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1971.  He was the second person to do so in Chile/third in Latin America.  He had 3 houses, 1 in Isla Negra, 1 in Vina, and 1 in Santiago.  Neruda was a little quirky...he loved the sea and he collected tons of random things which he displayed all over his houses...things like statues, boats in bottles, butterflies, vases or certain glass, shells, etc.  He had tables made out of doors and he positioned everything in the house in a certain way.  For example, in his dining room, he had two statues facing each other because he wanted them to fall in love but it never happened because the woman always wanted to look out to the sea (like seriously? the man was strange...).  I really enjoyed touring his house though.  It was extremely interesting.

After the tour we all ate lunch at a local restaurant that served mostly fish.  I had salmon and rice and it was really good.  Next, we went to the beach for an hour.  It was SO gorgeous This beach had huge rocks/boulders on it and the waves were very big.  We basically took tons of pictures the whole hour so that was fun.  At one point I got SG to take a jumping picture on top of this rock which was basically a cliff and then she was taking one of me and I'm scared of heights so I was screaming (what's new) and everyone was laughing so hard.  SG actually fell down on the rock she was laughing so hard and Chileans were staring in our direction.  I kept trying over and over and at one point I was giving myself a pep talk...just reminding myself that I'm a dancer/I have balance/I can do it...then I attempted to jump but still screamed and she got it all on video.  Too funny :)

We got back to Vina and I just came home and did homework until my family got here.  I ate my almuerzo (lunch but it was at dinnertime) while Mama sat and talked to me.  Now I'm finishing homework and Mama y Papa are at a party...after being out so late last night I was too tired to go to this party.  Tomorrow we're going to get helado on the beach, having a large fam almuerzo, and going to the beach!