Before I get going with today, let me tell about my embarrassing moment last night. First I need to set up the scene: our apartment building is right beside another one and we're on the second to highest floor so we can see lots of people below us in the next building over. So, here I am just working on my computer and I hear this really loud music coming from outside. We are really close to the beach and there have been several concerts there so I figured it was a concert. Wrong. Anyway, I was like oh cool! This will be something good to get on video. So I grab my camera and crack my window some, barely pulling back my curtains because I don't want any neighbors to think I'm crazy. A guy is out on his balcony so I wait for him to go inside then I start videoing in the general direction of the beach. As I standing there, I see the guy looking at me from inside the window and I'm like um okay great what's going on...he comes outside and starts laughing at me and turns his stereo up. yep that's right...definitely not a concert. Needless to say I was laughing so so hard and I ran back inside. I looked out again and noticed some homemake wii dance going on. In the same apartment people had a large screen tv up on youtube and they were dancing in front of it. It was really funny so I videoed that for a sec because my friends across the way had already made fun of me so I had nothing to be ashamed of. It was def the highlight of my day yesterday :)
Today, we had class for 3 hours then we ate lunch at UVM. I had a pretty good turkey sandwhich and pear today. After lunch Chris, Laura Kate, and I went to the artisan fair so Chris could get some shoes and everyone else went to the park. We left there and met everyone else at the park after Chris got his $8 toms knockoffs. At the park I found a four leaf clover so that was cool. Then we walked back to UVM to meet Marisol for our field trip. A little after 3 pm we went to the metro and rode for about 30 minutes. We got off in a tiny ghost town and walked for about 15 minutes. Hidden behind some trees was our destination...one Mapuchi hut. We were like um...okay then. We were under the impression that we were going to a large Mapuchi village complete with several totem poles, huts, and well...Mapuches walking around living their lives. Instead we walked into the hut and one very kind lady who was half Mapuchi taught about Mapuchi culture for an extremely long time from a powerpoint. While I have a great respect for these indigenous people of Chile, I was very glad that the Moody's aren't Mapuche. After the presentation we ate some Mapuche food. I liked two things--one was the type of bread that I put honey on and the other was this chocolate manjar ball wrapped in oats. The other food was just a little too spicy and oaty for me. After a longgg time we left the hut and rode the metro back to Vina. When we got back everyone just went home and since I've gotten back I've just done my homework, eaten dinner, and skyped with the fam + Mimi. I was disappointed that I couldn't go to church with Mama tonight...I just had so much homework and we have a test Friday so I'm studying for that too. Hope everything's going well in America & with the SC primary tomorrow, I hope everyone's making wise decisions about who to vote for!!!
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