Sunday, November 30, 2003
Over my head with travel planning so sadly my paper isn`t done. we got tickets to torres del paine for january, and though I shopped around to tour agencies I think I should have stuck with my idea of doing it myself...I`m practically going to all the trouble anyway! off I go to the bus station tomorrow to see if I can hope a bus to la serena and see penguins and stars and cacti and pictoglyphs. but I am running on no sleep right now.
todays highlights include hearing strange noises next to me on the metro, and turning as I got out to see a couple making out to intently they actually were making smacking noises. in the packed car. ew.
walking into "Casa e Ideas" and it was like walking into a cross between crate and barrell, bed bath and beyond and pier one. christmas decorations everywhere. the little drummer boy and a jazzified version of silver bells (ring a ling, baby). later on I went to Parque Arauco, which had upped the christmas tinsel (but only slightly) from my last trip. the amount of decoration for Christmas holidays seems proportionate to the americaness of the place.
going to an exhausting salsa lesson with Amanda from Lake Forest and her program-mate Alex. Amanda had to bail before the real dancing part on the fault of shoes that weren`t made for walking, but Alex and I soldiered on to good old Maestra Vida in Bellavista. probably my last night out as such. weirdness.
oh yeah- and on the way to said salsa lesson, on a micro heading into the not-nice part of town, hearing a crack and having huge shards of glass fly at me. another micro knocked off the rearview mirror of ours, causing chunks of mirror to fly through the open side window, deflected somewhat by the curtain. yikes.
todays highlights include hearing strange noises next to me on the metro, and turning as I got out to see a couple making out to intently they actually were making smacking noises. in the packed car. ew.
walking into "Casa e Ideas" and it was like walking into a cross between crate and barrell, bed bath and beyond and pier one. christmas decorations everywhere. the little drummer boy and a jazzified version of silver bells (ring a ling, baby). later on I went to Parque Arauco, which had upped the christmas tinsel (but only slightly) from my last trip. the amount of decoration for Christmas holidays seems proportionate to the americaness of the place.
going to an exhausting salsa lesson with Amanda from Lake Forest and her program-mate Alex. Amanda had to bail before the real dancing part on the fault of shoes that weren`t made for walking, but Alex and I soldiered on to good old Maestra Vida in Bellavista. probably my last night out as such. weirdness.
oh yeah- and on the way to said salsa lesson, on a micro heading into the not-nice part of town, hearing a crack and having huge shards of glass fly at me. another micro knocked off the rearview mirror of ours, causing chunks of mirror to fly through the open side window, deflected somewhat by the curtain. yikes.
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