Chile

I love Chile. I don't love when people make fun of my Argentine accent, but I do love that they are making fun of Argentines... so it's cool.

The sun is a little stronger in Santiago.. the whole city doesn't smell like a campfire, I can see mountains from Grace's window, and they've got a good cerveza negra for 2 US dollars. I'm meeting up with some of the crazy boys I met in Baños tonight because one of their soccer teams is playing. I'm also gonna meet up with Clairey's dad because he's working here. should be good.

humo pt. 2

tried to capture the smoke. slightly successful.. the photo on the corner is my corner, from the middle of the street is my intersection and that Subte station.. is my station, 2 blocks from my apartment.

park life

random fotos for the most part.. that metal contraption is a big sculpture of a flower that opens and closes with the sun everyday. my trip to Uruguay was postponed because of the smoke.. no ferries were heading up there. things are finally clearing up though.

smokey

apparently there was a prescribed burn in a the province north of us and ALL the smoke blew down. I'm talking like you can see it inside the buildings and the soccer games on tv look like the were shot with a big piece of film over the lens. it looks especially nuts at night. anyway.. I was "on the list" at a club for the first time last night.. this guy that I always dance with at tango knows people apparently. it was strange, I met a Chilean girl who studied abroad in Walker, MN. if I studied abroad and got put there I think I'd die. anyway.. going to Uruguay tomorrow, and Santiago de Chile next Thursday!!! I'm meeting up with Grace and we're going to go to Viña del Mar/Valporiaso for the weekend. and then to Mendoza for the next weekend. flying home on the 4th to take my midterms.. wahooooo. here are some random pictures from when I went to San Telmo last weekend.

Tigre; delta life at its best

here are some pictures from a few weeks ago when we ventured to El Tigre, a town about 30 minutes out of Buenos Aires where people live along the delta and their houses are only accessible by boat. if you want to go to the grocery store.. well you hang a basket on your dock and eventually one on a boat will swing by. I never saw the delta in Lousiana.. but I think that this is probably pretty similar. a lot of the houses looked like they may have been hit by a hurricane somewhere along the way but I'm pretty sure they hadn't. humidity and flooding are the main house killers I think. there are also some pictures from Peru Beach, which is a little bit closer and on the "river" which to me is more of an ocean. The girls with me in the pictures are Christina and Cyd.. the Americans I hang out with the most.

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