Two days ago, instead of spending an hour in a café doing homework with a friend, I spent an hour listening to a family try to convert us into Jehovah's Witnesses. They seemed very nice, the son told us of his crush on Megan Fox, among other things It's funny how an at-first conversation about our impressions of the city turns into our opinions on religion and later a conversation on whether we'd like to go to an international Jehovah's Witness conference of over 80,000 people. Let me tell you, they were very insistent. They went so far as to ask for our phone numbers so they could call us about tell us about upcoming events. Instead the mother gave us her e-mail, but I can't truthfully say that the sheet of paper made it home with us. This was the first time I've ever been approached by one of them, aside from through the window of my house. They sure can talk; we did not get any work done, we sat for an hour with our grammar books open. We got through one exercise and had to go. So much for getting things accomplished...
Vacation time! Tonight we're off on a 5 day trip to La Serena, about 6 hours north. It's supposed to be really pretty, it's the home of Gabriela Mistral, has a lot of cute towns, an observatory, and also the place where they make a lot of pisco. It should be really fun, it's also the first time we've planned a trip by ourselves with hostels and everything...it should be very exciting. We have to come back for a one day for orientation for the Universidad de Chile, but after that we're off again to Pucón, which is about 10 hours south. In the summer, it is a very touristy, but i've heard in the winter it's really cool as well. There are volcanoes, thermal baths, possibly some snowshoeing? I'm not really sure, we'll just play it by ear of course with the help of the Lonely Planet Guide book.
Back on the 26th!
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