Interesting facts: Since last Tuesday, I have watched 5 Chilean movies. Apparently, there are about 10 chilean movies worth watching, I am well on my way to seeing everything I need to see in the near future. Also, there are also about 5 chilean actors/actresses. Every movie I have seen has at least 3 actors I have seen before, those 5 actors, well they're quite lucky. For all other aspiring chilean actors, it doesn't look like there's much hope. The movies are actually really good. One, La Buena Vida, is very similar to the movie Crash. Another, Machuka, is the story of two boys one from a wealthly family and one from a very poor family, and it's the story of their friendship before and then during the military dictatorship.

In Santiago, there is PDA like I have never seen before in my life. It makes everything i've ever seen in the US seem so tame. Culturally, things are just different here. People live with their parents through their 20s and sometimes until they're 30, and boyfriends/girlfriends are generally only allowed in the main parts of the house (kitchen, living room) So for many young people, it seems that out in public is more socially acceptable. For me, it seems a little strange, but people here definitely don't seem to mind...

Subway etiquite...very questionable. When a train stops, people waiting to get on stand right infront of the train, making it very difficult for people to get off. Because of this, it takes much longer than it should for people to get off the train, leaving a lot less time for people to get on. The doors begin to close, and people shove, as in literally push the people infront of them, to get on the train, and I end up literally in some random person's face without anything to hold onto (because no one actually moves into the train). Then we stand like sardines, about 15 more people on the train then can actually fit push onto the train, until we get to the next stop.

Today we had another walking tour of Santiago, we went to a couple of museums and then walked around one of the main plazas, 'Plazas de Armas.' It is really nice out today, and there were a lot of people around, and the plaza was really cool. We went and ate at the famous bar/restaurant called la piojera. At this restaurant, the 'traigo de la casa' es called a 'terremoto' which means earthquake. It has wine, pisco, icecream, and possibly other things I just don't know. My host dad told me one terremoto, fine but two...bad idea. I didn't have my camera but we took some very nice pictures especially ones with the guitar players who entertained us at lunch.