Usually I blog after a fun an exciting weekend, summarizing the work/school week in a relatively boring sentence. However I certainly cannot do that today. On tuesday we learned that our class had been canceled and the professor only emailed ned for some reason. Everyone else woke up and got ready, just to find out that we didnt have to go to school. So instead we decided to take a day exploring Valparaiso. We wandered around the hills for a while and made it to this outdoor mural museum. The museum was pretty cool but the murals outside the museum were amazing. You are probably sick of me yapping about all the wall art down here, but it is absolutely fascinating.
Around noonish we got hungry and decided to stop at a famous restaurant called J Cruz that everyone had recommended to us for chorrillana, a traditional Chilean dish with french fries onions steak sausage and a fried egg on top. Delicious. Little did we know, however, that today happened to be chorrillana day and that there was a news contest to find the best chorrillana. So Gabe Anna and I were sitting there when 4 news teams show up out of no where. They start filming and then we get interviewed by two different networks. Of course our spanish was not perfect (when they asked me to give it a grade all I said was "The best the best") but we were having a great time and laughing our heads off. We hung around for a little while longer and then headed off to the old folks home that we volunteer at to play bingo. That night we went to a friends house to have sushi and hang out. Sure enough when the nightly news came on, after all the depressing real news, there were the gringos eating chorrillana. We instantly became stars. That night a neighbor called me to tell me they saw me, then the next day our professor said he saw me, the librarian said she saw me, the nanny that works at my house saw me, and for the next couple of days the gringos were famous.
Last night me and anna decided to head to Valpo since we usually dont head in that direction. We met up with Mari, our friend who we havent seen in a while and she knew of a party somewhere. We made it to the club La Playa, around 2 and what an interesting club it was. It had this weird walk way to get into it then opened up into a bar. The upstairs was packed however so we ventured downstairs to another "bar" that resembled my basement at home. Uneven dirt/cement floor. Exposed ceiling beams, odd support pillars in random places, but the music was good and the people were great so it was well worth the trip. Around 430 me and anna decided to leave and we caught a micro right outside plaza sotomayor. After a quick trip we had to change micros and thats when the shenanigans really started. We got onto this packed micro and all of a sudden people started singing. First it was a song about the miners then they switched to the national anthem then they switched to god knows what. But it was fun with everyone singing along and pounding out the beat on windows, floors, chairs, whatever. Finally made it home, exhausted but very content.
Oye Chile eres loco, y me encanta. Porque no hay una palabra para shenanigans en tu idioma?
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