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How are y'all doing? I have so much to say here. First of all, Where's Christmas? Somehow the hot summer weather and lack of familiar christmas carols and being away from home keeps me from feeling like christmas is coming. Maybe when it gets here I'll feel it. Anyway, though, I'm going to miss all of you very much.
a good part of this blog is in photo captions, so check those out too. I'm not really in Punta Arenas, but I was yesterday
I just got back from a trip south, and it was awesome. Amazingly awesome. Beautiful. I was so happy. The best part, was just hanging out with other exchange students. Like, any free time I had I spent with them. Especially at the beginning, it was a bit awkward to speak english. It was sometimes easier to switch to spanish, or sometimes we switched to spanish just for the hell of it. Spanglish conversations are wonderful. However, we ended up speaking a lot of english through the whole thing. It was easier. It allowed us to communicate well and be able to say what we wanted to say. Get to know each other
El Milodón
The Milodon is a very herbivorous ice-age ancestor of the sloth. This cave was discovered in 1896, and had remains of Milodons. well, relate exactly what we are feeling. Technically we should have been talking spanish the whole time, but the english was worth it and I will be talking spanish for a long time in my city.
We spent so much time just talking, shopping around in the cities, and playing a game called Psychiatrist. You have a set of rules for playing they game, and everyone knows them except one person. That person can only ask questions with simple answers, that have nothing to do with names or the rules of the game. They have to figure out the rules based on responses. It gets really funny when the person asks awkward questions. Unfortunately, I can't say all the rules in case someday we play Psychiatrist. I spent plenty of hours playing Egyptian war, too.
We had another orientation before the trip, really. It was similar in mood to the first, though the focus was more on evaluating our spanish, and evaluating host districts. We got into a lot about solving problems in your host family. Again, the orientation part was a bit dull, but the free time with the other students was great
I'm really going
to miss them. It was so sad getting of the last bus in my city, where it hit me that I had just said goodbye to the last of them. I'm not sure that I will see some of them again, because the next orientation is in Iquique, and the students further south apparently won't be going there. We're trying to organize something
We travelled around a lot in bus, with tio John Bruce as our guide. We went to the way south of Chile, around the Magellan Strait. I remember Mr. Nelson talking about the Magellan Strait back in fifth grade, and I never imagined going there. That's a strait that goes all the way through the tip of South America, a shortcut so to speak. A Portuguese explorer named Magellan went through there. Unfortunately, he didn't make it all the way around the world, as he died in a battle against the natives in the Philippines.
The south is a hell of a lot greener than the north, and a hell of a lot colder. Rainy, and windy. I like it. It's summer, though, so it was usually jeans and sweatshirt weather. Though sometimes, a winter
Group
I'm pretty sure everyone was in the photo coat was definitely good to have.
We had a lot of very good food. Like lamb. Southern Chileans make most excellent lamb asado al palo, Lamb roasted on a stick. Tender, juicy, flavorful lamb because of the layers of lamb fat that they leave on the lamb. And this lamb would never be the same if you tried to make light lamb asado al palo, so don't even try. You have salad on the side of the lamb, but you just take a little of that to feel healthy. You go for seconds and thirds on the lamb.
Lamb is good
It's now summer vacation!!!!!
Love you all
Ian
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