Ahh nothing new...

Ooo so sorry I haven't updated in sooo long. I need to check when I last wrote b/c i dont really remember! Oh my! Should I use correct punctuation, I guess that way, it's easier to read.

So last week started the second week of classes, and I had 2 more classes. Or was supposed to. Didnt go to the history class b/c on Monday my alarm clock didnt go off and on Thurs, uh....couldn't get up, yeah. Even though the class starts at 10 AM, I have to get up so early to take the metro and bus and ugh. So I don't know if that class will be good b/c other people gave up on another history class. If it doesn't work out for me, oh oh that's bad, I need to find another history class. And Spanish class started. Ugh whyy didn't I take Spanish 121 at tufts instead. I don't need this class for IR since I'm done, but we have to take it if we didn't at Tufts, grrr how annoying. Well I guess it will be a good review. Saw the people who came back from Peru, one had gotten sick and fallen in love apparently >< Next week starts the last class, in the school of arts, a movie class, so next week will be a full week. Then the week after, on Sept 5, we are flying to Cusco, Peru!!! to see Machu Picchu and make our way down slowly thru Northern Chile hitting a couple of different cities. Thank god we're flying, b/c the bus takes what 40 hours yeesh! And then we're breaking up the bus ride on the way down by stopping in many towns. I'm worried b/c I don't have a hiking backpack and only a small suitcase and backpack im going to look so touristy with a rolly suitcase b/c we dont really have accomadations every night instead bus trips >< Yayyy for long trip and missing a couple days of school but oh well! This is gonna be roughin, homes, I hope I survive haha.

Classes have continued to be boring, not much work, but classes take up a lot of time b/c of the transportation and such. But still I come home w/ nothing to do.

I guess I could talk about the food situation now. Sighs. So reasons why the food situation here is not good: 1) I dont want to take too much of their food, it's still kind of awkward with the family, I sit hoping someone will pass me the tomatoes 2) I eat fast and I still want more 3) There's no food in their fridge to snack on and I guess I would have to buy it but I don't want to spend our allowance b/c thats for traveling! 4) prob the worst reason: Lunch is around 3, Dinner is after 10 My god it's horrible Sometimes dinner isn't even served, I just gotta make do. 5) another horrible reason the food is bland and weird I get served cooked hamburger slices that were once frozen sighs 6) Of course the lack of Asian food that I've grown up with and love to death 6) Lack of juice, omg their juice is just powered sugar mix, no such thing as orange juice 7) They never drink water just water, no it must be coffee or tea always, and they thought it was so strange when I wanted just hot water, the other choice is tap water which makes me gassy(here..not at home tho) 8) I hate the tea here it's FAKE tea in tea bags. When we went to the chinese restaurant and had real tea it just tasted so good and real! And also they add sugar to their tea. Sugar!!! Chinese people have fainted all around the world upon hearing this, esp my mother. What's the point then?? And then when we went to a nice sushi place, I was hoping for green tea leaves, but no I get WHAT? GREEN TEA FROM SAFEWAY?!!!(I don't know if yall have it but Safeway is a grocery store near me..that was run out of business).

Then I started to think about why food was so important to me, other than obvious reasons of survival. It must be the Asian in me. Our relatives are constantly feeding us, Chinese New Year is centered around food, we have suspicions about our food(don't turn over that fish!!), they are cook masters, we have amazing culinary delights(chicken heart anyone?), it's just ingrained in us! lol Ohhhh how I also miss the other wonderful cuisines of the world such as Korean..Thai...Indian...Viet...I have restaurants tho here in Santiago, so hope is not all lost.

What else has happened...went to Plaza Nunoa so many times, had lots of helado, mall, really good sushi(expensiveeee, aii), pub blue, more gelato One of the family's son returned to Spain today, he lives there, oh gosh =(

I have started a korean drama called Ma Wang(Addy talked about it a lot heh). Yay!

So yesterday really pissed me off. We were having dinner at this German restaurant, and Person 1 says to Person 2, Oh Person 3 remembers you from the all-white people dinner we had.
Uhhh this is the second time I've heard about this 'all-white' dinner, and it's starting to piss me off. I know that he hangs out with a lot of brown people, but so what? And I ask him, why what's wrong wit that, and he's like, it was just as nice change for once. And I was just thinking, god, would you like me to leave so that this dinner can also be ALL WHITE. Would his friends or who he claims to be his good friends like to hear that he would rather just be with a bunch of white people. Why does their race matter?? And then someone else sasys, yeah I only hang out with white people at school. Soo?!! I wouldn't say oh that's racist, and I'm sure ur friends wouldn't appreciate being thought of us only hanging out with white people. Why why why did he say that?! It was just so horrible, and for the second time too. Oh such a relief, we should just get all those colored people out UGH. So I just sat there at dinner time w/o saying anything, it just made me mad. I know that if JENNY were there, she would have killed someone heh. I thought these people were more enlightened that. Sighs. I hate being the only colored person who cares. The other colored person is not very nice and always makes herself out to some pity case, ugh.

I am so done with Santiago, let's move on, eh? Ha jk, there's just not much to do on school days, but the weekends are nice. Next weekend we'll begoing to Pomaire, a big pottery town. I need some souvenirs ahhh. Is that it? I guess so for now.

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