Monday, November 18
Today I had to wake up early for school. I was excited
because I thought it was the last week of school, but turns out we have half a
week more after this so whatever. When I got to school everyone was buzzing
about the election because some people in my class are 18 and so they can vote.
I told them I went into the booth and “voted” with my mom and when I told them
whom I voted before they all were really shocked and laughed a lot and said I
was the only socialist from the US that they’d ever met. During the day nothing
super interesting happened, but then my mom came to pick me up at lunch because
Maxi and my two exchange friends Katie (not the same Katie, this one goes to a
different school) and Sally. She dropped us off at the bus terminal and we took
a bus up to Santiago. We then took the metro to Costanera Center (I was the
only one who had been before and the only one confident navigating the metro
and it made me feel really proud of how far I’d come since being completely new
and foreign here. When we got to Costanera, Katie, Sally, and I went to look at
dresses in H&M because we were going to a formal party on Wednesday night.
Maxi had come with us to look for cell phone cases for his new iPhone 5s, so he
left us. I actually felt really bad for him today because he came to the mall
not only with a bunch of girls, but with a bunch of girls who speak English. He
was really nice about it and didn’t complain or rush us, but I still apologized
to him a lot after. Anyway, we shopped in H&M for about two hours and tried
on like millions of things until we each found a dress that we liked. Then we
walked around the mall and shopped a little more before meeting up with Maxi to
help him choose his perfect case. Then we all went over to this ice cream shop
called Emporio de la Rosa, which was voted to be one of the top ten best ice
cream restaurants in the WORLD!! Obviously we couldn’t pass up ice cream from
there, so we all got double scoops and ate it as we walked back down to the
metro. We got to the metro around 7, which is peak travel time, and the thing
was absolutely packed. It was kind of intimidating and also scary because my
mom always says there is a lot of crime in the metro, so we were careful to be
vigilant and guard our bags. I feel like we are more susceptible to crime
because people hear us speaking English and assume we are ignorant gringos who
would be easy to steal from and they’re kind of right.
Anyway, we got to the
bus station and took a bus back to Rancagua where my dad picked us all up and
dropped Sally and Katie off at their houses. Maxi, Eric, and I got home around
10:30 and Nancy had dinner waiting for us on the table. We ate fast while we
told them about our day, and I didn’t end up going to sleep until around 12.
Today I had to wake up early for school. I was excited
because I thought it was the last week of school, but turns out we have half a
week more after this so whatever. When I got to school everyone was buzzing
about the election because some people in my class are 18 and so they can vote.
I told them I went into the booth and “voted” with my mom and when I told them
whom I voted before they all were really shocked and laughed a lot and said I
was the only socialist from the US that they’d ever met. During the day nothing
super interesting happened, but then my mom came to pick me up at lunch because
Maxi and my two exchange friends Katie (not the same Katie, this one goes to a
different school) and Sally. She dropped us off at the bus terminal and we took
a bus up to Santiago. We then took the metro to Costanera Center (I was the
only one who had been before and the only one confident navigating the metro
and it made me feel really proud of how far I’d come since being completely new
and foreign here. When we got to Costanera, Katie, Sally, and I went to look at
dresses in H&M because we were going to a formal party on Wednesday night.
Maxi had come with us to look for cell phone cases for his new iPhone 5s, so he
left us. I actually felt really bad for him today because he came to the mall
not only with a bunch of girls, but with a bunch of girls who speak English. He
was really nice about it and didn’t complain or rush us, but I still apologized
to him a lot after. Anyway, we shopped in H&M for about two hours and tried
on like millions of things until we each found a dress that we liked. Then we
walked around the mall and shopped a little more before meeting up with Maxi to
help him choose his perfect case. Then we all went over to this ice cream shop
called Emporio de la Rosa, which was voted to be one of the top ten best ice
cream restaurants in the WORLD!! Obviously we couldn’t pass up ice cream from
there, so we all got double scoops and ate it as we walked back down to the
metro. We got to the metro around 7, which is peak travel time, and the thing
was absolutely packed. It was kind of intimidating and also scary because my
mom always says there is a lot of crime in the metro, so we were careful to be
vigilant and guard our bags. I feel like we are more susceptible to crime
because people hear us speaking English and assume we are ignorant gringos who
would be easy to steal from and they’re kind of right.
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