Today I woke up around 9 and I knew right away that I was
sick. My throat felt like there were nails digging into it, and my head was
throbbing. I think not sleeping at all during the trip finally caught up with
me. I unpacked my suitcase, separated out all the presents I had bought for my
family—a scrunchie for Monse, coasters for Eric, cactus jelly and a magnet for
Nancy, a magnet for Sra Adela, and a pencil case for Maxi. Then Abelita and
Tata arrived from Talca and we all had lunch together (except Maxi and Monse
because they were at school). After lunch, I went into the center to fix the
screen of the iPhone Cristobal had lent me because Nancy decided she wanted to
send it to Cristobal. I was kind of annoyed that she would send it to him and
leave me without a phone, but I guess it
was his in the first place so whatever. While it was being fixed, I went to the
food court of the mall nearby and wrote in my blog. After about an hour I went
to go pick up the phone and then took a collectivo home. When I got home, Maxi
was packing up his suitcase for the US because we were leaving for Santiago
that night. We had a quick pizza dinner and then I just chilled in my room
while they did all the crazy packing. Maxi is going to meet up with my parents
in LA while he’s there, so I gave him some T-shirts that I had been saving for
them and then I wrote a hand written letter for them. I wrote the same letter
in both Spanish and English—one for my dad and one for my mom. Then we loaded
up the car and rode to Santiago with the car absolutely full—me, Maxi, Monse,
Laurie, Vicente, Joaquin, Nancy, Tata, Abelita, Tia Ximena, and Nancy driving.
I still felt like crap and was coughing a ton, so I slept the whole way there,
and when we arrived at Tia Irma’s house, I went immediately to sleep.
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