Hey, hey! I´m all unpacked, I can navigate the metro, and I can buy bread by myself. I´d say those are 5 successful days in Chile! My host mom, Carolina, is extremely charismatic and my host sisters are coming back from girl scout camp on Sunday, so I haven´t met them yet. The title of this post are the three names that Carolina calls me on a daily basis: My love, my queen, and my white girl. She also introduces me to others as "mi gringita." I don´t know if she knows how funny it sounds in english to go up to someone and say "this is my little white girl, Sam," but I can´t help but laugh every time I hear it.
Classes are going well, but I have more homework than I anticipated. I have a lot of reading for all of my classes, but they´re all super interesting. I especially like my Spanish profesor, Profesora Mabel. She´s hilarious, and she wrote the two textbooks that we´re using. Chilean Spanish is more confusing than any other Spanish I´ve heard before. We have to learn extra vocab called chilenismos (chilean-isms) in order to understand what anyone around here is saying. One of my favorite chilenismos so far is "cuico/a" which means a snob; it´s fun to say. They also drop the s at the end of words and the d in the middle of some words and just generally talk fast, but I´m getting used to it.
A lot of us have been going to parks or plazas after class. It´s amazing how much green there is in this city. I really need to start putting pictures up. I don´t have internet at my house so it´s hard to find time to post pictures, but it´s also a good thing because it´s less of a distraction than it usually is for me.
I´m gonig to a vineyard today with some Furmanites for "research." There´s a guy doing a project on the wine culture of Chile, so we´re going to do a tasting and tour of a vineyard really close to the city (and yes, the drinking age is 18 here). Until then, I´m going to research for a presentation I have on Monday.
¡Un besito!
P.S. I explained to Carolina what sweet tea is, and we´re going to make some later! So excited!
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