Hey, everyone!
Big news: I´m tan!! Or at least much more so than I usually am in February. We went to Valparaíso and Viña del Mar last weekend. Valpo is a port city built on a bunch of hills. All the houses are super bright and colorful and I wish we could have spent more than a few hours there. We did get to tour La Sebastiana, one of Pablo Neruda's three houses (Pablo is an uber famous Chilean poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 and we just read a novel about him). It was a really cool house and it seems that Pablo and I share a love of world maps. Viña was really fun too. You can´t really swim there (in fact it´s illegal, but no one really pays attention to that) because the waves are so strong and there´s a crazy undertow. I stood at the edge a lot, and the one time I went in it felt like I was in a washing machine full of sand. Not fun. BUT...I did get to take in some sun, play a little soccer (before a stray dog destroyed the ball), and hang out with Furmanites, which is always hilarious.
Then I got to come back to classes (I´m trying to focus more on the fact that I was AT THE BEACH doing homework rather than having to do HOMEWORK at the beach; does that make sense?). So far this week hasn´t been too exciting. I´ll let you know if that changes :)
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