Today

Today I had my first kick boxing class in spanish. They call it "aerobox". It was so much fun but with that today and rock climbing class yesterday I can already feel my muscles hurting... or growing is how I am going to think about it. I was pretty nervous about the class being in spanish combined with my lack of coordination but it turned out all right. It turns out that as long as you follow the leader you don't actually have to understand what she is saying. I had two other classes today. They were a little long, but that's how classes go, I guess. In my second class we got to go out to the streets and ask people about modismo or slang in Chile. That was for my culture class. I know I will not need to know their slang forever but while I am here it will be nice to understand what people are saying.

The other day I got to go to the outdoor market. It was so much fun! There are people every where shouting the prices and things they are selling trying to compete with the other people screaming the same things. I went with Yaya and she bought some flowers. They are really pretty and really inexpensive when you buy them at the outdoor market. After that we went to the artisanean by the beach. There were so many things and I bought a couple of earing for $0.25. I figured for that price it wouldn't matter if I lost one.

Cesaer asked if i would be his girlfriend for a day or two and so of course i said yes and this was our romantic kiss. lol

joking around on a saturday night

i wonder who did this to his hair. ha ha ha. he saw me using hairspray and wanted to get involved, so i took advantange of it

my disaster of a hair cut from all angles. look for the mullet in the back. it is my fav

the guy to my right excaped from this prison when it was still a prison. he has since stopped stealing and now gives tours of the museum there. (he was only 14 when he was arrested and was there for around fifteen years when he and seven other people found a tunnel that had been created during the time that the building was used as a gum ammo storage building

view of valpo

these are all graffiti in Valparaiso

this is on a flat wall in valparaiso

the means "turn off the tv and live your life", but not in the way you would link. turn off the tv means to be so drunk that you don't remember anything and pretty much blackout, hence the turning off of the television. get it?

skipping girl graffitii in Valparaiso

poor hurt chin tomito

women, we can do it, in any language

say cheese

Ariel and Oscar. Ariel was my "latin love"

Mono teasing Tomito

The Martinez fam dancing to Tomito's favorite tunes

Ya Ya making a funny face for the camera

Laura from USU and Farrah our intercambio helper outer