awkwardness

witnessing chloes life in valparaiso is incredibly awkward and highly entertaining. highlights of the day:

host mom offers to wash my laundry cheaper than at jumbo (where i washed my laundry when i first got here). i decline bc i hadnt washed my laundry for like a month so i did it before leaving for buenos aires got but now its only been like a week so clearly i dont need to do laundry again...shortly after host grandma offers to sew some clothes for me. i decline saying i dont have anything for her to repair. this all occurs while chloe is at class and i am alone.

in the afternoon i busted out my mate gourd that i bought in buenos aires and while trying to make the tea host mom insists i put rum in it. then host dad arrives and insists i should put marijuana in it. there is no marijuana in the house...that i know of...

everytime host brother enters the room chloe and i make awkward turtle signs with good reason. nobody knows what is going on so we giggle.

host dad thinks it is highly entertaining to teach me the chile chant and every 10 minutes make me do it bc there is a big game today. chi chi chi le le le! Viva CHILE! i changed it to cheese cheese cheese cake cake cake! viva CHEESECAKE bc chloe and i wanted to eat the cheesecake that we made. they laughed at me.

they all laugh at me a lot and usually i have no idea what is going on po. and i thought i understood spanish...lies.

tomorrow i hit the road again. santiago for the weekend where i will couch surf and celebrate the 10th anniversary of couchsurfing with people in Santiago, celebrate the 21st birthday of a friend from grinnell who is studying there, and meet with a guy involved in urban agriculture there. on sunday i will head to mendoza for a few days, then up through northwestern argentina.