recuperando

sixth day chavos, and it feels like we've been here months

sivan and i are finally fed up with hostal gringolandia ((not the real name but appropriate!)) pues tomorrow we're heading to valparaiso for a few days...we have a friend from the eap program we originally came to chile with who is working at a hostal there and so we're hoping to get the hookup and just to hang out because he's a super funny guy. plus, if any of you don't know about valparaiso, please do an image search on google...it is san francisco/cuba and super cool.

the past few days have been pretty intense yet helpful in many ways...i think i forgot about the attention we get as extranjeras here...unwanted attention from males and unwanted attention from females. these irish girls at the hostel went dancing the other night and the chilenas on the dance floor were so vicious to them, pushing them and even pulling their hair! jeez. we went to a carrete (party) that a friend invited us to on saturday night and everyone just assumed we didn't speak spanish since we were introduced as being extranjeras...it was a pretty gross feeling having people talk to us in in a mocking tone of broken english "du yew oonderstand vat i say?" and then saying "ellas no cachen nada (they don't understand anything)" to each other. bueno, i showed them i spoke spanish, even CHILEAN spanish just fine. and then they start saying "hablai como mexicana..." ay, i just couldn't win. i dunno i felt like i wasn't really subjected to that before...or maybe i just didn't get it then.

still, we're getting reacquainted with the place...although i am finding myself with the gana to travel farther, somewhere outside of chile after we head south. brazil perhaps?