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A Quick mid vacation post

I tried to post this on Thursday but it didn´t work. So you get it now.

In case it wasn’t clear from my last post / Kris’s post. This week is la Semana Novata which means that we don’t have classes this means that classes are canceled, however the Pope died so my happy little catholic school decided to cancel the canceled classes and now we have classes. Too bad all of the international students were already very far away. Anyways my Profs are lazy and I only had one class that I had to miss, but still it was stressful.

I’m in my mid week break where we just got back from the South and tomorrow the entire program leaves for the north tomorrow. I’m excited for the La Serena trip but I really have been traveling a lot. I feel like I need to spend sometime at home Vina and Valpo are really pretty there is no lack of stuff to do here. Today at sat on a dock and watched the waves for a while. I went to a TA session for my circuits class and then photo copied half of two of my textbooks. (that’s how its done) It cost me $7.00 to copy 7 chapters.

Sorry this is a boring post. I will try to make it better. So I went around Castro on Monday, we really wanted to take a boat around the bay but none of the touristy places were running anything so we were pretty bummed. We went down to the dock to take pics and to try to bribe a fisherman and this guy came up to us and showed us a pic of his boat and offered to take us around. Just what we wanted it was pretty exciting and lucky. So we got to go on a boat ride after all. It was cool we got to see oyster farms and salmon farms and sea lions and take good pics of the palafitos. (typical chilote houses that are on stilts and that should be condemned) Of course with our luck it rained again while we were on the boat. Boo Rain. Then we went to the artesenia where we bought all sorts of cool jewelry and stuff like that. The we ran to the bus (like normal) and barely caught it(also normal). (I have had to chase so many buses and make them wait for my friends here it’s crazy) We then headed up to Osorno where there is another national parque (making my 3rd for the trip, 7th over all). This on was really pretty (like all of them) and we got to see the big trees that Madeline had been craving for the entire trip. We once again took about double the recommended time for a trail as we stop every two feet to admire the view and nature. This is a good way to hike because you see more this way and it was fun. We had a unspoken silent time for most of the way down allowing us to admire the nature even more. Overall the hike was really pretty and good fun because I really liked the people I was with. I forgot to mention that is was raining an we didn’t have our ponchos(mine ripped) so we begged at the parks hot springs for trash bags and stylishly out fitted our selves in the these. We also crashed the café there for some tea and postre. And of course I then ran after the bus so we could get home. Visited another Artasenia in Osorno and then we ran to the bus to get home. This one ended up being late but then after the 12 hour overnight bus ride we arrived home in Vina. Tomorrow off to another adventure.