Viña/Valpo Weekend

Went into Viña this weekend for a long haul weekend. We met up with a few other people from EOD that are in another time schedule. We have multiple programs that are doing differing amounts of time. Carolyn and the rest of the people we met up with are on the 10 week program so they'll be leaving in 3 weeks. We walked around for awhile trying to buy food and then eventually ended up at Carolyn's friend Stacy's house to cook it all. I also met up with a friend from my 5 month program. It was, by far, the largest group of Americans I've ever hung out with since being in Santiago. We took a bus to Valparaiso (which is the next town over) and checked into a hostel for the weekend.

After getting our pisco on at the hostel, we left to dance. Yeah...it's been happening alot here for me. Deal with it...I have. I'd be lying if I said that I haven't started developing a strange affinity for American pop music. I mean it's either that or Reggaeton here in the clubs so you either dance to it or stand in the corner like a weirdo drinking and staring at everyone. Since I've spent plenty of time in the latter camp, I've been making a concerted effort to have a good time here. Carolyn and all her friends are good people. We can appreciate the same things, like inappropriate humor, so it was a good time. I really like Valparaiso..it's kind of sketchy but it has the most character of any Chilean city I've been in thus far so I see myself spending alot of time there..especially since Villa Alemana doesn't have a ton going on.

Taught my first lesson of the day yesterday which was fun. We never quite know when we're going to teach but since we showed up before our host teacher, we kind of just started and he kind of just let us finish it. It's fun and the kids were definitely into it I think? More updates later....