Five weeks down, seven to go...

Chile won the football game on Saturday while we were in Viña. It was quite an experience to be here in Chile when that happened. Before the game ended the city was completely deserted because everyone was watching the game. Two minutes after the game ended the streets were filled with cars stuffed with too many people. Everyone was honking their horns and waving flags and yelling. There was a square close to our hotel that everyone was running to, so we decided to go see what was up. There were about 300 people there all jumping up and down and cheering. Everyone was wearing red jerseys and waving Chilean flags. We joined in as much as possible yelling "Chi Chi Chi, Le Le Le, viva Chile!" It was an absolutely amazing experience. But a lot of the night was not so great for those that went out. Apparently they saw a teenage boy get killed after a policeman threw a cinder block at his back for running after trying to break down the doors to a McDonals. It was quite an interesting night.

On the way home we stopped in a cool little town that specialized in pottery. There were a ton of small tiendas down the main road with pottery plus so much more. I bought a gift for mom there. We didn't get home till 10 on Monday and then started another week of school. This week has been subjunctive and pronouns. It is very confusing, and I am not looking forward to the test tomorrow morning. Just hoping I don't fail after all this studying I've been doing. Chile won the game last night as well, so we are most definitely going to the World Cup now. Some of the students even got to go to this weeks game.

I have finally started running again, and am loving it. Didn't realized how much I missed and loved it. Fruit is in season here now and I get strawberries at home now, it's great. Mary now knows that I like them a lot and has been making sure my bowl is super full. This weekend I am just going to relax, catch up on homework and make sure I understand everything we have worked on so far. So not much exciting going on here at this moment.

I hope everyone is doing well, I miss you all so much and can't wait to come home. Half way through one week from today. Woot! Anyway, tienen una noche marvillosa. Chao, chao.

Kayli