Top Ten Moments of My Chilean Adventure

My Sudamérica adventure has officially started and the last two days I have spent the majority of my time trying to make my skin darker and reminiscing over my best memories from the past 3 and ½ months of my life. Rather than writing twenty pages worth of information, I thought I would organize my best moments into the, “Top Ten Moments of My Chilean Adventure.” Side note-- I love organizing things into top tens and top fives.

Top Ten Moments of My Chilean Adventure

1. Miercolespo

A lot of you probably don’t know what this is… so I’ll explain. Every Miercoles, Wednesday, there is a huge dance party for extranjeros, foreigners, a few members of my group, including myself, developed a deep and intimate love for the monotony of Miercolespo. Every week we listened to the exact same playlists, saw the same people from the previous miercolespo, and danced near the same people, Side Note— The guys usually danced by ourselves in a well constructed circle. Despite the monotony of Miercolespo, every week seemed to be more exciting and somehow “different” than the week before. The last few Miercolespo’s were especially memorable. As you will see in my 10^th favorite moment of my Chilean Adventure.

Some Group Members on their way to Miercolespo.

2. Time Spent with Host Family

My host family was incredible, they could not have been more welcoming and friendly. Living with them taught me so much about Chilean Culture and really improved my Spanish speaking skills.

3. Bike Ride through San Pedro de Atacama

Five of the boyzzzz from our group rented bikes in a San Pedro de Atacama, a gorgeous town in Northern Chile. We had an epic adventure… Nuff Said.

4. Watching the Sunset and talking with my boy Geoff at Algarrobo

Geoff and I spent Fiestas Patrias together at one of my host parents cabins in Algarrobo, during one of our epic walk on the beach/ Heart to Heart sessions, we decided to walk towards a bunch of huge rocks on the northern side of the beach in Algarrobo. Our decision to walk towards these rocks was a good one and we watched an amazing sunset from an epic location.

5. Group Dinners

Total Craziness, Dancing, Singing, Broken Toilets, Broken Chairs, Five Fingers, Dessert Empanadas, Cart-Wheels,Car Alarms, Good Times.

6. Valpo/ Vina trip with the Grupo

Oh goodness… Eating a massive amount of Papas Fritas, Singing Spice Girls in a Karaoke Bar, Chasing Stray Dogs, More Good Times.

7. Night at Salamurano

This was a Mickey and Cory Adventure… but I had to make thi

s event its own category because this was most definitely the most epic Mickey and Cory Adventure. We started our night of fun Mexican Restaurant. We sat there for 3 hours, mostly listening to Mariachi Music, and Laughing. Side Note—Everytime Cory would look at the woman playing guitar in the Mariachi Band she would start laughing… then we would start laughing. This continued for about 2 hours. Afterwards, despite being extremely tired, we took an 8 Mil Cab ride with Danny, a nice hombre from Mexico, to some hype hype club called Salamurano. We somehow got in at a discounted price. The club was super Quico, and the whole night Cory and I tried to decipher if an Argentinan girl we met was interested in me, our question was answered when she started making out with her boyfriend.

8. MapucheLand

A group member Matt can describe this far better than myself.

http://web.cornell.edu/studentblogs/matt/

9. Mickey and Cory Adventures

They happened often and they always turned out well.

10. Excursion with an Ecuadorian

MiercolesPo was the catalyst to this adventure. I met an nice Ecuadorian girl through a very bizarre chain of events, her good friend took a picture of me in my Halloween Costume, she saw the picture and wanted to meet me, we met at Miercolespo we talked, separated, danced, separated, saw each other on the Micro exchanged numbers. I met up with her 10 days later, went to a club with

a bunch of Chileans and Ecuadorians, danced, left, hung out some random guys house, spent the next day together. She cooked me Ecuadorian food, after eating a full plate, I found out the main component of the dish was cow’s stomach. All Ways Surprising.

10b. Going to Equilibrium, jajaja

This was the gym I worked out in practically everyday.

Those are the Top Ten moments; it was hard to sort out everything, so I wanted to make a list of Honorable Mentions as well.

Honorable Mentions

Chit Chats with Dan.

Hanging out at Amore Nunca Muere

Night with the Kathy’s

Playing with Daniel, my host nephew

Sitting on the Metro

La Piccola Italia

Bravisismo

PENGUINS!!