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Or, abril:

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¿Qué pasó antes de Patagonia? / What happened before Patagonia?

As you might be able to tell, there's a gap between the first Chile post and the most recent entry about Patagonia. What happened in the meantime? Well, here's some photos to update you all on just that.

17 marzo

w/ my host family in the Plaza de Yumbel

a service for San Sebastián

mote con huesillo (basically wheat/barley in peach juice)

host fam

18 marzo

the view from forestales

Araucaria (araucana?)

view from EULA (the other building where I have classes), I

view from EULA, II (in the direction of forestales but you can't see it)

19 marzo

you bet your booty I found a natural foods store

21 marzo

22 marzo

office job (internship, but same diff)

another view from EULA

in el parque de los dinosaurios

drunk panda

(in Penco, btw, which is where Concepción was originally located)

these chicas hung out with us

Elízabeth gave them some cookie bits

23 marzo

Festival Internacional de Innovación Social

24 marzo

taking Odie to la U

dance class in el foro

 25 marzo

after-work taco (traffic jam)

26 marzo

27 marzo

28 marzo

he really shouldn't be on the bed, but dang he's cute...

 

29 marzo

30 marzo
*Apologies in advance because I was stupid and didn't bring a spare battery and my camera battery was almost dead, so most of these are low-quality phone pics. (I tried to save the battery for the ocean pics.)

visiting Lota, a mining town

yep, we had a mine tour

Parque de Isidora Cousiño (the matriarch? of the family that owned the mines)

more Araucaria

can you see the ocean through the trees?

el faro (lighthouse)

 31 marzo

someone got a haircut

there was a wake for a neighbor of the abuela

1 abril

the "quiet study zone" in forestales

office view 2

2 abril

happy pup after a walk

 3 abril

no idea what class this is or why

this is the kinda shit that breaks my heart

a different view from forestales

5 abril

I presented at this seminar for my internship

Kevin (who I mentioned in the Patagonia post), for his internship, had to travel to Concepción for the same seminar I was presenting at - he's studying in Santiago, and he also goes to Midd. Anyway, since I'm the only other person from the program in Concepción, he asked if I could show him around the couple days he was in the city, and after Friday's seminar (and my afternoon class), I decided we could go to San Pedro de la Paz to see the ocean (because in all the time he's been in Santiago, he hasn't had the chance to go to the coast or really see any water - and he's from L.A., so, it makes sense that he's used to it). And so began our (mis)adventure...

the micro we got on went to the wrong side of town

kind of seems like a wasteland

but, hey, we finally found the beach!

they were some fierce waves

can't miss the sunset (even if that means you get back to Concepción when it's dark)

6 abril

where I've seen two orchestra concerts so far

got started on some braids...?

7 abril

tried to give him one, too

more worth it than doing homework, I must say

 8 abril

9 abril

a very cute excuse to not do homework

10 abril

braids (?), v.2

 Hope you enjoyed the update! I will be back soon to catch you up on what's happened since Patagonia. Until then...