i climbed this

ok so yes now i can say i've climbed a volcano. so maaaybe i was one of the people at the end but still people, i climbed it. this is volcan villarrica en pucón, chile -- a 12-hour bus ride from viña/valpo. pucón was lovely... i went to the beach, went rafting on a river, saw birds and trees and so many other things i had never seen before. i went canopying over el campo de pucón. oh and also! las ternas! hot springs. that was fun. i ate several moras (blackberries) and this wonderful apricot like fruit that i don't know the name of. but it was fabulous. alsooo in pucón, i went to a fruit juice shop. very lovely. we ordered jugo de frambuesa (raspberries), which i think i´ll make all the time from now on. i also ordered chocolates right before i left for home. they´re gone now.

(¡lo hicimos!)

so the only thing i didn´t like was that i spoke english like the whole weekend. definitely need to improve on that one. i feel like i´m getting better at understanding what people say. i still hear conversations with my host family that don´t even let one word register in my head, and then there others where, although there is a light fog over the conversation, i still get it. some days you eat the bear; some days the bear eats you. don't think that would make much sense en español. oh and i might cook for marlayna and jennifer´s host family this fin de semana. if i don´t disappear for semana santa like everyone else is. que bueno!

sweet. tomorrow is my traditional dances of chile class. what should i take? spanish lit 3 or history of chilean theatre?? i need to decide by miercoles.

also i miss people a lot. couldn't help listening to "my father's gun" and thinking of two very lovely people. i wish everybody could be here.