La Vida Cotidiana Update

I have not really been doing anything very interesting, hence the title Daily Life Update.

1. I took my Chilean family´s dog, se llama Andres, out for a walk on Sunday and spent the first 10 minutes of our walk chasing him up and down the street after he slipped out of his collar.

2. This weekend, I went on a field trip to Rancagua with the EAP program. Located about 2 hours south of Santiago, I still don't know exactly what was the theme of the Rancagua field trip. Basically all day long we were shuttled around the various pueblos in the area to eat and try various homemade alcoholic beverages. I´m definitely not complaining being that eating is one of my top 10 favorite activities that also include annoying Andrew at home and abroad (via Skype). One of the places we went to made honey and the bee-keeper man showed us all the boxes where the bees make the honey. As he was putting the piece of wood filled with bees and honeycomb back into the box, he dropped it and a significant number of bees swarmed at him. All the EAP students ran away and then watch in horror as he calmly swatted the bees off his head and arms. He told us that happens sometimes....hmm, I don't know about that.

3. Halloween is not a major celebration here in Chile but apparently a lot of kids trick or treat in the neighborhood where I am living. I´m dressing up as an astronaut for Halloween to be cool like my dad, Steven "The Astronaut" White.

4. I booked a flight to Easter Island for the last leg of my study abroad adventure. If you want to take a peek at where I will be headed, here´s more information about Easter Island or Isla de Pascua as it is called.

http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/Easter_Island/index.html

5. I don´t like Pablo Neruda.

6. You cannot bring your backpack into the libraries at the Universidad de Chile. The books here are very expensive and I suppose the university is afraid that the students are going to steal the books, so before entering the library, you must check your bag at the security station. It is very inconvenient to have to take your computer, pens, notebooks, textbooks/ all other things you need out of the backpack, well, at least for me; I am always forgetting something that I need. So instead, Starbucks functions as EAP's unofficial library/study center.

Words of the day: volver=to return, hogar=home