Last week I didn't have school to celebrate Chile's Independence, so basically spring break (: I was finally able to catch up my sleep. I've been completely exhausted here, every time that I simply want to talk with someone I have to think and trying to understand my classes completely fries my brain. But every day is easier and now I don't have to think for basic conversations, the spanish words and phrases will come before the English ones which is pretty awesome.
The 18th (Chile's Independence Day) means asados asados asados! (barbeques) And they eat so much food here. Before lunch there will be empanadas and choripan (kind of like sausages). Then for lunch there is salad, carne, carne, and more carne. For this special occasion we had cordero asado, which is an entire pig pinned to a cross like the crucifixion then slow cooked for 6 hours. Then after lunch there were the most amazing desserts in the world.
cordero asado
And the fondas! Fondas are kind of like a fair/carnival. Every city/town has their own fonda and they are only open for 3 days (the weekend of the 18th, Chile's Independence Day). There are booths to buy clothes and tchotchkes, restraunts/bars with bands and dance floors, discoteques, and lots and lots of empanadas, anticuchos, and terremotos (drinks with wine and ice cream). And everything here is much later. Parties don't being until around 11 and will end anytime between 3 and 5. We didn't leave one of the fondas until 5 in the morning and that is completely normal. I love it.
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