So last night Matt and I checked out the Casino here in town. It´s a small little joint filled mostly with slots. We left most of our money at home and grabbed a cab for the ten minute ride to the hotel it´s at. We were hoping there would be a 1.000 peso (about $2) minimum table for some blackjack, but no luck. So we take our small amount of money and sit at the 5.000 peso min. We played for about 45 minutes before Matt hit a cold streak and went out. Luckily I had won the last three or four hands in a row (including splitting sixes twice in a hand), so I ended up 12.000 pesos (about $20) up. Cab ride back home was on me.
Today was another early morning and boring class day. We have a salsa lesson tonight, which should be fun. Tomorrow is a national holiday so we don´t have class. As Stretta mentioned, we´ll be going to a soccer game over in Coquimbo that starts in the evening. Other than that not too much to talk about. I am starting to miss some parts of the US. The food here is pretty bad honestly. It´s very bland: no salt, no spices, nada. Stretta and I went to the McDonalds at the mall the other day just to have a little taste of America. We eat lunch at the University each day and the typical meal is this:
- Small salad made of iceberg lettuce shreds, two tomato slices, and a (bad) olive with only lemon juice as salad dressing
- The main course, usually a small portion of meat casseroled with potatoes, with no salt to be found
- Oddly textured dessert that almost always looks better than it tastes
We´ve been taking turns making dinner at the cabaña, which has been going well. Last night was porkchops and applesauce. Ultimately though, I spend the majority of the day with aching hunger.
The weather yesterday was such a bummer too. It made me really long for the opressive heat of the good ol´South. Not having a heater is getting really annoying, especially when we have to sit through 90 minute long lectures on the Chilean economy in what amounts to an outdoor classroom. Oh well. Vive Chile.
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Yeah, that classroom with no heat thing. When our group was in China last March they found the same thing. Students sitting in unheated classrooms in their coats all day, but not complaining because school is a privilege. Somehow we lost that in our rush to educate everyone.
ReplyDeleteWait. Did you say "porkchops and applesauce"? I'm having a major 70s flashback. Thanks for getting Matt home from the casino.
ReplyDeleteI remember freezing by behind off in Argentina in 2006. And Idefinitely did not come prepared for the weather. Eventually, I ended up buying a scarf and bringing a pair of socks with me to class so that, when not writing or sitting on my hands, they were stuffed inside the socks. I looked ridiculous, but it was freezing.
ReplyDeleteHave you tried any of the pastries there? They were a godsend in Argentina. Dulce de Leche... *drools*