A few observations

I haven't written for a while, and I know a lot of you are waiting to hear about my week-long backpacking trip, but I have eight classes here (and an extra one online from Olympic College back home), so I've been pretty busy. Also, I was busy having an awesome dieciocho (the 18th, Chile's Independence Day). But here is a little treat to hold you over until dinner time.

A few things I have observed about Chile:

1. Chileans are awesome dancers. I love their dancing style.
2. Too many people here have rattails and mullets. It needs to be fixed.
3. Chileans with green eyes are SUPER hot.
4. Chile is one of the largest consumers of bread in the entire world.
5. I love reggaeton wayyyy more than rap. Rap is soooo shitty compared to reggaeton. Reggaeton actually has rhythm. You don't have to freak-dance to it to have fun.
6. I love manjar. It's a yummy spread made from milk. It's sort of similar to caramel. But it comes with everything: churros, ice cream bars, on bread, etc.
7. Chilean girls come off as being really catty, but the ones I've met so far have been super fun and really nice.
8. Chilean moms will forever try to make their kids comfortable and happy. Please refer down to the picture of me in bed with once.
9. My professors suck at answering emails.
10. A class without a powerpoint is a rarity.
11. In two of my classes, students who arrive late have to sit on the floor.
12. Oh, and arriving late to class is their style. Sometimes even up to forty minutes late.
13. I saw a young girl wearing a colegio (junior high / high school) uniform with a barbell piercing in her bottom lip. Like the two balls were on either side of the middle of her lip, with the bar inside her lip. It looked okay I guess, but she was young, and I couldn't imagine how awful it'd feel to have that done.
    
14. I'm learning Greek. Useless, but awesome.

Oh yeah, by the way, I added a class to my eight-class schedule (as aforementioned). I am now taking Psych 100, General Psychology, online from Olympic College. It's worth five credits, so if you add that to my 36 transferable credits that I'm taking here, I'm four credits short of an entire school year in one semester. How awesome is that? It'll be hard as hell, but I'll pull it off. I'm excited to start working towards my psychology degree, so that I can go to grad school and work towards doing forensic psychology (criminology) like I've always wanted to.

And that's about it for now. I have to get up early to study in a few hours for a huge exam later in my class called (hold your breath, it's long) Chile Se Integra al Mundo: Procesos de Internacionización (Chile Integrated into the World: Processes of Internationalization". Snore.

Already half asleep,
Kelsey