Equilibrio

¿Qué onda amigos?

I sincerely hope you are all doing well. I think it has been about a week since my last post, so I figured it was time. I am hoping to keep this one short because Moe's probably has my schop's waiting for me. For those who don't know, Moe's is a bar on the north side of Viña that is within easy walking distance of about 4 people, me included, who go there during the week to unwind. It is a Simpson-themed bar, and when I say that, I mean that it has a few murals of Homer and Moe with mis-proportioned features. I have been telling people that I want it to turn into my version of the "Cheers" bar from the TV show, but really I just tell people that cause I like to act like a clown. So far the friendship between me and the bartenders consist of a "¿Cómo estás?" Not a situation where "everybody knows my name."

Well it has been a little more than a month in Chile and I feel pretty good. I have reached the point where I am getting used to living down here: getting used to throwing used toliet paper in a little bin by the seat, getting used to almost getting hit by cars, getting used to the sentimentality of Chileans, getting used to eating late, and speaking Spanish. Now I feel pretty comfortable. I just hope that this feeling doesn't make me self-content to the point of not changing my routine. 

School has been constant. Not sure what else to say about it. I have one, maybe two, classes I like. I wake up everyday at 6AM to browse the Internet for an hour and get ready for receiving an education. The best times of the day for me are when I get to have lunch/speak with my family and when we go out a little later in the night (not that we go out every night). Usually how I feel I did on my Spanish determines how I feel about the day. When I feel I speak well for the day, I feel good. And when I feel I speak badly, I feel bad. 

Wellpo, I can't think of anything else to really talk about....So....word of the day. This one I kinda enjoy, "ya po, al tiro" (really I'm combining two here). Ya po is like the Mexican "orale," which is kinda like let's go. But I feel like ya po has more force to it, more of a whip type of feeling. You know what I mean? Like ya po, vamos! Al tiro is basically used to say immediately, right now. So combined, with a little bit of dragged out inflection, it is like "yaaaaaaaapo, al tiro, al tiro, vamos." I like saying it to people on the bus when they take too long to move. Sí po, that is about it. The girls are getting free sushi and mojitos tonight for being girls, so off we go to Moe's..."sometimes you want to gooooooo, where everybody knows your name!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-mi0r0LpXo