I bounced back and forth between Flor's house in Rivadavia, with poodles sleeping in my bed, and Esteban's house in Mendoza capital, with a giant dog sleeping in my bed. I don't know what I did in my past life to get such awesome friends who really didn't follow that whole- a house guest is like a fish, they start to stink after three days- thing. Cause believe me, I stunk, but they didn't seem to mind!
In Rivadavia, I mostly hung out with Flor, her great family, her awesome friends, and her three dogs-the poodles, Sophie and Julie
and Camilla, her stepdad's dog who hangs out outside but is always trying to get in through the window. Most exciting, a baby-Flor's nephew- was born! Ticiano, who everyone agreed came out of the womb mighty ugly. He was compared to a potato, a martian, a raisin, and Pepe Grillo-a.k.a. Jiminy Cricket. Now he's much cuter. For New Year's I had a great dinner with Esteban's mom, sis, grandpa and neighbor, complete with fireworks in the street and champagne at midnight. There was dancing, a great trip on the jet-ski, driven masterfully by Flor, lots of nice naps and walks to eat ice cream, lots of floating around in pelopinches, or little above-ground pools, and, with Esteban, finally watching the third Lord of the Rings while splitting a kilo of ice cream!
And today, I headed back to Chile, and will be chilling here until the end of Februray. Through an English teacher I met at the language school in Santiago, I got offered a job running English workshops for little kids in Zapallar, a beach town near Santiago! Right now I'm staying at my future boss's house in Santiago- with cable, a giant bed, more poodles and a BATH TUB!!- and on Friday I drive out with her to Zapallar. I'm still pretty foggy about what exactly I'm going to be doing, but I'm really excited for it all.
and Camilla, her stepdad's dog who hangs out outside but is always trying to get in through the window. Most exciting, a baby-Flor's nephew- was born! Ticiano, who everyone agreed came out of the womb mighty ugly. He was compared to a potato, a martian, a raisin, and Pepe Grillo-a.k.a. Jiminy Cricket. Now he's much cuter. For New Year's I had a great dinner with Esteban's mom, sis, grandpa and neighbor, complete with fireworks in the street and champagne at midnight. There was dancing, a great trip on the jet-ski, driven masterfully by Flor, lots of nice naps and walks to eat ice cream, lots of floating around in pelopinches, or little above-ground pools, and, with Esteban, finally watching the third Lord of the Rings while splitting a kilo of ice cream!
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