The Product Of Sore Muscles And A Comfy Bed

Ok so this is a blog of three parts. To be honest, I'm not that sure what I'm writing so we'll see how this turns out.

Part One

Well things here are pretty settled. Although actually 2 months seems to be the marker where people are used to us and are now on the hunt for boyfriends for us. They seem oblivious to our protests that we're really not here to get married but to teach English. Every Wednesday at lunch Danay asks us if we've found anyone yet that we like and also talks about her brothers a lot. I think she wants us to marry so that we'll stay here and never leave. Which is just quite sweet really. Nice that we've made such a good impression on her.
We helped Ruth wrap a present yesterday and in so doing I managed to break some complicated ribbon thing. Amina made me be an adult and apologise. Uh I swear that girl is good for me. How horrible ;)

The cockerels here are crazy; they start crowing at two in the morning or ten at night. I think they may be disturbed.

We found this picture when we were in a supermarket killing time and thought it was  really funny.

Part Two

Amina is my project partner (PP) and is quite lovely. She's very hench (a word she taught me that apparently means strong (like henchman)) from doing capoeira for two years. She's outgoing and listens to a lot Santana music. We get along very well. People say that it's good to have time apart but we don't seem to find it a problem when we're constantly together for a week or more. I think this is because we don't feel the need to talk all the time and we don't have clashing personalities.
I personally quite enjoy it when we sit in the kitchen, late at night, chatting while Amina has her post-capoeira food. We have quite hilarious conversations, such as last night's, which comprised of us deciding the best way to put of Chilean suitors. Faces were pulled, jokes were made, it's nice to have a funny PP.
She randomly pulls faces and has an eye twitch that won't quit. She's trying to maintain her French as well as learning Spanish. When she told Ruth this she got the anticipated response of Ruth telling her how she does too much work and should relax more. Some days Ruth tells her she's not allowed to study. Oh Ruth how you help me.
I have to say I'm now quite used to Amina randomly doing headstands in the middle of the room and walking with her hip wiggle.
She's so active that I think I'm going to be much healthier after spending a year with her. Lets hope it lasts to uni life as well.

Me and Amina at a capoeira party

Part Three

Guys my 18th birthday is coming up (woo I'll finally be an adult!) and I've had some emails from people asking what to do about that. As I'm planning my summer travelling at the moment I would really appreciate any money you would feel like giving to help fund these travels. I'm having a great time just planning the summer (January-February for me) and I think it's going to be great. Going to Valparaiso for New Year and will be in San Pedro de Atacama for your birthday mum. Volunteering in an animal shelter in Bolivia for two weeks as well before we try and make the long journey back down Chile. Not quite sure what we're doing in between all these events quite yet but it should be good :) So yeh any money would be a great help! Contact my mother for info on how to give money.


So yeh that's this blog. We're going to Pucon on the 1st of November because we have a long weekend. There's so much to do there! Who thinks I should climb the Villarrica volcano? 

This was the headline that resulted from the interview last week. Even though we're on the front page there's actually nothing about us in the rest of the article. So annoying!

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