Yes! I am finally caught up with all my days. I apologize for how brief and not detailed my posts have been. We've done so much that it's really hard to remember what we did on what days. My computer hasn't really been working so I haven't been able to do much on it. Luckily today a boy at our hostel lent me a charger that works so for the next few hours I am back in action. I also can't post any pictures because of course my camera broke on the second day here. I am hoping that since tomorrow is a free day I'll be able to buy a new one somewhere.
Today was a pretty cool day. We went to the national cemetery. It was unlike any other cemetery I've been to. It was HUGE. It was seriously like a town. The rich people had these gigantic mausoleums. The guide said one is worth 600 million dollars. I don't know if he meant US or Chilean, but either way...that's a lot of money. The poorer people were stacked in rows upon rows of squares with names and dates. The people in the middle had rectangles, usually with their name and a lot of flowers. There was a special building where all the Italians are buried. It's about 8 stories high and we got to walk on the roof of it. The view was spectacular. There was a section of the cemetery for the mass graves that were put there during the dictatorship. A lot of them didn't have names or dates on them. Another sad moment. Our professor was telling us that she went to her uncle's funeral in this cemetery during the dictatorship (his funeral wasn't related to the government) and they were not allowed to look in the direction of those graves or it would look like they were organizing or sympathizing with them.
There were two dogs that hung out with us the entire time we were at the cemetery. There are a lot of stray dogs in Chile but all of them are really friendly. A few girls went jogging this morning and a pack of dogs ran with them.
Tonight I think we are all going out to dinner. I will try to do better at being more detailed. Maybe now that I can update every day I will be able to actually put thought into them rather than a bunch of words about what I did that day..
Stay away from the wild doggies. Remember your cousin William? Get "nipped" by one you will be home getting shots for the next month. No fun! There was an article in today's (Sunday) paper about potters fields in and around Leesburg. Many of them have been paved over for roads and parking lots. Kind of sad.
ReplyDeleteHave a good day and enjoy your trip to the coast.