Saturday

Today was basically a free day.  Our only requirement was that we had to go to two museums.  I chose the Pre-Columbian Art Museum and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Museum of Fine Arts).  The Pre-Columbian one was really cool.  There were a lot of pots and statues from societies like the Mayans and Mapuche.  One of my favorite classes that I ever took at Maryland was an Art History class that focused on the art of ancient Latin America so it was cool to finally see some of it in person.  The Fine Arts museum was alright.  Most art that makes some kind of statement is way over my head so it was more just looking at the nice pictures and photographs.  I was surprised by how small it was.  There was also a lot of earthquake damage to it (from the big one that happened last February-almost a year ago).  It is really crazy to me that things are still being repaired from that.

After that we just came back here and laid out on the roof for awhile.  I made a pizza that I got from the grocery store.  Chilean pizza is weird.  It doesn't have much sauce at all but even the 'plain' pizzas have corn, green beans, hearts of palm, olives, tomato things, and other stuff.  The first person to bring me Pizza Boli's when I get back to DC gets brownies.  Then I took a nap and did some actual work for this class. 

I also got a new camera today!  It was $49,000 which I think is about $100.  The conversion rate confuses me a lot still.  An ice cream cone cost $299 in Pesos which is about 60 cents.  So hopefully I will get some pictures up soon.  Last night a few of us went to a karaoke bar.  I think we did America proud.  Do not expect pictures from that.       

Tomorrow we leave Santiago and spend a week in Valparaiso!