Tuesday

It is really hard to keep track of what we did what days.  Everything is running together and I feel like I've been here for 4 months instead of 4 days.  On Tuesday we went on a tour of the presidential palace-La Moneda.  Turns out the president doesn't actually live there, it's just where all of the offices are.  While we were there we saw the first lady.  She only had one guard next to her and she was pretty much just walking around.  I've lived around DC, and now in DC, all but 3 years of my life and I've never once seen the first lady.  I'm in Santiago 24 hours and I see the Chilean first lady, crazy.

After that we walked around Santiago a little bit.  I can't remember exactly what we did after that.  I just know there was a lot of walking. 

That night we went to another Santiago a Mil performance.  Here is where my camera broke.  I don't really know what happened but it just turned itself off and wouldn't go back on even with new batteries.  Anyway, the performance was crazy.  It was based on the artist Alexander Calder who was famous for his mobiles.  The basically made a human mobile but having a crane hold up this frame that people were hanging from.  While hanging they played instruments, sang, and there were to acrobat girls.  At same time the same heavy metal group from the night before played, the gumdrop ladies sang, a (what looked like) high school ensemble played instruments, and a drum group drummed.  At the end they all played Led Zeppelin's Kashmir, which is one my favorite songs by them.  They combined so many different types of music and it sounded SO good.  I really wish I had pictures.