We checked into yet another hostel upon arriving to Viña del Mar and found two girls from Florida in our dorm. They were just about to begin studying abroad in Buenos Aires (in the same program that two of my friends had done before doing the Valdivia program!). We all dropped off our bags, changed into shorts, and made for the beach. (My leg bruises really completed the outfit) On our way there, I had a woman approach me for some change and even still, she insisted on reading my palm. It basically consisted of me lacking balence and tranquility in my life and having someone in my life who would cause me damage and make me cry. Unexpectantly, she grabbed a strand of my hair, pulled it out, and tied it around a little piece of plant. Things got strange when she wanted me to open my purse to put it in a change purse of some sort. This was where I decided to it was time to leave and as I pushed past her, she yelled that I was distrusting and would receive bad karma. Unperterbed by possibly just being cursed, Ashley and I went to lay on the beach. We headed home to relax and for me to blog (sorry about the crazy HTML on the Santiago post, I couldn't figure out what was going on). That night the hostel had a Mexican Night, which was one of the greatest things I have experienced traveling due to my severe lack of mexican food while in South America. After stuffing ourselves, we went down the street to a bar with the two Floridian girls and two girls from Germany also staying at the hostel. The bar was loud and eccletic, like many Chilean bars, and they were playingAmerican 70's and 80's music videos at full blast. Obviously, a great time was had.
We are now relaxing in a little adobe hostel in San Pedro de Atacama..I will have to collect my thoughts and look at a calender to tell the crazy story of how we got here...
chao
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