fiesta

There’s no party like a Chilean grammar school teachers’ party! Friday night JEB (Jose Elias Bolivar) had a fiesta for a visiting official. Food and drinks galore! Once the formal dinner was over, the catering staff thoughtfully left behind a huge cake and sodas and rum – the teachers spend half the evening pouring ron into my cup…

Transcript:
Teachers: starting to pour without asking
Me: “Ok pero solo piqueno, por fa!
Teachers: laughing “No! Mas mas mas RONNN!!!!”

And then they would dance the quaka.

My host teacher also pulled me aside to say: “is necessary frequent the bars, Margarita!” Lovely evening – home at 3am!

Saturday night was a movie and boxed wine night with other volunteers in Angol. Today we went for a long hike in the Angolese mountains – my host mom made me eat two huge beef sandwiches for energy and then gave me a plastic bag full of grapes for the journey. Beautiful countryside – looks a lot like Lake Tahoe. We jumped off rocks into 40 degree which probably wasn’t too smart. On the way out, a toothless cow herdsman chased me (with his two cows, so needless to say, it was a slow effort), screaming “te amo!” The life of a gringa!