America F-yeah

Things here in Santiago are about the same. I am taking advantage of just living here. Doing all the regular things, going to movies...Transformers was great action, thin plot, hot Megan Fox and terrible Labouf. Its till cold but I am used to it and the mountains have great snow which I am going to beat up this weekend. I don´t really have a ton of new news. I bought a pair of Jeans. Spanish is still coming slowly, I am too logical in thinking to lean it quickly. My brain wants to treat it like a math problem. I miss the summer parties back home. My mom is back from the AT and had a wonderful experience. I can´t wait to have a few beers with her and swap stories. I had an epiphany to recover some of my lost pictures. I used a deleted file recovery program on my camera card and was able to recover some deleted pics from my Jungle trip. I have been trying to soak up the night life a little more. Many of their favorite late night dishes have to do with french fries and I thought we knew how to do fries..nope, they it covered down here..litterally, cheese, steak, everything and its delicious. My last portion of this blog is below. I actually wrote it around 3am last Saturday night but wanted to edit it before sending. Its still pretty raw but its me....


Ok, so this post may have been brewing for sometime, it just took a few beers a good hamburger and some country music to bring it to a head. Tonight, was rather slow. There was a lot of rain in the forecast. I headed out early to check out a big modern shopping mall that was nice and new but really only full of shops just like home....literally, Levis, Wrangler, Head, Puma, Tommy Hillfiger, they were all there. I came home around 10, had a large beer and headed out, in the rain to a less than Chilean bar called Flanigans..yeah thats right it was an Irish bar and yes it was full of drunk people. I spent about two liters of beer at the bar, enjoying the scene and being a little non south american. When closing time came around 2 i wasn´t in the mood to move to one of the all night clubs..it was raining pretty steady so I headed for home which meant a 15 minute bus ride then a 25 minute walk in the rain. Luckily, there was a micky D´s on the way home where I picked up a few cheese burgers. It was while walking home from micky D´s with half a cheese burger shoved in my mouth, Alan Jackson playing on my iPod, rain dripping from my hat and lots of beer flowing through my veins that i bacame dangerously proud of america. So proud that i refuesed to throw away my micky D´s bag, but carried it proudly, not becuase it was a sign of impending obesity for the world but becuase it was a symbol of america. I starting singing my country music out loud and the american dream was flowing through my veins. I have spent the last months seeing this continent and trying to allow myself to be absorbed but it is hard when most of these countries are still reaching to obtain what we already have. So, for now I am on a little blog podium asking any of you still reading this blog to ask yourselves what being an american (or eurpoean or other nationality) means? Personally, I see us growing weaker and weaker as our standard of living raises...becuase we are asleep at the wheel. If we are not trying to stay on top, everyone else is sneaking up on our flanks trying to take our position. se your skills, use your education, reach for greatness and don´t take our position for granted becuase our children will pay the price, we are not entitled to a life of leisure, our forefathers worked to provide us with the opportunites which we have today and must work just as hard to provide the same opportunities for our future generations because the world is coming for us.

Oh yeah, I still owe you guys a blog on Machu Piccu which I forgot because all my notes are gone and I thought I had already written on it...this is a must but I´l save it for another night soon...chu chu was amazing..so far ranking my experiences goes as follows

1) Boca Juniors soccer match, Beunos Aires
2) Jungle, Peru
3) Isla del sol, lake titicaca, Bolivia
4) Machu Piccu, Peru
5) Potosi Mine tour Bolivia
6) Uniou salt flats Bolivia
7) The Museum night club, Buenos Aires
8) Skiing in Chile???

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