school’s out
i didn’t receive a letter from hogwarts on my eleventh birthday, and have therefore never been forced to endure potions class with a perpetually grumpy snape. but i can say without a doubt, at one point in her life, j.k. rowling visited viña del mar and stepped foot into the shop on the corner of arlegui and ecuador streets. and from there she received the inspiration for snape’s dungeon classroom. the place is lined with canisters and boxes and jars and cartons and crates, all filled with strange and unidentifiable powders and foods. the food part being debatable. and the smells. i won’t even attempt to describe them. but this store reputably has the least expensive almonds and raisins in town. and why did i buy a kilo of pasas rubias this afternoon?
because i’m going to PATAGONIA!!!! this morning i turned in an eighteen page research paper on autism and education, and officially finished my studies at la catolica. hello summer break! obviously the only reasonable thing to do is to leave sunny and beachy viña for a week of backpacking alongside glaciers in the torres del paine national park! we have an absurd amount of food and almost no plan, so clearly it’s going to be an incredible time!
here’s a little preview of what we will be seeing
pretty ugly, huh?
oh, and while i was avoiding said research paper, i headed over to santiago for the day. i’ve been in chile for five months and have managed to do a goose egg of santiago things. seeing as it’s the capital, i couldn’t leave without paying at least a short visit.
cerro santa lucia
high school friends. reunited in south america. life is funny.
ah-mazing cathedral. terrible picture.
super random FREE jazz concert in the really smelly really sketchy market
