Chilean "Beatles Bands"

I'm determined to get better at this blogging, at least to let you get a peek into my life here. Yesterday was a pretty busy day, but fun! Even though I finished my internship at the hospital (and now am interning at a local health center in this poor, poor little area called Peñalolén), one of the doctors invited me to come every Friday to see surgeries. So yesterday I got to watch an amputation of a diabetic leg and a fistula of an artery and vein through a tiny, tiny cut near the wrist (basically they took an artery and vein and sutured them together because the pt had renal dysfunctions...I'm still a bit confused on this, will need to google.) After seeing two surgeries in a row, I went home to have some lunch with the family, then went rock climbing. After that I went straight to doing the English conversation sessions at the library. However this was the first time I, by myself (!), led the group, so I invited one of my chilean friends named Hugo to go with me to help me out. I'm so glad he came because he would purposefully ask me "English" questions and make funny jokes to help me out (haha). Anyway, after that, because Hugo absolutely loves the Beatles, he invited me to a Chilean Beatles Concert Festival (Chileans ABSOLUTELY love the Beatles). It was interesting because I've gone to Abbey Road on the River in Louisville and seen all these cover bands of the Beatles, but never have I ever seen Chilean cover bands of the Beatles. It was great! It was also fun singing IN ENGLISH with all the Chileans.

All right, must get back to doing a bit of studying.... mid term tests on Monday with papers :(
chao! Angelita

CHILE VA AL MUNDIAL!!!!! CHI CHI CHI LE LE LE VIVA CHILE!

Chile's fútbol team (soccer team for us gringos) has qualified for the World Cup 2010 in South Africa. I'm pretty sure they qualified in their game against Colombia on Saturday (they won 4-2), but they just played Ecuador today and won that as well, therefore the chilenos are going crazy around town now! All the commercials have been some variation of the chilean fútbol chants and the only things on the news right now are clips of the games and the overwhelming excitement of the chilenos. If I'm correct, the last time they made it to the World Cup was 1998. Also, they have some of the youngest players that have qualified for the World Cup (the oldest player is 23 and many of them are even my age!), so many people are talking about the "young, fresh" advantage they have. Anyway, the town is going crazy here! I swear I might not be able to sleep tonight. All the cars are honking their horns, trying to fit the rhythm of the chilean chants, people are screaming "Vive chile!," and the apartment right next to me on the 21st floor of our building has been throwing confetti paper out of their window for about an hour now. It's all pretty exciting and it makes me really happy that seriously the chilenos have something passionate like this that connects the whole country with each other. It's a good nationalistic thing they have, unlike our tank-looking American football players.

Vive Chile!
Angelita

Ps. Just got back from San Pedro Atacama desert (driest desert in the world!) this past weekend. It was absolutely amazing, I will write about it soon...I swear it'll be a good read. Nothing big planned for this week. Instead of adventuring this weekend, I'll stay in Santiago to go to my host sister's Cheerleading competition because I promised her I'd go. Plus I have a midterm on Monday so I should probably study for that as well. Boo, I forgot about the school part here.