I’m sick :(

Ok, so I’ve had a bad cold as of yesterday.  This is not cool.

This weekend has been the “Fiestas Patrias” for the Chilean Independence day.  The parties started last Friday and have been going strong through today.  There are empanadas EVERYWHERE, flags EVERYWHERE, people dancing the queca EVERYWHERE, kids flying kites EVERYWHERE and Viña is full of tourists.  The atmosphere is extremely festive.

I celebrated the 18th with the Ossa’s…Gustavo was all dressed up like a huaso, or a traditional Chilean cowboy, and they had the entire apartment decked out with flags and streamers.  As soon as I walked in, they handed me one of the empanadas that Laura had just taken out of the oven.  So, I hung out there all day.  We flew a kite until it was destroyed in the wind and went for a bike ride to their cabin and walked around the grounds for a while until it got really cloudy.  I made a Crazy Cake and it turned out to be pretty tasty but really dense…I wasn’t too happy with it but at least it was edible.

It’s the biggest national excuse for a drunken party so there have been A LOT of ambulance sirens going by.  This morning at 5:00 there was a car accident outside of my apartment, according to Angela.  I didn’t hear a thing but she said that the ambulance camepolice and had to get everything cleared away.   I don’t think there were any deaths…

Classes start again tomorrow…I have two.  I’m going to bed early and see if I can’t get over this bug.