Since Alex and Katie and I needed dresses for Katie's brother (Vicente's) graduation thing. On Monday after school, we took a bus to Santiago and then rode the metro to the mall! I was super freaked out because it was my first time using public transpiration, but I was with Alex and Katie so I knew I would be fine.
They are both like big sisters and are always looking out for me and helping me with things and giving me advice. I love them and they are so awesome! While we were at the mall, we all found a few cute things to buy but we were more excited about finding out that the 9th best ice cream shop in the WORLD was in the mall we were in. Of course we had to try some!
Wednesday night was the night of the graduation, so after school on Wednesday Katie, Alex, and I got on the bus again and met Katie's brother at the station in Santiago. He was super nice and took very good care of us throughout the entire trip. We stopped at his apartment to drop off out things before going to get dinner and we were all shocked to see how tidy his apparent was! It was perfect and really well decorated and we teased him a lot because you are supposed to live in an ugly apartment in college, right? While we were eating dinner, we asked him about the graduation and were surprised by the information we received. It turned out that the graduation wasn't actually a graduation, it was just a dance for his college called "the graduation." OOPS hahaha. We didn't really care! We knew we were in good hands. His college is actually like an Ivy League in Chile, and as we met all his friends later that night we could tell we were with pretty smart people. They weren't super nerdy or anything, just the way they spoke and the words they used made us feel like we were around intelligent people. I love intelligent people, so that was awesome! We got to the dance in a bus that his friends rented and the dance was gigantic! There were so many lights and so many people! Everyone knew Vicente and his friends so we ended up greeting a ton of people. I hung out with one of Vicente's best friends, Felipe, for a really large portion of the night because he was really dorky and awesome. We all danced all night long and didn't get back to Vicente's apartment until 6:00am the next morning! Alex, Katie, and I slept until 1:00pm the next day and then begged Vicente to take us to Starbucks. He did! It tasted just like home even though our names were spelled a little differently...
That's all the super exciting stuff that happened to me this week. On Friday I played soccer with the boys again and then went to the movies with my friends! I got my first Chilean sunburn playing soccer. I missed a part of my neck with my sunscreen and it is now very red hahah. I will be more careful!
On Saturday I went to my school to play bingo with my parents and my friends. I didn't buy a bingo card because I wanted to save my money for the South Trip next week! My parents didn't win anything, but during one of the games one of Nigel's friends had to go home so he left me with his bingo card. Guess what I did with it?! I played one game, and I won the game, and it just happened to be the "grand bingo" game so I won this boys family a professional coffee machine! When I went up to get the prize everyone was clapping and congratulating me and making jokes about how it wasn't fair that they had been trying to win prizes at this agent for so many years and I just won on my first try. I felt so happy because his family is going to be so happy! I also like the idea that whenever someone asks them when they bought a professional coffee making machine, they are going to explain that some random gringa won it for them in a bingo game!
I am getting super excited about the South Trip and everything! I will try to update my blog next Saturday night before the trip but I'm not making any promises because I don't know if that's going to work out. Either way, I can assure you will be hearing from me soon! :)
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