Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
I just wanted to take a moment and thank all of you for your constant support, friendship, love, knowledge, mentorship and
for just being such beautiful people and for being in my life. They say
that it takes a village to raise a child and I'd like to thank each one
of you for continuing to be a part of my village.
I hope you all have a wonderful
Thanksgiving day! May you eat lots of deliciousness, play lots of fun
games, and speak only kind words today and every day. We forget that
not everyone has what we do and that we really have so much to be
thankful for! So whether they be a friend, family member or stranger on the street, thank someone!!!
In general, Thanksgiving is not celebrated here in Chile. But those
ex-pats who are here are celebrating with their family or friends. We
are not going to do anything particularly special today for
Thanksgiving, but on Saturday it looks like we will be going to have a
Thanksgiving picnic with some college friends. I'm planning on bringing
the sequence game that I made (pictures to come) and the Bananagrams
that Antonio got for Christmas last year. It should be fun. Tonight
I'm hoping to watch a movie of some sort when Antonio isn't studying for
his exam on Saturday.
Here in Santiago, Chile, things
have been going along. I'm on unit 17 of 20 on my way to getting my
certificate to teach English. I'm hoping to finish the course next week.
Antonio is almost done with his classes so we will soon both be looking for work. The weather here is already into the mid-high 80's and Sunday I got my
first sunburn of the season (went to see Chile's first ever Red Bull
Soap Box Race down a hill nearby-- it was fun but super crowded and HOT).
Yesterday we accompanied Antonio's dad on the weekly shopping trip for the family store and I discovered the Chilean version of Costco. It's nowhere near as big, nor does it sell everything like Costco (only food), and it's not a club, but you buy things in bulk and it's cheaper. Two shopping carts and $400 or so later and we had all the necessary items to sell for another week at Kiosk Lago Budí (Lake Budí Kiosk - it's a named after a lake in Southern Chile). We also went and bought 8 boxes of ice cream bars and trucked them to the kiosk on the bus --YUP! :D
The other news is that last night we both started a new dance class taught by a friend of Antonio's from Colombia. It's called Salsa Caleña and is similar to salsa, but instead of taking steps on 1-2-3 (pause) and 4-5-6,
in salsa caleña, you step or do a kick or tap on every beat which makes
it a lot faster and more difficult! Here is a link to the 2007 World
Salsa Caleña Competition winners. Fyi, we're not that good yet. :p
I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and rest of the week! Love and hugs to you all!
Love, Kaia (^_^)
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