Brilliant

This week went a lot better than last week, that's for sure. So far no more creepy guys, and I'm finally starting to fit in here. I was mistaken for a Chilean on the bus the other day, and people on the street actually asked me for directions. I was on the beach with my friend Esther the other day, and a vendor came over to us and we were like, "No gracias," and the man pointed over to a group of guys and told us that one of the guys had bought a bag of snacks for us. Hahaha it was hilarious. I guess here it's the equivalent of the American "buy a girl a drink" thing. And then of course one of the guys had to come over and talk to us, and he was really kinda sketchy...here they call them "flighties," although I'm not exactly sure what that means. But Esther and I booked it out of there as fast as we could--we had to "meet up with someone." Hahaha. I'm in a literature class with almost all Chileans, and so far I've been doing ok, up until the professor assigns homework, then for some reason I can't understand a word she says. Not so great. Hopefully I'll get the hang of it though. Yesterday my host mom told me to invite one of my friends over for dinner and to spend the night, which we were told is really uncommon here, so I wasn't expecting it at all. It was good though, because I know that my host mom wants to get to know all of my friends--it's the whole overprotective thing again. I really miss the food back home...and guess what the only food that makes me sick down here is? McDonalds. Every time I eat it I get sick, so now I don't know how I'm going to live. And they eat a ton of fruit all the time. For breakfast my mom gives me like two plums, a banana, and a bowl of grapes, along with cereal, a sandwich, and yogurt. I swear I'm going to come home weighing like a million pounds. Oh well. 18 days down, 127 to go. My sister and her boyfriend are coming to visit in less than two weeks, which will be interesting considering neither one of them knows a word of Spanish. Can't wait. Again, still trying with the pics, I have some really good ones! Later!