Ooops, I did it again

So I completely fried myself at the beach the other day. I have never been more burnt in my entire life. I got back to the apartment and didn't seem to feel too bad, but after about an hour, my skin was sooo burnt that it was almost purple. My host dad told me that there's a hole in the ozone layer right above Chile, and because of this the sun is about ten times stronger. Of course, I learned this AFTER I had just been on the beach for five hours without sunscreen. Oh well, you live and learn I guess. Now my host mom calls me La Roja ( the red girl), and I've gotten a lot of sarcastic comments from my friends down here. We all found this really fun bar down here called Café Journal, and now our whole group goes down there almost every night. Apparently here it's normal to stay out until six in the morning...for me it's just tiring, and I think my family is starting to worry because I sleep all the time. It's been so hilarious down here because we're all getting so messed up with the languages. Now it's hard for all of us to speak English, and when we try we all start mixing the two languages and sound completely ridiculous. I'm still getting used to kissing perfect strangers every time we're introduced to somebody...it's still a little odd for me. It's custom here to hug and kiss people we know every time we meet up with them, and when we're first introduced to people we have to kiss them instead of shaking their hand. Very different from the US, but, oh well I can get used to it I guess. I registered for classes today, and school starts on Monday. I'm taking a lot of literature and social classes, and a traditional dances of Chile class. Today I have to go shopping and try to explain to the guy at the computer store why my computer isn't working...it should be interesting. Not much else is new, other than my skin color, but I'll try to get more pics on here as soon as I can. Later!