A few nights ago my oldest sister's pololo (boyfriend) played with his band in the basement of el huevo, one of the main clubs in Valparaíso. They play classic rock and were really good. They're called malmenor (click on the name to go to their myspace, Emilio is the guy playing guitar). Afterwards las gringas (white foreigners), Solveig (who is Norwegian and Swedish and also really tall and therefore impossible to lose), Claire, Kate, and I went upstairs to dance in el huevo. It's genius: four different floors (I think) each with different sections and music. They play reggaetón, eighties, electronica, hip-hop, banda (that's what it's called in Mexico at least. I think they're called rancheros here, but I'm not sure) and salsa on the roof. We met a salsa teacher named Rodolfo who spun me around like crazy and dipped me to the floor...the whole enchilada but I was only able to pick up the basic basic step and just followed as best as I could. Muy muy entretenido==>fun.
The only bad thing about going out here is that you can't count on getting any sleep. From what I've seen (which isn't much), if you're meeting up with friends first, it might not be until 2/2:30am until you actually go somewhere to dance and el huevo stays open until 5am most of the time. So I'm guessing that getting home between 5-7am is pretty normal. I'm not sure if that's the Chilean m.o. but as of now, I'm counting on more than enough time on the dancefloor but a super messed up sleep schedule. We'll see...
Other fun stuff = the beach!!!! Finally! Today we went to Ritoque, a beach about an hour away. Fernando (Marce's boyfriend from Santiago) and Emilio came and it was really fun. Marce drives kids to school (not sure if I said that yet) so we used the big yellow van. We picked blackberries on the way and picnicked and walked on the beach. There were waves, jellyfish, things called aguas muertes (dead waters) that were like clear pieces of gelatin but I don't think they're animals, and sand/sea fleas!!!
They're so disgusting! You could feel them under your feet in the water because there were so many. It was super cold anyways but still really gross. These were the jellyfish that had washed up. They're huge with curly tentáculos and stripey stuff on top.
I'm choosing classes tomorrow in Valparaíso. It's going to be crazy confusing because the system's a bit different here but it should be fun. I'll probably take a bunch of art classes so I'm not too overloaded. I'll post pictures of the beach on the side panel =====>
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