One Dancehall Festival 2008, el 7 de junio, con Tego Calderón, Sean Paul, Mala Rodriguez, DJ Raff, but not in that order. Olivia, Victoria, Betsy (fellow obie, yeah!), me, and Dani (Daniela, Olivia's host sister) bussed out in the morning and met up with her dad, sister, and stepmom in santiago, went to the concert and then stayed at their nice apartment in Providenca (una comuna de Santiago). The concert was great. Mala Rodriguez is from Spain and weird, but I liked her. Tego Calderón (reggaeton artist from Puerto Rico) was probably my favorite...guilty pleasure all the way. And Sean Paul was Sean Paul...I'm not a fanatic but it was pretty cool to hear the classics live. He came complete with four girls in like, spankies and tops that danced (kind of) which was awkward and this one awesome guy whose job it was to appear randomly and stomp his foot while twirling a shirt helicopter style over his head and hyping up the crowd. I want his job.
The next day we went to Cerro San Cristobal which is a famous hill/sporting area/park in Santiago. Rich santiaguinos go there to exercise and hang out. They also have these cool gondola type things called teleféricos (I think) that take you from cerro to cerro. Then we had an asado (barbeque) and bussed back to Viña.
Concierto Número Dos:
Three days later...I was back in Santiago to see Joss Stone with Pablo, Claire, and Jo. We chipped in for gas and all went in Pablo´s car which was nice. The concert was absolutely amazing. She was great, the band was great, her back up singers were great. Espectacular, fantástico, etc. and she´s only 20 years old!!! Everyone go buy her album...right now. Afterwards we hung out with some of Pablo´s friends in his house in Las Condes (the business/upperclass comuna of Santiago). His parents were traveling somewhere so we had the house to ourself (minus the nana, who´s probably almost always there) and got our own beds which was sweeeeet.
Then it was back to Viña to take a history test on: The History of Chilean Art (the entire history of chilean art), which never happened because after the profe arrived (late because he couldn´t find a parking space) he realized the copies of the text that the chileans got and the copies that the gringos got were both missing pages, but missing different pages...so the test was postponed to last week during a class period in which he didn´t even come AND it turned out to be easy. That basically sums up the education bit of my life right now which (thank goodness) is ending after July 7th because I told all my profes that I´m leaving to travel.
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