Week of Journaling: Day 7

Well, we've come up to the last day of the journaling week, folks. However, I've actually really enjoyed writing so often- it's such a good way to reflect on the days that I might keep it up.

Today, I woke up early and packed my bag to meet Rebecca Edelberg at her hotel, where she'd just arrived from the airport!!! I got to the hotel a little early (shocking I know) and decided to try to surprise her, but my impression of a hotel room cleaner at the door didn't convince her. She knows me too well!

After the shock of seeing each other started to wear off and we could stop hugging each other, we walked over to the Tufts office to join the bus tour to Valparaiso. There we spent the day on a guided tour through the city, and on a boat! I generally don't like being part of a tour- I have this thing against looking like a tourist, and it is impossible to blend in/ become invisible when you are in a large group with a tour guide dressed in bright red shouting out the history of the city. That said, I have already been to Valparaiso on my own, and having the tour helped me to appreciate some of the history and other parts of the city that I hadn't known about. Going on the boat was really fun too! All the time I continued to be in minor shock that Rebecca was sitting next to me. It's so great to see her again, and so strange and wonderful to have a piece of home here in Santiago with me. After Valparaiso, we were thinking of trying to get tickets at the door to the Daddy Yankee concert (I am secretly obsessed) but decided against it since it's very far away, expensive, possibly sold out, and I happen to have class tomorrow. Instead, we went out to a little diner place for dinner, where I ordered the most greasy, unhealthy meal I have ever seen by accident and they played a bunch of strange 80's music videos on the TV. We had a great time. When we asked the waiter about the music, he tried hard to make sure that we knew it wasn't his music, so of course we insisted that it must be. "Me gusta la musica ROCK" he kept trying to convince us... but we wouldn't have it. We wrote a list of 80's music videos from home that he should check out and he promised he would.

Now we're back at the hotel, catching up on life and hopefully trying to do some homework. Luckily she has some too... unluckily it is hard to work when one of your long lost best friends is in the room!