Today was the scariest day I have had so far. I found this great website (which strangely enough was the same one that I used to research a lot of my art history final paper) that told me what was showing at every art gallery in Chile but only 2 were open past 2 on Saturday so I decided to go to one in Las Condes, not realizing how far east it was going to be. Needless to say, I misread the map, got off the metro 2 stops early, thought it wouldn't be a big deal because I was at 300 and needed to be at 600, then realized the addresses were actually in thousands so I had a lot of blocks to walk, then the street ran into a big highway and there was no way to cross so I had to walk 5 blocks out of the way to cross and then I couldn't turn back because there was a really long fence that stretched for about 6 more blocks which I walked along and happened to turn my head to look at what was on the other side of the fence and found myself looking into the barrel of a rifle 5 feet away because it was the Escuela Militaria and ran away . . . I finally got there after walking for a really really long time and really really not liking Las Condes or the people who made tongue gestures at me. The exhibit was ok, i liked the way the three artists complemented each other but I didn't really like most of the work individually. There was a lot of symbolisom but I didn't have enough context to really get it. The work was all pieces they had done when they knew eachother in the 70's. (Gonzalo Cienfuegos, Carmen Aldunate, Benjamin Lira)




I also have been eating pretty poorly, i.e. canned tuna fish mixed with avocados and carrots every day for dinner. So if anyone has easy vegetarian recipes I can make here with limited supplies, please tell me.