Tonight was the last night for the French boys. which is really sad because they were amazing and knocked on my door every night and took me out. Everyone decided that the only way for people to understand how to pronounce my name is to say caliente, which is pretty funny. also funny when your landlord is the one pouring you beers. I had an hour long discussion with this 45 year old man, Juan Carlos, about why he is uncomfortable with gay people. It was pretty cool to be able to have conversations like that in Spanish and at a party, although he was pretty adamant in being uncomfortable even when he understood that his arguments really didn't make sense. Some other things that happened today are: I walked to class which was a pretty big deal because it was an hour and a half away. But I saw lots of things including a strike. Then I decided to take a sculpture class and man, I am so confused about how things work here. I was the only one who showed up for class and the teacher didn't even really know that she was scheduled to have class (she is also a cookie addict and really into talking about this trip that she recently took to Italy). And it is a four hour class but she also wants me to come in every Wednesday from 10-2 for a second class session. But it is really cool to have a bunch of bags of dirt and mix them in the right formula and be able to make your own clay. So I'm pretty excited about it. And it felt really good and right to be in the Facultad de Arte. I think I'm going to decide to only take this class and the arte textil class and maybe anthropology and responsibility, because already that will be 20 hours of class which is a ton. If I took Chilean Art History, I'd have to wake up at 7am which realistically is never going to happen. I think I'm just going to go to all the classes that sound interesting and get the syllabi and check out the books from the library on my own. Oh, also yesterday I spent almost 6 hours hanging out and having tea with my mom's colleague and her friend and sister who were supersimpatica and it was amazing to feel totally comfortable having a 6 hour long conversation in Spanish. They were really great and invited me to have lunch or dinner (or got to a bar) whenever I want, which will be really nice since my cooking has not yet excelled past mediocre. But I did buy arugula and beansprouts and honey and peanut butter, so my life now has a little variety.