I found people to spend chrsitmas with!!! The swedish kids invited me to get a cabin at the beach in Pichilemu with them. It's not the most exciting since I've already been to Pichilemu and they don't really speak spanish but I like them and we all like the same music and spending christmas relaxing on the beach, although strange, sounds really nice. so mom and dad, you don't have to worry so much anymore. also, I only have one more month in chile! Did I mention already that so long as everything works out with getting into the Universidad de Buenos Aires I'm going to move there in March? So I have three months free to figure out before that and then I'll be in Buenos Aires until July. Also, even more importantly, I made nispero crisp today with nispero that we robbed in the middle of the night from the empty house across the street. It was insanely good and the oven didn't destroy it and I know this is not the type of news anyone wants to read about on the blog but it was so good and I'm really excited that I haven't lost my baking skills because I thought I had. And even better, I made it without a recipe! I wish that everyone could try nispero because they're kind of an integral part of my experience in Chile and I think I talk about them a lot. in Peru they call them mispero apparently. but i'll stop since no one has any idea what i'm talking about.