chilean independence day is september 18th, and this week it falls on a tuesday. this means that the chilenos get monday off too, making the long weekend start today and end on thursday. university students get the whole week off. so, in order to celebrate this together the university closed and a party started in the common area at about 1230 today. cerveza was 400 pesetas (about 80 cents), piscola was 500ps (an even buck). we learned some tipical chilean dances and met a lot of new chilean friends before we had to dash off to watch a movie about the overthrow of salvador allende (as one classmate put it, kindof a buzzkill. i mean, we each had a few piscolas).
all im saying is the us needs to step it up come fourth of july. it needs to be a week long thing, at least, and it needs to make us as proud as the chilenos are. or at least as drunk.
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