Delicious Juice, Poor Translation, Temporary Work Ethic

18 March 2010, Thursday

Only one class today, and it wasn't terribly eventful. We were going to watch a video, but the professor had trouble getting the sound to work so we just talked about some other basic facts about Chile (apparently they have the same technology issues here as in the U.S.). Other than that, class was pretty ho-hum. We mostly learned in detail about things that I've already gone over in the past in more general classes, such as the history of independence in Chile, Bernardo O'Higgins, etc. The French girl still isn't back, I think she'll be in class on Monday though. We chatted briefly after class again, parting ways at the bus stop as usual. I broke down and bought a bottle of juice on the way home, it cost 500 pesos, and pretty much tasted like drinking a delicious peach. I think they have better juice flavors in general here, like melon, peach, papaya, instead of fruity tutti, strawberry explosion, etc. It tastes more like juice and less like flavored sugar, although I'm sure it's probably the same thing. Today was pretty similar to Tuesday, in that I didn't really do anything. I strongly considered going to the gym again today, but a soft bed and fully charged game boy said otherwise. I had planned to go to a pretty cool sounding club with Chris tonight, but apparently there's some kind of promotion going on tomorrow, so he's waiting until then to go. I'm not sure if I'll go yet or not, I may not go if something different comes up, but it looks like the best way to get out of the house most of the time is going to be going to bars.

Other than eat lunch today, I really didn't do much. I didn't even open up my laptop after school to talk to people on Skype or anything, I was really just in a mood to sit around. I did watch TV for a while in English, reading the subtitles as they went by, noticing how the show I was watching (which was a relatively ok sitcom) would be significantly less interesting if you didn't speak English, because the subtitles lacked the feeling of the writing. Other than that, I didn't do anything of note today except for eating, which I don't think actually counts as something of note. It was really warm out today though, in retrospect, I should have gotten some friends together to go to the beach, oh well.

I got into a really productive mood tonight (as I am occasionally apt to do) and slammed out the whole week's journal entries, so I'm hoping that I didn't leave anything out due to putting it off. I've also been semi-working out in my room, but it's pretty fruitless because I probably won't keep it up, defeating the purpose in general. Oh well, at least I can say I tried a little bit now, yes, off the hook!