July 21st

The theme of this post is small victories. This morning I had my first hot shower since arriving here. It was divine. Yesterday the day before yesterday I finally acquired a Chilean cell phone so I can text all the other Tufts kids who I spend all my time with. We spent yesterday afternoon at a vineyard and had a wonderful lunch and did a wine-tasting afterwards (yay study-abroad!).

Our lunch had a soup course.

mmmm vegetables and rice cooked in wine.

fancy passion fruit dessert 

We seem to end up in really pretty places at sunset

I taste...dirt? What?

Earlier in the day we also went to a memorial for those who disappeared in during the Pinochet era in the town of Paine. Out of 2000 people, 70 people disappeared which is the highest percentage in Chile. Two women, one who lost a husband and one who lost her father, spoke to us about the experience and why they helped create the memorial.

Our guide shows us the mosaic her family designed to commemorate her father

Mosaics were grouped by family. One family lost three brothers.