Despite having a videotape of myself as a child begging my parents to celebrate Easter "just a wittle bit..." and despite the fact that I am living in a conservative Catholic country, Easter passed here about as uneventful as usual. My family is not Catholic, hence, we didn't celebrate Easter. However, I had a wonderful three day weekend and the weather was gorgeous. Saturday was in particularly spectacular. I spent that day sailing on my friend's yacht (i know i know, sounds hella swanky), but of course it was awesome. My friend Andee's dad invited us on their family's yacht to "view Viña and Valpo from the sea." We had perfect weather, brought snacks and champagne...all and all a wonderful day.
Friday, Paloma finally finished her movie that has been keeping her incredibly busy for the past month. For those of you who don't know, Paloma is a film producer and has actually been working on a very large film here. She recently told me that this movie, called "El brindis (the toast)" is the most expensive film ever produced in Chile. Paloma worked as one of three producers, the other two being in charge of scenes shot in Mexio, and her being in charge of production in Valpo. The theme of the movie is interesting: it is about a young woman who travels from Mexico to Valparaíso to find her estranged father. She becomes involved with rabbi and hence there is an overtone of judiaism in the story. Ironic i think. Anyway, while I don't know a lot about Chilean film, the director and main actors are apparantly well-known in this country and the script writer wrote the very famous movie "Machuca." The film won't be realeased until September, but it will be very to cool to see what my sister has been working so hard on.
In other news, another boy moved into the house yesterday bringing the grand total to 7. He moved into a spare bedroom i didn't even know existed in this large house! Although the weather was lovely this weekend, today makes me think fall is coming. Today had a portland-ish feel, cloudy, not hot, not cold, slight drizzle that doesn't really make the ground wet...
Oh yeah! Emma, David, Dana, Andee and I bought bus tickets to Mendoza, Aregentina for the weekend. It will be a quick trip (well an 8 hour bus ride, and then three days there) but should it should be lovely. I just have to cross my fingers for nice weather in the Andes so that they don't close the road back to Chile!
Finally, i have to say that while I'm having a blast, but I am always missing everyone at home (home in portland, home in colorado...everyone). I love when you comment on the blog and I love getting emails from people. Thanks for the love! EVERYONE COME VISIT ME IN CHILE! Besos.
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