saturday night

this was a culture/physical shock for me when i first arrived here. in the u.s., clubs close at 2 am - in santiago, you might not go out until 2 am and come home at 4:30, 5, 6, etc.

by now i'm used to it i guess. i never realized it, but i just came to expect it. it's 11:30 on saturday night and i'm sitting in my living room as my boyfriend takes a nap in the other room. i'd go lay down too but i'm afraid of falling asleep myself - this happened last night, ha ha :)

he found an apartment today - we walked from santiago centro and plaza de armas to the mercado central and back - we watched a chilean movie - we ate once :) it was a full day for sure and it felt amazing to spend a day like that again with him, it'd been awhile. and now comes the point when we should have gone out 2 hours ago and yet we're waiting - that's how it goes here.

well, live, learn, and adapt - talk like a chilean, eat like a chilean, go out like a chilean - that's what stretches us, to be able to do it and not think twice, to be comfortable with something so foreign. see it, understand it, do it.

thankful for the little things, completely content in mind, body, spirit - that's where i am now :)

i am truly truly lucky.