Before heading out on my desert adventure, I hit up the phenomenon known as "Miercoles Po" with some friends. Essentially, it is a large gathering of international students at some club where we get in free and hang out. This week's was at a bar somewhere in Bellavista, the night life district of Santiago. Despite my reservations about hanging with an even more gigantic gringo pac than usual, it was a fun time. Especially since we ended up having to use Spanish as a lingua franca with international students from France, Germany and the Netherlands. So while it didn't help me actually hear better Spanish, I at least got to speak some.
Also, a random group of performers came out after an hour or two of techno to perform the cueca, Chile's traditional dance, which was rather unexpected. We also had an interesting discussion about the etymology of the word "gringo" (apparently for US/Canadians only?) with the cab driver on the way home as well as learning some Chilean slang. Good times...
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