Today was our last full day here in Chile. We were allowed to sleep in until 12:00PM but I got up at 9:00AM so I could go shopping. I had breakfast alone at the hotel; the hotel staff were very nice and personally served me and asked what we had done in town.
I walked down to the boardwalk first. It was very quiet; almost no one was out besides the street sweepers. On the boardwalk almost all the shops were empty except for one scarf shop – luckily that is what I was shopping for. I then went back into town to shop at the markets. I looked around a lot, but the majority of the shops were closed, so I started walking back to the hotel. On the way back I ran into the girls, so I went shopping with them. I ended up getting a nice silver and Lapis Lazuli bracelet. At this point I was down to roughly 7,000 pesos, or $14, but I had all of my souvenirs.
At 12:00PM we met up with the rest of our group and headed over to the University for the last time. Werner gave us a lecture on coming to the University for an Exchange Program, and he had a Belgian exchange student talk to us about it. I hope to be able to study there.
After the lecture we played futbol and basketball with the Chileans, some we knew and some we did not. My team lost futbol, but we won basketbol.
After that we visited the “school store” to get some university shirts, but the school store was more of a school supplies store: they had pens, sticky-notes, and the like.
Burt and I went to the Casino. I just wanted to do 1 spin, but the machine only took 1000+ peso bills. I watched Burt use up $40; he was up $26 at one point though. All in all, fun experience for me.
Lessons Learned: 1. La Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria has tests about every month, and if you do well enough on the tests you do not have to take the final.
2. Vina del Mar does not wake up until 12:00PM
3. Texas Hold ‘Em is not big in Vina del Mar. The casino was almost all slots.
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