Shoot! I'm almost an adult

In 5 days, I will turn 18. To me, that is something extraordinarily peculiar. I have thought I was an adult  since about the age of 10 and now its really happening. What my life looks like in my life right now:

Not doing my own laundry (gotta love Chile- I hate laundry)

Only cooking about once a week

Listening to/making sex jokes or gringo jokes all the time

Learning the cello (life long dream, and turns out my school has cellos to lend) 

learning spanish 

learning bad words in spanish

using bad words in spanish 

not driving 

walking to school everyday and loving every second of it

living in freaken Patagonia Chile! 

Well thats not really going to change at all with adulthood except I must point out, the drinking age here is 18 and I have been told that Chilean wine is incredible...

The last week there was no school in celebration of Chilean independence and man did we celebrate! Whether it was dancing the national dance in front of the whole town, eating incredible traditional chilean food, or dancing until 6 in the morning! It was definitely a good week. 

Thats all I got for you all. Ill get you pictures at a later date. Stay classy. 

Mellow

Island life combined with small town combined with latin america results in one thing, mellow. There is a large culture of "tranquilo" and everything is just a little slow. I am still trying to get used to this. I like parts of it but a large part of me wants to head out and adventure but the people here work, eat, sleep, hang out, and watch television. I thought that was America but its appears it has permeated to the end of the world. So much inside of me wants to get out and run and explore this area and learn as much as possible and I feel as though I am learning in a much more mellow way and not nearly as much as I could be. Here are some photos of the last couple weeks.