About That

I was so ready to write a post about how it sort of just skipped over spring and is super warm here in Santiago, but here I sit in warm fuzzy pj pants and a sweatshirt!! The last few days it has been so hot here! I think this room where I spend most of my life is horrible! The sun beating on the tin roof must be why it gets so hot! Rodrigo and I share a small bed, here its called a 1 and a half plaza bed, but seriously its like an inch wider than a twin bed!! So with this heat, it is very uncomfortable to sleep at night and during the day it is too hot to sleep! So I haven't been getting a lot of sleep! But I have been getting sooo tired that I will randomly fall asleep for hours at a time.
The weather here makes me think of all the delicious summery food that we eat in the US during the summer time. It also makes me wonder, why don't they eat colder food here? In MN we always had bbqs with burgers and brats then lots of different cold salads. Fruit salad, Snickers salad, potato salad, ten or so different bow tie noodle salads, and fresh veggies and dip, watermelon, honeydew, cantaloupe, grapes!!, they are so refreshing in the heat! But here in Santiago, Rodrigo's mom makes the same things year round, piping hot plates of mashed potatoes, chorkican however that is spelled, soups, soups and more soups! I can't take it! The first day I got here in January, I couldn't even finish my food because 1, it was way too hot in the house and 2, it was too hot of food for me! My face turned bright red and I thought I was going to pass out! When I asked Rodrigo about this he told me that it is always like that. They always eat hot food, year round! Well, he was wrong, one day out of this entire year, Rodrigo's mom made stuffed tomatoes. One day. Another Chilean friend explained this to me by telling me that we can't eat any vegetables raw. When I asked why?, she said because they are bad for you. I told her that I am not dead yet and I have been eating raw veggies since I could chew! And if they are so bad, why can you eat tomatoes, lettuce, and palta raw?? Do they not grow in the same dirt with the same "bad water"?! She then tried to tell me that the vegetables in the US must be safer. I am pretty sure that A LOT of the veggies that we get in the US are from.....CHILE so how can the ones we get be safe and the ones that stay here be "dangerous" if they are from the SAME place! I also once asked why when they cook the veggies they cook them to nothing more than a flavorless lump of mash? Well, do you really want to know the answer to that one? That's how you know they are safe. Ha! Safe!? That's how you know you just boiled all the nutrients out of them and their only purpose now is to tell you that you are a good girl, you are eating your vegetables, you will live a long and healthy life.
Well, I'm tired, its nice and cool here and I have the bed to myself, I am going for a quick little nap before my husband gets home!