Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Weird Weather

Thursday, February 19

Today’s weather was bizarre. We had everything from wind blown sheets of rain, to drizzle, to fog, to bright sunshine, to high winds & dead calm. Even weirder is we experienced every aspect of weather in no particular order. At one point I saw clouds at different altitudes moving in opposite directions. I guess this is what they mean by extreme weather in Patagonia.

I met Lily in town for lunch where we had a small meal at a nice little Italian restaurant. I was still trying to flush out my system from all of the sushi from the night before and the only food that could do it was Italian. We sat down to order when a friend of ours, Oscar, came out from the back to say hello. We met Oscar at the Superbowl party we went to and it turns out his family owns this restaurant. It was great to see him again, and we were able to meet his father, the head chef. We had a great meal, delicious and hearty…just like home.

I biked home through the rain and was greeted by sunshine just as I walked through the door of our apartment...perfect. After a bit of work, Lily came home from work and we went for a quick run before our first English lesson with Felipe, Rosario’s husband. Felipe had asked us for lessons at the birthday asado and confirmed for tonight at his wife’s birthday party this past Sunday. We had a very interesting lesson, and one that was much different than my lessons with Jaime. Felipe’s English is much more advanced and he wanted to concentrate on conversation and high level grammar. We decided to base the lessons around conversation about news articles he we send to him throughout the week. It’s a new approach to teaching, but I think it will work quite well in this situation.

After our lesson with Felipe we threw together a quick meal of Chicken cutlets and veggies. I made a tons of cutlets to save for lunch tomorrow. We are still trying to decide on a destination for this weekend, and right now Chiloe seems to be taking the lead.

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