Birthdays

it's the year of the big 21 so its been pretty fun going out and celebrating everyone's birthday here in chile. yesterday was dave's 21st birthday so we went for ice cream and headed out to Veracura on the outskirts of Santiago where there's pretty good night life with restaurants, bars, and discotecs. i also got to see Las Condes which is another neighborhood where the other students live.. very suburbish .. that is very different from Providencia where i live in the heart of Santiago. it was also my chilean sister's birthday, Cecilia, so the apartment was filled with friends and family. of course there was great food at the party and i got to try some great chilean dishes.