Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Everyone Listens To Good Music

Take someone you know, someone nice.Someone that has the potential to become perverted and degenerated.And turn this person into what she never thought she could be.
Showing her how normal it is to do the things she never though of doing.Showing her that fearing is ridiculous.
Why would you do that?It isnt manipulation.
Just, it would be funny, if people really were what they wanted to be.If you just stopped for a minute being what other people want you to be, or stop being what you think you should be.No more cool and uncool.
Ok, maybe I say that, because Im still not used of all this chilensis crap society where you' re judged on the way you're dressed and that determines everything.
Oh no, you can not say that because you would look like such a mess!
What if I like being a mess?
Should I go hide in the mountains?
And yay, I almost finished reading the most boring book ever, and I hope I ll be able to say something smart when asked about it.


Monday, November 28, 2005

I Want a Mafia Family




Yesterday was my grandmother's 8o th birthday.And the whole family came out of every single place from Chile.Incredible.And then you have to find something in common with all these people, when really, the only thing that connects you to them, is genes.
Im not used to that.Im so not used to big family reunions like that, since my family lived in Belgium, some others in Italy, some others a little bit everywhere in the US and the rest spread out in Chile.I would meet some of them, maximum one a year and thtas about it.
And it is just soooo boooooring.I was thinking that it is just so useless.At least, we should do something useful such as a big mafia.....full of seventy years old people.yeah, my family is full of old people.
Right in front of me, was sitting this oncle, and it was hard not to laugh since he looked like Happy, the dwarf from Snow White, he had the same big nose and stupid smile on his face.my brother and I started making up stories about him.
Hum, maybe I should stop criticizing and say that they are all nice people.And that i ate like a happy fat kid.

Sunday, November 27, 2005

My Nose!


So this weekend I got sunburnt on my back and my nose, then I burnt my skin, taking a waaaaay too hot shower and today Im still sick because of last night.
And by accident I found a spray on a table and I though it was my brother's medication and then I decided that I wanted to smell it, fortunately nothing went into my eyes, but then they started burning and it was hurting so much.
In fact it didnt belonged to my brother, its one of these sprays that you use when you get attacked or something.This is why it was hurting like hell.Anyway, at least now I know that those things work......
After some deep thinking I got to the conclusion that I bring LUCK, Im a real SHAMROCK.


Saturday, November 26, 2005

Distortion of Reality Is a Necessity to Feel free.


Cute doggy dog threesome.I like the fact that this woman's outfit matches perfectly with her dyed hair.Its a DO.
I dont like it when people are proud because they are busy each weekend, going to weddings and consider it to be an amazing social life.Meh.Its a DONT.

Friday, November 25, 2005

Im Hungry.





Going to Santiago is always such a mess.
I wake up waaaaay too late, and then Im moody and I have to hurry, run outside, catch a cab, go buy my ticket and jump in the bus right before it leaves.
I dont know how, but I ALWAYS seem to have the perfect timing and run in the bus right before it closes its doors and leaves.i never even check what bus I got in.
This time I had to sit next to this guy that smelled of garlic and fart, the worse combination ever.
But I had no choice since the bus was full, I mean I could have gone and sit in the toilet at the back but that wouldnt have been any better.But I was very optimistic and convinced myself that anyway, in a couple of minutes or he would stop farting or I would get used to it.I dont know what it was in the end tho.
Anyway, now, I ve handled in all the papers for my student application and can pass the exams in december.How exciting is that?


There s a guy that gave me this badge when I was in the metro in Santiago.
And I like wearing it here in Vina, since everyone will vote for extreme right wing candidates.And also, its cool when everyone in the building where I live hates me and think Im a communist.
But I hope Bachelet will be elected.
Its time I go eat something, I ve eaten only yesterday's breakfast and my stomach makes weird noises.

Thursday, November 24, 2005

Cuando Me gano La Polla!



There was no internet in Vina because its been raining quite a lot, recently.
I remember complaining about the fact that it never rains here, how I miss rain cuz Im only happy when it rains and because it simply reminds me of Belgium and its crappy crap weather.Anyway, that night I woke up hearing a familiar sound, and after that it didnt stop raining.It rained loads.When crossing a street, you really had the impression it was a river.And people were talking about a catastrophe and were back wearing winter coats, when really, it wasn freezing.And I had the impression I was back in Brussels!
Prison Break is really good.And I dont miss any single episode.

Friday, November 18, 2005

Great Smile.













So.So.I went to do my chilean passport today.I had to wait for hours and hours.Standind in a queue is always so annoying.And then I get to the woman and she just says " No, you cant do it today, you have to come back with your parents."I decide not to show her that I am REALLY annoyed and ask why politely.And she's all "Yeah, since you're not 18 yet, your parents MUST come." Wait a second, Im 19, and then I have to show her my ID, and blabla, and she says that I look 15 or 16. Then she takes a picture of me, compares it with the one on my ID and tells me that I look so much better.But I guess it is kinda true cuz I always look like a terrorist.
Most people think that my brother looks older than me, when he's actualy 4 years younger.And we've auto-proclaimed ourselves the evil twins and to explain the fact that I am older than him, we found a very simple explanation.
We were cute babies in my mum's belly, but then my brother started eating all the food so that I was starving.The doctors were kinda worried but didnt do anything.Then, when there was no more food, he started eating my foot,The doctors decided it was time I came out.Then my foot grew back, because this is just the way things are
.Meanwhile my brother was being a fat ass and decided to stay in longer, when he started eating my mum's liver, doctors kicked him out.This is why he's younger than me.
Voila.

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

This morning, by 11 ish, I went to have breakfast in my favourite cafe, right in front of the beach, and as usual, I had a fresh raspberry juice.
As I said before, Chile and Peru are involved in a political conflict, mainly due to the fact that Peru doesnt want to respect the treaties of 1952 and 1954 that established the geographical boundaries of both countries as well as water territories.
Basically, what this country wants to do, is expand its territory, going through Chilean waters and off course, Chile doesnt want to.Yesterday, was held a conference in Arica ( North of Chile), that diplomats from all over S.A attended.And Ecuador said it would back Chile, and that what Peru wants to undertake is completely illegal.Bolivia hasnt entered the conflict yet, but they are less then welcomed to do so, since they 've always been the eternal allies of Peru.Bolivia has no coasts, which doesnt facilitate transport and economic activities. So what they would like, is to get a portion of territory from Chile to have an access to the sea.
It isnt the first time that Chile is involved in a conflict with Peru and Bolivia.Last time was in the 19 th century and Chile won the war and expanded its territory.Since then, they' ve always been rivals.
But if you start listening the news, you ll see that most S.A countries are pretty fucked up and have many internal problems and conflicts with their neighbours.
Like, elections are to be held soon in Bolivia, and one of the candidates has threatened all the others, saying that if he doesnt win, he'll kill all of them.
The military base is here, in vina where I live.And this morning all the military helicopters were out, probably exercising.
Well this is one of the thing I have to know for my history oral exam in january.
Voila.

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Nobody Likes You.Get Used To It.







And last night, I went to see this chilean movie, that will probably only be released here.Anyway, it was the story of a guy that studies music here in Chile, and then decides to go to NY and stays there 15 years.When he comes back, he expects to find everything unchanged, but in fact. all his friends have grown up, and dont share the same ideals they used to and some of them are even stinky rich and blabla.And he doesnt know how to adapt to all these changes, because he is still the same, people are just too diferent.And I know that its probably the same thing that will happen to me.In 5 years time, after I graduate from uni, I will go back to Brussels, expecting to find the same people I left and in fact everything will have changed.
But I guess its kinda ok cuz Im already used to this idea.
I should be doing some work, cuz my exams are starting some time soon, and at first when I read the instructions, I though that I had to attend the exams in a bathing suit, which would have been original, but its only for the people that are gona study art.
Peru might attack Chile, I hope that I am not that lucky and that nada happens in the end, since Chile has no allies in South Emerica.



Saturday, November 12, 2005

No Tiene Nada Que Perder





And we dont care if poor kids wont be celebrating Christmas as long as there are decorations everywhere.Yeah, this is the way life goes.
Eventually we will end up hating Christmas, I already do.And burn all the related decorations.Bye bye Santa.

Friday, November 11, 2005

And I Only Think About Food.

I finally have my ticket, Im going back home, in a couple of months! Everyone here, thinks that I am a weirdo, for leaving right in the middle of the summer, to go spend winter there.I guess I am.I dont really like travelling alone, its always boring and usually because I spend most of the flight sleeping, I miss all the meals and then I wake up and I realize that I' ve probably been lying on the person next to me during the whole flight and Im starving and Im tired and I have to wait for another flight connection.And I feel alone but then I think about all these times when I was younger, and that my brother and I would wake nine steps behind my parents and that my parents would be all hyperactive and smiling and calling us.....And then I look around and I see all these kids that try and avoid their parents, to pretend they re not with them, and I realize that kids are never grateful.
I just hope my plane doesnt crash in the middle of nowhere.the company Im flying with, is brand new and the flight ticket was extremely cheap, but I had no choice because there werent any sits left anywhere else.I was thinking about making a will before leaving.And I was smiling to myself, thinking how people would think I am so generous.but then I realized that unfortunately I dont have much and that people would think Im gready in the end.
People are way too complicated, even when they try to pretend they're simple.
And then the floor was annoyingly sticky.

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Animal Farm





I have a headache, and I have the impression that my nose grows bigger and then smaller and that it wont end unless it explodes like a bomb.I think its because once, I got my nose brokken that now whenever my head hurts, it does too.Hopefully, it never last for very long.Or maybe Im getting sick, cuz on sunday I went to the beach and it was very very windy and pretty cold in fact.I was one of the only gringa that went swimming. only gringos go swimming at the beginning of november, who else would do that?
First, I only put one foot in the water, it was freezing, my foot started hurting like I was walking on snow barefoot ( I did it once, its horrible) but still I went swimming and when I got out I was kinda blue.Nice.
I think I should go back to bed.I think I should take a nap and I think that Prison Break is really adictive.I watched it last night, actually I think its twice a week.And many horrible things happen, like this guy cuts someone else's toes and this other guy disolves walls with fertilizers to rescue his brother, and during the whole thing Im like OUCH that must hurt or WOAH how does he do that.Anyway, its adictive.

Saturday, November 05, 2005

Christian Brothers


Sometimes, Im homesick.I miss all the good moments.
All the moments I had with friends, the familiar bars I would go to all the times.Places that I would consider to be mine.Not getting lost somewhere.Hearing people speak french.
And I miss dinners, family dinners.Dinners that would last hours and hours, where everyone would be laughing,fighting, trying to speak louder, invent dirty, twisted stories.Dinners that I would leave with my abs in pain, for laughing so much.Now its a brokken home and we all feel that way.
I always associate eating homemade sushis with funny, happy moments, where my sister, Dimitri, my brother and me would make them.Off course my brother and me would only be there to eat them and before the dinner we d already have eaten everything.
Like, sometimes we dont understand how come our parents never abandonned us, cuz we re the worse kids, mean, ugly sometimes, twisted and hyperactive.
This is a story, I have many like that.
Once my brother peed in a bottle of coke that was half full to make a joke to Dimitri.A couple of days later, he drank many long sips before realising that it had a weird taste, before realising what he had been drinking.Off course we all thought it was hilarious.But because in my family revenge is also funny.Dimitri decided to do something too.
During some holiday, the neighbours that live opposite us, asked us if we could take the dog for a walk each day and bring him food while they were away.And so my mum asked my brother to do it.Dimitri dressed like a perv, wearing a big large coat, white trainers and tights on his head.He was hiding in a bush, while my brother was in the neighbours house, he was takking so long and the dog was crying, we had no clue what he was doing ( in fact he was eating the dog's food thats why the dog was frustrated).Anyway he finally got out, and Dimitri grabbed him, my brother first looked at his feet then went upward, saw the tights on his face, started screaming and run to the house.He got in, fell on the floor and couldnt breath anymore, everyone was laughing so much.
When I was very young, we ruined all the neighbours garden.In the summer we d play hide n seek and destroy all the plants and flowers, and we d play until very late at night in our pyjamas.
When I was a kid, we d play stupid games until 6 am and then remember that we had to go to school, these were my first white nights, yeah.
We did many other mean stuff, and we ve always had the most twisted nicknames, and they all have a story behind it off course.