So far, today was my favorite day of the trip! The day
started off poorly when I woke up to find out that the hotel had no running
water, but the rest of the day certainly made up for it. We began our day with a company visit to
Indomita, a winery about an hour away from our hotel. Our tour guide, Sebastion, gave us a
wonderful tour and synopsis on how grapes are harvested and how wine is
made. We even got to see the wine
cellar! The visit ended with a wine
tasting on the front porch of the beautiful building. The wonderful weather today made the visit
even more enjoyable! After the visit, we were off to La Isla Negra to have
lunch and take a tour of a famous Chilean poet’s home, Pablo Neruda. The lunch was amazing because we got to sit
outside at a table that overlooked the beach!
Even though I don’t like seafood, I still thoroughly enjoyed the
lunch. When we finished lunch, we walked
down to the beach and enjoyed its beauty for a little while. I’ll post some pictures I took at the beach
below! After spending some time relaxing on the beach, we took our tour of
Pablo Neruda’s house. Pablo was born in
1904 and died in 1973. We learned that
he wrote his first poem when he was only nineteen years old! I also learned that he married his wife
Matilde in his living room and that he was buried just beneath his beautiful
home. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in
1971. Although the tour guide spoke Spanish, she was very patient and spoke
slow enough for us to understand some parts of the guided house tour! After the
tour was over we headed back to good old Hotel America to get ready for another
night in Chile. Tonight we are going to
get dinner for Alison Bundy’s birthday. I can’t wait! Tomorrow we are going to
play sports with the Chilean students all day.
I hope my years of playing soccer in elementary school will help me out!
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