Yes, I am in Valparaíso again (on a Chilean keyboard, so I can type accents, whee!). Yes, I am supposed to go south, to Chiloé island. No, I don't know when I am going, because I have to wait for a package that should have been here last week. Entonces, the fate (...date) of my next travel rests with coordination between the US and Chilean postal systems. Vamos a ver que pasara.
BUT. At least I can spend more time with people here, and at least this city is brimming with continuous festivals and ridiculous events, now that it is spring. After a beautiful day with Gisselle, Meg, and Britain eating glorious seafood empanadas and sunning on the beach in Concon, I went to Plaza Sotomayor which has been partly transformed into "Villa Container" for the Festival Teatro Container, an urban artistic intervention. There are now a collection of shipping containers stacked in the plaza, and tonight there were four women who swung and twirled and danced and flipped to the rhythm of expertly mixed electronic music, connected by bungee cord to the top of the containers. Why is it that New York City sponsors expensive and somewhat wasteful waterfalls, and from the Chilean government we get endless festivals like this one and the one I ran into two weeks ago, Festival Tsonami, which featured groups of people producing electronic music in various plazas...? Public art (that brings people in, employs artists, and interacts with the city) is so important!
Anyways, I will pass some sunny windy days here, I think, with my newly purchased, 6mil pesos (approximately 12US$) non digital camara which may or may not work and lacks even a zoom. Ojala I will find my way south soon. My plan is to head to Chillán but quien sabe, we shall see what the next weeks hold.
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