FA+
Shop
Oops, back.
10 years ago
Forgot to write a journal after we returned. ^^;
The good: Santiago looks almost like Europe, honestly. Clean, working metro lines, information everywhere, expensive as fuck malls, cold weather almost all day (about 15-18°C, on average).
The bad: my sister was an absolute cunt, as usual. Cried twice trying to buy a GoPro camera and a Michael Kors wallet (both averaging about US$100, or BR$300), throwing along angry-teen arguments ("You never buy anything for me!", "I'm sick of looking at museums, you never go where I want!", "Everyone has that camera except me because my parents are cheap!" and so on), making my dad explode several times. He always says he won't take her on the next trip, but feels sorry and takes her along anyway. Maybe the lowest she went was trying to buy stuff without anyone knowing by putting in a US$150 perfume in my mom's bag. Without telling her. Sheesh.
The hilarious: Two of those. One, we made a mistake in the currency conversion for two days. For example, a McDonald's burger cost about $2000 chilean pesos. The guides we had said to cut off the zeroes and multiply the remainer by 3. That'd be about BR$6. Pretty cheap, right? Until we noticed the guide was using the dollar rate of 2.3...from last year. The dollar is averaging about 3.5 right now. After some calculus, my dad discovered we didn't have to multiply by 3, but by 6. So that same burger now cost BR$12. Not fun.
The second was smaller and common, but still amusing. Before we got there, close to the Andes, we had pretty much the heaviest turbulence ever. I was drained and half sleeping, same for my dad. Sister was drugged so hard, even a burning plane wouldn't wake her. That left...my mom, white as a ghost staring at the window with a face of someone about to have a heart attack. lol
ANYWAY, that was le trip. Sadly I didn't draw much. Just a little bit to impress a tattoo guy, due to boredom.
By the way, I'll go back to my old routine of drawing between 1pm until 4pm on weekdays, probably streaming it all (GMT -3:00). So yeah. Let's see how that goes. <_<
The good: Santiago looks almost like Europe, honestly. Clean, working metro lines, information everywhere, expensive as fuck malls, cold weather almost all day (about 15-18°C, on average).
The bad: my sister was an absolute cunt, as usual. Cried twice trying to buy a GoPro camera and a Michael Kors wallet (both averaging about US$100, or BR$300), throwing along angry-teen arguments ("You never buy anything for me!", "I'm sick of looking at museums, you never go where I want!", "Everyone has that camera except me because my parents are cheap!" and so on), making my dad explode several times. He always says he won't take her on the next trip, but feels sorry and takes her along anyway. Maybe the lowest she went was trying to buy stuff without anyone knowing by putting in a US$150 perfume in my mom's bag. Without telling her. Sheesh.
The hilarious: Two of those. One, we made a mistake in the currency conversion for two days. For example, a McDonald's burger cost about $2000 chilean pesos. The guides we had said to cut off the zeroes and multiply the remainer by 3. That'd be about BR$6. Pretty cheap, right? Until we noticed the guide was using the dollar rate of 2.3...from last year. The dollar is averaging about 3.5 right now. After some calculus, my dad discovered we didn't have to multiply by 3, but by 6. So that same burger now cost BR$12. Not fun.
The second was smaller and common, but still amusing. Before we got there, close to the Andes, we had pretty much the heaviest turbulence ever. I was drained and half sleeping, same for my dad. Sister was drugged so hard, even a burning plane wouldn't wake her. That left...my mom, white as a ghost staring at the window with a face of someone about to have a heart attack. lol
ANYWAY, that was le trip. Sadly I didn't draw much. Just a little bit to impress a tattoo guy, due to boredom.
By the way, I'll go back to my old routine of drawing between 1pm until 4pm on weekdays, probably streaming it all (GMT -3:00). So yeah. Let's see how that goes. <_<
Would the trip be worth it without them?
Anyway I'm glad you had fun during this trip and enjoyed your stay..
PS: well, not exactly! In Europe we sometimes reach 25°C you know!!
I even remembered having summers with as much as 32°
(...but it was BEFORE the global warming (dis)information ;) ...Now it's more like 15-18 on average, as you noticed:D)
And kinda...when I was up there, it was roughly 25-30°C on summer. Here, 25 or less is winter. Our usual is 35~38. Most of the year. D:
And thank you fro reminding me how much easier the Euro made travelling. At least in those countries that have the Euro. Not that I have ever traveled much, but the few times were a pain in the butt with the constant exchange calculations.
you went to some interesting places to say the least?
I hope you had a good time, and glad to hear nothing (really) bad happened.
And yay for regular streaming too!
Sounds like it would have been a chill vacation if not for your sister...and the conversion mistake thingy.
Hope life has been treating you well since then.