Cha-chow!

I realize that I have been a slacker on the blog writing lately. Today, instead of a typical 9-hour lab day, the professor is taking Tiffany and I to one of the local parks to...well, look for more frogs, but *fortunately* it gives me a couple extra hours in the morning to catch up on some recent activities.

The first and one of my favorite recent activities was going to an orchestra on Monday. Jorge, one of our best friends here, is a professor at the music school and gave us tickets to the orchestra. The same orchestra that left two days later to tour Italy and Switzerland--wow. Getting dressed up and waiting in the church/concert hall was exciting and reminded me of similar feelings of anticipation for concerts in the states. And the performance was amazing! Nutcracker in the first half and traditional Chilean music in the second half.

I only took two pictures that night. This one, then one of the empty stands before the performers came on stage. I thought this was the more interesting of the two.