It rained! It is amazing how clear things get after the rain. I was going to walk up Cerro San Cristóbal and take pictures to post for everybody back home, but I got part way up the hill yesterday and found out my camera was out of battery. So, sorry guys. You are going to have to wait longer for clear pictures of the city. It really is amazing how much more clear you can see things after the rain. I live not far from Cerro San Cristóbal, and when I stand in Plaza Italia, the top of the hill is usually hazy. But not yesterday or today. I could see clearly now the rain had gone.
Another note on the rain: The drainage system here in Santiago sucks. Last night it rained pretty good, so there was water everywhere. By the time I got back to my apartment, my legs were soaked up to my knees, and I had to lay my shoes by the fire (aka my heater) to dry. I love the rain though, and I loved that made Santiago so fresh and so clean clean.
The other thing that got so fresh and so clean clean yesterday was my laundry. Self-service laundromats are not the norm. Instead, you take your clothes in and have the employees there wash/dry them for you. It cost me a precious peso*, and I normally don't like when other people do my laundry because I have been doing it myself for close to a decade, and I like it done my way- This is MY house! But my clothes were so amazing when they came back! They were perfect! They were folded so nice and in such a neat pile. I just stared at them for a bit. Then I put my face in them, inhaled, and thought, "Damn, these are so fresh and so clean clean!" The lady was also super nice and helpful when I didn't fully understand the process of getting my clothes cleaned.
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*It was really not that expensive, I am just kinda poor right now, and I didn't want to spend money on taking my clothes in to get cleaned.
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