Day 5: Lecture, Mushrooms, Dance

Today included going to a lecture about Chilean culture and music, going to a mushroom farm, and our final dance class of the trip. This was another early morning where I stocked up on bread to eat throughout the day. We took the city bus into the university again. This is becoming routine for me which is great considering the first day on the city bus was something that kind of scared me about the city. Lecture today was interesting! We got to watch some Chilean ads and it was cool to see the difference between how the two cultures and how they try to portray their product to the public. One of the main difference is that family is the most important thing in the Chilean culture. Pretty much every ad we saw was showing an entire family using the product and enjoying each other’s time. Number two I believe would be football. They love soccer here as we could tell from the Everton game we went to. They are a division two team. In America, a minor league team has about a thousand fans and not many passionate. The game we went to earlier in the week had an entire section of probably close to 1,000 and they were jumping and singing the entire time. The Mushroom factory was our longest visit so far. Once we got to the place, there was an overwhelming smell from all of the mulch and manure and it almost caused a gag reaction. We were given a tour by one of the owners so that was really nice. I saw the entire process from making the mulch to growing the mushrooms to packaging the mushrooms and then how they ship it. Tonight was our last dance class this week. It was actually a hard workout! Our instructor had us moving up and down the college floor for an hour. These dance classes are much more fun than I thought they would be. I am hoping to use what Ive learned tonight when the Chilean students take us out to the casino for a discoteca. I feel like even after these four dance classes I still look silly trying to dance though! It is all good fun though. So far, I am really happy with my trip to Chile. This is us trying to show the dance we learned!