The End of the World

February 29- Casa Holden

So just to let everyone know this post might be very long. i am just going to write about the entire time all in one post so everyone is warned that this might be long...

day 1- see the previous post... i think i mentioned everything that was noteworthy in the last post. i dont remember what all i said but that night was just hanging out at the hotel and enjoying the extremely beautiful ushuaia

day 2- we all woke up and got ready etc etc. after breakfast we all loaded into 8 jeeps... 8 people to each jeep and spend the whole day offroading around the mountains and lakes of ushuaia. let me just say that this was a great day!! anyone that knows me knows i love the mountains and jeeps and offroading hehe. it was great. anyways, we spend the morning in the mountains and then started to head toward a lake during the afternoon. we got to this one lake and ate asado by it. i dont know how to make this sound as cool as it actually was but it was freaking sweet. anyways, after the excersion was done the jeeps took us to the port where we boarded our cruise boat. the boat was small, only 4 levels but it was still sweet! it was only us and older people but they were all very nice and everyone behaved really well so i dont think we pissed them off too bad. but anyways we got on the boat around 6 and it took off from the port around 8 so we spent a while exploring and just hanging out. then dinner was around 830 and i am not a huge fan of fancy upperclass food haha. i would rather just have some mac and cheese or a hamberger or something but i mean it was still good enough that we could eat... well actually the bread and fruit was good enough to eat... there was a lot of fish too that was suppostedly really good but i wouldnt know haha. anyways, after dinner we had group meetings. some of the people started this thing called the game where anyone that wanted to was placed onto a team and through out the semester the teams will compete with each other just doing different activites and getting to know each other. anyways, the following night was to be the first competion with teams competing for who knew their team mates the best. so we had a group meeting and began to get to know each other. then after that everyone just went to bed.. we were all tired and had to be up early so it was bed time.

day 3- this cruise was definitely designed for older people... everything was early in the morning. haha ok that was a joke... it was just the timing of the ship to the places we wanted to go but anyway at 7 am we reached cape horn. we all got off and walked around the island for a while. there was a lighthouse and also a bird staute thing but other than that it wasnt that exciting. it was just weird to be at the passage from the atlantic ocean to the pacific and to thing of all the history stories i have heard about all the people that lost their lives trying to do what we did on a nice cruise ship with no danger at all. but anyways, we got back on the ship and had breakfast and then just relaxed and hung out. we had until 4ish i think until we disembarked once again to an island that charles darwin collected research on and ancient indians lived on and magellan conquered etc etc. we hiked around there for a hour or two and drank hot cocco and then went back to the cruise ship. that night after dinner there was bingo and a fashion show where some of the girls and guys dressed up in the clothes that the ship was selling and showed them off to us. then after bingo we kindof took over one of the floors of the ship and had a dance party and turned the cruise ship into club pepperdine. haha we all danced for a while and then we had our competion for the game and getting to know each other. my team only missed one so we were all pretty stoked about that. then we ended the game at like 2 in the morning because some of the people were getting a little too competative and it lost all the fun. then most people went to bed but i went up the roof and hung out until like 4 or 5 in the morning. :)

day 4- thankfully we didnt have to be up until 1 pm. so i slept through breakfast and everything and then ate lunch at one. then we had time to kill... we were going to see a glacier but everyone had to go in shifts because it was a boat tour of the glacier and they could only take so many people in the boats at the same time. so most of the older people went first and all the pepperdine people took the last shift. so we all took naps and played cards and just relaxed until we left. then we pilled onto the boats and began the tour which was amazing. the glacier was crazy! so blue so big so cool there were waterfalls coming down the side of the mountian too and at times small pieces of the glacier broke off. it sounded like thunder and was freaking sweet. anyways, we were on the boat for about an hour which was long enough because it was cold. haha but then back the boat we went with some more hot cocoa and hanging out. there was a lot of down time and time to play cards and just relax which was definitely nice. i know some other people got really bored but i thought i was cool. so then we had our farewell dinner which was steak and it wouldnt have been really good except for the fact that it was so rare it was still bleeding. there was no way that i was going eat that and our waiter was too busy to get it cooked more but oh well. esta bien. after dinner club pepperdine was back and then after a few of us were just hanging out in one of the rooms talking and doing nothing. i ended up going to bed at like 3 and had to be up by 6 but oh well... its college right? haha

day 5- today was the penguin day! we woke up around 630 to take the boats out to an famous penguin island ( i dont remember the name) but it has the largest penguin habitat in the area or something. it was crazy to see the little fat men in tuxes haha. it was also weird to see how different they are from tv and movies and even pictures. a lot of the penguins were covered in poop. they defintely werent clean animals but they were still tight. it was crazy to hear there call and just watch thousands of them waddle around and swim and everything. but then we got back on the boat and packed up and just relaxed until the cruise ended around noon. it ended into punta arenas, chile's most southern city. i have been to the two most southern cities in the world haha. but anyways, we jumped onto some buses and went to the hotel where they didnt have our rooms ready yet so we ate lunch in the lobby and then got to go to our rooms for only about 30 min before we pilled back onto buses for a city tour which turned out to be very lame. it consised of going to the second highest place in the city to look out for a little while and then to a house turned into a mueso to get the feel of what an old victorian house looked like. most of us just ended up walking to the hotel from there and watching one of the pirate movies on hbo and playing this game called signs until dinner at 9. for dinner we went to this pizza and hot dog place. they started out by serving us on piece of pizza for an app and then came the hot dog. not that i was going to eat it anyways but it was pilled with all sorts of nasty things that shouldnt be on top of a hot dog. the smell and then sight alone was making me feel like i was going to puke so i sat outside most of the dinner. haha but then we got back to the hotel and some people decided to go out and go to this club but im not big on clubs so i stayed at the hotel with about 20 others... we all piled into one room and started watching mean girls on tv but then some of us got bored with the movie and so we started a gaint 20 person pillow fight. when the room was destroyed (not like permant damage just like matresses everywhere etc) we started telling ghost stories and all went to bed around 3 hehe

day 6- the last day of the eft and an all travel day :( we left the hotel at 11 and took a bus to the airport. after checking in bags and everything we had to get straight on the plane where we had about a 4 hour flight including a stop in some smallish town place. this flight only got us to santiago, chile where we were meant to have only about a 3 hour layover. during this layover pepperdine bought us lunch at a buffet and then we went back through the gate with about an hour before boarding. this hour however turned into about 3 and we finally got onto the plane at around 1030 and left by 11. this put us into ba at 1 when we were supposted to get back at 11 haha. i got back to my casa at like 3. it was weird because the door wasnt locked, all the lights were on, the radio was on and my parents werent there and i didnt know if any of my brothers were awake. it was weird but i was tired so i just went to bed. i saw my brother hugo this morning and i guess my parents are out of town until monday or so and my brothers just left all the lights on instead of turning them off like they normally do. oh well. but anyways, i unpacked last night and found out that someone took my phone out of my bag. :( i am going to talk to rafa and see if he can work his magic and get it back but if not oh well.. i will just get a new one. its not like i really care... i barely use the thing.

but anyways, that is the story of the eft. over all it was an amazing trip and i am very glad i got to have the experiences that i did. but now that i have been gone so long i am going to spend the day today watching movies, writing emails, talking to people and uploading pictures.

all my pictures from the trip, the boca game, the trip to the zoo and pictures of my house should be up later today :) check back soon!