alejandra´s parents´place
For two days, we went to Valpara`iso, a city of bursting colors of "casa loca", that are ascending on hills and accessible via various "ascensores" - high up you have a relaxed walk with a splendid view on the harbor and the city.
But before we left, first my patience and all my German instincts were severely tested. Suffice it to say that I woke myself according to plan, at 8.30am, Alejandra appeared at 10am, and we - Alejandra, Rodrigo, and myself - started for the bus station at 1pm... The parents left with us in a state of excited disarray: a neighbor had called in from her holiday resort, alarmed by yet another neighbor who had been surprised to see some movers relocating /stealing the contents of the house. And Alejandra´s parents decided to go there and see for themselves, armed and all. Ils sont fou ces Chiliens!
In between I was continuously fed by the mother, which by now somehow looses some of its instinctual charme but reminds me of my own grandmother´s habit of perpetual feeding.
alejandra and her brother
But Valparaiso! Ah Valparaiso! Full of colors, there´s art in every corner taken by graffiti, sculptures, colorful walls, graffiti-in-stamps (how do they call this? I can never remember..)
Initially we mistakenly took a bus to "le quartier chaud" in Valparaiso. As Alejandra put it, the guys looked at us "as if they are the wolves and we their prey"... Everybody, including the driver, went like: Don´t get out here! and he didn´t even stop for some guys (as he confirmed later).
In the bus on the way back we met a German expat now living in New Zealand who confirmed by already abysmally bad opinion on the social skills and general personality of geography students (or former geography students).
alejandra in front of one of the colorful windows in Valparaiso
more valparaiso> this was a tiny place where they played sad music and we had coffee and I loved the picture of that woman
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