75% chance of toilet paper in bathrooms. Ají. Beach sunsets. Caramel popcorn. Cheese stores. Chilean Salad (tomato & onion). Chochoca. Close to the beach always. Cord stores. Credit cards accepted. Electronics. European musical instruments (the harp!). Everyone thinking we're gypsies. Fashonable knit clothes. Fish (resembling fish and chips). Funky capri pants. Headbands. Hot dogs (El completo). Internet in hostals. Kuchen. Legroom on buses. Milcao. Most common response to where we're from: "Barak Obama!" Most popular music: Oasis, Reik, Julieta Venegas. Mote con huesillos. Mullets. Music with 2 or less accordions. Nectarines. No cumbia. No more electric showers TTZZzzz. Nuts 4 Nuts and Nuts 5 Nuts. Pablo Neruda. Paved roads. Peaches. Scarves. Seafood empanadas. Similar sense of humor. Something green and fibrous on our plates. Sweet, old lady hostal owners. Subway. Sunset at 8:30 p.m. TV in rooms. Variety of religions. We almost blend in with Chileans. Wind up music box men with a parrot.and this list of things we could have easily lived without:
Americanized culture. Begging backpackers who blew their money on booze. Boring beaches. Chilean diet: 1.5 meals a day. Chilean slang (sí po). Closed tourist attractions. Cueca (traditional Chilean dance). Difficult exchange rate. Disgusting overuse of mayonnaise. Emo fad. Fanny packs. Half dreds/half something else. High prices. Humitas. Markets didn't exist. Music with 3+ accordions. Noise ordinances. Quieter people. Rat tail hairdo (1990s style). Sedated dogs.Thin ozone layer. Weather (really hot, really rainy).
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