Mi Casa, La Comida, y Mas!

Here are some pictures of my apartment, my bedroom, my balcony (yeah, I have a BALCONY!), and the IES center, which is where I go for most of my classes.

Since I got here, I've been eating a TON of food.  At my house, I've been eating a lot of chicken, soup, and vegetables.  I've also been drinking an insane amount of juice--it's awesome!  My family makes their own juice so it tastes really good.  Here's a list of some of the typical Chilean food and drink we learned about:

Comidas:
Chacarero - a type of sandwich with green beans, beef, guacamole, tomato, and chili pepper.
Empanada - a stuffed bread that can be filled with a lot of things like meat, cheese, vegetables, seafood; the post popular kind is the pino, which contains beef, onion, olive, and egg
Completo - like a hot dog; it usually has tomato, avocado, mayonnaise, and sauerkraut
Barros Jarpa - melted ham and cheese sandwich
Barros Luco - basically a cheese steak sandwich
Sopaipilla - fried pastry made from squash and flour; can be sweet or savory

Bebidas:
Mote con huesillo - rehydrated peaches and barley kernels with peach juice
Pisco - sweet brandy made from grapes
Piscola - pisco and coke
Pisco sour - pisco, lime, and sugar
Vino navegado - wine heated with orange, cinnamon, and other spices
Fanschop- fanta and beer

My host mom loves pisco sours--she's made me 5 already this week! ;-)

...More to come on Villa Grimaldi, Valparaíso, and Isla Negra!