depressing but eye-opening day

SOOOOOoooo today was the most depressing day ever. I started off w/ not letting myself go to sleep early (like always lol). But the depressing part... we spent all day after our lecture in the morning at Parque de la Paz (Park of Peace) and then after that at the Cementario General (General Cemetery of Santiago). Parque de la Paz is a memorial now but used to be a place where they took people and tortured them. A professor led us through it and was actually one of the people who had been tortured there. Apparently from 1974-1978, during the dictator Pinochet's regime, there was an obsession with stopping resistance against Pinochet. So they captured people to find out information about resistance forces. Usually these people were college students... HMMMM just like us. And this was just 30 years ago... when my parents were in high school. We were at Parque de la Paz for like 2.5 hours and our guide described all the torture methods in detail... I couldn't listen to all of it. It was too horrible. And he got choked up at one point... obviously was something very emotional for him. Then we took a half hour bus ride to the cemetery. He also led us through that and we got to see the graves of a bunch of famous people.. was also very interesting. AND there are apparently 5 MILLION people buried in that graveyard. They put family's graves by eachother and when there's not enough room, they take out the oldest one and but the remnants inside the coffin into a shoebox size coffin and buried again. Also some of the plots the people have to pay a certain amount a month and if they can't, the coffin is removed from the plot. Flowers everywhere.. it was nice.

So after all this heavy stuff... Monica and I decided we had to have a girls night with Andrea and Allie and watch a fun movie. We went to Blockbuster and I now have a Chilean account WOOTTT! haha. I rented Bride Wars, or Guerra de Novias lol. But we ended watching Mamamia! It was much needed. : )

Gotta figure out classes... it's kind of a pain. Not just one, but two universities. One of which doesn't really have a campus... there are buildings in diff parts of Santiago. I'll get it though. Buenos noches! Besitos (little kisses!)!