trashin fashion

i have decided to devote some space to a massive me gusta no me gusta list but first let me say a little bit about the fashion here. The 80s is alive and well in chile, schoolgirls uniforms include matching legwarmers, the discoteques play new wave, prince, madonna, ect...i love it..its probably the strangest mix imaginable...because there is also a strong european influence, thus the lovely skirts coats and boots...but they love some bright colors here and some really outrageous fashion...there are lots of big malls here but also tons of smaller outdoor type malls and today gracias a dios, i found the alternamall..there were little stores with only goth gear, or only punk gear, but also lots of little stores with really cute unique shit. got a new credit card so my ass got a pair of the cutest boots known to man. In a way im glad i was broke for so long, cause when i first got here i saw so many cute pairs of boots i mighta rushed out and got some right away...As it is ive had plenty of time to look around and see what kinda stuff they have, what the prices are ect. there are two huge malls somewhat near my house, and the kind of things they carry are like the kind of things most malls carry, that is, not very unique, mass produced, everybody got one, way too spendy..so having seen some of that stuff i knew i was in the right place as soon as i stepped into the alternamall...crazily patched together skirts, cute shoes, sparkly bangles, plus the aforementioned alternagear..i should be clear that it isnt a mall as such, more like an open air series of shops, which is how most shops are set up...they have loads of little alleys that you turn into to find yourself in a kind of shopping center generally having lots of similar stuff..this place was definitely more interesting than most, and i managed to score two jackets to replace the one i lost, one pink and tan with these crazy sleeves, think purple rain in pink tweed...the other dark brown and blue...both fitted cute jackets, plus the most outrageously adorable strappy, slouchy, and soft knee high boots, think soft fake suede with a subtle silvery sheen...they are beautiful. also because its so cold in the winter, but the chicks wear skirts a lot, there is this whole tights/kneesocks thing going on...they have the most colorful stripey socks and tights i have ever seen...anyway its getting warmer so i think its not just about climate, more about style and social mores...its hella catholic so methinks the tights are also a little more conservative than bare legs...being a lover of colorful knee socks, im in heaven..there are sock stores in the bigger metro stations for chrissakes...never been too keen on tights, they tend to stop like at yer ribs...but i gotta say i have never seen cuter tights, and for wintertime it just makes sense...but enough of that, on to the worlds biggest me gusta no me gusta list


me gusta
chilean chicks, they like toasted almonds with dark hair and dark almond eyes and toasted almond skin...sometimes lighter tones but always toasty and almondy
te con leche
dia del niño (why didnt we think of that one? a day to celebrate kids and everyone gets to come out and do fun kid stuff like eat cotton candy)
la mezcla de los estilos moderno y earopeo
chilean salad (always with vinegar and lemon, includes big chunks of onion, tomato, and avocado)
me gusta/no me gusta lists
pan dulce (sweet breads or pastries)
queque (sweet bread)
torta (cake/sweet bread)
postre (cake)
pisco sour

no me gusta

stray dogs
belmonts
kents (the only brands of smokes sold here)
piscola
confusing french theory in spanish
greasy papas fritas
gettin stared at all the time
the lost wax process (by which damn near everything here operates)
its kinda like how in the schedule its gonna say lw2 and then s12..so you gotta go the page where it says what time the 2 block is, then the map trying to figure out where sala 12 is, usually but not always near the office of whatever the class falls under, and know that l is for lunes and w for miercoles...but then sometimes stuff gets moved to a different room and you just gotta look online.
or like how all these extraprogrammatical classes are offered but you have to find the office on the 2nd floor of hall universitario between 1100 and 1300 or 1500 and 1700 to get a schedule, or look online, but you still gotta go there to register for the class..and its not like theres all that much on the 2nd floor but the doors you want aint marked..they just some frickin puertas blancas...
heres another example, say yer in a bar and you want a drink, easy right, you tell the bartender what you want, they give it to you, you pay...
wrong
you go to one window where you order your drink and pay for it and get a reciept which you bring to the bartender who usually asks you what you want anyway, so apparently the reciept just says you want a drink and you paid for it
say yer in a huge gelateria and yer standing right in front of shit tons of gelato, you point to what you want, pay the dude and get yer gelato right? wrong
you walk over to the other side of the room, try to order using the words the person near the gelato told you, pay, get a reciept, return to the place where you were originally and hand over the reciept
...everything is like double processing and as a result my choco vanilla mix turned out choco piña, which was...interesting..
also as a result i get hella paranoid waiting in line for some damn thing, rehearsing in my head what i need to say, then get turned down when its my turn and sent to a new line to order pay and get a damn receipt...after doing this a few times i started getting really hazy on who im sposed to pay and when, its not actually increased my ability to get into the correct line, just increased my paranoia that im prolly in the wrong one...