Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Earthquakes and Bad Luck

Funny thing happened today. My roommate and I had just woken up at around 1100 when he asked me if I felt this rumbling. As a matter of fact, I did. We both wondered if it was an earthquake but were more concerned with the frigid conditions of our room to care about it.

It turns out that this Tuesday was Tuesday the 13th, a day of bad luck (much like Friday the 13th, I don't know why it's Tuesday and not Friday in Chile, but whatever). You're not supposed to be in boats or travel, but we traveled anyway. After a day of hanging out and going to the disco for Combat, we returned to our host's house, where we were informed that there was not one, but two earthquakes today. We hadn't felt the second one, which was supposedly super strong. Kudos to Antonio Diaz for being able to detect earthquakes without the use of fancy equipment.

That's really all I´ve got for today. We've been kind of just relaxing in Ranagua for Winter Break, but I'll post something summarizing our adventures in Rancagua in the future.

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