Numb to the bizzareness: nothing is shocking anymore

"And it was just another day in Chile....". Petra was eating a picnic lunch withanother Chilean family in a park near a dried-up lake, clearly deprived of its beauty and luster, but for some reason, a boat arrived to the scene. Her and the family watched 2 men take a small, inflatable boat into the middle of the mud-flat surrounded lake. It became known later that neither of these men knew how to swim nor were they properly prepared for what was to come: a puncture in the boat. The picnic-ers were all watching the two non-swimmers slap the water, the panicked mother cry, and the multitude of volunteer-rescuers that jumped into the dirty waters to save them. Petra noticed that no one was really very alarmed at the sight of 2 grown men nearly drowning in the lake. Petra wasn't alarmed either.

All of us North American volunteers have come to accept the unusual in Chile.

The other day, when I was walking home with Nicole at around midnight, I looked back and saw a car behind me. I thought, "oh, its just a car". But I was on the sidewalk. In the United States, i might have had a heart attack. Here, in Chile, coming across things like this is quite normal.
And the list goes on....

It was almost normal to see a woman dancing with a shish kabob meat stick the other day at the anniversary of Curico city fair. no wait, that was still pretty surprising. and funny.