Weekends and my excessive peanut butter consumption

It's true. Weekends are just as good all over the world. Today we slept in--a much needed break from the rush of the busy week we had. Then I put PB & J on some bread and ate it! I also ate an apple with peanut butter on it. How we found peanut butter is kind of an interesting story. My teammate Bridgette and I decided the biggest culture shock here in Santiago was the lack of peanut butter (especially since we have exponentially increased our bread consumption). So, we decided to look for some. The biggest problem is that super markets tend to have a different set-up than those of the US so we grabbed a Chilean friend and tried to explain to him what peanut butter was (not knowing the word for peanut, and only being mildly confident of the word for butter). It turns out that saying "We're looking for brown butter" is not a good way to find peanut butter.

We also had plans to go dancing tonight, but the place we were going to take lessons from was closed (it's Saturday night). So that's why I'm sitting in a hostel, in Santiago, being an internet bug. I think places have interesting hours here. Most things aren't open till probably 10 or 11 a.m. and they probably close around 9 p.m. Furthermore, most aren't open on Saturday or Sunday. This really makes general shopping interesting. We do most of our shopping at Lider, the Chilean equivalent of Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart recently bought out the company, actually, which is sad because it's originally a Chilean company, and now it's pretty much another component of Wal-Mart's global takeover. Yea.