Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Assignment 1: My Fiestas Patrias

Hello everyone!
I'm back in my english class, and today I will write about my last Fiestas Patrias.

I went with my family to my uncle's house in Talca. In our car traveled 6 persons, in other car traveled another uncle with his family (7 persons more) and in my uncle's house live 8 more, so there there are more than 20 persons! That was really funny, because we did many chilean games, like potatoes sack race and tug on the rope. Our great-aunt was the judge, and she was sharing candies and kisses us prize.

On 18th september everybody traveled to Curepto and Iloca, 3 hours from Talca. Curepto is a pretty quiet small town, and Iloca is a little beach. There we made a pic-nic and played in the sand. That was really good, because all of us was relaxed.

On 19th september we went to a Fonda in Talca. That was really funny! There were many chance games (where my brother lost everything), happy music like cumbia and cueca and really cheap food.

In my family the food is the most important in a party. My aunt made cheese, vegetarian and chilean empanadas, many types of salad and three big cakes. My dad and my uncle made the grilled flesh and all of us ate every day. It was horrible, because when I returned to Santiago I have won 2 kilos in just 4 days!

Because of that my recommendations for future fiestas patrias is: don't eat so much because then you will regret!

1 comment:

Ksenia said...

Hi Camila,

It sounds like you had a fun and delicious fiestas patrias! All of the traveling meant you got to see a lot of Chile while spending time with your family. :)

Some grammar/usage reminders: Use ¨people¨ not ¨persons¨, ¨picnic¨ is not hyphenated, all of us ¨were¨ relaxed (not ¨was relaxed¨), you ¨gain¨ pounds (not ¨win¨), your dad and uncle grilled ¨fish¨ or ¨meat¨ (not flesh), ¨don´t eat so much because then you will regret it¨(you need to include the ¨it¨ at the end to clarify what would be regreted), something enjoyable is ¨fun¨ and something amusing is ¨funny¨ (something that is very fun, is NOT necessarily ¨funny¨).

Excellent use of specifics in this post!

Ksenia