Sunday, March 28, 2010

All showered and cleaned I went for a leisurely stroll around Copiapo, to be quite honest there wasn't anything going on, some shops were open, some restaurants were opening up, most of the city was shut down for the day as it was a Sunday. The main square on the other hand, Plaza Prat, had free a WIFI connection. I took this as an excuse to go there and sit in the shade, sheltered from the blistering heat around to the relative cool and damp main square, it was luscious and green but only because it received daily watering, it had huge palm trees and plenty of benches, it even had its own artisan market that was opening up on the opposite side. In the middle of the square there were lots of children on skateboards and around them were some religious fanatics trying to convert them and everyone else to their religion whatever it may have been, probably Catholic or Mormon. They were chanting things and singing, even walking around and forcing their flyers into peoples hands, nobody else seemed to give them any attention though. I had bumped into Dries at the square, he had gone for a walk earlier on and when I went to the square in saw him sitting on a grass patch. Hunger began to take a firm grasp of my belly so we went to the supermarket on the way back to where we were saying, I can't say hotel, hostel or guest house because it was neither, it was more like a motel but I don't know. Earlier on in the day we had got some food but then found out that we weren't allowed too use the kitchen for cooking, only for making tea, which meant we were left with the options to eat out, too pricey or too get food that we didn't need to cook. I had some bread, some tomatoes and some ham, I had avocado but couldn't be bothered to cut it up and prepare it as I had already had some at lunch. I was in the mood for not doing much at all so after I ate I just went and sat on my bed and used the internet, did a little reading and writing and watched TV. Dries went for a walk but came back pretty soon as there was not a single thing to do and nobody about. By this time the Beattles film 'help' was on TV, we watched some of it but I was really tired and just fell asleep about half an hour into it, in the frame of mind I was in I couldn't handle the chaos in the film so closed my eyes and went to sleep.

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