Last night I left Astrid's flat to go and find a hostel to sleep in, I found one that listed that they serve free beer from 22.00-22.30 so I jumped at the chance. I found out when I got there that they didn't do that on Sunday nights, which was annoying as it was a factor that swayed it for me as I was really undecided as where to stay, its in a good location though and has very comfortable beds so its not too bad. Most the people here are English speaking so conversing is not a problem, some of us decided to try and make a night of even though it seemed most things would have been shut down for the night. We went for a walk to find a supermarket but had no luck, they were either closed or just not in the areas we went, we ended up on Barrio Bellavista on a road called Pio Nono which is one of the main night life areas in Santiago. We found a bottelleria, pretty much an equivalent to an off licence, you could see that it must have been a slightly dodgy area because all the bottellerias had heavy duty locked steel grates in front of them and the staff were pretty protected from abuse behind the bars. Next to the bottelleria was a really dirty looking fast food place, it was very cheap though and I was starving, but when I went inside it was quite clean and the food was freshly cooked and not just preprepared and kept under a hot lamp. Whilst I was getting my food, the rest of the boys I was with were being hassled by some dirty tramps hanging around outside of the bottelleria. I got two completos because they were only $500 pesos each. We went to the bottelleria and split a couple of bottles of pisco and a couple of bottles of coke. We ran out far too early so had to pop out and get some more again. We went out to the same place and the dirty tramps were still there but didn't hassle any of us this time, we got our pisco but I think the bloke working in the bottelleria ripped us off, firstly the price was $3000 pesos, then $3500 and then he changed his mind again to $3600, he probably just pocketed that extra $600 pesos, not that it is that much but still its a bit shit of him. At the hostel we just spoke about random things, some pointless and some not so pointless, a lot of it was language related, there was some Germans, some Israelis, some Kiwis, some English other than me, some Brazilians, a Belgian, some Canadians and obviously some Chileans. So talking about language seemed to be the most universal subject, we got onto the subject of grammar, in particular about the correct way to say some things. For example one of the English speaking Brazilians wanted to know what was the correct thing to say, 'more easy' or 'easier'? I had no idea as I haven't learnt grammar for over 10 years and because English is my natural tongue I couldn't really help but eventually after about an hour or two of deliberation we came to a conclusion that both are equally right and are widely accepted as the norm even though I would say that 'easier' is the one that sounds more correct. Trying to speak to a Brazilian who doesn't speak Spanish, English or any other language I speak was fun, I eventually managed to communicate with basic French, Spanish and Italian, didn't exactly have the most intellectual of conversations. It was getting very late, I was drunk and tired so called it a night at about 5 in the morning.