the tears of gypsy

So my bags came finally yesterday, wrapped in like 20 layers of saran wrap. It was kinda like that practical joke leeza and brian and kind of me played on brett that one time. They split up guys and girls yesterday and we slept at different hotels. The girls stayed at a hotel that cost $80 a night, ours was $175.50 a night. You do the math. BOYS RULE. anyways, the hotel had this thing where you had to put your key card in a slot in the room or else your power went out. This morning the lights turned off while I was showering like 5 times.

I moved in with my host family today, they live in a really nice apartment in a really nice area of town, Providencia. I am like 10 steps away from a metro stop and I have a big tv and the internet and a double bed. It's a mom and her 22 year old son and a grandma. They're very nice.

So here's the good part of my story. I went walking around Santiago for a while and this lady calls out "joven" which means young one. She asks me where the nearest metro is and I didn't really know so I said I didn't know I'm not from around here. She says me either, I am a Mexican. I tell her I'm from the US and she grabs my hand and starts kind of talking to me so I thought hey a good chance to practice spanish.

Then she tells me shes a Mexican gypsy visiting her family down here and she takes me over to this curb and sits down with me and starts to read my palm and tells me my future.

She says my parents miss me and my mom is going to have a baby and it's going to be a C-Section. I'm not getting good grades this semester and my love life is good but I'm shy. Then she tells me one of my neighbors is going to die but it won't be that big of a deal. I thought that was kind of weird. Then she pulls out this plant which I don't think was a drug but then she pulls out some money and blows on it and said she can make my wishes come true if I use money also.

This is about when I want to leave ... I pull out a 1000 peso ($2ish dollars) bill and try to do it but she says it works better with American money. She makes it very clear that she doesn't want money, she just needs to hold on to it for me so that my 3 wishes can come true, but she definitely doesn't need my money for food or a home or for drugs. I pull out a $1 bill, she says that it only works with money worth more. I pull out a 2000 pesos note and say that's all I'm going to use. She says I have to take out my wallet ... also sometime in here her little 1 1/2ish year old which I neglected to mention before but has been wandering around aimlessly for 5 minutes comes over and pulls down her shirt and starts breast feeding. Also I tell her I don't have a wallet but she can see it in my pocket and I say I don't want to take it out. I'm not sure what her plan was but she said she's going to make sure I die alone and sad and that my parents are dead before I get home and maybe my friends too unless I give her more money. I got up and left her with the 2000 pesos and walked across the street and didn't ever look back

She kept making that sound you make when you are doing the you're-a-goner gesture with your finger on your neck. Sorry if I've accidentally murdered you