Day Eight

Today was our last day at the University.  We had to present the powerpoint presentations we made during our pre-departure meetings for the trip.  There were five groups, each group researched one of the companies that we are visiting this week and last week.  My group researched Conservas-Centauro, the canned fruit and vegetable company.  We will be visiting them tomorrow, which will be interesting.  Afterwards, we had our last lecture with Professor Jaime, which was more of just a question and answer session with Professor Jaime.  One thing that Professor Jaime said that surprised me was that the fruit and produce here can be expensive or not as high quality. This is surprising since agriculture is such a huge part of Chile's economy.  The reason why the fruit here isn't as high of quality is because they tend to export all of the best crops instead of selling it at the local markets.  Luckily, this was also our last lunch at the University, but today's lunch wasn't too bad.
Afterwards, I was lucky enough to get to take an hour long nap, which was really nice.  It was really hard to get up again, but we got to play soccer again afterwards, so it was worth it.  We played soccer on turf fields again with some Chileans.  This game wasn't as intense as the last game, but it was still fun.
Afterwards, we went back to the mall again, we got some ice cream and then walked around for a little.  We went back out to the other stores on the street and I bought a couple things.  The prices at the stores inside the mall are pretty expensive, but the street stores were pretty cheap, which was nice.  Once again I got empanadas, which were still delicious.  I think the empanadas are definitely my favorite food so far this trip.  One thing that has been difficult to get used to however is the lack of unlimited water.  We always have to buy bottled water, so its weird to not to be able to just go get a glass of water whenever I want. 
I can't believe its already Monday night though.  I am not ready at all to leave on Friday morning.