Mushrooms...yuck

Today was a busy, busy day, but not one of the best.  We first started out with lectures at the University.  Today our lectures were on Chilean culture, music, and how to do business with Chile.  When we were learning about the music, the professor showed us multiple videos of the local Chilean dance and songs…it was so interesting!  It was also really informative to learn about how to do business in Chile.  We were able to learn about the way Chileans work, for example, they are never timely when turning anything in or getting tasks done and Chilean family is a major part of Chilean business.  This was extremely helpful, for me and other business majors in particular, because if I ever need to do business in Chile/South America, I will have some general knowledge.  Next we had lunch at the University and today’s lunch was actually pretty good; we had pasta and salad.  Compared to the previous University’s lunch I think anything could have been better.  After lunch, we had a company visit…the mushroom company.  Before Chile I have been dreading this company visit.  When we got off the bus, I literally thought I was going to throw up.  The smell was so bad.  We all got really attractive hard hats and had to wear steal toed boots- perfect.  The owner of the company took us on a tour of the entire company.  We started off outside viewing the manure used as the mushroom food.  I had no idea mushrooms needed food, but I really did not need to see/smell it.  We then walked through the company, through the rows and rows of mushrooms growing.  It was interesting to see how mushrooms are made, but it was really gross as well.  If I didn’t like mushrooms before, I definitely will not like them anytime in the future.  Straight from the mushroom company we went to our final reggae tone class.  We all smelled lovely after the company visit…the class was really fun, but sad that it was the last one.  I will seriously miss our dance instructor.  That night some of the Chilean students took us to a bar and then to a club in the casino.  It was a really fun time!         

Me, Jorge, and Alyssa at the mushroom company with our attractive hair nets and masks..

Packaging the mushrooms

At the bar!  (Molly, Carly, Alyssa, and Me)