chilly. chilli. chile.

chile is beautiful...deffo hot, and really, really smoggy. so smoggy you can only see the outlines of all the mountains at any given time! yesterday we were able to make it to a couple of local markets before our preproduction meeting. the first (of course i can't remember what it was called...i generally don't retain anything i can't pronounce) was an arts/crafts/jewelry type market. lots of  blankets, socks, pottery and jewlery made of lapis lazuli, a stone only found in chile and afghanistan. the market itself is set up on an old church ground. it's really pretty and very green and lush...i of course had my camera at my eye for most of the visit.

the second was more of a farmer's market...well...farmers market surronding an eating area. the old building its in is gorg. the walls and the ceiling were stunning with light pouring in from all sides. the people that worked there were a little...aggressive. up until this point, all of the service we'd received had been very, very slow (our chilean host told us upon our arrival that chileans are typically very lax and very lazy), at this market though, we had people hounding us at every turn to buy their wares or eat at their tables. oh. and there was a definite smell. ugh.

today i'm hoping to see a little bit of the pool between prepro meetings. deffo necessary. i may be the whitest person in all of chile. on a funny side note, sam (our acd) is SO tanned, i actually mistook him for a local when i arrived! :)

more chilean updates to come...in the meantime, feel free to tell me how much you all miss me ;)

xo

ps, have already been through one roll of film on the holga...batteries are still in place. totes excited.