Night Terrors!

All right, so I´ve wrapped up my training this week and next week begin four days of training with the Chilean educational folks for my work at DuocUC. It sucks that soon a lot of my friends will be spread out around the country and we won´t be able to hang out so much but at the same time, it is nice to be moving in with a family and next spending so much money.

I´ve met some really cool people and went to an asado, or a barbecue, with a family of Carabineros. The Carabineros are the national police and a branch of the military. God forbid I get arrested for anything down here, but at least I have some people I can call and name drop...

I also met this girl on a Chilean reality TV show and a guy that plays for one of the most popular soccer teams in Chile, Colo Colo. They are all friends with the Carabinero family and through them I met a really cute girl who I´ve been hanging out with. It´s pretty expensive to do any dating, but girls are nice, so I´ll have to sacrifice a little something I suppose.

Probably the most god awful experience I´ve had occurred last week at three in the morning. That evening, I had just finished reading a terrifying psychological thriller that was on par with ¨Silence of the Lambs¨. I went to bed around one AM and had these really creepy dreams where my apartment was being broken into and there were dead cats with kittens mewing and crawling around. Really creepy stuff. Well anyways, the guy that sleeps on the bunk below me snores, and around three in the morning, I woke up because he was kind of snorting a little. The ambient light was really bright, and it was like a city looks like in winter at night, kind of reddish brown. I look down, and my other roommate is on top of his sheets with his arms flat against his body, which is completely rigid and looks like a human board. That kind of creeped me out, but then I hear this other noise, that isn´t my friend snoring. It sounds like metal tearing while a teapot is whistling, with weird clicks and sounds like the kid from The Shining saying ¨redrum, redrum¨. I look over on the other top bunk and see my other roommate with his arms extended behind his head, screeching. He then slams his arms down on his side and whips his body halfway and starts jerking erratically and shaking, all while making this noise. Then he stops with his leg extended all the way out over the bed. He flips his leg back on the bed and stops. Five seconds later, he whips back up and starts jerking around and making this noise, seemingly like someone possessed by the devil. He slams back down on his bed and doesn´t move. I´m basically crying in fear at this point and spent the rest of the night sleepless, or bolting awake if anyone makes any sort of motion whatsoever. When everybody gets up, I tell this dude what happened, and he´s like ¨I don´t remember any of that, but my leg is really sore, and I didn´t do anything strenuous to make it sore.¨ Needless to say, it´s been hard for me to fall asleep now.

That´s it for now. Here´s to no more night terrors!