Writing and orchestra concert

On Sunday, nearly my entire day was devoted to writing “the essay.” For the past two weeks, we have been studying Modernismo and La vanguardia in Chilean Literature. The essay was completely open; the only guidelines were that it had to be 3 pages single spaced and relate to Modernismo or La vanguardia. We could even utilize American texts that we have studied to draw comparisons, so I decided to compare the role of the poet as described in “Arte poetica,” a poem by the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro, and “The Poet,” an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson. I started working on it at 10 a.m. and continued until 3:30 p.m., when I went to meet Adrienne and John at the mall for dinner. I convinced them to go back to the restaurant that has the cheesecake – yum!

After eating, we went to the municipal theatre in Viña to see “Camerata Instituto de Musica PUCV,” a chamber orchestra from the university we attend. They played Warlock, Bach, and Mozart and there were 6 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, a bass, and a flute soloist. They sounded really good and perhaps the only difference between this orchestra and ones at UW-L was the concert attire. The girls wore long, black skirts with different, brightly colored shirts (yellow, pink, blue, lime green). Those colors would never fly at UW-L.