Little daily reminders in my room: the Chilean flag from a fonda, mug from Pablo Neruda's house, and of course, Slothsicle; Valparaíso degu.
*** Oh dear. I never actually finished writing about my trip to Southern Chile after finishing degu work. It took me all the way down to Patagonia (the region, not the store) and in the town of Puerto Natales there is a cave where they found fossils of a giant ground sloth (milodon) and have a fantastic statue I wanted to pose with. On the last day I was doing some souvenir shopping and found a woman who made little clay figures on top of pencils. The best was obviously the milodon, but she had just finished painting them and couldn't put it in a bag. Instead she wrapped a paper bag around the pencil part (for what reason was lost in translation) and promised it would dry shortly if I let it air. So we walked around for the rest of the day holding a sloth pencil like a popsicle- which, incidentally, is what my hand felt like since it was freezing outside and I couldn't keep it in my pocket. That's a lot of background, but I can't remember laughing so much that my eyelashes froze since :)
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