En el rodeo e` Los Andes ....

Normally typical Chileans do a barbacue, with potatoes and very different salads, In my case Chilean salad (tomato with onion and sometimes persley), lettuce, celery, etc. Have to be light salads because eat meat all days is very heavy. For fun usually some people raise comets or play typical games, “rayuela, emboque, and palo ensebado”, the last consist in to climb a very tall stick covered with wax, it is very difficult but many Chileans can do this.

When I was a child I woke up very early and wear a “china custome” and go to the farm with my father to raise comets, and to view Chilean rodeos. Late we go to any “fonda” for dance “cueca” the Chilean typical dance.

Nowadays my family live together in Santiago, so we organized a big “Fonda in the House”, we conditioning the garden of the house and everyone in the family have to use a “typical costume” the last year I dressed like a Mapuche and my sister like an Atacameña.
Always sing Chileans songs in a karaoke and play games, like “put the tail to the donkey”, “If you know the song, sing it” or “Who burst more balloons in 1 minute”, this are not typical games but we have a lot of fun, always we invite friends and neighbours. We always cook choripan with pebre (very Chilean snack).

My favourite 18 was the last because my father could came from Puerto Aysén and we can stay together for 5 five days, and we have a lot of fun remembering the previous 18 in Chiloé, very different, by the way. But this theme is for another post.