i thought i liked carbs before i came to chile.

In Chile, all we eat is bread. Bread with butter, bread with jam, bread with oil and balsamic vinegar, bread with manjar (a dulce de leche spread). For desayuno (breakfast) and once (evening tea, around the same time Americans would eat dinner), my host mother offers me nothing but coffee and bread and insists that I have 3 helpings. I really love bread in all its forms, but I don't know if I can eat two meals of white bread every day for four months. My host parents keep calling me "flaquita" (skinny little girl) and trying to give me more and more bread all of the time. I definitely will not be anything close to a flaquita for long if this keeps up!

Also, Chilean salads consist of tomatoes, onions, unidentifiable crunchy green things, and MAYONNAISE. So maybe I should just embrace the endless carbs??