I found soymilk yesterday!!!! It was actually by accident. I've been on the hunt for rare food ingredients in preparation for the Thai food lunch I will be preparing with Tomas for Marcelo's family. Coconut milk is proving to be a challenge...I have several ideas at the moment: an extraction of the liquid from some dried coconut that I immersed in hot water, evaporated milk, yogurt, milk...maybe I can find some fresh coconut...I'll probably use a combination of all of the above, so we'll see how that goes. I also am going to make my own peanut butter, because the one kind I could find here was full of hydrogenated oil and sugar. I would rather spend half an hour mashing peanuts with a rock than add that stuff to my food. Today I am going to hit up 2 more large grocery stores to hopefully find rice wine vinegar and a few other ingredients. Fish sauce would be divine, but I'm not getting my hopes up. Yesterday I had dinner at my friend Theresa's house. Her family is amazing, and I already feel at home when I hang out there even though I practically just met them. It's nice to know that I have several houses that I can go to that all feel like "home." I have been having dreams lately where I'm back in the US, it's really weird actually because this is the first time that this has ever happened here. In the first dream I was actually in the US in September, having already completed my whole year in Chile. I remember feeling happy to be back, which actually disturbed me a little when I woke up because it made me wonder if I wasn't completely happy here. I know I am happy here, and I have no desire to cut my time short and head back to the US any sooner than 6 months from now, but I do think I am more aware of all the things that I have not seen, felt, heard, or tasted in quite some time. In other words, I think I am feeling a pleasant yet slightly bittersweet contradiction of wanting to be in Chile, yet excited to go home when the time comes. I've never done this kind of thing before so I don't know how to feel, but that sounds like an overall healthy balance to me.